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Scott Hall, Small Wars Journal
Modern battlefields are shaped by data saturation, multi-domain complexity, and the accelerating convergence of effects across physical, informational, and…
N. Jennings, MWI
The character of war is evolving in ways that demand a dramatic reorganization of the U.S. Army’s order of battle.
Gary Anderson, RealClearDefense
Eighty years ago, U.S. Marines stormed ashore at Iwo Jima a battle that became immortalized with a statue in Arlington Cemetery.
A flight of three Russian Aerospace Forces MiG-31 interceptors supported by a Su-30SM and a Su-35 fighter were interpreted by Hungarian Air Force Gripen lightweight fighters over Eastern Europe, after they were detected flying over the Baltic Sea. The Hungarian aircraft were deployed as part of NATO’s ongoing Air Policing operation, which provides 24 hour increased fighter protection on the frontiers between the alliance’s territory and that of Russia.
The Meal, Ready-to-Eat is a staple of the U.S. military. Self-contained, shelf-stable, and packed with calories, MREs are the ideal food source to feed a formation on the move or when you forgot to coordinate hot chow to be brought out to the field (everyone still hates you, but at least they’ve been fed).
MRE science is conducted by the Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Soldier Center’s Combat Feeding Division (a mouthful in itself) in Natick, Massachusetts. There, troop feedback is incorporated with new trends in the commercial market to create the next MRE menu.
The Russian Aerospace Forces has deployed Tu-95MS strategic bombers for operations in the Bering Sea and the Okhotsk Sea, which included extended flights near Alaska. The Russian Defence Ministry reported regarding the operations: “The Tu-95MS strategic missile-carrying bombers of long-range aviation of Russia’s Aerospace Forces performed a scheduled flight in the airspace over neutral waters of the Bering and Okhotsk Seas. The flight lasted over 14 hours.
On Sept. 7, 2025, Ukraine intercepted most of the 800 drones and missiles Russia launched in a single, rolling barrage. But enough got through. The lesson wasn’t about any single weapon’s sophistication. It was about mass, and what mass does to tempo when it arrives in swarms. Wars now bend by overwhelming the decision loop.The same dynamic is coming for government operations. The “airframes” will be AI agents — specialized software workers that observe, analyze, decide, and act within defined parameters.
Shortly before midnight on the night of Sept. 9–10, Polish Air Force and NATO radar operators noticed multiple aircraft crossing into Polish airspace from Ukraine and Belarus. Poland’s air force command issued a quick reaction alert, scrambling Polish F-16 and Dutch F-35 fighters to identify and, if necessary, eliminate the threat. NATO also launched an Italian airborne command and control aircraft and alerted German Patriot air defense missile units on the ground.
A photo from 2015 showing the former commercial Ro-Ro vessel Cragside undergoing modifications into the Special Warfare Support vessel in Mobile, AL (Photo: Jabarnes, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons)
Satellite imagery analyzed by open-source researcher MT Anderson shows a vessel matching the U.S. MV Ocean Trader southwest of St. Kitts, a Caribbean island, amid ongoing U.S. counter-narcotics operations targeting Venezuela.
The sighting aligns with the New York Times’ Sept. 20 report detailing the quiet deployment of U.S. special operations forces in Venezuela.