Summary and Key Points: While Xi Jinping publicly calls for peace between the U.S. and Iran, American intelligence says China is quietly arming Tehran — reportedly funneling shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles through third countries to hide its hand.
-Analysts see it as proof that the “CRINK” axis of China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea is tightening against the West.
-China needs Iran’s oil and the Strait of Hormuz, and it’s studying the war closely — with Taiwan in mind.
Ryan Curtis thought he knew exactly who he was supposed to be.
An Army veteran and Massachusetts native who deployed all over the world as well as a filmmaker and producer, he spent years building a career rooted in storytelling for the likes of Oprah, Nike, and the VA. Making films was always the ultimate dream.
Music, however, had other plans.
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“It really messed with me at first,” Curtis told We Are The Mighty. “I had planned my entire life around being a filmmaker.
Summary and Key Points: Four years into a war the Kremlin expected to win in weeks, Russia is leaning on North Korean soldiers to keep fighting.
-British intelligence says nearly 500,000 Russian troops have been killed, and rather than risk another mobilization, Putin has imported roughly 14,000–15,000 North Koreans — about 6,000 already killed or wounded around Kursk.
North Korea Soldiers. Image Credit: KCNA/North Korean State Media.
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Summary and Key Points: Ukraine has done something planners thought impossible: cripple a great power’s navy without having one of its own.
-Over four years, Kyiv’s missiles and cheap sea drones have cost Russia roughly a third of its Black Sea Fleet, struck a Kalibr-launching submarine inside a “protected” Crimean base, and forced the rest to flee east.
-The threatened Russian assault on Odesa never came. The lesson now rippling through the world’s navies: ship count no longer decides who controls the sea.
Russia’s Navy Under Siege in Ukraine War
Kirov-Class Russian Navy.
Summary and Key Points: The A-10 “Warthog” is the plane the U.S. Air Force keeps trying to retire — and Congress keeps refusing to let go.
-Built around a massive 30mm GAU-8 Avenger cannon and a titanium “bathtub” cockpit, the Cold War tank-killer became indispensable for close air support in Afghanistan and Iraq.
-In the Iran War, it became a surprising drone-hunter — and even helped rescue a downed U.S. pilot.
-No other aircraft, Congress argues, can replace it.
-BONUS: We present our own video and photos of the A-10 Warthog from our visit to the National Museum of the U.
“Marine Raiders, our saying is that ‘shoulder-to-shoulder’ means never above you, never below you, always beside you,” Marine Corps veteran Luke Focer told a crowd gathered at SOF Week in Tampa. “It’s that bond created purely over blood, sweat and tears.”
Focer was part of a panel discussing “Noori,” a new feature documentary following the life of Ahmad Khalid Noori, a former Afghan special operations veteran, as he struggles to integrate into his new American life.
Many Americans may be familiar with the plight of former Afghan interpreters trying to come to the U.S.
Norway signed an agreement with France that will secure the nation with another layer of strategic security besides US nuclear guarantees.
Summary and Key Points: Despite America’s intense bombing in Operation Epic Fury, Iran is rapidly rebuilding its missile and drone arsenal — roughly half its launchers survived, many hidden in underground “missile cities” carved deep into granite mountains.
-Defense columnist Brent Eastwood argues the conflict revealed a new era of warfare he calls the “Kinetic Missile Fight,” where massed barrages decide outcomes and victory depends on stockpile depth.
France is building an 80,000-ton nuclear supercarrier, the FS France Libre — twice the displacement of the Charles de Gaulle and the largest warship ever built in Europe. Announced by President Macron, it will carry up to 30 Rafale-M fighters launched by three American-made EMALS catapults, the same system on the U.S. Navy’s Ford-class. Due in 2038 at a cost of €10.25 billion, the carrier is built for global power projection — and to operate alongside U.S. forces against China.
Libre: France’s New 80,000-ton Aircraft Carrier Dream
PANG France Aircraft Carrier.
