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The deployment of British paratroopers in Ukraine to support the ongoing war effort against Russia has been confirmed for the first time by the United Kingdom Ministry of Defence, after Lance Corporal George Hooley of the Parachute Regiment was killed in action on December 9. The Ministry observed that the 28-year-old was killed in a “tragic accident” while observing Ukrainian forces test new armaments, making him the first British military serviceman confirmed to have been killed in the conflict.

The Russian Aerospace Forces have received a new batch of Su-34M strike fighters, following sustained efforts to expand production rates to over double peacetime levels.State defence conglomerate Rostec reported that the state run United Aircraft Corporation “has manufactured and delivered a new batch of Su-34 fighter-bombers to the Russian Defence Ministry. The aircraft have completed a series of required ground and flight factory tests and have been handed over to the customer.

The UK has signed the Agreement on Defence Export Controls which will make it easier to grant export licences with France, Germany and Spain.

The conferenced version of the fiscal 2026 National Defense Authorization Act would require the Pentagon to brief lawmakers on operations since 2004 involving any unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) intercepts conducted by the integrated military commands that share leadership and a focus on defending North America.
This mandate marks one of three provisions associated with UAP — or the modern term for UFOs and other mysterious transmedium objects — that made it into the annual defense policy legislation.
It also comes as North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) and U.S.

The United States Navy is the most powerful in history. For decades, it has dominated the seas, and at the heart of that domination, at least through World War II, was the battleship. But today, the U.S. Navy’s only battleships are floating museums, and its largest warships, aircraft carriers, have few guns on their decks. So what happened? How did the once-prolific warship fade into history and why hasn’t it been reinvented?
The short answer is that modern warfare killed the battleship concept.

In December 1944, the United States was still very much in the middle of World War II. The June 6 landings in Normandy were fresh in the minds of troops on the ground and Americans back home, but setbacks throughout Europe and bloody battles in the Pacific Theater left a nation fatigued by the strains of war.
As the casualty counts increased and the war waged on, the air in America felt heavy. But for a moment in December, there was one thing taking everyone’s mind off the fighting: the Army-Navy game.
Army was ranked #1 and Navy, #2.

In 2018, Andrew Grotto wrote, “Cyber Security Derailed? Recommendations for Smarter Investments in Infrastructure,” where he argued that as the United States modernizes its infrastructure and transportation networks, cybersecurity measures to protect them must be front and center. Seven years later, amidst a changing security landscape, we asked Andrew to revisit his argument.Image: Ben Schumin via Wikimedia CommonsIn your article, “Cyber Security Derailed? Recommendations for Smarter Investments in Infrastructure,” published in 2018, you argued that the U.S.

Army prosecutors preferred charges against an OB-GYN doctor at a Fort Hood, Texas, hospital for recording patients, officials said.
There are 44 victims in this case, Army officials said Tuesday. The Office of Special Trial Counsel preferred four charges and 61 specifications against Maj. Blaine McGraw, 47, an OB-GYN doctor assigned to the Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center at Fort Hood.

The Black Seminoles emerged as one of the most remarkable Afro-Indigenous communities in North American history. Their story is one of survival, adaptation, and unity forged during some of the most turbulent chapters of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. These men, women, and families were originally Africans who escaped from slavery in Georgia and the Carolinas and found refuge among the Seminole Indians of Florida. Over time, the shared experience of resisting oppression shaped a powerful cultural bond. Their unity was not simply a matter of coexistence.

The final draft of the annual defense policy bill tasks the Pentagon with conducting a psychological study on troops and Defense Department civilians who use or support unmanned aircraft systems in combat.
The study would assess the prevalence of post traumatic stress, depression, anxiety, burnout, moral injury — a term that gained popularity during the Global War on Terror used to describe a distressing ethical contradiction in the aftermath of a traumatic event — and other mental health conditions among drone operators and analysts.