Browsing: All news

Why do men fight when all is lost? It’s a question that calls out to history’s bravest. It’s about fighters on the battlefield realizing all is lost, but continuing on anyway. Physical courage, as Victor Davis Hanson wrote, cannot be dismissed by the lesser natures in our world. Too many actual stories spotlighting it still thrills us and inspires us, even the many of us that will never smell death on the battlefield. One such engagement is relatively well-known today in America, though many details are also more obscure, even jarring.

We’re not talking about Miss Cleo here. Russians are a deeply mystic people, and upwards of 60 percent of Russians believe in some form of magic. The heavy hitting decision makers at the Kremlin aren’t exempt. Their newest concern, according to leaked memos, is that the West will make a psychic attack on Russia, its leadership or its forces over the ongoing war in Ukraine. 
The West has offered military support in many forms to the Ukrainian armed forces.

The year is 2026 and the tiny but formidable island of Taiwan is under attack by the army, navy and air forces of the People’s Republic of China. China’s navy is moving from the mainland but American and Japanese forces are moving to aid the Pacific ally caught in the Chinese crosshairs. The lives of 24 million Taiwanese citizens hang in the balance. 
This was the scenario played out by the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in the recent wargame “The First Battle of the Next War.

In 1835 a revolution took place in Mexico, literally and figuratively. It enacted a new constitution under President Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, one intended to address the country’s ongoing stability issues, collect taxes and tariffs, and handle an influx of immigrants in its border areas. With a new central government enforcing its laws equally – especially anti-slavery laws – the residents of Mexican Texas began a revolt. Calling themselves Texians, they pushed the Mexican Army out of the area and occupied an old Spanish mission, the Alamo, as an outpost.

Ubi Soft/Red Storm Entertainment

Time flies, doesn’t it? Case in point, this month marks the 30th anniversary of German small arms manufacturer Heckler & Koch’s USP line of sidearms. The gun was a massive success for HK and quickly became something of an icon thanks to the cover of the 1998 video game Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six. To this day, whenever I hear the term ‘operator’ in regard to special operations forces I think of that balaclava and Oakley goggle-clad commando pointing the USP’s trapezoidal business end at the camera.

Air defense capabilities will likely prove vital for Ukraine in the next phase of its unfolding war against Russia, according to Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Colin Kahl.
Kahl spoke to reporters at the Pentagon on Wednesday — not long after he returned to the U.S. after visiting Ukraine and other nations to engage with dozens of international partners ahead of the Defense Contact Group meeting that Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin is hosting in Germany on Friday.

via Twitter

The Russian military appears to have emplaced Pantsir air defense systems on top of at least two different government buildings in Moscow, including the Ministry of Defense’s headquarters. The official reason for the apparent deployments is unclear, but Ukrainian forces have demonstrated their ability to conduct strikes at extended ranges using various types of drones. There could be other explanations, including this just being part of an ostensible exercise of some kind.

The Department of Defense plans to leverage the four vendors that were recently awarded its major enterprise cloud computing contract to experiment with the implementation of so-called zero-trust principles in a commercial cloud environment.
Zero trust is a concept that essentially assumes networks are already compromised and requires organizations to validate users, devices and data continuously.

As the Department of Defense looks to work more closely with commercial and international partners for global satellite communications, the Pentagon’s CIO recently issued an enterprise implementation plan that outlines how the department plans to evolve to facilitate U.S. Space Command’s role as “the Global SATCOM Manager.”
DOD CIO John Sherman’s office issued the Enterprise SATCOM Management and Control (ESCMC) Implementation Plan in December, but it was first publicly released this week.

Here’s everything you need to know about America’s Patriot air defense system, its capabilities, and its limitations.
The post The ultimate guide to the Patriot air defense system appeared first on Sandboxx.