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By Jay Rogers
This week, a divided D.C. Circuit panel issued a 2-1 ruling finding that the Pentagon’s policy disqualifying individuals with gender dysphoria from military service likely violates equal protection rights under the 14th Amendment. The majority held that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s implementing guidance was driven by animus toward transgender people rather than legitimate readiness requirements — blocking the discharge of currently serving plaintiffs while leaving the enlistment ban intact.

At least one French Air Force Rafale fighter deployed on NATO’s Baltic Air Policing mission intercepted a Ukrainian Maya drone after it entered NATO airspace from the direction of Russia. The incident occurred amid a growing number of cases in which long-range Ukrainian drones targeting Russia have entered NATO airspace. Analysts have assessed many of these deviations are caused by intensive Russian electronic warfare systems, which jam or spoof GPS signals, causing hostile autonomous drones to drift from their programmed routes.

The last two days have seen another whirlwind of military threats and purported diplomatic action in the Persian Gulf. A day after insisting that the United States was on the verge of launching extensive strikes against Iran, including the seizure of Kharg Island, President Trump canceled those strikes based on the claim that Iran had agreed in principle to an accord that would end the war. As of yet no reaction from the Iranians indicates that such an accord is on the table.

More than four years after Putin announced the “special military operation” in Ukraine, the war shows no sign of ending any time soon. Russia occupies large portions of Ukrainian territory – around 20% by some estimates -, and it continues to bombard Ukrainian cities with missiles and drones. It also maintains significant advantages in manpower and resources.

But the dynamics have changed, and the fight is no longer only on Ukrainian soil.

One of the biggest issues of the Russo-Ukrainian War is the question of Ukraine’s military allegiance. Ukraine envisions a future where it joins NATO and becomes a full-fledged Western-aligned European nation. Moscow, however, wishes for Ukraine to become its ally or, at the very least, remain neutral. Many other NATO states have expressed their own desires to see Ukraine join the military alliance.

There are still numerous barriers preventing Ukraine from joining NATO in the near future, most obviously the current war.

T-84 Tank Ukraine. Image Credit: Creative Commons.

President Trump recently revealed that the US military has quietly helped escort roughly 200 commercial vessels carrying more than 100 million barrels of oil through the Strait of Hormuz. The administration is presenting the operation as evidence that global energy markets remain under control—but this is political spin. Naval escorts and dark tanker operations are unlikely to prevent a major oil shock. At best, the operations may buy time and temporarily stabilize prices, but they do not solve the larger supply problem created by the war in Iran.

KYIV – Ukrainian citizens attacked Zelenskiy’s mobilization bounty hunters with shovels to prevent a man from being press-ganged to the front.
UKRAINIAN SOURCE: “People do not understand what Civil war is. A modern Civil War in Ukraine is a war against bounty hunters who obtain USD 200 per head of any male person they can catch on streets of any village or city in Ukraine.

The Revolutionary War ended long before photography was a refined process, but the gap between the two historic events was still enough to allow some of America’s true patriots—literally American patriot troops—to sit for a photo.
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America became and independent nation in 1783 when the U.S. and Britain signed the Treaty of Paris that ended the Revolutionary War. The history of photography began much later, and the earliest surviving photo dates back to 1826. a 43-year difference.

The Army commissioned a new batch of tech executives into its reserve ranks this week, the service said, the second cohort to enter a new unit officials say is meant to bring the private sector and military closer together to boost defense technology.
The Army established Detachment 201 last year to recruit tech execs into the reserves as senior advisors, ones who are tasked with helping the Army quickly develop and scale modern capabilities. At the time, the service tapped four technologists from Palantir, OpenAI and Meta into the Army Reserve as lieutenant colonels.
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Welcome to The Adversarial. Every other week, we’ll provide you with expert analysis on America’s greatest challengers: China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, and jihadists. Read more below.***Iran Hostilities have increased notably in the last few days, effectively ending the U.S.-Iranian truce that had somewhat held since April. At the start of June, fighting further intensified between Israel and Hizballah in Lebanon, complicating U.S.-Iranian negotiations, as Iran has insisted on linking U.S.-Iranian talks with an end to Israeli actions against Hizballah.