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Manila, Philippines  – There are phrases associated with the Ukraine war that those of us covering it, now in its 5th year, have grown more than weary of.

Rather tellingly, these phrases are discontinued once proven to be completely erroneous in their assumptions.

One of the more famous of these dates back to the beginning of the war: “the Ukrainians cannot win.”

CINCU, Romania – U.S. Army Soldiers of 1st Battalion, 66th Armored Regiment, 3rd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, setup their M1 Abram Tanks during Getica Saber 17, July 10, 2017.

The San Antonio Spurs struggled early during the 1996-97 NBA season.
As their best player, David Robinson, rehabilitated his lower back, the injury-ravaged Spurs lost 15 of their first 18 games. With Robinson set to return to the lineup, the team’s general manager made a coaching change. He fired Bob Hill and named himself as Hill’s replacement.
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At the time, Gregg Popovich had no NBA head coaching experience. He bet on himself and won big.

The Army officially has a new standardized mobile app for firing mortars. This spring, the Army gave the final clearance for a new system, called simply the Mortars App, that soldiers can use on smartphones and tablets to get accurate mortar fire on targets. 
The new app got the final approval in March, although the Army announced the rollout at the start of June.

The Franco-German Future Combat Air System (FCAS) next generation fighter program has officially collapsed, after French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz reached a shared conclusion that common ground to resolve longstanding disputes could not be found. The program had been launched in July 2017 to provide a successor to the Eurofighter in German service, and the Rafale in French service, from around 2040.

Trump Could Get a Ukraine Deal—But Not the One Washington Wants: U.S. President Donald Trump may be able to secure a deal with Ukraine. The catch is that it probably will not look much like the deal Washington has spent the last several years imagining.

Too much of the debate assumes that a successful negotiation must settle the war. Borders agreed. Security guarantees nailed down. Russia and the West are arriving at some new understanding about European security. That would be nice. History suggests it is also asking a great deal.

Manila, Philippines – The Ukrainian Defense Forces (ZSU) and the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) have commemorated the 82nd anniversary of the historic World War II Allied 6 June 1944 D-Day invasion of occupied France by striking a Russian Navy (VMF) arsenal in the settlement of Velyka Izhora in the Leningrad Region. This location is roughly 31 miles southwest of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s hometown of St. Petersburg.

The successful attack was first reported by the Dossye Shpiona (the Spy’s Dossier) Telegram channel, not long after it occurred.

Laura Heckmann, National Defense
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Nick Ulmer & Harrison Schramm, RealClearDefense
For the uninitiated, a token is a small piece of information, in text roughly three-quarters of a word, that a large language model processes…

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HELIOS is a 60-kilowatt-class directed-energy laser with a range of up to 5 miles, offering layered defense against drones, fast attack craft, and incoming missiles.

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The U.S. Air Force has awarded Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace a $240.