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Summary and Key Points: Naval service demands a sacrifice that goes beyond combat risk. Sailors routinely deploy for six to twelve months, missing children’s birthdays, family milestones, and the ordinary moments that sustain adult mental health. Ships are crowded, private space is almost nonexistent, and family contact is limited. The Navy’s Operational Stress Control program classifies sailors into readiness zones — ready, reacting, injured, or ill — and deploys counselors aboard ships to catch problems early.
Summary and Key Points: The USS Massachusetts (BB-2) was America’s first modern battleship and arguably its worst. Designed for coastal defense rather than blue-water warfare, it rode dangerously low in rough seas, listed when its main turrets rotated, lacked the stabilizing fins standard on comparable ships, and carried armor positioned too low to protect against enemy fire. Its propulsion system broke down constantly. It missed its only real battle, killed sailors in two separate accidents, and spent more time in drydock than at sea.
Summary and Key Points: The Skipjack-class nuclear attack submarines were the fastest SSNs in the world when they debuted in 1959, capable of 33 knots submerged and armed with six torpedo tubes including nuclear weapons. Six boats were built. Five served without major incident through the Cold War. The sixth, USS Scorpion, blew up and sank on May 21-22, 1968, taking all 99 crewmen to the bottom of the Atlantic, 400 miles southeast of the Azores, at a depth of more than 10,000 feet. A Navy Court of Inquiry could not determine the cause. No definitive explanation has ever been established.
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As the U.S. Air Force prepares to expand procurement of the B-21 Raider beyond the currently planned fleet of 100 aircraft and continues using B-2 Spirit stealth bombers for long-range strike operations, Northrop’s YB-49 Flying Wing remains one of the clearest early examples of how the flying-wing configuration eventually became central to stealth bomber design. Built during the late 1940s for the newly formed U.S. Air Force, the YB-49 was a jet-powered bomber prototype with no conventional fuselage or tail structure.
A little-known Cuban state-run organization is the main lifeline for the privileged elite of the Communist party and a circle of military officials around former president and defense chief Raúl Castro. With the US Trump Administration preparing to use all possible pressure points to force a change in the regime, this critical entity is now in Washington’s crosshairs.
Donald Trump’s Plan to Make Cuba Pay
President Donald J. Trump holds a bill signing with members of Congress, Friday, May 9, 2025, in the Oval Office.
The UK-Italy-Japan Global Combat Air Program (GCAP) 6th-generation fighter aircraft is “a disaster in the making,” according to a lengthy report in one of London’s leading newspapers. The long investigative piece also finds that the GCAP is a microcosm of the UK’s defense establishment in that not just this program, but the country’s entire national security apparatus is in considerable jeopardy.
“The defense of the realm is in terrible trouble,” says the authoritative paper, the Daily Telegraph.
If war between Taiwan and China erupted, the Chinese military would unleash wave upon wave of drones across multiple domains to deplete Taiwanese defenses and sap Taiwan’s finite supply lines. This attack would all be in advance of a massive Chinese invasion of Taiwan. The island is well defended and fortified, thanks to its decades-long alliance with the United States. Beijing understands that it must first drain those defenses and weaken the island’s resolve.
The first step would be for China’s military to salami slice the outlying Taiwanese islands of Matsu, Penghu, and Kinmen.