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An Australian Federal Court has dismissed an appeal by former US Marine Daniel Duggan, clearing the way for his extradition to the United States, where he faces charges of illegally training Chinese military pilots more than a decade ago.
Federal Court Justice James Stellios rejected Duggan’s challenge on Thursday, ruling there was no jurisdictional error in the Attorney-General’s decision to approve the extradition.
As an educator, I have the duty and privilege of teaching some of the most intense and consequential moments in American history. Few lessons capture students’ attention quite like the Cuban Missile Crisis.
For 13 tense days in October 1962, the United States and Soviet Union stood on the brink of nuclear war. In classrooms across the country, students learn how close the world came to catastrophe and how leadership, intelligence gathering, and diplomacy ultimately helped prevent a devastating conflict.
Stew Magnuson, National Defense
The test will involve firing a Joint Air-to-Ground Missile from a Saildrone Surveyor robotic boat
The WarZone
The Army and Bell have pointed to the U.S. Navy’s MQ-25 Stingray drone tanker as an example of what could be on the horizon.
Breaking Defense
“If you look at the [fight] in Ukraine on either side, it’s really hard to move out and get fires ready to go….
Parth Satam, The Aviationist
The new Armed Black Hawk kit allows UH-60s to be quickly reconfigured for new mission sets, allowing greater flexibility and eliminating the need for dedicated…
Dunford, et al., RCD
America and China are racing for technological supremacy, and the margin is razor thin.
The U.S. Army has deployed and fired HIMARS rocket artillery systems in the Philippines during Exercise Salaknib 2026, which represents a significant landmark in the expansion of forward-positioned long-range strike capabilities near Chinese territory. The U.S. Armed Forces have relied increasingly heavily on mobile missile launchers in the region to counter China’s increasingly overwhelming conventional advantages asymmetrically, with HIMARS having demonstrated the ability to have a high impact and destroy high value targets in the Ukrainian theatre, while itself having a very low cost. U.
The Russian state run United Aircraft Corporation has delivered a new batch of Su-35S fighter aircraftto the Russian Aerospace Forces, following sustained efforts over the past four years to significantly increase the aircraft’s scale of production. Announcing the delivery, the corporation stated: ”The United Aircraft Corporation has delivered a batch of new Su-35S multirole fighter jets to the Russian Aerospace Forces.