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If your first reaction to that photo was “Somebody, please tell me what the hell is going on?” you’re not alone.
Published March 12 by the 24th Special Operations Wing, this insane photo was taken earlier this month during a week-long selection course at Hurlburt Field, Florida for Special Tactics Officers, or STOs, the officer-version of enlisted Combat Controllers, or CCTs.
STOs are an incredibly elite group, which is a really nice way of saying there’s hardly any of them in the Air Force, and this photo is a pretty good indicator why.
Bruce T. Smith, RealClearDefense
The woke military is the bastard child of a thousand fathers.
The Aviationist
The new BRU-78 Dual Carriage System allows the MQ-9 Reaper to carry two bombs on a single hardpoint
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This capability allows for silent drive and silent watch modes, which enhance stealth and fuel efficiency while providing additional power.
CDR Salamander, CDR Salamander
hard to feel the anger through the sadness
In this episode, we get into what’s driving the Indo-Pacific’s security dynamics, from China’s threats to Taiwan to AUKUS and the Quad to stability (or lack thereof) on the Korean Peninsula to bases in the Philippines. We also touch on how prepared the United States may be to deliver military power in the Indo-Pacific based on forthcoming resourcing decisions by the Trump administration and Congress. Get ready for a smart, insightful conversation you won’t want to miss with Lisa Curtis (CNAS), Zack Cooper (AEI), and Dmitri Alperovitch (Silverado).
Early March 2025 was when Syria’s post-Assad transition turned sour. In scenes that resembled the worst moments of Syria’s civil war, hundreds of Alawite civilians were killed, probably by a combination of pro-government forces and extra-judicial Sunni death squads. The violence began as an anti-government uprising in Syria’s coastal, Alawite-dominated Latakia province. But the subsequent massacres were a country-wide event, with reports of Sunni militias killing Alawite civilians in Homs, Tartous, Hama and elsewhere.
A few weeks ago, commercial flights over the Tasman Sea — located between Australia and New Zealand — were forced to divert after they were warned by the Chinese navy that its warships were about to conduct live-fire exercises in the area. This is the latest example of China looking to expand its position in the South Pacific.