After years of training, a recon commando marches into the briefing room and declares, “I’ve got little flying drones, cyber forensic tools, and a long-range rifle. I want a target.” The boss looks at the commando and replies, “Look, scout, you don’t have the authorities to use any of those fancy tools, take a seat in the back.” The commando nods and sits. Then an intelligence collector speaks to the boss: “I have a target, I just need a way to access it from the ground.
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This year began alarmingly with the terrorist attack on New Orleans’ famed Bourbon Street. The assailant, Shamsud-Din Jabbar, a U.S. Army veteran with a troubled past, claimed to have joined the self-proclaimed Islamic State in 2024 and displayed its flag in the truck he used to mow down and kill 14 people and injure some three dozen others.
It’s winter and winter means a surge of seasonal flu infections in the northern hemisphere. This year, however, is not just any year for the seasonal flu,
If it seems like you and everyone around you is getting sick this winter, you’re not wrong.
Experts say this is the worst flu season in the U.S. in more than a decade and cases are still trending up. Flu infections have reached the highest level since the winter of 2010 and 2011 when the swine flu swept across the nation, data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows.
Soldiers from the 10th Mountain Division recently pushed through the snowy Rockies, skiing across miles of winter terrain in Colorado for the 80th anniversary of the division’s surprise attack that took a crucial alpine route in World War II.
The ski trek commemorated the Feb. 18, 1945 kickoff of Operation Encore. The Allies had fully pushed into Italy, capturing Rome and turning their sights north to an advance into Germany. However the German and Italian Gothic Line, a mass of fortifications and defensive positions built into mountainous passes, stood in their way.
Check out how we smoke some rib trimmings. These cuts can usually be found cheap at the store and especially at Costco or Sam’s Club. I also sit down with a GWOT veteran, Erik Brazzale, as he shares his story.
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DEI is out
On 20 January 2025, President Trump issued Executive Order “Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing.”
“(i) terminate, to the maximum extent allowed by law, all DEI, DEIA, and “environmental justice” offices and positions (including but not limited to “Chief Diversity Officer” positions); all “equity action plans,” “equity” actions, initiatives, or programs, “equity-related” grants or contracts; and all DEI or DEIA performance requirements for employees, contractors, or grantees.
The Ukraine-Russia conflict will mark three years since the large-scale invasion of its neighbour by Moscow.
The U.S. military’s northernmost outpost is seeing brighter days. Literally. The Space Force Guardians at Pituffik Space Base are seeing sunlight for the first time in three months.
In recent days sunlight crested over the hills around the American base in Greenland, the first glimpse of natural light since November. Located at a latitude of 76°32′ North on the western coast of Greenland, the base is more than 700 miles north of the Arctic Circle and so close to the North Pole that come winter in the Northern Hemisphere, the Sun slips out of view from November to February.
As a captain in charge of a Marine rifle company in early 1968, Myron Harrington earned a Silver Star and, a week later, a Navy Cross for bravery and leadership under fire in the city of Huế, one the fiercest battlegrounds of the Vietnam War.
“We didn’t have any concern that we were being lured into a killing zone,” Harrington said in a later interview on the urban combat of Huế, letting out a resigned chuckle. “The whole city was a killing zone, so we knew we were already in a killing zone.”
Harrington, 86, died Wednesday, Feb.
Even with coordinated armor maneuvers, massive artillery strikes and heavy sieges and charges at trench lines, drones remain one of the most potent threats in the Russian invasion of Ukraine. And Ukraine came up with an unusual tactic to deal with them: take out the drone operators. This wasn’t a targeted commando operation or precision strikes; instead Ukraine planted explosives in the first person view goggles drone operators wear.
The goggles, imported into Russia as donated humanitarian aid, would then blow up, taking out the drone pilots.