It almost sounds like a Tom Clancy novel: a few hundred pro-Assad fighters, including Russian Wagner Group mercenaries, charge an American position in the Syrian desert. American troops respond with artillery, drones, F-22s, Apaches, an AC-130 gunship, and a few other surprise guests. By sunrise, their attack force is shattered.
But this wasn’t fiction. It was February 2018, near the Syrian town of Khasham, where the U.S. military went toe-to-toe with Russian-linked fighters on a scale not seen in decades. This time, the “little green men” weren’t acknowledged soldiers in uniform.
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Air Force veteran Chris Jachimiec was on his first deployment to Kuwait in 2000 when he found out his mother had passed away. He returned to the states and was prescribed an antidepressant.
For nearly two decades, Jachimiec was prescribed Lexapro on and off as he dealt with a number of personal tragedies, losing his grandmother and brother to suicide, and work stress. As those stressors compounded with hurricane response missions and needing to account for airmen after the 2017 mass shooting at a festival in Las Vegas, Jachimiec’s drinking habits also picked up.
General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT), a division of General Dynamics, launched its Mission Emerge Center in Springfield, Virginia.
Finnish firms Valmet Automotive and Patria Land have entered into a cooperation agreement for production of armoured vehicles.
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Leadership failures, training gaps and malfunctioning equipment drove the preventable loss of three F/A-18 Super Hornets and a collision between carrier USS Harry S….
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John Venable, A&SF
The United States Air Force is flying less than historic norms and funding for acquisition and readiness is on a path to further hollow out this too small and old force to…
Tim Martin, Breaking Defense
F-35As are a step closer to being able to carry the European Meteor beyond-visual-range, air-to-air missile
Tyler Rogoway & Joseph Trevithick, TWZ
Northrop Grumman says Talon is “cheaper and better” and “significantly different” than what it offered for Increment One.
U.S. ambassador to Turkey Tom Barrack has indicated that the Eastern European country may return to the F-35 fifth generation fighter program within four to six months, noting that the remaining dispute between the two countries over Turkey’s procurement of the Russian S-400 long range air defence system is expected to soon be resolved. Barrack noted that Turkey has taken important steps to resolving the “operability” issue because its S-400 systems are not being used, but noted that retaining the system continued to create difficulties for the United States.