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For months, the Strait of Hormuz has faced intense disruption, with traffic down by as much as 95%. The narrow waterway, which typically carries one-fifth of the world’s oil supply, has seen commercial traffic plummet amid hostilities between Iran, the United States, and Israel. Despite the disruption, oil prices per barrel have yet to reach some of the most severe estimates. In March, Wall Street analysts predicted that oil could soar to $200 per barrel. Today, Brent Crude hovers around $93 per barrel, and West Texas Intermediate (WTI) is about $91.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is actively involved in the U.S. government’s fight to stop the resurgence of the flesh-eating, New World Screwworm parasite infecting pets and livestock in at least two Southwest states.
“Invasive species are a national resilience challenge with significant economic and food supply implications, which DARPA recognizes as a national security risk,” Catherine Campbell, program manager in the agency’s Biological Technologies Office, told DefenseScoop.

An Iranian “bomb” got lodged in a U.S. military helicopter earlier this week, but fortunately for the pilots, the weapon didn’t explode, President Donald Trump told reporters Wednesday.
An Army AH-64 Apache crashed during a patrol operation Monday near the Strait of Hormuz. The two U.S. soldiers who were on board the aircraft survived and were later rescued by a Navy Corsair maritime drone operated by 5th Fleet’s Task Force 59, according to U.S. Central Command spokesperson Capt. Tim Hawkins.
The helicopter was reportedly struck by an Iranian attack drone.

While much of Western Europe caves to anti-Israel agitators, Czechia’s new conservative government is showing the kind of moral clarity, national confidence, and political backbone the rest of Europe desperately lacks.

At a moment when Brussels elites are increasingly pressuring Israel—the Middle East’s only democracy—Prague is doing the opposite: standing firmly with America’s closest ally in the region and refusing to bow to the anti-Israel consensus spreading across the European Union.

That matters enormously for the United States.

Ukraine’s mid-range drone strike campaign is being used to heavily disrupt Russian supply lines, fuel depots, and air defenses 20 to 150 miles behind the front lines.

This strategy has forced Russia to severely restrict heavy equipment movements and ration fuel along vital corridors, such as the M-14 highway to Crimea. And they have been crippling Russia’s oil and gas infrastructure.

Switchblade Drone. Image Credit: Industry Handout.

But many of the drones are not arriving at the front ready to go for the operators.

Industry is slated to begin building the Air Force’s nascent Family of Affordable Mass Missiles (FAMM) in September, kicking off a multi-year effort to grow the service’s arsenal of low-cost weapons.
Speaking in front of the Senate Appropriations defense subcommittee on Tuesday, Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Kenneth Wilsbach said the initial FAMM munitions “are on track to start production” later this fall. Once production begins, the service intends to purchase nearly 28,000 FAMM weapons over the next five years, according to the Air Force’s fiscal 2027 budget documents.

The United States’ war with Iran is entering a new violent phase. It started with an American Apache gunship helicopter being shot down, and then President Donald Trump ordered retaliatory strikes. Could we see more days or even weeks of war with Iran? One aspect of combat keeping the Americans from a prolonged attack is a lack of offensive missiles and defensive interceptors. These are difficult and time-consuming to produce, plus they are expensive to create.

In January of this year, Iran’s regime faced its biggest protests in years as anger spread over spiraling prices and a crumbling economy. The regime murdered thousands in a vicious crackdown.

Now, despite its bellicose talk, the country’s military has been battered by war and suffocated by a U.S. naval blockade; the country is now in even worse shape economically as Washington has tried to negotiate with Tehran into a deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.

An Army recruiter used the identities of seven would-be recruits to open bank accounts, cash in on fraudulent checks and credit cards in their names, and even buy plane tickets for a Las Vegas trip, according to federal court documents.
Former Sgt. 1st Class Jane Crosby pleaded guilty to bank fraud and aggravated identity theft in a federal court in Newark, New Jersey. Crosby was a recruiter in East Orange, New Jersey, in 2023 when, according to a plea agreement released by the Department of Justice, she used the identities of seven recruiting prospects to open accounts at a credit union.

Area 51 has long captured the imaginations of Americans since the original claims that the US military allegedly captured a “flying saucer” from another world here. Since that time, the public has fixated on understanding what secrets are located beneath and around the sands of Groom Lake.

One of the most well-defended facilities in the world, Area 51’s most important function is not so much its place in Pop Culture as an alien crash-landing site. Instead, its importance lies in being a proving ground for some of the most advanced, exotic US military systems and weapons.