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Beginning on August 6, 2024, Ukrainian forces launched an incursion into Russian territory, pushing over seven miles into Kursk Oblast. Two weeks after the surprise operation, Ukrainian forces are still inching forward, deeper into Russia. We asked a panel of experts about the significance of the operation, how it might play out, and whether it could turn the tide of the war in Ukraine’s favor. Read more below.

A Marine lance corporal assigned to Camp Lejeune, North Carolina has been arrested in an  incident over 200 miles from base in which he allegedly rammed a sheriff deputy’s patrol car and was apprehended after leading deputies on a chase, a spokeswoman for the Guilford County Sheriff’s Office said.
Anthony Taveras-Furcal, 19, faces charges of assault with a deadly weapon and related offenses in connection with the Aug. 17 incident that took place in Greensboro, North Carolina, according to the Guilford County Sheriff’s Office.

The Army’s electronic warfare program office is using experimental units to help pave the way for its emerging capabilities and devise future requirements and concepts.
Those units are part of Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George’s so-called transforming-in-contact concept, where the service plans to use deployments and troop rotations to test new equipment — mainly commercial off-the-shelf gear — that could allow units to be more responsive on a dynamic battlefield.

After deciding to split up its integrated signals intelligence and electronic warfare platform, the Army is pursuing a new architecture for its EW suite.
Following operational demonstrations, the service determined that the concept for the Terrestrial Layer System-Brigade Combat Team was not going to work the way it was intended or gain the efficiencies desired.
TLS-BCT was designed as the first integrated signals intelligence, cyber and electronic warfare platform, devised roughly six years ago.

Mike Kofman popped into WOTR HQ to speak with Ryan about the state of play in Ukraine. From south to north, they review the situation at the front, with special attention to Ukraine’s offensive operation into Russian territory, to include its political implications. They talk about manpower and fortifications and explore how much F-16s might change the skies over Ukraine. This episode was sponsored by Onebrief. Learn more about how they are transforming military planning.

The West Point Office of “Diversity, Inclusion and Equal Opportunity” is now called the “Office of Engagement and Retention”.
It’s a slightly positive sign the military and service academies are getting the heat from the public about DEI being toxic and causing division, while Congress works to remove the salaries of DEI officers in DOD.
But what do these offices do to get around this? Change their names and titles. Case in point: “We sneakily changed their title so it doesn’t sound as diversity-oriented, even though it is.