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Critics pillory him for overemphasizing one specific type of history—military, political, economic, or social—while minimizing or ignoring the other types.

Nate Boyer has passed tests most never try. He was an Army Green Beret, played Division I football and even earned a spot on an NFL roster.
But he admitted to Task & Purpose he was a “recycle” at Airborne school.
Some of the Task & Purpose team is in Baltimore for the 126th Army-Navy game, talking to veterans and active-duty military members about service, the football rivalry and more. Ahead of the game, they got some time with Nate Boyer.
“There’s nothing like Army-Navy. It’s special,” Boyer told Task & Purpose. “It’s the only game this day for a reason.

During World War II, while American soldiers fought across continents, the home front became a battleground of its own. Saboteurs, spies, and covert networks tried to exploit weaknesses in America’s defenses. At the very moment Nazi infiltrators slipped ashore in 1942 as part of Operation Pastorius, another secret war was already underway, one fought on the New York waterfront.
There, the U.S. government turned to an unlikely partner to protect the nation’s supply lifeline: organized crime.

Combat engineers of the Korean People’s Army 528th Engineer Regiment have removed mines on an area of almost 42,400 hectares of territory in the Russian Kursk region, destroying over 1.5 million explosives, according to a statement by the region’s Governor Alexander Khinshtein. “Combat engineers from the friendly republic have cleared almost 42,400 hectares of our territory from mines and destroyed over 1.5 million explosive devices. This is invaluable help in the work, without which our borderline territory cannot be rebuilt,” he stated.

A leaked U.S. wargame assessment known as the Overmatch Brief has concluded that the Chinese People’s Liberation Army could sink the U.S. Navy’s new Gerald Ford class supercarriers in a potential conflict over Taiwan. Multiple simulations showed that Chinese forces could destroy or disable the new carriers in a wide range of ways, and could do so before American air power was able to influence the course of hostilities.

A Royal Thai Army VT-4 main battle tank has suffered serious damage during clashes with Cambodian forces, after the vehicle was conducting a direct fire mission against Cambodian positions in disputed border regions. The tank’s 125mm main gun reportedly ruptured, leaving the barrel shattered, with the tank’s fire control–related targeting system and its laser warning system also reported to have been damaged. Reports indicate that the crew survived unharmed.

U.S. Special Forces in November boarded a cargo ship in the international waters in the Indian Ocean, securing dual use goods that were being shipped from China to Iran. The operation was reported by the Wall Street Journal on December 12, with U.S. officials describing it as maritime interdiction aimed at slowing Iran’s attempts to rebuild parts of its missile arsenal. The cargo was reported to have been removed and destroyed, although analysts have speculated that it may have been seized for study.

CSAR indicates air strikes into Venezuela and Colombia may be imminent

The arrival of specialized CSAR indicates a requirement to quickly rescue air crews that may be entering the surface to air missile capabilities of Venezuela and Colombia. CSAR capabilities ensure a quick extraction if an aircrew has to bail out.
In addition to the CSAR resources, additional tankers are arriving in Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

The United Kingdom is no longer capable of running its nuclear submarine program, as years of mismanagement have seriously eroded fleet availability rates and a wide range of other performance metrics, according toformer director of nuclear policy at the Ministry of Defence Rear Admiral Philip Mathias. Sharply criticising the state of the submarine fleet, the former admiral argued that the fleet has suffered from “shockingly low availability” rates, with budget cuts and a “huge failure” in the management of key personnel having exacerbated the problem.

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Secretary of the Army Dan Driscoll has been reportedly removed from U.S. negotiating team in Ukraine.
Regional media is reporting the move is due to Secretary of War’s ‘paranoia’ about Driscoll taking over DOW.
The move comes on the heels of our reporting on LTG Keith Kellogg (USA, Ret) also was removed due to his leaking of the Trump peace plan to the Zelenskiy regime prematurely.