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On 17 February 2025, L Todd Wood rightfully called attention to the SECDEF’s emerging change of heart with firing generals. I share Wood’s concern. I am currently re-reading Pete Hegseth’s book The War on Warriors that makes his views of generals quite clear. The damage done to our military while generals focused on DEI and not on really important issues like readiness, morale, health of the force, etc has caused damage to our military that will take some time to undo.

The Battle of Iwo Jima is one of the most important moments in U.S. Marine Corps and American history. Early in the campaign, the iconic flag-raising on February 23, 1945 marked the first time that a foreign flag was flown over Japanese soil. Moreover, the famous photo of the second flag-raising taken by Joe Rosenthal reinvigorated support for the war effort in an American public that was weary after years of the two-front conflict.

After floodwaters trapped hundreds in their homes in Kentucky, National Guard personnel flew in and airlifted them to safety — and they did it in a single day.
Airmen and soldiers with the state’s National Guard evacuated 296 people from a pair of housing complexes that had become mired by flooding in Martin County, Kentucky, according to an Air National Guard news release by Dale Greer. The first floors of both apartment buildings were flooded, forcing the occupants to gather on the second floor, Capt. Cody Stagner, a spokesperson with the Kentucky National Guard, told Task & Purpose.

More than 5,000 military personnel from roughly 35 nations and international groups are embarking on a 12-day, U.S.-led maritime security exercise, marking the largest multinational training event in the Middle East region to date, according to officials involved. 
This year, that engagement — U.S. Naval Forces Central Command’s International Maritime Exercise 25 — is supplying new pathways for theater-to-theater interoperability and technology-enabled cooperation in conjunction with U.S. Naval Forces Europe-Africa’s Cutlass Express exercise. 
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A lot happens every day. Alliances shift, leaders change, and conflicts erupt. With In Brief, we’ll help you make sense of it all. Each week, experts will dig deep on a single issue happening in the world to help you better understand it. *** China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is a key tool for the expansion of Chinese global influence. More than ten years into the initiative, which Beijing launched in 2013, the BRI is evolving beyond its initial focus on financing infrastructure projects and has expanded well beyond Asia.

Defence reform is central to the new plans being put in place by Secretary of State John Healey, as headcount reductions increasingly likely.

Actor Kevyn Major Howard, who played the Marine combat photographer Rafterman in the Vietnam War movie “Full Metal Jacket,” died on Feb. 14 at the age of 69, according to media reports.
Matthew Modine, who played the lead character, Pvt. Joker, in the movie, paid tribute to his colleague in a Saturday post on X.
“Kevyn Major Howard gave and gave and gave so much to the world and especially the men and women of our armed forces,” Modine wrote. “He became famous for his role of ‘Rafterman’ in Stanley Kubrick’s FULL METAL JACKET.

The Russian Defence Export intermediary Rosoboronexport is showcasing the T-90MS main battle tank export variant at IDEX 2025.

EDGE entity Katim has partnered with Spanish IT and defence systems company Indra to boost ultra-secure communications.

Galvion has revealed the receipt of orders for its Baltskin helmet systems from customers in the Middle East region at the IDEX exhibition.