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A 101st Airborne Division soldier pleaded guilty to selling a fellow soldier fentanyl-laced pills that killed him.
Spc. Ryan J. Faubel, 24 pleaded guilty to the negligent homicide in the death of Pfc. Ivan F. Rios-Segui, 25. According to charging sheets, Faubel sold fentanyl-laced Percocet, a brand-name painkiller medication, to Rios-Segui on the day of his death.
Rios-Segui died July 1, 2022, while stationed at Fort Campbell, Kentucky. He was an Infantryman assigned to the 101st Airborne Division’s 2nd Brigade Combat Team.

By early May 1945 the war in Europe was all but over. Hitler was dead, having killed himself in his bunker in Berlin rather than let the Soviet forces capture him. Mussolini had died days prior, his body strung up by partisans. American and Soviet forces had already linked up and the remaining German government under Admiral Karl Dönitz was about to formally surrender. German soldiers were either trying to give up to the Allies or in the case of diehards, kill anyone they considered traitor.

Michael Kofman and Dara Massicot join Ryan to unpack how the Trump administration’s ambitious peace efforts have collided with reality. They dive into how strategic calculations, politics, military conditions, and societal developments have shaped diplomacy, assessing how various pressures and intentions could redefine — or derail — pathways toward ending the war. Image: Russian state media
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Quantum Systems to deliver two different systems from the “cuttingedge” Family of Systems – Vector and Twister for the Spanish Armed Forces.

Anduril Industries has confirmed its intent to acquire Ireland-based tactical communications company Klas for an undisclosed sum.

The Defense Innovation Unit and U.S. Northern Command are set to launch two opportunities Monday that are designed to accelerate the military’s access to capabilities that can detect, track and counter certain enemy drones, while reducing risks to people and assets on the ground.

Patty Nieberg, Task and Purpose
Active duty female soldiers in combat roles will be required to run up to three minutes faster than they previously had to in the annual fitness test

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What Is the Army’s Long-Range Hypersonic Weapon?

Satam, Aviationist
The USMC identified L3Harris’ modular Red Wolf family of ‘launched effects’ as the munition at the center of the Long Range Attack Missile program

Roque, BrDef
A day after the service unveiled a massive shake up, a two-star general’s email sheds light on additional ground combat vehicle cuts and plans to accelerate work on a Bradley…