Everyone knows about George Washington’s famous Crossing of the Delaware River, where the Continental Army surprised the Hessians in the darkness of late Christmas Day. But who were the infamous Hessians that Washington and his men killed and wounded that Christmas? And what happened to the ones who didn’t get killed by the Continental Army?
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As it turns out, Hessian mercenaries liked freedom as much as any other colonial immigrant, because many Hessians just stuck around after the war ended.
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A Wall Street Journal report published this week revealed some new details about Iran’s missile and drone campaign against one of America’s most important military headquarters. The revelations include suggestions that Washington may not have been entirely honest about the scale of the damage done by Iranian strikes.
According to the report, repeated Iranian strikes damaged the headquarters of the U.S. Navy’s Fifth Fleet at Naval Support Activity Bahrain, as well as more than a dozen other buildings and two satellite communications systems.
According to a bombshell report by the Wall Street Journal, Iranian missiles and drones targeting the nerve center of America’s naval operations in the Middle East did extensive damage.
The U.S. Navy’s sprawling base in Bahrain, and the headquarters of the US Fifth Fleet, is located only 150 miles south of the coast of Iran, and it was targeted numerous times between late February and June.
Zumwalt-Class U.S. Navy. Image Credit: Creative Commons.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has received a separate assessment from Major General Oleh Luhovskyi, the acting head of Ukraine’s Foreign Intelligence Service, regarding what appears to be a rising threat of Belarus’s invasion of his country.
Luhovskyi was appointed by President Volodymyr Zelensky on 4 February 2026.
Su-34 Fullback Fighter-Bomber. Image Credit: Creative Commons.
Prior to this assignment change, he was the service’s first deputy head and had served as a negotiator in international peace talks.
Following tensions over a United Nations-backed alternative route through the Strait of Hormuz, established on the Omani side of the waterway, Tehran sought to reassert its right to restrict shipping on Friday. In a statement, Deputy Iranian Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi threatened vessels traveling through the Strait of Hormuz with “ambiguous arrangements.”
“Safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz cannot be guaranteed under ambiguous arrangements, parallel routes or decision-making that does not take Iran’s role as a coastal state into account,” Gharibabadi said.
The IRGC fired on and hit a cargo vessel in the Strait of Hormuz on Thursday near the Oman coast, according to a U.S. official. The vessel suffered damage to its bridge, but no one was injured, the U.K. Maritime Trade Operations Center said.
Iran is trying to control shipping in the Strait of Hormuz and warned Gulf states against siding with the U.S., a day after an attack on the ship.
ATLANTIC OCEAN (Sept. 21, 2024) The world’s largest aircraft carrier, USS Gerald R.
Warsaw, Poland – Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has written a long message on his X account detailing just how successful his military’s campaign of drone and missile strikes has been in Crimea.
His security services have provided him with reports that paint an overall picture of the situation there, which is becoming more dire by the day. Russians who relocated to the peninsula after the March 2104 invasion are now beginning to return to Mainland Russia while they still can.
T-84 Tank from the Ukraine War. Image Credit: Creative Commons.
Oracle has announced the inclusion of ten additional defence technology companies into the third cohort of its Oracle Defense Ecosystem at the Oracle Defence Tech Summit 2026.
Ukrainian forces launched one of their largest drone attacks on Russian territory and illegally annexed and occupied Crimea since the Russians invaded in 2022.
The Russian Defense Ministry claimed that they intercepted 660 unmanned aerial vehicles across the Belgorod, Bryansk, Kursk, Oryol, Kaluga, Lipetsk, Rostov, Voronezh, Tula, Ryazan, and Astrakhan regions of the Russian Federation, the Moscow region, occupied Crimea, and the waters of the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov.
Putin with a Rifle. Image Credit: Russian State Media.
Every motor pool, every smoke pit, every chow-hall table has hosted the same argument at least once. Somebody swears the 5.56mm is a glorified BB gun that couldn’t stop a determined house mouse. Somebody else, usually an old senior NCO with a severe flat top, long-gone gray, insists that nothing ever beats the 7.62mm and that the Army has been wrong since Vietnam. Then some E-4 brings up the new 6.8mm, and the whole table groans into its coffee.