The UK Forward Land Forces in Estonia will shift to lighter and more agile units from April 2027 but few platform changes have been made.
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On Jan. 15, 2019, five terrorists from the Islamist militant group Al-Shabaab carried out an attack at the DusitD2 complex in Nairobi, Kenya using AK-style rifles, grenades, and a suicide bomb. According to British SAS operator Christian Craighead, who spearheaded the rescue of civilians and counterattack at the complex, that statement alone is against the law in the United Kingdom.
Blocked from publishing his account of the events in his home country, Craighead released “One Man In” in the United States through Threshold Editions and Simon & Schuster Audio on Sept. 15, 2026.
U.S. troops carrying out strikes against alleged drug-trafficking boats are facing renewed questions about the legality of their orders after a United Nations expert found the attacks may constitute crimes against humanity.
Ben Saul, the U.N. special rapporteur on counterterrorism and human rights, examined the U.S. military campaign that has killed 223 people in at least 68 strikes in the Caribbean and Pacific since September 2025.
Saul found there were reasonable grounds to believe the U.S.
When SIG Sauer released the P320 in 2014, it had difficulty breaking into a polymer-frame, striker-fired duty handgun market dominated by the likes of Glock and Smith & Wesson. Following the win of the Modular Handgun System contract with the Army and subsequent adoption by the rest of the U.S. military, P320 sales exploded.
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To complement the full-size, compact, sub-compact, and carry P320 variants, SIG released the micro-compact P365.
In recent weeks and months, Russia and Ukraine have been striking each other’s energy infrastructure, which has affected global energy markets to the point where President Donald Trump has been pushing the two countries to agree to a ceasefire in such attacks.
And now, Russia’s attacks have hit another essential part of Ukraine’s economy.
MSTA-S Russian Army. Image Credit: Creative Commons.
Msta-S Russian Army. Image Credit: Creative Commons.
Australia has pledged additional support for Ukraine, expanding its military and humanitarian assistance as the war with Russia continues.
The Estonian Defence Forces have signed a three-year agreement with defence-focused investment fund Archangel to connect military requirements with technology companies and investors in Estonia and the wider Baltic region.
The Navy formally established a new center Thursday at Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek in Virginia that’s expected to play a major role in shaping how the sea service fights with uncrewed systems.
The Robotic and Autonomous Systems Warfighting Development Center (RASWDC) will bring “operational coherence” that’s needed for the integration of unmanned platforms across the fleet with the Navy’s general-purpose forces, according to an unclassified administrative message from Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Daryl Caudle that was posted Thursday on a Navy HR website.
YUMA PROVING GROUND, Ariz. — U.S. Northern Command’s next Falcon Peak exercise will focus for the first time on safely integrating and demonstrating counter-drone capabilities in a dense city setting that’s bustling with human activity, Brig. Gen. Jason “Ox” Rueschhoff told DefenseScoop on Thursday.
“Homeland defense is not about protecting from outside, it’s also protecting inside,” said Rueschhoff, Northcom’s director of operations. “We could do one without taking care of the other, and that’s not the right answer.
Joe Walsh joined the Eagles as a guitarist and keyboardist in 1975.
Since then, he has achieved a level of fame and wealth that he didn’t think possible while he was a youth in Wichita, Kansas. The perks of becoming a world-renowned musician are not lost on the 78-year-old Walsh, but they don’t insulate him from the realities of losing a loved one.
Walsh was only 20 months old when his father, Army Air Corps Lt. Robert Newton Fidler, died in a midair collision over Okinawa, Japan, on July 22, 1949.