While small drones increase the distance at which small units can identify or destroy an adversary target, Marines are still contending with how much those systems weigh and the “cognitive drains” it takes to operate them, a service official said Tuesday.
Early in the Pentagon’s latest, sweeping crusade to put a slew of drones into the hands of troops, military officials identified that adopting small unmanned aerial systems comes with its tradeoffs.
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Last year, I walked into the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force outside Dayton, Ohio, and stood close to the batwinged shape of a B-2 Spirit, and I have the video and photos below to prove it. The aircraft on display there is the only public B-2 anywhere in the world, a stealth bomber so far ahead of its time that the United States can afford to retire one example to a museum exhibit while a fleet of operational Spirits still flies. That is the backdrop against which China’s H-20 has to be measured.
Summary and Key Points: The Iran War ceasefire is coming apart, and a second round may be weeks away. But one national security analyst argues that whatever happens on the battlefield, Iran has already found the war it can actually win — and it isn’t a military one. -Tehran’s real play, he writes, is to
Summary and Key Points: With Iran’s blockade choking the Strait of Hormuz, America has quietly become the world’s oil backstop — shipping record crude to Asia to replace what’s no longer getting through. It’s an impressive show of U.S. energy muscle, and it’s keeping the crisis from spiraling. But there’s a catch buried in the numbers: much of that oil is coming straight out of America’s strategic reserve, the nation’s emergency stockpile. The U.S. can keep filling the gap — but not forever.
Summary and Key Points: The Strait of Hormuz has been shut since the war began in February. Iran has walked away from talks, and economists are modeling what would happen if it remains closed in October. Their answer drifts toward a word they almost never use — depression.
-And the warning is already here, hiding in plain sight: the calm oil price on the screen isn’t what importers actually pay, and there’s a single number that, if it holds, tips the world past its breaking point.
The most-wanted financial fugitive in Poland thought he had found the perfect hiding place. To disappear, Marcin Pióro did not flee to a non-extradition haven or buy a new identity on the black market. He enlisted in the United States Army. The 46-year-old chief executive, accused of running one of the largest fintech frauds in Polish history, reported to Fort Leonard Wood in Missouri for Basic Combat Training, betting that a green recruit in a uniform was the last place anyone would look for a white-collar fugitive.
On May 26, India hosted a formal meeting of the foreign ministers of the Quad — comprising the United States, Australia, India, and Japan. Since its initial creation in 2007 and revival in 2017, foreign policy analysts have debated the usefulness of the organization, which was designed as a group of democratic states that could work together to counter growing Chinese power and influence.
Summary and Key Points: Iran has turned the world’s busiest oil route into a tollbooth — forcing ships through Hormuz to pay its government, and calling it the new normal. The fallout reaches beyond oil: the strait carries about a third of the world’s seaborne crude and a third of its fertilizer, so the squeeze hits fuel and food prices alike. But Iran may have overplayed its hand — while it blackmails the world, its own economy is collapsing, and pressure is building for more military action.
Summary and Key Points: A day after Iran declared its talks with the U.S. over, something shifted. Tehran is now quietly reviewing a deal that could reopen the Strait of Hormuz — and Trump, fresh off talking Israel out of a ground push into Lebanon, says it could be signed within days.
-Even Iran’s reclusive Supreme Leader, unseen in public, is reportedly engaging behind the scenes. But one demand has stalled every round of talks, with no sign Iran will give it up.
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Summary and Key Points: The USS John C. Stennis entered its mid-life Refueling and Complex Overhaul in May 2021, and is expected back with the fleet by 2025.
It’s now 2026, the carrier is still in the yard, and a mix of unexpected “growth work,” pandemic-battered supply chains, and a shipbuilding industry short on skilled labor has stretched a four-year job toward five — leaving the Navy a carrier down at a moment when global demand for flattops is the highest in decades, with the USS Harry S. Truman’s own overhaul next in line.