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The administration changed policy. The personnel bureaucracy quietly refused to follow.
The administration won the policy war. The bureaucracy won the peace—and it is still winning.
Clear directives were issued: eliminate DEI mandates and return personnel decisions to merit, readiness, and warfighting priorities. Public language shifted quickly—readiness over equity, mission execution over identity signaling, command authority over consensus management.
Pilots who fly Apache helicopters for the Army are fiercely dedicated to their mission of watching over and defending forces below on the ground. But in the heart of every Apache pilot is a secret yearning: to find an air-to-air target and blow it out of the sky.
This week, the United Arab Emirates Ministry of Defense released video of their own AH-64s engaging and shooting down Iranian Shaheed drones that it said were headed towards targets in the country. The Israeli Army has also used AH-64s to attack Iranian drones in flight in recent months.
The US Department of State has approved a possible FMS to Sweden, involving the acquisition of M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems.
The Ba’athist regime of Saddam Hussein may have fallen on Mar. 20, 2003, but the hunt for its leadership would take much longer. The dictator and his two sons, Uday and Qusay, were still out there.
Finding Saddam would take nine months, while his sons were tracked to their hideout in just a few weeks. And they would be found by the U.S. Army’s most elite soldiers.
Also Read: Why Saddam Hussein buried Iraq’s air force in the desert
Task Force 20’s mission in Iraq was to capture or kill the high-value targets, or HVTs. These included Iraqi jihadists and former Ba’ath Party members.
Logan Nye, WATM
The USS Wahoo wasn’t messing around when it took out a Japanese tanker, troop transport, and two freighters.
Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering
Donald Trump threatens severe military consequences if Iran disrupts oil shipments through the critical global energy corridor.
WarZone
The U.S. adds to its bomber force deployed to the U.K. as Iranian drones and missiles continue to fly.
Norris & Osborne, AvWeek
Bell is starting assembly of the fuselage of the prototype MV-75 tiltrotor for the U.S. Army and is beginning design work on a second increment variant for U.S….
The Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has sustained a high intensity of ballistic missile and drone strikes on the United States and its strategic partners’ targets across the Middle East, dashing initial expectations in the Western world that attacks on the country would cripple its missile forces shortly after the U.S. and Israel initiated hostilities on February 28. The war with Iran turned out to be a clash with an adversary unlike any the U.S.