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FILE: An aerial photograph taken on March 8, 2023 shows The Pentagon,(Daniel Slim/ AFP via Getty Images).

The Defense Department is saying little about its efforts in response to a massive data leak that may prove to be the most dangerous disclosure of classified material since former National Security Agency Contractor Edward Snowden revealed intelligence secrets a decade ago.
The documents, which began appearing online in January, contain several highly damaging revelations, including how Ukraine could run out of air defense missiles by May.

According to a new assessment, Russian President Vladimir Putin may use an important religious holiday to propose a ceasefire and postpone a long-awaited Ukrainian counteroffensive.
The Kremlin could use Orthodox Easter, which occurs on April 16, to call for a cessation of hostilities “out of regard for the Orthodox religion,” the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) in Washington, D.C., said on Sunday.
In 2019, approximately 78 percent of the population of Ukraine identified as Orthodox Christians.

AFRL

Using small drones that look largely similar to the appearance of a radio-controlled hobbyist plane, the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) is flight-testing various algorithms, behaviors, components, and concepts to inform the development of future weapons and air combat capabilities. While efforts like this tend to garner less attention than flashier Defense Department programs, they are nonetheless becoming a key advantage in accelerating the evolution of the U.S. military’s smart munitions and uncrewed arsenal.

On Monday, a US Navy destroyer sailed near one of the most important artificial islands in the Chinese-controlled South China Sea in a freedom of navigation mission that Beijing denounced as illegal.
Although the United States frequently makes such trips to challenge territorial claims by China and other states in the strategic waterway, the latest has come as Beijing has been staging more war games over Taiwan.

The Defense Department has selected Brynt Parmeter — a former Army officer who recently left his latest post as a Walmart personnel executive — to serve as its inaugural Chief Talent Management Officer.
“His first day [as CTMO] is today,” a Pentagon spokesperson told DefenseScoop on Monday, shortly after the hiring decision was announced.
In this brand new capacity for DOD, Parmeter is set to help steer the making and facilitation of  the department’s anticipated “total force’” talent acquisition and management strategy.

Guided-Missile Submarine USS Georgia Submerging

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According to a Pentagon spokesman on Saturday, rising concerns that Iranian forces might target foreign commercial ships or oil tankers in the Persian Gulf has led the U.S. Navy to deploy a nuclear-powered guided-missile submarine carrying Tomahawk missiles to the region.
The sub is based out of Kings Bay, Georgia, and passed through the Suez Canal this week, according to 5th Fleet spokesman Cmdr.

FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. — As the Army is readying to field its next iteration of modernized network gear, it is now beginning to reduce its complexity for smaller formations, moving it up to the division level and higher.
The Army has been on a years’ long journey to modernize its tactical network with new gear making it easier for soldiers to establish communications and talk in a highly dynamic environment. In a future conflict against a peer adversary, officials say soldiers will have to move much faster across the battlefield than they did previously.

Reinhard Heydrich is the kind of man with which any freedom-loving person might have a few bones to pick. He was a fascist, a Nazi, a secret police leader, and the architect of the Holocaust. Also, he’s the one that staged the false flag attack in Germany to manufacture a pretense to invade that country. And so the British Special Operations Executive decided to assassinate the Nazi leader, and they did with a lot of help from Czech commandos.
You guys are making this senior Nazi leader sound really bad
Yes. We are.

Larry Wu-tai Chin had a long career of service in the U.S. government. His excellent command of English got him his first job with the U.S. Army in World War II, working at the Chinese liaison’s office in Fuzhou. He was good at his work, and was moved up to the Consulate in Shanghai, then in Hong Kong. 
When the Korean War broke out, he debriefed Chinese prisoners of war captured by the Americans. That earned him a spot with the CIA, where he worked as an analyst, linguist, and even a covert case officer. He was even awarded a CIA medal in 1980, at the end of his career.

It might seem odd that any country would be touting an upcoming counteroffensive to the world media, but that’s the world we live in today. For Ukraine, announcing its intentions is as critical to its recruiting and fundraising efforts as winning in combat operations on the front line against Russia. 
For months now, the Ukraine War has appeared to be bogged down in Bakhmut, an administrative center in Donetsk Oblast. The tide has appeared to turn back and forth in favor of either side as the two jockey for supremacy and take large casualties neither can afford.