The Marine Corps has a saying, “Every Marine a Rifleman.” It denotes that each Marine, regardless of MOS, is at their core a fighter. The mission of the Marine Corps Rifle Squad is, “To locate, close with, and destroy the enemy by fire and maneuver, and to repel the enemy’s assault by fire and close combat”. These tenants have a tremendous influence on the culture and conduct of Marines. It affects how they carry themselves, how they view the world, and how they respond to events.
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The Ukrainian military now packs significant firepower. These two armored weapon systems will likely define the Ukrainian counteroffensive.
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Dean Martin, “The King of Cool,” is one of America’s most iconic entertainers. Teaming up with Jerry Lewis, another icon, Martin got his start in musical comedy in 1946. His career included music and movies that made him a star. As a member of the famous Rat Pack, along with the likes of Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis Jr., Martin’s name is solidified in American celebrity. Prior to his stardom, Martin was drafted into the Army during WWII. Unfortunately, he was discharged after 14 months due to a hernia. His son, however, became an Air Force fighter pilot.
The Kremlin and its hired army of mercenaries from the Wagner Group have been increasingly at odds in recent months. Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin has been threatening to remove his forces from the war in Ukraine amid a flurry of accusations of wrongdoing by Russian military officials.
Prigozhin’s divide with military commanders deepened this week after Wagner forces put a Russian Army officer in custody for ordering his troops to fire on a Wagner convoy near the contested city of Bakhmut. The officer, Lt. Col. Roman Venevitin, was reportedly drunk when he gave the orders.
There was a time when North Koreans had at least one surefire way of escaping the Kim regime, but now the government in Pyongyang is trying to take that away from them too. Radio Free Asia reports Kim Jong Un has ordered local municipalities across the country to take preventative measures to keep citizens from killing themselves.
Kim’s government has officially established that suicide is an “act of treason against socialism,” and ordered emergency meetings of Korean Workers Party Committees at the provincial, city and county levels, a North Korean government official told RFA.
Between 2015 and 2021, Canada’s armed forces were led by Defense Minister Harjit Singh Sajjan, a Sikh who spent years serving in the Canadian Forces, deploying to Bosnia and Afghanistan in leadership roles considered nothing short of brilliant by his peers.
His appointment as Minister of Defense was celebrated during Sikh Heritage Month in April 2017 with a poster featuring the first Prime Minister of Canada, Sir John A. Macdonald, who once called for an “Army of Sikhs” to “save Canada.
Booz Allen Hamilton, a Virginia-based consultancy company, will assess the energy vulnerabilities of the United States Department of Defense (DoD).
The organisation will define the DoD’s requirements for energy resilience projects and identify third-party funding sources for energy resilience and security projects.
The contract is valued at $28.8m and work will occur in Arlington, Virginia with an estimated completion date of 12 December 2026.
Powering the defence industrial base
Biden’s administration has embarked on a campaign to strengthen the US defense industrial base.
Spirit AeroSystems built the fuselage for the Bell V-280 Valor tiltrotor aircraft demonstrator. (Spirit AeroSystems)
Spirit AeroSystems, which is part of the Bell Textron-led industry team that recently won the US Army’s Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft (FLRAA) competition, is in talks to finalise its statement of work for the programme, according to a Spirit official.
“We’re currently in daily conversations to develop that statement of work,” said Mark Miklos, senior vice-president of Spirit’s Defense & Space business.
BAE Systems will support radars on UK Royal Navy Type 45 destroyers, such as HMS
Dauntless
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(Derek Fox)
BAE Systems has received a GBP270 million (USD338.71 million) contract to support the radars on Royal Navy (RN) Type 23 and Type 26 frigates, Type 45 destroyers, and the Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carriers.
Planes and Troops Take Part in Air Defender 2023
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Air Defender 2023, NATO’s largest air drills in its history, kicked off this week in Germany. The drills, which have been 4 years in the planning, started Monday and will go until June 23. The exercises include up to 250 aircraft participating in operations that are to be launched from 6 military bases. A total of 25 countries are participating in the drills including the U.S., which has deployed 100 of its aircraft overseas as part of the drills.