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The Underground Warfare Defining Eastern Ukraine’s Battlefields – Eight Ukrainian soldiers sent into a trench near Pokrovsk were out of action within 24 hours. The next four lasted less than 10 minutes.

A few hundred yards away, six men hidden in two fighting holes held out for 10 days.

Switchblade Drone. Image Credit: Industry Handout.

French volunteer Édouard Maurin, who served with a Ukrainian special-purpose battalion in 2024 and 2025, described the two positions this week in the War on the Rocks.

Following a commitment by the Army to transition to the Joint Laser Weapon System program within the next two years, the Pentagon’s critical technology chief is putting the pressure on other services to do the same. 
The Defense Department awarded two contracts for the JLWS program to nLIGHT Defense, a high-powered laser company based in Colorado, and Lockheed Martin for an initial value of $86 million with a ceiling of $847 million.

The worst terrorist attack in U.S. history turned more than a few ordinary Americans into heroes. Their stories of heroism on 9/11 are an inspiration to us all, one that will long outlive the perpetrators of the attacks.
Nearly 3,000 people lost their lives on September 11, 2001, after al-Qaida hijackers flew airplanes into the Pentagon and the World Trade Center in New York. More than 6,000 were injured.
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Tens of thousands of people typically worked in the Pentagon and the World Trade Center, and most escaped.

AeroVironment has received the first international purchase order for its LOCUST laser weapon system, designed to counter smaller drones.

Northrop Grumman has teamed up with SandboxAQ to demonstrate quantum sensing magnetic navigation on its Lumberjack UAS.

The Little League World Series (LLWS) has seen its players go on to play professionally in the MLB and even NFL and NHL. Despite this, only a single player’s number has been retired from the LLWS. Michael Cammarata, who played in the 1991 LLWS, went on to become a New York City firefighter. He was the youngest of the 343 firefighters who were killed on 9/11.
To observe the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks and celebrate Cammarata’s life, ESPN’s E60 released “Living On: The Michael Cammarata Story” at the start of the 2026 LLWS on August 19, 2026.

When Donald Trump got involved in the Iran War in February, coming off the successful intervention in Venezuela, it was almost certainly with the idea that the conflict would end with a quick U.S. victory over a regime long hostile to the United States.

After all, Trump had, in his presidential campaigns, repeatedly vowed to keep the country out of open-ended foreign wars, while implying that his opponents would get into such wars.

President Donald J. Trump delivers remarks at the David S. Mack Center for Training and Intelligence in Garden City, New York, Friday, August 14, 2026.

Footage from Lebanon has shown one of the largest air strikes on record as a result of an Israeli air strike on a major underground Hezbollah military complex beneath the strategic Ali al-Taher Ridge in southern Lebanon. The more than 1,100 tons of explosives reportedly used produced a seismic event, which registered as a 4.1-magnitude earthquake. The operation highlights the extraordinary scale of underground infrastructure constructed by Hezbollah over decades and the growing importance of subterranean warfare in Israel’s campaign to establish a security zone along its northern frontier.

Military members in jobs deemed to be closest to combat will have to keep up higher scores on their annual fitness tests under new Pentagon rules, though each service will decide on its own what those standards will be.
A memo released Aug. 31 by the Department of Defense will require all “combat arms” troops — jobs whose duties and training are primarily aimed at direct combat — will need to maintain fitness scores of at least   70% in their service-specific fitness tests.
 Notably, the requirement applies to the regular service fitness tests.

Ten years after the worst terrorist attack on American soil, then-New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg attempted to put 9/11 in perspective.
September 11, 2001, began as a picturesque day in Manhattan. It ended with nearly 3,000 dead after terrorists plowed hijacked planes into both towers of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. The death toll would have been higher if not for the heroes on United Airlines Flight 93 who overpowered the terrorists and caused that aircraft to plunge into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania.  
On 9/11, America mourned and came together.