In major conflicts throughout American history, the lines are blurred between who did what and when. Unless someone decides to “Stephen Ambrose” your unit, any action or glory is usually reduced to a paragraph in a history book or a vaguely accurate sentence on Wikipedia.
The National Guard’s exploits get reduced to a negative stereotype. While it may not be all inaccuracies or embellishments of reality, the majority of National Guard history gets rolled in with everyone else’s.
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According to a CNN report just yesterday, on 19 May, US Air Force (USAF) Dan Caine, the Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS), made an unplanned, classified trip across the Atlantic to the US Central Command (CENTCOM) headquarters in Tampa, Florida. The purpose was reportedly for him to be briefed in person on a proposed but extremely sensitive military operation – the likes of which had not been previously attempted.
The plan being briefed was for the US military to deploy a force of specialized ground troops into Iran.
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The war in Ukraine is not going well for Russia. Russia and President Putin believed that Ukraine would collapse, as would the Western NATO alliance and its support for Ukraine. Putin believed that the Russian military would take Kyiv in a few days and the entire country in a few weeks.
None of that has happened. Russia hasn’t achieved one of the main objectives that it set out four and a half years ago. The Russian Army has suffered horrendous casualties and lost an incredible amount of tanks, aircraft, artillery, and equipment.
T-72 Tank. Image Credit: Creative Commons.
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Trump said the U.S. military “delivered a swift and lethal kinetic strike.
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Saronic and Castelion, two defense technology companies, have announced plans to combine an autonomous warship with a hypersonic strike weapon.
The Ukraine War Was Never Meant To Last This Long: When Russian troops crossed into Ukrainian territory in February 2022, they had been told by their leaders in Moscow that the so-called “special military operation” was likely to last a matter of weeks. Russian forces quickly advanced toward Kyiv from Belarus, and even Western intelligence was assessing that the Ukrainian capital was at risk of falling within 72 hours.
But what has happened since is remarkable.
Germany’s defense establishment is issuing one of the starkest warnings heard from a major NATO government since the Ukraine war began. According to German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius, Russia could be able to threaten a NATO member by 2029. Notably, German Army Inspector General Christian Freuding says Pistorius’ view is not an isolated German assessment but rather a broader conclusion. According to Freuding, all 32 NATO members agree that Russia could regain the capability to challenge NATO military as early as 2029.