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Gen Xavier Brunson CO US, UN Forces in South Korea Talk at AUSA Conf LANPAC 2026.
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Calvin Graham faced the biggest test of his young life when he tried to enlist in the United States Navy in 1942.
The baby-faced Graham was only 12 years old at the time and did everything he could think of to make himself appear older. As a Smithsonian magazine article in 2012 explained, Graham arrived clean-shaven, wore his older brother’s clothes and a fedora, and spoke in a deep voice.
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Graham, whose friends forged his mother’s signature on his military paperwork, could do nothing about his teeth.
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Pentagon planners are doubling down on sixth-generation dominance
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GA-ASI and the U.S.
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The USAF is moving to start work on a new ARRW variant able to hit moving targets with an eye toward future fights in the Pacific.
On May 4, 2026, a South Korean vessel came under fire in the Strait of Hormuz, leading President Donald Trump to urge the government in Seoul to join the U.S.-led operation to secure the waterway. The South Korean government politely replied it would “review” the American proposal. The event crystallized a major paradox of the ongoing conflict: The closure of the Strait of Hormuz, the worst maritime crisis in decades, is fundamentally an Asian problem, yet Asia is almost entirely absent from the debate over how to resolve it.
An old adage claims a marine’s career came down to the “two or three minutes of a promotions brief.” Turns out that was a little optimistic. In practice, the Marine Corps promotion system decides the institutional worth of a 20‑year career in about 12 minutes of board attention.Imagine the National Football League compressing the seven primary drills of the Scouting Combine — the 40‑yard dash, bench press, vertical and broad jumps, three‑cone drill, 20‑yard shuttle, and 60‑yard shuttle — into a single 12‑minute window.
In May 2025, as Indian BrahMos missile strikes hit Pakistani air bases — targeting runways, parked aircraft, and critical infrastructure — Islamabad faced a choice. It had the capability to respond with its own long-range systems, but it chose not to. Pakistan deliberately withheld the Babur cruise missile, not because it lacked options, but because using a dual-capable system risked signaling nuclear escalation.That moment captures the changing logic of conflict in South Asia. The four-day crisis was intense but contained, defined less by what was used than by what was held back.