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U.S. Calls for Europe to Release Diesel Reserves – The United States has urged European countries to release diesel reserves amid a global shortage of the vital commodity.

Prices have skyrocketed to record highs across the U.S. and Europe as conflicts in the Middle East and eastern Europe limit global supplies.

President Donald Trump attends UFC 314 at the Kaseya Center in Miami, Florida, Saturday, April 12, 2025. (Official White House Photo by Daniel Torok)

President Donald Trump attends UFC 314 at the Kaseya Center in Miami, Florida, Saturday, April 12, 2025.

Iran Is Losing Its Grip on the Strait of Hormuz – Iran’s most valuable trump card is losing its value. For decades, the Strait of Hormuz was the ace Tehran kept up its sleeve in every confrontation with Washington.

Before this current conflict, roughly 100 ships and 20 million barrels of oil moved through that narrow stretch of water every day. Close it, the theory went, and the world economy would come begging.

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Russia bombarded Ukraine yet again on Wednesday, launching one of the largest aerial attacks against the country in months and targeting civilian infrastructure around the country. It is part of Moscow’s effort, ahead of Ukraine’s bitterly cold winter months, to break civilian infrastructure, particularly heating, electricity, and water services in Kyiv and elsewhere.

“Russia has launched massive strikes on energy infrastructure,” Ukrainian Prime Minister Serhii Koretskyi wrote on his Telegram channel Wednesday.

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When Nile Kinnick reported to Naval Air Station Pensacola in Florida in 1942, the head coach of the base’s football team couldn’t wait to greet him.
Before joining the Navy, Kinnick played the sport at a high level for the University of Iowa. He was such a force that he accepted the Heisman Trophy, given annually to the best college football player in America, in 1939. Kinnick’s abilities intrigued NFL teams, with the Brooklyn Dodgers offering him the then-princely sum of $10,000 to sign. Kinnick pondered the generous contract, then attended law school instead.

Russia has launched one of its heaviest combined attacks on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure in months, just as temperatures begin falling.

Overnight between September 30 and October 1, a Russian barrage involving nearly 190 missiles and drones targeted Ukraine.

Putin New Year’s Message. Image Credit: Russian Government.

Vladimir Putin Russian President 2019. Image Credit: Kremlin.

Notably, the attack included about 174 jet-powered drones, accompanied by an assortment of ballistic missiles and other weapons.

For much of the modern aviation era, geography was something the global aviation industry learned to overcome. Simply put, unlike a railway, a pipeline, or a highway, an aircraft does not require a continuous physical infrastructure between its point of departure and its destination. Routes could change, aircraft could move between markets, and hubs could rise and decline. If economics justified a service, aviation possessed an extraordinary ability to find another way through.

A cyber operator can spend a shift tracking an adversary halfway around the world, walk to the parking lot, and be home in time for dinner. There is no flight home, no demobilization, and no transition from an operational mission back to ordinary life. The war zone is a commute away. That arrangement looks like one of the advantages of cyber warfare. It is also becoming one of its human costs.Bloomberg reported in August that as many as five people working at or alongside U.S.

Parth Satam, The Aviationist
A four-day independent trial by the AFRL’s Munition Open Architecture Test and Evaluation Laboratory assessed 14 weapons-systems domains to verify the compliance…

Swagath, Airforce Tech.

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But there’s room for more—up to $7 billion.