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When Lt. Colonel and Green Beret Scott Mann retired in 2013, he knew Afghanistan’s fall was coming and he didn’t want to be anywhere near it. The universe had other plans.
Long before he earned his own long tab, the Arkansas native remembers meeting a Green Beret for the first time.
Author: Michael
The soldiers of the British Special Air Service are some of the most elite in the world. From WWII to the Global War on Terror, their exploits on the battlefield (at least those that are known to the public) are the stuff of legend. Part of what makes the SAS so effective is their loyalty to each other. So, when two SAS operators were captured, their comrades didn’t let anything stop them from carrying out a rescue…not even orders.
When the latest delegation from the House of Representatives returned from Taiwan, they had one message for the rest of Congress: Taiwan needs weapons and training, now. The U.S., they believe, needs to speed up the number and power of armaments it promised to Taipei. The United States currently has a backlog of $19 billion in undelivered weapons.
The U.S. might have a little more time to deliver the weapons, but only a little.
Volodymyr Zelensky with Jens Stoltenberg
NATO Secretary General, Jens Stoltenberg, on Tuesday, confirmed that NATO and its members want Ukraine to eventually join the military alliance at some point in the future. “NATO allies have agreed that Ukraine will become a member of our alliance, but at the same time that that is a long-term perspective,” Stoltenberg said.
“What is the issue now is to ensure that Ukraine prevails as a sovereign, independent nation, and therefore we need to support Ukraine,” he added.
In 2012, the U.S. Army Institute of Surgical Research released a study that detailed the most prevalent causes of battlefield deaths between 2001 and 2011. They found that 91% of potentially survivable deaths were due to hemorrhage. Of those deaths, 67% were from injuries to the trunk of the body.
Internal injuries in the abdomen can’t really be treated by combat medics. Direct compression, especially-treated gauze and other chemicals designed to clot wounds can’t deal with internal bleeding.
This patch for the Voodoo II may be our first glimpse behind the secretive curtain of America’s Next Generation Air Dominance program.
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On the same day in December that Chinese and American diplomats said they had held constructive talks to reduce military tensions, Russian engineers delivered a huge shipment of nuclear fuel to a remote island 220 kilometers off Taiwan’s northern coast.
The so-called Chinese fast reactor on Changbiao Island is one of the world’s most closely guarded nuclear facilities. US intelligence services anticipate that the CFR-600, when commissioned this year, will produce weapons-grade plutonium that could help Beijing quadruple its arsenal of nuclear warheads over the next 12 years.
One of the top priorities for Army Cyber Command’s leader is what she calls setting the theater for the command.
This an unfamiliar concept for the command because, as Lt. Gen. Maria Barrett puts it, “we don’t really have a theater, the globe is our theater.”
Barrett, who has been in command for about nine months, wanted to define what it means for Army Cyber Command to set the theater, which is complicated by the fact that its theater is global and it is executing missions every day.
BYPOL Video Screencap
A video has emerged showing a drone that is claimed to have been launched by a Belarusian partisan group, landing on the radar dome of a Russian A-50 Mainstay airborne early warning and control (AEW&C) aircraft at Machulishchy Air Base, Belarus. The video was released by BYPOL, the organization of Belarusian military dissidents opposed to the Lukashenko government that claims it struck the A-50, damaging it in two critical places — its radome and its upper forward fuselage area — on February 26.
BYPOL Video Screencap
A video has emerged showing a drone that is claimed to have been launched by a Belarusian partisan group, landing on the radar dome of a Russian A-50 Mainstay airborne early warning and control (AEW&C) aircraft at Machulishchy Air Base, Belarus. The video was released by BYPOL, the organization of Belarusian military dissidents opposed to the Lukashenko government that claims it struck the A-50, damaging it in two critical places — its radome and its upper forward fuselage area — on February 26.