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Four members of Japan’s Ground Self-Defense Force were injured after a munition exploded on Kadena Air Base on Monday.
The Air Force’s 18th Wing, based out of Kadena Air Base in Okinawa, confirmed that an explosion occurred at a munitions storage site on the northern side of the base. No U.S. personnel were injured and local authorities said that there is no risk of further explosions, according to the U.S. Air Force and Kyodo News.

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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.In 1846, following its annexation of Texas, the United States went to war with Mexico over disputed territory in the Southwest and to enforce its declared southern boundary with Mexico: the Rio Grande. The U.S. president, James K.

U.S. Northern Command stood up a formal task force on Sunday to coordinate the U.S. military’s deployments into Los Angeles County.
The announcement from the command clarifies several details left vague on Saturday when President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced they were sending National Guard troops into Los Angeles. 
“As USNORTHCOM’s land component command, U.S. Army North stood up Task Force 51, with a two-star general, as the ground command and control element over the Title 10 forces,” NORTHCOM’s announcement said.

Little noticed by most media, perhaps because of their unspectacular 83rd and 81st yearly anniversary dates, are two of the most important US and Allied wins in World War 2. The outcomes of both battles changed that war’s trajectory to materially favor ultimate Allied victories, both having 80th anniversaries in 2025 … May 8 for victory over Hitler’s Germany, and August 15 (September 2 for surrender signing), for victory over Japan. Below are recaps of each early-June battle.

What if Americans’ daily mail could be delivered not by postal truck but by a cruise missile? On June 8, 1959, the U.S. Navy had a submarine try just that. It kind of worked.
66 years ago today the U.S. Navy tested out a concept previously known as “rocket mail,” only in this case they used a relatively new Regulus 1 cruise missile. 
The idea of “rocket mail” was first theorized in 1810 by German author Heinrich von Kleist.

President Donald Trump ordered 2,000 National Guard troops to California on Saturday. The move, which is detailed in a presidential memorandum, cites “numerous incidents of violence and disorder have recently occurred and threaten to continue” in response to operations by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency. The first National Guard soldiers began arriving into Los Angeles County early Sunday morning.

L Todd Wood talks with ‘Alex’ from Kyiv on the situation on the ground in Ukraine.
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A soldier with the 101st Airborne Division died on Thursday, June 5 in a training accident in Hungary, the Army announced today. 
Sgt. Aaron Cox, 24, was serving as an Infantryman in the 2nd Mobile Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault). He died after being involved in a vehicle accident in Hungary while helping prepare for a multi-national military exercise, the Army said on Saturday, June 7. 
“The loss of Sgt. Cox is a tragedy for all of us on the Strike team,” Col. Duke Reim, commander of the 2nd Mobile Brigade Combat Team, said in the Army’s announcement.