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Five years ago today, 13 American service members were killed at Abbey Gate in Kabul, Afghanistan. Now, the investigation into what really happened — and who tried to bury the truth — may finally be blowing open.
Sean Parnell, Chairman of the Afghanistan Withdrawal Special Review Panel and Senior Advisor to Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, dropped a bombshell on the fifth anniversary of the August 26, 2021 attack.
The Navy is planning to take dozens of Army pilots who were cut in a massive reduction of the land service’s aviation corps.
But of the hundreds of Army pilots that officials estimate might be looking for a spot, the Navy is likely to only have slots for, at most, about a quarter of them.
A Navy spokesperson told Task & Purpose that the service is looking to take around 75 Army pilots who have completed initial flight training at Fort Rucker, Alabama.
Kyiv says that Russia has lost 1.5 million personnel since launching its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
On Wednesday, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said Moscow’s cumulative personnel losses now stood at 1,480,750, including a further 1,450 casualties over the last 24 hours.
Tu-95 Bear Bomber. Image Credit: Creative Commons.
Tu-95 Bomber Russian Air Force. Image Credit: Creative Commons.
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has announced that his country, along with the US and its European partners, has drafted a new framework for a possible end to the war with Russia.
However willing these parties are to participate in a solution that ends the conflict, it is the Russian set of demands that could still kill the entire proposed agreement.
FP-5 Missile From Ukraine Creative Commons Image
Neptune Missile from Ukraine Creative Commons Image
The plan calls for a series of steps, beginning with a ceasefire.
The filmmakers behind “Ghost Soldier” know exactly what kind of movie they’ve made—and they clearly had fun doing it.
The trailer reads like a well-executed parody of the expert-brought-back-from-retirement archetype, but instead of feeling trope-y, it feels like an invitation to enjoy the fireworks.
Ukraine spent years lobbying for Western tanks and ultimately succeeded in obtaining them, but with the proliferation of cheap attack drones, many of those tanks are now sitting largely unused behind the front lines.
The dynamics of war have changed in just the last handful of years, largely driven by Ukraine’s burgeoning drone industry and asymmetric tactics that have allowed its military to face down a much greater power.
M1E3 Abrams. National Security Journal Photo.
India’s Defence Minister Rajnath Singh has approved the transfer of technologies (ToT) for all conventional missile systems developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) to Indian defence firms for domestic production.
American farmers are on track for another potentially disastrous year, and Congress is considering spending $12 billion to help them weather the storm.
But the scale of the projected agricultural losses suggests that even an enormous bailout may provide only temporary relief.
President Donald J. Trump signs Executive Orders in the Oval Office, Wednesday, June 3, 2026. (Official White House Photo by Molly Riley)
President Donald J. Trump meets with his cabinet at Camp David, Maryland on Friday, July 31, 2026.
Defence and aerospace company Ursa Major has agreed to become a publicly traded company through a merger with special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) Bleichroeder Acquisition Corp. III. (Bleichroeder).
Mara has raised a $7m pre-seed round to build Spike, a C-UAS system that uses stationary targeting sensors alongside small interceptors.