The Russian Army on August 12 achieved its fastest advance against Ukrainain forces since the start of the year, with an analysis of data by the Institute for the Study of War noting that on August 12 Russian ground units “captured or claimed to have captured” 110 square kilometres of territory that was previously Ukrainian held. Although Russian forces have been advancing quickly for several months, this capture of territory was five to six times the average rate, and by far the fastest in sixteen months since May 2024.
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Just two weeks after American forces landed at Normandy on D-Day, Jack Leroy Tueller, one of those Americans, was taking sniper fire with the rest of his unit. Instead of sitting helplessly, Tueller played the sniper a beautiful song on his trumpet.
He was orphaned at the age of five, but before World War II, Jack Tueller played first-chair trumpet in the Brigham Young University orchestra. After going to war as a pilot, his trumpet skills would serve him well, along with at least one German soldier and both their families.
US inflation could accelerate beyond current expectations as a result of Trump’s tariffs and the high deportation targets for ICE.
Though relatively limited in their duration and destruction, Israel’s airstrikes on Syria last month were conspicuous for their rationale. This was no act of self-defense. It was, in Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s telling, an act of protection: Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa’s government, in power since the fall of Bashar al-Assad in December, failed to protect the Druze from Sunni violence, compelling Israel to intervene on the minority’s behalf.
L Todd Wood speaks with former US Army officer Brad Miller on the continued lack of military leadership accountability.
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People, processes, place, and mindsets
For those who’ve watched for a long time, especially over the last decade, our service academies and war colleges have drifted further toward academic leftist orthodoxy and away from their core competence as serious military organizations. The last eight months have been a whirlwind of change, as efforts are finally underway to refocus these institutions on their core competency.
The two most high-profile Navy centers of higher education (with the Naval Postgraduate School a close 3rd, sorry fellas) are the U.S.
Flying as “SABRE 1”, B-1B Rage, serial number 86-0115, arrives at Tinker AFB on Jul. 2, 2024. (Image credit: Rob Stephens / @RedhomeAviation)
Another B-1B was pulled from storage at AMARG and recalled back to duty to bring the BONE fleet back to 45 total Lancers.
B-1B Lancer 86-0115 “Rage” is one of the four bombers out of 17 the U.S. Air Force stored at the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group (AMARG) at Davis-Monthan AFB, Arizona, and maintained “in a reclaimable condition” so that they could be regenerated if needed.
Two Italian Air Force F-35A fighters were scrambled from Amari Air Base in Estonia on August 13 under NATO’s Air Policing mission to intercept Russian fighters operating in the region, marking the first time Italian stealth fighters have been launched on an interception mission in the Baltic region. This occurred just a day after the Hungarian Air Force deployed Gripen C/D fighters for a similar operation. The Russian fighters in question were some of the oldest in the Russian Aerospace Forces’ inventory, including a Su-27 Flanker air superiority fighter, and a Su-24M strike fighter.
While they are aware of the cyber and operational security concerns swirling online, Pentagon leaders have assessed that Instagram’s new and controversial location tracking feature does not pose a major risk to the privacy and safety of U.S. military and Defense Department civilian personnel or their families at this time, according to a defense official.
Dubbed Instagram Map, the new function on the popular, Meta-owned social media platform enables users to see others’ live locations and movements in real time.
No matter what branch we served in in the U.S. military, there are a few things that are universal. All veterans have this innate need to show up 15 minutes early to everything. Many of us can still eat Thanksgiving dinner within two minutes (including dessert). Many veterans would also be lying if they aren’t a little proud of themselves when their pee is clear (if you know, you know).