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The 1930 comic history, 1066 and All That, made famous the British habit of reducing national history to a sequence of memorable dates. The modern Royal Navy has its own unhappy version of that calendar.

Russia is continuing to expand and reorganise its production of missiles and long-range strike drones, making a sustained pause in attacks against Ukraine unlikely, according to Vadym Skibitsky, Deputy Head of Ukraine’s Main Intelligence Directorate. According to Skibitsky, Russia is currently producing major missile types at 110–120 percent of its monthly production plans, allowing the Russian Armed Forces to maintain a high tempo of long-range strikes despite the substantial expenditure of missiles since the beginning of full scale hostilities in 2022.

One of the most high-profile complaints made most recently by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is that his cities are getting pounded every night by Russian ballistic missile attacks, and there is nothing his missile defense batteries can do about it.

Ukraine has run out of the Patriot PAC-3 Missile Segment Enhancement (MSE) interceptor missiles, and there are almost no stocks left in any country that could be sent to Ukraine as replacement inventory.

President Donald J. Trump and President Zelenskyy in the Oval Office. White House Photo.

A wave of cyberattacks against American water and wastewater facilities is raising questions about whether Iran may be engaging in asymmetric tactics to pressure the United States to end its blockade in the Strait of Hormuz, or simply punish Washington for devastating its nuclear program.

Water utilities in at least seven states have reported cyber incidents to the FBI since late July, with more than 30 community water systems being targeted in Minnesota alone.

President Donald J. Trump signs Executive Orders in the Oval Office, Wednesday, June 3, 2026.

An article this week in the London Daily Telegraph by former British Army tank commander and chemical and biological weapons expert Hamish de Bretton-Gordon takes on the eternal question of which European country does better than the others in the intelligence game.

The subject could not have come up at a better time, as the intelligence aspects of the Ukraine war are no small factor in this conflict.

Two crew members aboard an AH-64E Army Apache helicopter from Fort Hood, Texas, were killed when the aircraft crashed on Wednesday, a Fort Hood news release says.
Both soldiers’ names are being withheld pending next of kin notification, the news release says. The soldiers will be transported to Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center  at Fort Hood.
“Our thoughts and deepest sympathies are with the families, friends, and fellow Troopers of those involved during this incredibly difficult time,” Brig. Gen.

Marking a major move to overhaul the sprawling innovation ecosystem that underpins the U.S. military’s potentially eroding technological edge, the second Trump administration initiated a swift internal shakeup early this year that unified operational authorities and fragmented modernization work directly under the Defense Department’s Research and Engineering undersecretariat. 
Specifics on organizational, personnel and financial changes associated with that realignment were sparse in the months that followed the Pentagon’s announcement — but new details are beginning to surface.

The Marine Corps has identified Pvt. Aiden Craig as the recruit who died on Aug. 5 after a medical emergency four days earlier during a physical fitness test at Camp Pendleton, California.
Craig, 18, posthumously earned the title of Marine, said Steven Posy, a spokesperson for Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego. 
Originally from Texas, Craig enlisted in the Marines on June 1, 2026, according to his service record, which was provided to Task & Purpose.
He was hospitalized at Tri-City Medical Center in Oceanside, California, at the time of his death, a Marine Corps news release says.

SEAL Team 6 and Delta Force are the most highly trained elite forces in the U.S. military.
Both are Special Missions Units (SMU) under the control of the secretive Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC). They perform various clandestine and highly classified missions around the world. Each unit can equally perform various types of operations, but their primary mission is counterterrorism.

Navy officials said they have “not identified” an increase in suicidal ideation or attempts aboard an aircraft carrier deployed to the Middle East — a statement that conflicts with media reports and statements by military family members about the declining morale and mental health among the crew.
The USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier left for its deployment to the Middle East in November.