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It’s been a hot summer for tense military maneuvers in the cold Barents Sea.
D. Maxwell, SWJ
In the modern age of complex conflict, irregular warfare, and political competition, the Special Forces (SF) soldier must be more than a warrior.
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The United States Army War College is on a multi-year endeavor to develop a wargame that reinforces our curriculum and provides students with repetitions building campaigns in…
Brent M. Eastwood, National Security J.
Beloved for saving troops in Desert Storm and the war on terror, the A-10 Warthog is finally headed for retirement.
The Russian Aerospace Forces have deployed Tu-22M3 long range bombers to simulate strikes on enemy targets as part of the ongoing Russian-Belarusian Zapad 2025 military drills, with the attacks launched “with the aim of disrupting the control system and destroying critical facilities.” The Russian Defence Ministry reported regarding the operations: “The crews of Russian Aerospace Forces’ Tu-22M3 long-range bombers carried out an air strike with practical bombing, destroying targets at one of the training grounds during the Zapad 2025 joint strategic drill.
During World War I, the term “war bride” was coined to describe women who were hastily married before their new husbands shipped off to Europe. Whether due to values or norms of the time, soldiers were married soon after high school, leaving their new spouses behind as they were shipped off to battle. By the war’s end, it also described foreign women overseas who married American soldiers.
After World War II, tens of thousands of women from East Asia married American soldiers. Between 1945 and 1965, an estimated 200,000 women migrated from the Philippines, Japan, and South Korea.
A new batch of 38 M1A2 SEPv3 Abrams main battle tanks has been delivered to the Polish Army, placing the service on track to become the largest foreign operator of the American tank class as its only foreign operator with NATO. The tanks were ordered in April 2022 under a $4.8 billion contract, with the latest batch being the third to have been delivered. This followed a prior order for 116 less capable second hand M1A1 tanks, the final batch of which was delivered in July 2024, just 13 months after the first tanks arrived in the country on June 28, 2023.
Images released from the Changchun Air Show have confirmed that the Chinese People’s Liberation Army Air Force 19th Air Brigade has received J-20 fifth generation fighter aircraft from the tenth production batch, past the first 300 fighters to join the fleet. The brigade was first confirmed to have received J-20 fighters in February, but is thought to have done so some time in late 2023 or early 2024.
The U.S. military has sent at least two MQ-9 Reaper drones to the Caribbean in recent weeks, the latest bit of air power deployed to the region since August.
Two Reaper drones were spotted at the Rafael Hernandez Airport in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, this week. Reuters first reported on their presence on Sept. 9, photographing one on the runway armed with Hellfire air-to-surface missiles. The open-source satellite group Satellogic also photographed two Reapers next to a hangar at the airport, per the @MT_Anderson account on X.