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No Good Options for Trump on Iran: President Donald J. Trump, following the realization that the sustained airstrike campaign against military targets inside the Islamic Republic of Iran was not working as planned, the forty-seventh president, who campaigned on “no new wars,” must now decide if he de-escalates the Iran War or expands it.

The White House has paused its airstrikes for a third night. Washington insists that it is a strategic pause to give negotiations a chance. Yet, the Pentagon says it is ready to resume hostilities if this diplomatic window fails.

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No Good Options for Trump on Iran: President Donald J. Trump, following the realization that the sustained airstrike campaign against military targets inside the Islamic Republic of Iran was not working as planned, the forty-seventh president, who campaigned on “no new wars,” must now decide if he de-escalates the Iran War or expands it.

The White House has paused its airstrikes for a third night. Washington insists that it is a strategic pause to give negotiations a chance. Yet, the Pentagon says it is ready to resume hostilities if this diplomatic window fails.

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Three-Day Pause In Strikes Sparks Diplomatic Push: The United States and Iran have now gone three consecutive days without reported attacks as regional mediators reportedly intensify efforts to revive negotiations between Washington and the Islamic regime to prevent another major escalation in the Middle East.

The pause follows almost two weeks of nightly strikes by U.S. forces against Iranian military infrastructure and a series of retaliatory attacks by Tehran and its regional allies.

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Three-Day Pause In Strikes Sparks Diplomatic Push: The United States and Iran have now gone three consecutive days without reported attacks as regional mediators reportedly intensify efforts to revive negotiations between Washington and the Islamic regime to prevent another major escalation in the Middle East.

The pause follows almost two weeks of nightly strikes by U.S. forces against Iranian military infrastructure and a series of retaliatory attacks by Tehran and its regional allies.

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The Pentagon’s Office of Inspector General urged the U.S. Navy to establish a more permanent workforce with specialized skillsets to meet serious current and emerging demands associated with a vital underwater network that combines seabed technologies with data-processing assets to monitor and classify submarines.

DAYTON, Ohio — After a B-52H Stratofortress test aircraft crashed last month, the Air Force is on track to have a replacement bomber ready to resume testing by the end of 2026, according to service officials.
The Air Force is still analyzing what caused a B-52 bomber to crash on June 15 while taking off from Edwards Air Force Base in California on a mission to try out its new radar kit. The incident killed all eight crew members on board.

A Yak-52 gunner of the Ukraine’s 11th Separate Army Aviation Brigade “Kherson” shoots down Russian Shahed drones with small-arms fire over Odesa region, says Ukraine Military.
The footage, reportedly recorded over the Odesa region, was released by Ukraine’s 11th Separate Army Aviation Brigade “Kherson.”
The aircraft is flown by a pilot in the front cockpit while a second crew member engages low-flying drones from the open rear cockpit, reported SOFX.
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Over the weekend, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky explained that his country had successfully struck a ship in the Caspian Sea that was transporting cargo of a military nature that was linked to both Iran and Russia — a move that underlines how intertwined the wars in Ukraine and Iran have become.

More emphatically, President Zelensky explained that Russian assistance to Iran would be considered unacceptable in the future.

The Navy is requiring that sailors under investigation for allegations of sexual assault or stalking only be transferred to shore commands in response to the death of a sailor, said William Speaks, a spokesman for the Chief of Naval Personnel.
“This revision was taken as a result of reviews by the Navy in the wake of the murder of Petty Officer 3rd Class Angelina Resendiz by a fellow Sailor,” Speaks told Task & Purpose.
No further information about those reviews was immediately available.
Resendiz was assigned to the destroyer USS James E. Williams when she went missing in May 2025.

During the last four years, a period of relative calm reigned over Yemen, a peaceful time in a country that had been rent asunder by war between Saudi Arabia, which backed the Yemeni government, and the Houthis.

Originally a small Shia group of rebels in Yemen’s rugged northern area, the Houthis captured Sanaa, the Yemeni capital, in 2014 with the backing of Iran, triggering Saudi intervention into what was initially a civil war. But the Saudi intervention in Yemen was far from a success.

F-35 Fighters Ready. Image Credit: Creative Commons.