Author: Michael

The Lingering Questions About Recent Iran Strikes: Unexplained airstrikes hit southern Iran on Thursday, July 9, only hours after the United States had announced it had completed a new, major military operation targeting 90 Iranian military sites. When additional explosions came, many analysts assumed it was a continuation of U.S. strikes – but those reports, which span multiple provinces, have not been claimed by any country so far. The strikes occurred as funeral ceremonies for the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei continued.

The confirmed U.S.

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For the last few months, Navy Federal Credit Union has generously sponsored free Reply Postage on Sandboxx letters. That sponsorship is coming to an end on Friday, July 31. We want to give you plenty of notice, explain exactly what’s changing, and make it simple to keep free Reply Postage on the letters you send. Here’s everything you need to know.
What is Reply Postage?
Reply Postage is the prepaid postage on your reply envelope. With it, your recruit or service member can write back without needing to find or buy stamps on base.

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The renewed hostilities between the U.S. and Iran could disrupt the International Energy Agency’s (IEA) forecast of a significant oil market surplus next year, it said on Friday.

The IEA recently forecast that global oil markets will shift from a major deficit in 2026 to a massive supply surplus in 2027, driven by a recovery in production in the Middle East.

President Donald J. Trump signs executive orders, Friday, May 9, 2025, in the Oval Office. (Official White House Photo by Molly Riley)

Global supply is projected to surge by 8 million barrels per day (bpd) to 110.3 million bpd.

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The July 1944 bombing that nearly took the life of Nazi Germany’s dictator, Adolf Hitler, was the last of some 40 attempts to eliminate him.

What kept any of those plots from succeeding was a set of practices that made his movements unpredictable – last-minute changes in schedules and destinations – and an ever-increasing army of protective services that were always around him.

Putin with a Rifle. Image Credit: Russian State Media.

These lessons have not been lost on Russian President Vladimir Putin.

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The Marine Corps’ last serving amphibious assault vehicles, beastly machines affectionately known to Marines as “tracks,” recently completed a final field exercise ahead of their planned retirement, Corps officials said this week.
The 4th Assault Amphibian Battalion, the last Marine unit still operating the officially retired vehicles, took part in Exercise Sea Breeze 26 last month in Romania. The event marked the final Marine Corps operations with the vehicle, which is often referred to by its acronym, AAV,  a Marine Corps news release says.

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The Wall Street Journal posted that Israeli intelligence has shared with the U.S. indications of a fresh Iranian plan to kill President Trump, people familiar with the matter said.

Iran, for years, has vowed openly to retaliate against Trump for the assassination of Qassem Soleimani, who was the commander of the Quds forces in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), in January of 2020.

Donald Trump Pointing in Speech. Image Credit: White House.

The president stated that he was a target as he was leaving the NATO meetings in Ankara, Turkey, earlier this week.

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As Ukraine’s massive force of one-way attack drones strikes further into the interior of Russia, Moscow finds its already inadequate number of air defense assets even more lacking than before.

In the most recent attack by Ukraine on Russia’s largest refinery in the Siberian city of Omsk, the facility was embarrassingly almost completely undefended.

Putin in 2023. Image Credit: Creative Commons.

Putin in 2022. Image Credit: Creative Commons.

As these unmanned attack aircraft were exploding on impact with the refinery facility, there was one huge fireball after another.

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