On the first night of the evacuation of Kabul, Aug. 15, 2021, a young mother found me in the crowd at Hamid Karzai International Airport. She had marked me, correctly, as someone who spoke her language. By the end of the night, she was pressing the body of her dead child into my chest and telling me, “You did this.” I have spent five years with that sentence.In a way, she was wrong about me. I had done nothing to her son.
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The sixth generation fighter under development by China’s Shenyang Aircraft Corporation has continued to make progress in flight testing, with growing quantities of footage showing the aircraft operating at both low and high altitudes. The fighter is broadly comparable in its dimensions to the country’s most capable fifth generation fighter type, the J-20, while a second sixth generation fighter type under development by the Chengdu Aircraft Corporation has much larger dimensions and appears intended for operations across much longer ranges.
President Donald Trump says oil is flowing through the Strait of Hormuz at almost prewar levels. The reality is rather more complicated.
Only seven commodity vessels passed through Hormuz on Wednesday, September 9, according to preliminary ship-tracking data reported by Reuters on Thursday.
U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Colby Delia, 9th Expeditionary Bomb Squadron crew chief, and Airman 1st Class Olivia Ward, 9th Expeditionary Bomb Squadron crew chief, prepare for a B-1B Lancer to take off for a mission at Misawa Air Base, May 9, 2025.
Iran claims to have replenished enough missiles to carry out a prolonged war with the United States. Meanwhile, U.S. President Donald Trump publicly claims the conflict will end after this November’s midterm elections.
One top Iranian official, who wished to remain anonymous, told Bloomberg Iran did not plan to back down as a result of the U.S. naval blockade or U.S. attacks on Tehran’s tankers.
Iran’s Drones That Russia Is Using. Image Credit: Creative Commons.
Last month, in an Axios story, sources in the Trump administration told the story of a clandestine effort to move shipping traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, despite Iran claiming it had closed it.
After that secret operation, the story said the U.S. could transport 10 million barrels of oil a day through the Strait, about half of pre-war levels.
U.S. Air Force Maj. Taylor “FEMA” Hiester, F-16 Viper Demonstration Team commander and pilot, performs aerial maneuvers in an F-16C Fighting Falcon during an air show at Marine Corps Air Station Yuma, Ariz., March 15, 2025.
Ukraine just carried out the deepest confirmed strike inside Russian territory since the beginning of the war, having sent long-range drones more than 1,800 miles into Russian territory to strike two major gas processing facilities located in western Siberia.
Ukraine’s Special Operations Forces said that the operation, conducted on September 9, targeted facilities at Novy Urengoy and sites in the Purovsky district of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug — the central hub of Russia’s massive gas industry.
HIMARS Attack. Image Credit: Creative Commons.
The Defense Innovation Unit will soon sponsor approved startups and non-traditional companies with certain temporary security clearances so they can participate in classified conversations to fully grasp the U.S. military’s real demands, ahead of winning major Pentagon contracts.
Senior defense officials on Thursday previewed a unique contracting solicitation that’s in the pipeline for release in the next few weeks and will prototype a process to grant venture-backed and other small businesses with fast-tracked Facility Security Clearances (FCL) held under DIU’s new Bridge Program.
U.S. President Donald Trump threatened on Wednesday, September 9, to escalate the Iran war further by attacking the Pickaxe Mountain complex — an Iranian nuclear site buried deep underground and currently beyond the reach of known U.S. military technology.
New reports suggest the Pentagon is investigating classified ways of destroying the underground facilities.
OVER NEVADA — A B-1B Lancer from the 37th Bomb Squadron, Ellsworth Air Force Base, S.D., streaks through the sky.
The top general in charge of securing and defending the Pentagon’s cyber infrastructure said Thursday that decades of delayed maintenance has left DOD networks increasingly vulnerable in the AI age, adding to the drumbeat of warnings across the field about agent-instigated hacks.
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When U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran began in February and prompted Iran to disrupt traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, some of the world’s leading energy analysts warned that oil prices could reach $200 per barrel.
On March 31, Fereidun Fesharaki, chairman emeritus of energy consultancy group FGE NexantECA, told Bloomberg Television that oil prices could surge to between $150 and $200 per barrel if the disruption in the Strait of Hormuz persisted for as long as eight weeks.
China’s Xi Jinping. Image Credit: Creative Commons.