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Brigadier General Doug Wickert gives sobering talk to community leaders on potential of his base being hit by China in case Taiwan is invaded. There needs to be more discussions like this

When an Air Force General talks about the disparity of shipbuilding between the U.S. and China – pay attention.
When the Commander of a large American Air Force Base (AFB) in the Continental United States talks about China hitting his base in case of Chinese invasion or quarantine of Taiwan – pay even closer attention.

Rheinmetall confirm there will be a new gun barrel manufcaturing facility in Telford which will start production by 2027.

Panic wouldn’t help. Anger would make things worse. So, I stared out at the endless fields of northern Nigeria and thought, “I’m a pawn in their chess game. They were never rooks in mine.” In 2014, I served as an embedded advisor to Nigeria’s minister of agriculture and rural affairs, tasked with building agricultural markets to support stabilization. I flew north with a plan to win over the former minister of agriculture — a powerful businessman who I thought was my rook in the game of market reform.

Once more unto the breach, India struck inside Pakistan in response to a terrorist attack. Once more, the two sides escalated — again to unprecedented levels — before agreeing to a ceasefire. It is tempting to consider this latest crisis as a somewhat larger replay of the last Indo-Pakistani crisis in 2019, but in fact it signifies a notable shift in India’s military strategy towards Pakistan, which has potentially grave implications for future crises.

Virtualitics is a winner in the Innovation and Business Expansion categories in the 2025 Army Technology Excellence Awards.

Get your bandanas out one more time because John Rambo is coming back to the big screen. Several Hollywood trade publications are reporting that Millennium Media, the company behind “The Expendables” and “Olympus Has Fallen” franchises, is currently at the ongoing Cannes Film Festival market shopping a new film detailing John Rambo’s early days. Yes, we are getting a Rambo origin film. 
Jalmari Helander, the director of the Swedish World War II action film “Sisu” is attached to direct, with Rory Haines and Sohrab Noshirvani (“Black Adam”) writing the screenplay.

Mr. Laurence Tureaud, aka Mr. T, turns 73 on May 21. The actor and retired pro wrestler continues to be a cultural icon even well after his heyday in the 1980s. He continues to live by interesting philosophical points, “To the women and children, T stands for tender. To the bad guys and thugs, it stands for tough.” He is most known for his role as Clubber Lang in Rocky III and B.A. Baracus in The A-Team TV series. He has appeared in 56 projects throughout his career. His Hollywood stardom came from being spotted by Sly Stallone in a TV show named America’s Toughest Bouncer. Mr.

The U.S. Army plans to line Washington, D.C. streets with metal sheets to prevent tanks and other vehicles from damaging the roads during its parade next month. 
The Associated Press, citing a U.S. official, reports that the Army will install several heavy metal plates at specific points in Washington, D.C. to avoid tearing up the pavement. As it currently stands, the Army is expected to field 25 M1 Abrams tanks as part of the wider parade, which will honor the Army’s involvement in every American conflict.

The 101st Airborne Division will be the first unit to get the Army’s new tiltrotor aircraft. This week the Army announced that the 101st will get to use Bell’s V-280 Valor, a next-generation replacement for the aging H-60 Black Hawk helicopter.
The 101st Combat Aviation Brigade, the division’s attached aviation unit, will receive the aircraft, which recently was given its official mission-design series designator of the MV-75.
The choice of the 101st “was based on their mission profile and theater demands,” Gen.

Mehdi Alhassani & Anthony Bak, WSJ
‘General intelligence’ is an ever-receding goal.