L Todd Wood talks with former SEAL and Naval Academy graduate CMDR Dan O’Shea (USN, Ret) about a possible seizure of Iranian Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf.
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Military families shipping their household goods and cars to new assignments are seeing delays brought on by the ongoing U.S. war with Iran, Pentagon officials say.
A March 10 memo issued by the Defense Department’s Personal Property Activity, or PPA, warned that “the operation in the Middle East is causing severe, widespread, and rapidly evolving disruptions to air and sea shipments. Airport closures, suspensions of port operations, the effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz and significant security risks are preventing vessel and airline ability to safely transit the area.
In 2024, Thanassis Cambanis wrote, “Leave Syria, Keep Fighting the Islamic State,” where he argued the United States should withdraw from Syria, but continue to invest in counter-terrorism measures to combat the Islamic State. Two years later, after an American withdrawal from Syria and a new Syrian government in power, we asked Thanassis to revisit his article.Image: Photo by Staff Sgt.
BAE Systems will test its Anti Threat System (BATS) for the first time in April, with live fire trials to follow in the summer.
Today’s firearm market is awash with pistols designed and marketed for concealed carry.
However, when semi-automatic (known then as automatic), self-loading pistols first came on the scene at the turn of the 20th century, one carry pistol stood out and remained an issued Army sidearm until the 1970s. Of course, John Moses Browning designed it.
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Known for such legendary firearms as the 1911 handgun and the M2 .50-cal machine gun, Browning did not design the first commercial semi-automatic pistol.
The Army is about to roll out a smaller carbine as part of its new, multi-billion-dollar rifle system. A slightly shorter and lighter carbine version of the M7 rifle, the Army confirmed, is now close enough to fielding that it has been given its own name: the XM8.
Troops tapped for early testing of the new carbine should start to get their hands on the first XM8s as soon as October, an Army spokesperson told Task & Purpose. The XM8 shares internal firing components with the Army’s new M7 rifle, firing a 6.8 x 51mm round.
Finland, the Netherlands, and the UK have announced the possible establishment of a new mechanism for defence procurement by 2027.
The 24 U.S. Army service members aboard the C-47 Skytrain transport plane were excited for a day of sightseeing.
Less than four months before World War II ended, the aircraft called the Gremlin Special took off from Sentani Airport near Wamena, New Guinea (in what is now Indonesia) on May 13, 1945. The group, including eight Women’s Army Corps (WAC) soldiers, was to receive a bird’s-eye view of the Baliem Valley, which local pilots had nicknamed Shangri-La Valley after the kingdom in James Hilton’s novel, “Lost Kingdom.
James Deitch, RealClearDefense
Rebuilding the Backbone: Why America Must Urgently Revitalize Its Maritime Prepositioning Force
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At the center of the effort is the AN/ALQ-221, an integrated self-protection and electronic warfare suite combining radar warning functions with electronic…