Author: Michael

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.

Private First Class Lewis Albanese was a member of the United States Army, who received a posthumous Purple Heart and the prestigious Medal of Honor for his courageous service during the Vietnam War.
PFC Lewis Albanese Background
Born in Vincenza, Italy in 1946, Albanese’s family immigrated to Washington State when he was a child. He spent his young adult years in the Seattle metropolitan area and worked at Boeing Aircraft Company. But in 1965, Albanese felt a calling to serve his country, and he enlisted in the Army. He completed BCT at Fort Carson, Colorado.

The latest episode of The Mandalorian has sealed the series’ tone as one that harkens to child-like Star Wars, as opposed to the grounded and mature Andor. Looking back, the clues have always been there, starting with a child as the protagonist. New whimsical characters were introduced and old wounds healed with a nice tidy bow. I’m not particularly mad about it. Let’s jump in.
Spoilers ahead.
The episode begins with Bo-Katan Kryze’s previous comrades, Mandalorians now led by Axe Woves (Simon Kassianides) who have been hired to defend a free planet called Plazir-15.