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A former soldier was found guilty of stealing more than $1 million of Meals-Ready-to-Eat, or MREs, from Fort Bliss, Texas.
Joseph Lavar Davis, 47, was convicted by a Texas jury for a heist that included tens of thousands of MREs worth more than $1.1 million, Department of Justice officials announced Tuesday. 
The MRE theft took place between February and August 2020 and included 200 pallets of the field rations. Each pallet contains roughly 576 MREs, according to federal court documents.

The upcoming and much-anticipated Jimmy Stewart biopic, “Jimmy” is not only getting a new trailer, it’s getting a lot of support from brands that once supplied materiel support to the U.S. Army Air Forces during World War II.
A total of 40 iconic American brands, including the American Legion, American Optical, the American Red Cross, Bulova, Easy Built Models, Hanes, M&M’S, MoonPie, and The Salvation Army, are stepping up once more to honor of the actor and his legacy of service.

While British industry leaders expressed relief for the Defence Investment Plan, there is still concern about details and implementation.

As a merchant in colonial America, Silas Deane knew how to negotiate a good deal.
Those skills extended beyond the confines of his store in Connecticut, and Deane put them to good use when the Second Continental Congress deployed him to France. Deane arrived in Paris on July 6, 1776—two days after the adoption of the Declaration of Independence—with one objective. He sought to secure assistance for the Continental Army, which confronted severe shortages in men and supplies against the British, and needed to do it as secretly as possible.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has reportedly instructed the Russian General Staff to calculate multiple pathways for new offensive operations to capture Kyiv.

Ukraine’s Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi stated that these plans include potential strike scenarios from Belarusian territory and the Russian region of Bryansk targeting the Chernihiv region.

Ukraine War Map. Image Credit: Creative Commons.

While Belarus has made a lot of noise about Ukraine, it has thus far stayed clear of becoming more actively involved.

KNDS Deutschland marked a production milestone at its Görlitz facility with the unveiling of the 40th interior cabin Protected Transport Vehicle.

Both Russia and Ukraine are increasingly relying on tactical glide bombs as traditional artillery becomes more vulnerable to drones. The shift reflects the ongoing revolution in warfare, where persistent ISR drones, electronic warfare, and precision strike have made massed artillery difficult to use. Presently, Russia leads in both the inventory and operational experience of glide bombs. But Ukraine has begun fielding its own domestically produced glide bomb, too, suggesting that both sides see the weapon as central to the campaign’s future.

Battlefield Problems

Russian Artillery.

Putin’s Goals in Ukraine, Then and Now: Russian President Vladimir Putin still insists that peace with Ukraine is possible – but only on his terms. Today, Putin’s demands of Ukraine are hard to parse. The goals have moved over years of fighting, and with Ukraine now proving it can cripple the Russian economy and make warfighting even more expensive than it was before, it’s hard to imagine a scenario where a negotiated deal doesn’t end up with concessions from Russia.

President Donald Trump told reporters on Wednesday that the United States is getting along very well with Iran, that Iran’s denuclearization is moving along well, and that recent meetings in Qatar had gone well. He said it within hours of a report that he had spent recent days weighing whether to walk away from those talks and restart the war outright.

Both things are true, and the distance between them is the story.

Last fall, the U.S. Marine Corps had virtually no first-person view attack drones. That’s changed quickly. This episode is about how a team of marines at Weapons Training Battalion at Quantico went from a cold start to building a Marine Corps-wide first-person view drone training system. Ryan was pleased to welcome some great marines onto the show: Col. Scott Cuomo, CWO5 Steve Pearsoll, CWO3 (Gunner) Troy Hotaling, GySgt Jude Stewart, GySgt Justin Creasman, and Sgt Timothy Brockup.Since we recorded this episode, Cuomo has changed command and is off to his next assignment.