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The morning after the 2020 election was stolen was a seminal moment in my life. I remember it very clearly — the emotions, the feeling of betrayal, the determination to fix my country’s problems.
However, last night I listened to Tucker Carlson’s interview with Scott Horton, a journalist who conducted a deep dive into the reasons for the recent decade’s forever wars.
Something changed inside me after listening last night.
I separated from the United States Air Force in 1994, after graduating from USAFA, and flying special operations helicopters.

The U.S. Air Force’s plans to cancel the procurement of the E-7 Wedgetail airborne early and control (AEW&C) system announced in early June has raised serious questions regarding the service’s future capability to provide support to combat aviation operations in multiple theatres across the world.

Editor’s Note: This is part of a new series of essays entitled “Battle Studies,” which seeks, through the study of military history, to demonstrate how past lessons about strategy, operations, and tactics apply to current defense challenges.The Battle of Cannae, fought on Aug. 2, 216 BCE, the crowning success of Hannibal Barca over the Romans, sits comfortably in the pantheon of great military victories. It is one of the most spectacular examples of adroit tactics enabling a smaller, less heavily equipped army to defeat a larger, heavier opposing force in an open, pitched battle.

Editor’s Note: This is part of a new series of essays entitled “Battle Studies,” which seeks, through the study of military history, to demonstrate how past lessons about strategy, operations, and tactics apply to current defense challenges.The Battle of Cannae, fought on Aug. 2, 216 BCE, the crowning success of Hannibal Barca over the Romans, sits comfortably in the pantheon of great military victories. It is one of the most spectacular examples of adroit tactics enabling a smaller, less heavily equipped army to defeat a larger, heavier opposing force in an open, pitched battle.

The Iranian Air Defence Forces have received Chinese-made long range air defence systems, according to new reports from regional sources. An unnamed Arab official speaking to a local media outlet noted Iranian efforts to “back up and reinforce” its air defences, and that the information on these efforts had been passed on to the United States. The reports follow successful Israeli and American efforts to penetrate Iranian airspace during attacks from June 13-24, which saw Israeli

Acronyms are the military’s coping mechanism and cultural shorthand. They take massive, messy systems (logistics, pay, assignments, housing, healthcare) and compress them into three- or four-letter codes you’re expected to absorb without blinking. It started as a tool for clarity. Now it’s just… the way things are, dominated by acronyms everywhere.
But acronyms aren’t just about efficiency. They’re about fluency. They signal who gets it and who’s still texting a friend under the table.

There are many like it — 18, in fact.
A new scrolling feature posted on the Marine Corps website walks through a vital string of identity to the Corps: a history of every rifle model that any Marine has ever carried.
The scrolling post rolls through all 18 of the standardized, issued rifles that Marines have fought with, from the flintlock muskets of the Continental Navy to the legendary M1 Garands used across the Pacific in World War II, and the full family tree of the M16 and its variants, like the post-9/11 M4 and the current M27.

The Space Force has given Boeing a $2.8 billion contract for the service’s effort to modernize space-based nuclear command, control and communications (NC3) capabilities, Space Systems Command announced July 3.
Boeing beat out Northrop Grumman for the contract, which includes design and delivery of the first two satellites for the Evolved Strategic Satellite Communications program and options for two additional birds in the future.

The tax and spending bill Congress sent to President Donald Trump and that he signed into law over the holiday weekend contains hundreds of millions of dollars for cybersecurity, with a heavy emphasis on military-related spending.
The biggest single pot of money under the “One Big Beautiful Bill” would be for Cyber Command, a $250 million allocation for “artificial intelligence lines of effort.” Another $20 million would go to cybersecurity programs at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
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