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As Iranians closed in on injured airman, U.S.

The past several years have produced a quiet but consequential shift in how the United States understands, and fails to understand, time. American strategy has gradually weakened through bureaucratic cuts, institutional downgrades, and political incentives that privilege immediacy over endurance and partisanship over long-term statecraft. The temporary elimination of the Pentagon’s Office of Net Assessment last year is particularly emblematic.

Editor’s note: This article is the fifth in an 11-part series examining how the United States should organize, lead, and integrate economic statecraft into strategy, defense practice, and the broader national security ecosystem. This special series is brought to you by the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies and War on the Rocks. Prior installments can be found at the War by Other Ledgers page. Debates over defense budgets and economic statecraft are not a distraction from warfighting. They reflect a basic reality: Military power does not exist in isolation.

Chairman and Managing Director of the state-run Hindustan Aeronautics Limited Dr. D.K. Sunil has provided details on ongoing plans for the license production of the Su-57 fifth generation fighter in the country, 14 months after it was confirmed that talks for such a deal were underway. “I think presentations have been made regarding the Su-57 to the Air Force team by the Russian team regarding the capabilities of the aircraft. We have had one estimation of the capacity of our Plants for the Russian equipment.

Pete Blaber, a former Delta Force Commander, breaks down what it would actually take to go after cartel networks and why the approach isn’t as simple as most people think. Drawing from real-world experience targeting figures like Pablo Escobar and helping gather intelligence that led to the downfall of the Cali cartel, Blaber explains why cartels operate differently than terrorist organizations and how money-driven motivations change the battlefield entirely.
This is one segment of a 12 hour interview with Ryan.

American special operations forces located and extracted the missing F-15E crew member in southwestern Iran overnight. The complex recovery mission involved hundreds of troops, a forward operation point inside the country and multiple aircraft being flown in — with some being destroyed by the U.S. after they failed on the ground. 
The complex rescue operation in a mountainous part of the country came nearly two days after a two-seater Air Force F-15E was shot down over Iran. Overnight U.S.

Eerily reminiscent of Desert One mission under President Carter, only this time with successful outcome

After evacuating the second crew member of the downed F-15E, the U.S. had to destroy two HC-130J Combat King II rescue aircraft and two helicopters that, for unknown reasons, were unable to leave Iran.
The aircraft were blown up on the ground to prevent them from falling into Iranian hands after landing at an improvised refueling site. 
Three additional HC-130J Combat King II aircraft were then dispatched to continue the combat search-and-rescue mission.
The wreckage of a U.S.

The Liberty Bell is one of the most recognizable artifacts associated with the founding of the United States.
Today it stands silently in Philadelphia, its crack instantly identifiable and its message understood around the world. Yet during the era of the American Revolution, the bell was not originally intended to become a national symbol. It began as a civic instrument meant to call lawmakers and citizens to order. Over time, however, it became intertwined with the struggle for independence and the larger revolutionary ideals of liberty, self-government, and public participation.

America’s Naval Shipyards Run on WWII-Era Infrastructure — The CBO Says Labor Shortages Will Persist for the Next 25 Years
About 40 percent of all US Navy attack submarines are out of service due to maintenance delays, according to the US Naval Institute’s report.

In essence, nearly half of the Navy’s essential underwater strike capability has been sidelined during peacetime.

This isn’t caused by a major war, but by ongoing neglect from the US government toward America’s critical naval shipyards.

SILVERDALE, Wash. (Oct.

Following the shootdown of a U.S. Air Force F-15E Strike Eagle fighter over Iranian territory, the United States Armed Forces’ efforts to recoverthe two airmen that ejected and parachuted into Iran have resulted in losses of aircraft on a scale unprecedented in the post-Cold War era. After the U.S.