On April 4, 2003, in the middle of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, then-Maj. Gen. James Mattis entered the command post of Marine Corps Col. Joe Dowdy and delivered news that would effectively end a nearly 24-year military career. Mattis told Dowdy he was being relieved of command, then asked him to empty his sidearm and hand over the ammunition.
“He thought I was going to try to kill myself,” Dowdy later told the Wall Street Journal.
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On the morning of April 22, 2026, Blackhawk Company, 2nd Battalion, 7th Cavalry Regiment, began a 10-day collective training event at the Joint Multinational Readiness Center in Hohenfels, Germany.
As Blackhawk Company rolled through the Bavarian countryside in a column of Bradley Fighting Vehicles, we didn’t realize our exercise would soon make national news in a Wall Street Journal article headlined “U.S. and Ukrainian Forces Went Head-to-Head in an Exercise. Ukraine’s Drones Won.
The Political Considerations of the Iran War – As the Iran War has stopped and started in recent months, some political questions have sort of existed in the background: If this war is continuing, and it remains historically unpopular, what will that mean for President Donald Trump’s party in the midterm elections? And will members of the president’s party need to answer for his support of the war?
Reuters looked at those considerations in a report published Thursday.
OVER NEVADA — A B-1B Lancer from the 37th Bomb Squadron, Ellsworth Air Force Base, S.D., streaks through the sky.
WARSAW, POLAND – In times of war, rival government agencies and organizations will normally try to paper over their differences – if not put them aside altogether – for the sake of the common good.
That kind of “we are all in this together” sentiment, as apparent, does not operate within the Ukrainian intelligence services.
Zelensky Speaking in UK Ukraine Government Photo
On Wednesday morning, 2 September, a shootout between Ukraine’s two main intelligence services took place in broad daylight on the streets of Kyiv.
According to an intensive investigation by the London-based Financial Times, Russia has been engaged in a multi-year classified program to covertly assist Iran in developing advanced supersonic cruise missiles.
This is another, but ominous, development in Russia’s continuing cooperation with Iran in weapons development – a partnership that has become a standard feature of Moscow’s war in Ukraine.
Iran’s Drones That Russia Is Using. Image Credit: Creative Commons.
The Canadian military will benefit from a partnership between two Quebec technology suppliers aiming to deliver a unified TACCOM capability.
Ford joins a host of automotive providers in pitching commercial vehicles adapted for military users, as the UK replaces its Land Rover fleet.
During a USO tour of Italy in 1944, actress Marlene Dietrich was not feeling well.
Dietrich was battling pneumonia, but no matter how ill she felt, she desperately wanted to be around the soldiers. Speaking to the Fifth Army, Dietrich expressed her admiration for the troops fighting fascism during World War II. Then, definitely knowing her audience, she concluded her remarks with a prediction.
I am a member of Generation X. In grade school, middle school, and high school I wrote paper after paper on Pearl Harbor, D-Day, the Battle of the Bulge, and the reasons we fought World War II. We studied what Newt Gingrich was doing, what Oliver North had done, and the status of the Cold War as it was ending. Those assignments were not optional coloring-book exercises. They were the civic equivalent of learning to swim: you were expected to know why the water was dangerous.
To this day I remember why we fought. World War II was not an abstraction about “conflict.
U.S. Naval Forces Central Command / Fifth Fleet headquarters, Manama, Bahrain. Photo: U.S. Navy / Wikimedia Commons (Public Domain)
Iran launched coordinated attacks of missiles and drones on the American military stationed in Kuwait and Bahrain on Wednesday night. Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) announced attacks on Ali Al Salem Air Base in Kuwait as well as the headquarters of the U.S. Navy Fifth Fleet in Manama, Bahrain, according to reports from the Iranian state media and regional sources.