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.
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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.
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The USS Wahoo wasn’t messing around when it took out a Japanese tanker, troop transport, and two freighters.
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Donald Trump threatens severe military consequences if Iran disrupts oil shipments through the critical global energy corridor.
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The U.S. adds to its bomber force deployed to the U.K. as Iranian drones and missiles continue to fly.
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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.
In early March 2026, U.S. Central Command confirmed the first U.S. fatalities of the Iran conflict. A drone strike at Port Shuaiba in Kuwait killed six American servicemembers.A counter-drone system can intercept “most” threats and still fail at the mission that matters: protecting people and critical nodes. Small drones can fly as low to the ground, present detection challenges, and punish any gap in hardening or point defense.
Commenting on a live fire cruise missile exercise launched by the Korean People’s Army Navy’s first destroyer, the Choe Hyon, Chairman of the ruling Korean Workers’ Party Kim Jong Un has for the first time revealed that a larger class of 8,000 ton destroyers is currently under development. The chairman was at the time announcing a decision that future destroyers would not be equipped with forward mounted high calibre guns, which are used primarily for shore bombardment, and would instead prioritise carriage of more missiles for anti-ship operations.
Indonesia is rapidly expanding its naval fleet to meet its blue-water ambitions. But, for much of the past decade, budget constraints and limited political attention meant the country could focus only on acquiring small- and medium-sized naval vessels.That pattern has shifted noticeably in recent years.Jakarta has moved ahead with the procurement of larger and more capable platforms, including two Multipurpose Combat Ships/PPA from Italy and two I-class frigates from Turkey.