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The U.S. Army has approved the new M111 Offensive Hand Grenade, its first new offensive hand grenade since the now-retired Mk3A2 entered service in 1968.

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Satellite imagery shows a prized hardened facility at Iran’s Parchin military complex with three massive impact points in a neat row on top.

Is America running out of missiles? The attacks on Iranian forces and leadership have had a devastating impact on the regime, but the repeated salvos of precision-guided munitions and interceptors have put a strain on U.S. and Israeli stores of some of these munitions. While the United States retains significant capacity, as Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has stated, the expenditures do create risk, particularly in other potential theaters of action such as East Asia.

An alliance is only as credible as the runway it can repair under fire.The Pentagon’s latest National Defense Strategy clarifies American aims in the Indo-Pacific while exposing what those aims demand of frontline allies such as the Philippines. The strategy’s emphasis on a “strong denial defense” shifts the metric of credibility. Though the strategy does not specify the objectives to be denied, its logic implies preventing a rapid Taiwan fait accompli and constraining the People’s Liberation Army’s ability to establish sustained sea and air control inside the chain.

The United States did not enter the war with Iran because it was attacked or was about to be attacked. It seems to have entered after concluding that once Israel moved, American involvement would be unavoidable. When Secretary of State Marco Rubio briefed congressional leaders last week, three days before the strikes began, the debate, as later reported by the Washington Post, was not whether to fight but whether to strike alongside Israel or wait until Iran retaliated against American forces in the region. The choice was not between war and peace.

The Kremlin and the Russian Foreign Ministry have claimed that the British Armed Forces played a central role in a Storm Shadow cruise missile attack on the city of Bryansk, which was launched from Ukrainian territory reportedly from modified Su-24M strike fighters. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov highlighted that the attack “couldn’t have been launched without British specialists,” asserting that the strikes show the necessity of the continued military campaign against Ukraine, as “one of the goals is to demilitarise Kiev and strip it of the ability to carry out attacks like this.

WTOC TV news in Savannah reported on retired navy commander Trevor Hess from the area speaking about his PTSD battle after serving two decades in the navy.
“For me, I hit rock bottom,” said Hess . “I couldn’t go any further. I didn’t sleep. I was depressed. I was anxious. Had suicidal ideations.”
“At some point you go, that’s not the life I want to live,” added Hess.
Hess was diagnosed with PTSD, something he says that many veterans struggle with. He hit rock bottom and then he sought help.

The Defense Department has officially identified the sixth Army Reserve soldier killed in a March 1 Iranian drone attack against a U.S. facility in Kuwait as Chief Warrant Officer 3 Robert M. Marzan, 54.
Officials announced on March 11 that Marzan had been positively identified by a medical examiner. The Pentagon initially released Marzan’s name on March 5, adding that he was “believed” to have been killed in the attack, but his identification was still pending at the time.

Posted Zero Hedge
U.S. law enforcement agencies in California were recently warned that Iran may have explored the possibility of launching drone attacks against targets on the West Coast in retaliation for Operation Epic Fury, according to a federal alert reviewed by ABC News.

The bulletin, circulated by the FBI to police departments in late February, said authorities obtained information indicating that, as of early February 2026, Iran had allegedly aspired to conduct a surprise attack using kamikaze drones launched from an unidentified vessel off the U.S. coast.

BAE Systems has been given the green light to finalize the design of the Space Force’s next-generation of missile warning and tracking satellites planned for medium-Earth orbit, the service announced this week.
The Space Force has completed preliminary design review for Epoch 2 of the Resilient Missile Warning and Missile Tracking – MEO program, completing the constellation’s technical foundation and ground command-and-control systems.