Nearly four decades before Dwight Eisenhower signed a bill that created interstate highways, he received an up-close look at the state of America’s roads.
Eisenhower was not impressed.
“It seems evident that a very small amount of money spent at the proper time would have kept the road in good condition,” the future supreme commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force and president said.
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Kyiv’s military position remains difficult, but it is not a situation of collapse. Russia continues to grind forward in parts of Ukraine’s Donetsk region while also maintaining pressure along several sectors of the front. Ukrainian forces have become increasingly dependent on drones, long-range strikes, and better use of technology to offset shortages of infantry and ammunition. But at the political level, the biggest story over the past few weeks has not been the battlefield itself, but an unusually turbulent reframing of Ukraine’s civilians and military leadership.
As the war in Iran continues, a new pattern has emerged, one that eschews large-scale strikes in favor of more sustained, tit-for-tat exchanges involving Iran, the United States, Israel, and Tehran’s regional allies — with no sign of either side backing down. While the front lines remain centered on Iran, the fighting has increasingly spilled across the Middle East, drawing in groups like the Houthis and raising serious concerns about global energy supplies, shipping, and the risk of a broader conflagration in the Middle East spiraling out of control.
IntEng
Equipping USS Defiant with the A1B nuclear reactor addresses two major operational challenges simultaneously
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A surprise plan to transfer Strike Eagles to the Reserves could be a preview of how a much larger F-15EX fleet will be assigned.
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On July 27, 2026, the U.S.
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The Air Force could bring up to six vendors into the early prototyping work of its second robotic wingman batch next year
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The Air Force plans to buy at least 185 F-47s, matching the size of the F-22 Raptor fleet it intends to replace
Chinese President and Chairman of the Central Military Commission Xi Jinping has called on the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) to accelerate the military application of artificial intelligence, urging the armed forces to strengthen the development of an “intelligent military system” as part of a broader effort to transform China’s armed forces into a world-class fighting force.
Editor’s note: This is the first article in a new occasional series featuring battles that just didn’t matter, that looked important in isolation but had negligible strategic or political effect, or were absurd, anticlimactic, or structurally irrelevant to the wars they were part of.Some battles never end. Their impact is debated endlessly, sometimes for centuries, as they take on new life with new generations of historians and swindlers alike.