Author: Michael

Russian President Vladimir Putin is under pressure from multiple angles, with his country’s domestic fuel market struggling under the weight of Ukrainian strikes on refineries and diminishing returns on the front line. But with Washington growing tired of the war it started in Iran, Putin may now see an opportunity to test NATO.

New U.S. intelligence suggests that the Kremlin believes the prolonged American campaign against Iran has weakened Washington’s military position and could give Moscow greater freedom to escalate against U.S. interests or allies in Europe, per reports this week.

ABERDEEN, Md. — The Army will soon field the first batch of a new detection system intended to identify signals emitted from friendly units, service officials said, part of an effort to prevent adversaries from capitalizing on an increasingly observable electromagnetic spectrum to find targets.
The service will deliver nine Spectrum Situational Awareness Systems, or S2AS, to “prioritized Army units” in three weeks, officials told reporters at Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland on Thursday.

In recent weeks, reports have suggested that a deal on a governance structure for the Strait of Hormuz was close, or that such a framework had been reached. However, no such deal has been announced, as the war reached its six-month mark this week.

So where do things stand now?

(Aug. 8, 2017) The Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS George H. W. Bush (CVN 77) at sea during exercise Saxon Warrior 2017, Aug. 8.

As Washington hopes its new economic pressure campaign will force Tehran to open the Strait of Hormuz, oil is still finding a way out of the Persian Gulf, with producers finding creative ways to move their crude out of the region.

And while it’s clear that some oil is leaving through the Strait of Hormuz, the price of achieving it is becoming extraordinarily high.

Nimitz-class carrier USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77) transits the Atlantic Ocean while offloading munitions via helicopter to the world’s largest aircraft carrier, USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78), June 27, 2025. Gerald R.

Space Force, the military’s newest branch, is getting its own service academy, President Donald Trump announced. On Friday, Trump signed an executive order to create the new military academy and shared the decision while speaking at NASA’s Johnson Space Center at an event honoring the members of the Artemis II mission.
Trump, who created Space Force in his first term in 2019, said that the new Space Academy will “educate and train an entire generation of skilled service members, engineers, and civil operators.

Russia has been stepping up attacks in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region, and specifically the “Fortress Belt” cities of Kostyantynivka, Kramatorsk and Sloviansk.

According to CNBC, Russia’s Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov said this week that Russia had “advanced to a position just four kilometers (2.5 miles) from the eastern outskirts of Sloviansk.” Gerasimov also said that Russia has “overcome the first defensive line of the Sloviansk-Kramatorsk fortified region.”

T-90 Tank. Image Credit: Creative Commons.

Russian T-90 Tank. Image Credit: Creative Commons.

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The Pentagon is searching for interim software-only cryptographic solutions that require zero hardware changes to protect military systems during its transition to post-quantum cryptography.
A request for information released on Thursday sets clear, operational baselines for vendors and signals that the Defense Department is executing on its nascent campaign to prepare for existential quantum threats.

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The war with Iran reached its six-month mark on Friday, August 28. And after all that time, and despite the White House insisting this would not be a protracted conflict, Tehran is still calling the shots.

After beginning with massive U.S. and Israeli strikes on February 28 that killed Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and other senior Iranian officials, and additional strikes targeting military and nuclear facilities across the country, the conflict with Iran has dragged on far longer than President Donald Trump had hoped.

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