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Four and a Half Years On, Russians Still Support the War with Ukraine: It’s hard to know what Russians truly think of their country’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
The “special military operation” launched in February 2022 was expected to last no more than three days. Instead, it has surpassed the duration of the First World War.
Why the Ukraine War?
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Hundreds of thousands of Russians have been killed, and many more wounded.
The USS Frank E. Petersen Jr. returned home this week after a 10-month deployment that included defending Navy assets against ballistic missiles as part of Iran war operations.
The USS Petersen left Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, on Dec. 1, 2025, and arrived back at its home port on Monday after 300 days at sea, officials announced in a release. The ship originally set sail in the South China Sea as part of ongoing “presence operations” to deter Chinese military actions in the region.
Russian President Vladimir Putin this week ordered another expansion of Russia’s armed forces, seeking to add 15,500 troops to bring the total to 2.44 million personnel, including 1.55 million active, CNBC reported, citing a Telegram post with the official government decree.
The report said that this is the fourth time that Putin has ordered such an increase since the start of 2026, after treating such increases much more sparingly in the earlier years of the war.
Putin in 2021. Image Credit: Creative Commons.
Putin in 2023. Image Credit: Creative Commons.
Eight Reactors, One Hull, and a $1.4 Billion Bill: Why Scrapping the USS Enterprise Costs So Much – The USS Enterprise, CVN-65, was the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier. Launched in 1958, it was the eighth vessel in the US Navy to bear the name Enterprise. Like her World War II predecessor, her crew nicknamed her “The Big E.”
The vessel had a long, distinguished career in modern U.S. Navy history, including the blockade of Cuba during the Cuban Missile Crisis; aerial combat and bombardment missions during the Vietnam War; the evacuation of the U.S.
President Donald Trump has insisted that the United States will win the war with Iran “very soon” amid ongoing negotiations between the two warring states.
Trump spoke to reporters at the White House on Monday, 28th September, where he affirmed his belief that the U.S. will win the war “one way or the other.”
A B-52 Stratofortress leads a formation of a B-1 Lancer, A-10 Warthog, F-16 Fighting Falcon, F-18 Hornet, F-22 Raptor and F-35 Lightning, assigned to Air Combat Command and Global Strike Command, during the Hyundai Air and Sea show at Miami, Florida, May 23, 2026.
When the Gerald R. Ford-class nuclear-powered aircraft carrier was first announced as the replacement for the iconic Nimitz-class aircraft carrier, the news was met with great fanfare. After all, on paper, the Ford-class would bring many new capabilities and truly become the United States Navy’s aircraft carrier of the twenty-first century. This did not happen, though. Instead, the USS Gerald R. Ford went significantly over budget and over its scheduled development time.
That means a math problem no one can easily solve: the US Navy now simply doesn’t have enough aircraft carriers.
Paratroopers from the 2nd Brigade, 82nd Airborne Division return to Pope Army Airfield after supporting the drawdown of U.S. troops from Iraq in 2011. Photo: Sgt. 1st Class John Laughter / DVIDS / Public Domain
By Tuesday, September 30, 2026, the last of the boots from American troops will have left the soil of Iraq — the same land that the US invaded in 2003 and where, over twenty-three years, the military lost the lives of 4,500 Americans.
Iran-backed militias are celebrating tonight.
In recent weeks, the U.S. and its allies have had some success in moving oil through the Strait of Hormuz by finding new routes to circumvent Iran’s control of the crucial waterway, as oil exports from the region have rebounded.
That’s according to an analysis published Tuesday by the Wall Street Journal, which also reported that Iran could seek to halt that progress by military means.
(July 28, 2017) An F/A-18F Super Hornet assigned to Air Test and Evaluation Squadron (VX) 23 approaches the aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) for an arrested landing.
A new guidebook outlines the duties for soldiers in the barracks and offers management tips to noncommissioned officers on how to address emergencies in living spaces.
The “NCO’s Barracks Guidebook,” published Wednesday morning, includes recommendations and outlines steps for addressing issues ranging from maintenance needs to cleanliness in the barracks.
The guide’s introduction notes that it is not setting policy but is meant to be a “professional tool, a resource built to educate, clarify, and strengthen the NCO’s ability to lead.