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A World War II-era field manual for saboteurs.

During World War II, the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) was manned with thousands of soldiers and spies, operating behind enemy lines to organize local resistance, gather intelligence and generally cause chaos for the enemy in occupied Europe. But as one OSS manual shows, sabotage isn’t always about blowing up railways or severing communication lines. Sometimes it’s as simple as being the absolute worst employee possible for your Nazi occupiers.

U.S. Army Rangers assigned to 2nd Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment, fire a 120mm mortar during a tactical training exercise on Camp Roberts, Calif., Jan. 30, 2014. Rangers constantly train to maintain the highest level of tactical proficiency. (US Army photo by Pfc. Nathaniel Newkirk/Released).

Editor’s note: this article by Hope Seck first appeared on Sandboxx.
The Army’s most elite light infantry element is looking to improve its ability to deliver precision indirect fires and clear out before becoming an enemy target.

This week’s episode of Horns of a Dilemma features author and public intellectual Walter Russell Mead speaking about his book, The Arc of a Covenant: The United States, Israel, and the Fate of the Jewish People. As Mead discusses, the trope that American foreign policy toward Israel can be explained by the outsized influence of […]
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Elbit Systems UK has been awarded a contract to provide its Magni-X micro uncrewed aircraft system (UAS) for the UK Armed Forces.
The contract has been awarded by the UK Ministry of Defence’s (MoD) procurement arm Defence Equipment & Support, under its Future Capability Group.
Procurement of this micro-UAS also falls under the British Army’s Human Machine Teaming framework.

The contract will see the delivery of service-ready Magni-X systems to the British Army.