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Marking the one-year anniversary since Russia’s large-scale invasion of Ukraine on 24 February last year, the ebb and flow of the conflict seen in the early stages has slowed to a near-static frontline reminiscent of wars thought consigned to history.
Casualty figures are difficult to determine, although western officials put combined military figures of those killed in action and injured across the two sides at up to 300,000, with peak rates of around 1,000 a day at present, as Russia’s new year offensive around Bakhmut grinds into motion.

Chief of Space Operations Gen. Chance Saltzman continues to lead a staunch campaign to enable an ultramodern operational test and training environment for Space Force guardians that’s more digital and tailored to the service’s needs.
“We’ve got to train. We’ve got to have the ranges. We’ve got to develop our tactics and test them, and simulate them.

Russia will continue serial production of hypersonic missiles from Kinzhal airbase, Russian President Vladimir Putin declared in a video speech posted on the Kremlin website on the occasion of Defender of the Fatherland Day.
“We will continue the serial production of Kinzhal airborne hypersonic systems,” said the Russian leader.
The Kinzhal is Russia’s next-generation hypersonic aeroballistic missile air system.

An F-35C Lightning II fighter from the USS Carl Vinson crashed into the South China Sea last year, and an assessment by the US Navy concluded that pilot error was to fault.
Investigators concluded that the crash on January 24, 2022, which drew attention due to the leak of a dramatic video of the crash and speculation about the recovery of the aircraft, was because the pilot decided to make a specialized landing but you did not turn on electronic devices on the plane designed to assist you.
The accident injured the pilot and five sailors on the aircraft carrier’s flight deck.

If an impending zero-trust pilot effort goes well, it could completely alter the Department of Defense’s timeline for implementing the cybersecurity architecture, according to a senior official.
Zero trust is a concept and framework that assumes networks are already compromised and require constant monitoring and authentication to protect critical information. The DOD’s strategy aims to get the department to such an architecture by 2027.
Under the plan, there are two levels of zero trust: a target level and advanced level.

Few things can be more concerning to a homeowner than discovering your property has toxic contamination. One of those things is to find out the toxic contamination is from World War I poisonous gas and chemical warfare research that yielded a substance more deadly than those actually used to kill thousands on the battlefield during the war.
These circumstances existed for the residents of Spring Valley, about 661 acres in the Northwest section of Washington, D.C. It is the site of over 100 multi-million-dollar homes, the campus of American University, and even a well-known seminary.

“In view of the friendly feeling towards America entertained by a great number of citizens of Italy,” President Franklin Roosevelt wrote in a telegram to British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, “and in consideration of the large number of citizens of the United States who are of Italian descent, it is my opinion that our military problem will be made less difficult by giving to the Allied Military Government [in Sicily] as much of an American character as is practicable.”
Churchill agreed with Roosevelt’s sentiments, and Roosevelt was right.

It’s been a long time since Russia sent nuclear-armed ships out to sea, but Norwegian intelligence operatives report that Russia’s Northern Fleet just left its ports in the Baltic Sea carrying tactical nuclear weapons for the first time since around the fall of the Soviet Union. 
During the Cold War, the Soviets, like the Americans and NATO allies, routinely sent ships to sea carrying a nuclear threat – or deterrent, depending on how someone might look at the strategic picture. In the three decades that followed, Russia and its military have seen its share of ups and downs.

“We’re calling them objects, not balloons, for a reason,” said Gen. Glen D. VanHerck, the commander of the United States Northern Command (NORTHCOM) and North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD). Gen. VanHerck’s commands essentially oversee American airspace.
“At this point we continue to assess every threat or potential threat, unknown, that approaches North America with an attempt to identify it,” he told reporters.

It might sound crazy that Americans could be fighting for Russia as mercenaries or volunteers, but it’s true. Almost from the beginning of Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine, Americans have been seen fighting for the Russian Army. The Wagner Group, Russia’s go-to mercenary supplier, claims it has 10 million applications from American veterans. 
It’s not just Americans, either. Foreign fighters from the former Soviet Union’s republics, like Armenia, Kazakhstan, and even Latvia have joined.