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Welcome to The Adversarial. Every other week, we’ll provide you with expert analysis on America’s greatest challengers: China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, and jihadists. Read more below.***IranSince the United States and Israel launched joint military strikes against Iran on Feb. 28, their targeting has worked through a lengthy list of senior Iranian officials (including Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei), missile facilities, naval assets, and sites associated with regime security forces.
A Marine who single-handedly destroyed a major bridge in Vietnam, swinging hand-over-hand across its steel girders to plant explosive charges even as an enemy tank fired at him, now appears set to receive the Medal of Honor.
Marine Capt. John Ripley’s three-hour, one-man assault on the Dong Ha Bridge in April 1972 has long been a hallowed story in the Marine Corps. Fellow Marines, friends, and advocates have pushed for decades to see the Navy Cross he was awarded for the battle upgraded to a Medal of Honor.
The Defense Department is kicking off plans this month to deliver batches of small drones to roughly 17 military units, and officials will soon begin coordinating their deployments in real-world training exercises.
At a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on Thursday, senior defense officials shared new details about those and other pursuits to rapidly enhance the U.S. drone industry and associated weapons arsenal, and counteract China’s dominance in the global market.
Imagine a priesthood where they wear uniforms like the Navy’s, are disciplined like Marines, do as much real work to advance a mission as any nonner in the Air Force, are worked like Army privates with none of the pay and benefits, and get as much respect from the rest of the branches as the Coast Guard.
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If that sounds appealing, you’re ready for Scientology’s Sea Organization, a paramilitary “fraternal organization” comprised of the most devoted Scientology has to offer.
Raytheon has received a firm-fixed-price contract valued at $183.68m to deliver new kit hardware and related services for the Patriot missile system programme in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
The Defense Department has identified a fifth Army Reserve soldier killed when an Iranian drone struck a U.S. facility at the Port of Shuaiba, Kuwait on March 1. Officials also released the name of a sixth soldier who is “believed” to have been killed in the attack, but for whom official identification was still pending.
Officials initially said six soldiers were killed in the March 2 attack but identified only four in the days after, withholding the names of the final two because they were listed as “unaccounted for” in the immediate aftermath of the attack.
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On Nov. 4, 1979, Iranians scaled the walls of the U.S. embassy in Tehran and ignited one of the most consequential diplomatic crises in modern history. What followed was 444 days of captivity for 52 American hostages, a failed military rescue mission in the Iranian desert, a daring CIA exfiltration disguised as a Hollywood production, and a political reckoning that reshaped the U.S. presidency and the architecture of American special operations forces.
The Army has announced six more bases will get new dining halls designed to look more like cafeterias at college campuses.
The initiative, dubbed the Campus-Style Dining Venue, comes as the Army is overhauling how it feeds soldiers living in the barracks on base. Some of those changes include offering more flexible meal options, like to-go kiosks, and expanded dining facility hours of operation.
“We were not getting it right, and we heard the soldier feedback,” Lt. Gen. Chris Mohan, the commanding general of Army Materiel Command, said on a February call with reporters.
The US has deployed its next-generation Precision Strike Missile into combat for the first time during the ongoing military strikes on Iran.