During the 1979 Sino-Vietnamese War, a 26-year-old company commander’s unit was pinned down by a fortified hilltop. After frontal assaults failed, the junior officer made an extraordinary request: an entire battalion, four times the size of his own unit, for a jungle flanking maneuver. The regimental commander agreed. The surprise assault broke the Vietnamese defense. This company commander’s pedigree was as formidable as his tactics: His father was a founding general who had just retired as head of the Chinese military’s General Logistics Department.
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In the early days of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, much that could go wrong did for the Russian military. As one volunteer organization called KatyaValya recalled:We called all our military friends in (Russian-held) Donetsk, but no one could really explain or say anything. Three or four days later, Katya’s husband (who served with Donetsk militia) disappeared from communications. We searched for him every day through the commandant’s office to make sure everything was alright.
STARRS is calling for a full and independent review of the incident
COLORADO SPRINGS – Stand Together Against Racism and Radicalism in the Services, Inc. (STARRS) today expressed serious concern about a reported incident at the United States Air Force Academy involving a large gathering of academy graduates who recently displayed conduct inconsistent with military discipline and the chain of command.
An Iranian Air Force F-5E third generation fighter successfully conducted a bombing run against Camp Buehring in Kuwait, penetrating multi-layered U.S. and U.S.-supplied Kuwaiti air defences, which has raised serious questions regarding the security of American and allied military facilities both in the Middle East and globally. The F-5 is one of the least capable fighter types in service anywhere in the world today, and during the Iran-Iraq War in the 1980s was overwhelmingly outmatched by advanced Iraqi fighters such as the MiG-23ML, resulting in a decision to avoid air-to-air engagements.
The USS Dwight D. Eisenhower is ready to sail again after a prolonged maintenance period. The Nimitz-class aircraft carrier was commissioned in 1977 and is the second carrier of the group. It was just given a clean bill of health after completing a Planned Incremental Availability (PIA) at Norfolk Naval Shipyard. The “Ike” just finished sea trials after the PIA.
The Eisenhower underwent a comprehensive maintenance effort, and numerous engineers and technicians inspected the carrier, identifying areas for repair and modernization.
U.S. Navy officials just provided the clearest look yet at the Trump-class battleship, how much it might cost, and how quickly the controversial program could come to fruition. At separate roundtables during the Navy League’s Sea-Air-Space 2026 exposition, Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Daryl Caudle and outgoing Navy Secretary John Phelan said the service sees the ship – formally designated BBG(X) – as a necessary answer to modern naval warfare, particularly amid rising competition with China and growing pressure on U.S. forces across multiple theaters.
Two Army drill sergeants were sentenced to prison, busted down to the rank of private, and will be discharged after pleading guitly to engaging in sexual relationships with trainees during boot camp at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, officials announced. One of the trainees reported the two drill instructors the day before basic training graduation.
Staff Sgt. Michael Serrano, 34, and Sgt.
In April of 2003, during the initial invasion phase of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Maj. Kim Campbell was flying an A-10 Thunderbolt II when it was struck by enemy fire over Baghdad. Maj. Campbell successfully landed and has told the story of her flight that day.
According to a DVIDS Hub account, Campbell told the story at a Women’s History Month luncheon seven years later, in March of 2010.
A-10 Warthog National Security Journal Photo. Taken by Jack Buckby on August 23, 2025.
Mark T. Gerges commanded Bravo Company, 2nd Battalion, 70th Armor Regiment (call sign “Bandit”) in the 1st Armored Division’s 2nd “Iron” Brigade during Operation Desert Storm. In his new book, “Bandit: The Inside Story of an Abrams Tank Company during Desert Storm,” he delivers a grounded, human-centric account of armored warfare at his eye level.
The easiest way to misunderstand the Navy’s shipbuilding mess is to treat it as a shipyard story. That is how the issue is usually framed. Too few workers, too much complexity, too much bureaucracy, too many delays. None of that is wrong, but it is only the visible part of the problem.
The deeper problem sits upstream. The Navy’s procurement troubles reflect not just industrial strain, but a long stretch of strategic drift. If Washington cannot decide what kind of fleet it wants, shipbuilders will never deliver it on time.
(July 28, 2022) U.S.