It’s Valentine’s Day. Love is in the air, roses are being gifted, chocolate is being eaten and the Army wants soldiers not to fall for anyone who starts flirting with them.
The U.S. Army Counterintelligence Command is warning soldiers to be wary of potential “honeypots.” In a post shared to its social media accounts, the Fort Meade-based center is asking soldiers to be on the lookout if anyone seemingly out of their league starts talking to them. That’s how the Army is putting it.
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Military marriages are forged under pressure, but intimacy is often the first casualty no one talks about.
We all have seen the “be all you can be” heroic narrative commercials that paint the life of a military career as one that will fulfill all of your dreams. But what they leave out is how it can often leave the bedroom cold, dry, or simply empty. While many marriages lack intimacy, military relationships are particularly susceptible to the unwillful neglect of relational closeness that defines intimacy, especially in the bedroom.
The Navy’s largest aircraft carrier is heading to the Middle East. The USS Gerald R. Ford will join the USS Abraham Lincoln and other forces already in the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility as part of the ongoing military buildup in the region.
The Ford, the newest and biggest of the Navy’s carriers, is currently in the Caribbean, part of the large naval force that has been sitting in those waters for months as part of Operation Southern Spear. The carrier will now join the Lincoln, which was ordered to the Middle East last month and is currently operating in the region.
When Operation Desert Storm ended in 1991, it blew the Soviet Union’s collective mind—and Moscow’s hangover has never ended.
The hardest pill the Soviet general staff would have to swallow was that Iraq was fighting with Soviet doctrine: Soviet gear, Soviet training, and a Soviet-style air defense concept. The Russians expected Baghdad to be a stress test for American air power and a preview of how a U.S. coalition (like NATO) might bleed in a big, messy land war.
D. Laich, RespState
It’s about manpower, material, and most importantly, how we choose to use our military forces. We’re doing it all wrong.
Reuters
The U.S. military is preparing for the possibility of sustained, weeks-long operations against Iran if President Donald Trump orders an attack, two U.S.
Liselotte Odgaard, RCD
The 2026 U.S. National Defense Strategy mentions access to Greenland as essential for the defense of the U.S. homeland.
Lauren C. Williams, Defense One
ADM Daryl Caudle issued a direct call for transparent contracting with the maritime industrial base.
Gary Anderson, RealClearDefense
In 1989, a group of Marine Corps officers and civilian military theorists wrote several professional military journal articles describing a new wave of…
Images circulating on Chinese social media have provided a rare look at the rarest fighter type in Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Air Force service, the Su-35, flying in formation and equipped for air-to-air combat. One of the images showed Su-35s escorting a PLA Air Force Y-20 strategic transport, which is currently the largest military transport in production worldwide, while another showed the fighters equipped with R-77-1 active radar guided air-to-air missiles, R-73/74 infrared guided missiles built for visual range combat, and Khibiny electronic warfare pods.