Somewhere near the President of the United States right now, a military aide is carrying a black leather briefcase that could end civilization. He’s not a cabinet member. He’s not a general. He’s a mid-grade officer selected for reliability, discretion, and the ability to keep up with the most powerful person on the planet. He’s with the Leader of the Free World at all times, in any country, under any circumstance.
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CDR Salamander
…the chart don’t lie…
Breaking Defense
During the Vietnam era, the USS Midway set the record for longest at-sea deployment at 332 days.
Howard Altman, The WarZone
Cloned from the Iranian Shahed-136, CENTCOM commander Admiral Brad Cooper praised the drones and their performance so far.
Riley Ceder, Defense N.
Military Times spoke with several national security specialists, defense analysts and foreign policy pundits who warned that the U.S.
Government Accountability Office
This testimony is based on many reports from our broad work on readiness across the military services, such as …
The US military is planning to increase bombers “pulses” over Iran and deploy additional fighter squadrons to the region.
The Belgian Armed Forces have landed and conducted an armed takeover of an oil tanker, the Ethera, in international waters in the North Sea, during a coordinated operation supported by France, after the vessel was reported to have been exporting Russian oil. The tanker, which was sailing under the flag of Guinea, was forced to the port of Zeebrugge, and is expected to be sold and the funds appropriated by European states involved in the operation.
The Trump administration should abandon any plans to arm Iranian Kurdish forces before the first fighter crosses the Iraqi-Iranian border. Not refine it. Not sequence it more carefully. Drop it entirely. The operation will not topple the Iranian regime, will inflame the Persian nationalism that is the Islamic Republic’s most reliable reserve fuel, and — most damagingly — will hand Tehran a coalition-fracturing tool it did not have to build. There is no version of this gambit that serves American strategic interests.
Most accounts of the Manhattan Project tell a familiar story: American scientists relentlessly racing to design and build the fission bombs that would ultimately fall on Japan. A neglected chapter of the saga was the obsessive advocacy of a handful of physicists who favored a far more potent weapon design. The “Super” of their imagination would derive its explosive energy not simply from fission, or the splitting of atomic nuclei, but also from the fusion of deuterium and tritium, two isotopes of hydrogen.