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On 19 December 2022, the West Point Association of Graduates forwarded a letter from West Point Superintendent LTG Steven Gilland to graduates of the well-known military institution.
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Army units at the brigade and below level might not be able to stop on the battlefield to establish communications or command posts given the expected fast-paced nature of future conflicts, according to one of the service’s key program executive officers.
“I bet you if I said, ‘Somebody out there define for me at-the-quick-halt,’ I bet a lot of you if you wrote it down, would say it’s 30 minutes or less,” Maj. Gen. Anthony Potts, PEO of Command, Control, Communications-Tactical, said at the annual SATELLITE conference on Wednesday. “Think orders of magnitude less than that.
Everyone knows that wealthy Middle Eastern countries tend to be filled with bizarre sights, modern marvels of engineering, and seemingly out-of-place activities. Now, after taking in some skiing with penguins in Dubai, the outdoor activist and amateur military historian can see one of the world’s most difficult to reach military history museums – at the bottom of the Red Sea.
The Jordanian city of Aqaba was the site of the famous World War I battle that saw an Arab Army, advised by Col. T.E. Lawrence (also known as Lawrence of Arabia), defeated the Ottoman Empire.
If a country gets into a war with Russia, they can count on Poland as an ally. Ukraine found this to be true, with Poland being one of, if not the most outspoken supporter of Ukraine in its war with Russia. Since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Poland has pushed to supply Ukraine with artillery, tanks and fighter planes. Although other NATO and allied countries have since supplied military equipment including modern western main battle tanks, Kyiv’s request for fighter jets has gone unanswered until now.
Then-Staff Sgt. David Dezwaan, 60th Civil Engineer Squadron explosive ordnance disposal technician, inspects the wiring of a simulated radioactive dispersal device during an exercise May 5, 2016, at Clear Lake, California. (Senior Airman Bobby Cummings/U.S. Air Force)
An Air Force noncommissioned officer who was accused of launching an insider attack in Syria that wounded four fellow U.S. service members has been found not guilty of all charges stemming from the April 7, 2022 incident.
Tech. Sgt. David W. Dezwaan Jr.
U.S. Army Capt. Jason Beams, Training Division officer at the Army Mountain Warfare School in Jericho, Vt., observes Soldiers climbing Smugglers’ Notch during their final phase of the Basic Military Mountaineering course in Jeffersonville, Vt., Feb. 19, 2015. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Tech. Sgt. Sarah Mattison).
The placard above the entrance to the U.S. Army Mountain Warfare School says, “The Gods of the valleys are not the Gods of the hills.” Those are the words of American Revolutionary War Maj. Gen. Ethan Allen and they were as true then as they are today.
It’s not that Keanu Reeves is particularly deadly to fungal infections, but his characters like John Wick are so deadly in general that medical researchers decided it was a proper name for a new anti-fungal treatment. New, effective anti-fungal treatments are also rare, so it’s fitting to name it after such a rare gem like Reeves, whose skill at 3-Gun Shooting makes his movies even more exciting.
In August of 1591, the English ship HMS Revenge was off the coast of the Island of Flores in the Azores, part of a blockade meant to strangle the Spanish government’s constant stream of treasure from its New World empire. The Spanish knew the English ships were there, and convened an overwhelming force of more than 50 ships to meet them.
The English crews were caught with their pants down, amid repairing their ships and suffering from a fever epidemic, many were ashore when the Spanish fleet first appeared. 21 ships of the English fleet managed to slip away.
Russia has lost at least 70 aircraft since the beginning of its invasion of Ukraine, while Ukraine has lost only 60.
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The US Army has conducted a test to prove the capability of the XM204 interim top attack munition at the Yuma Proving Ground (YPG) in Arizona.
According to Mark Schauer, the YPG testing saw the XM204 munition work together with the ‘bottom attack’ Volcano mine that was dispensed from a XM204 Stand-off Activated Volcano Obstacle (SAVO) base plate dispenser.
The integration is intended to verify the use of XM204 with the XM204 SAVO to create a complex terrain-shaping obstacle that includes both top and bottom attack mines.