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Vladimir Putin could still use a tactical nuclear weapon. People who now speak as though that possibility has evaporated are displaying a confidence the evidence does not support.
Russia has the weapons. Russian doctrine continues to allow for nuclear first use. And the war has grown larger and stranger than almost anyone expected when it began in February 2022.
An ATACMS missile being launched from an M270 MLRS.
Shortly before getting a tenuous 60-day ceasefire with the Islamic Republic of Iran, US President Donald J. Trump gloated at a press conference in the White House Oval Office about how he was presiding over the largest covert commercial-maritime operation in history.
According to the White House, under the cover of darkness, Gulf oil producers loaded supertankers. Thanks to this daring wartime operation, oil reached Asia, Europe, and elsewhere, explaining why the world never faced the truly catastrophic collapse in oil supplies that everyone feared.
ATLANTIC OCEAN (Oct.
A midair collision last year that ripped the refueling boom off of one of the Air Force’s newest tanker aircraft, sending the multi-million-dollar fueling arm tumbling into the Atlantic Ocean, came moments after the tanker’s probe became stuck in a fighter jet’s fuel port.
The 2025 accident was the second time in 11 months that a KC-46A Pegasus’ refueling boom was ripped off the plane and fell to earth after becoming stuck in a trailing jet during refueling.
The girl who later frustrated the Nazis’ secret police once wore a bracelet of live snakes to school.
Virginia Hall was different. She became one of World War II’s most notable spies and a persistent problem for the Germans.
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Hall’s gait was distinctive, the result of losing part of her left leg in a hunting accident in Turkey. Still, “The Limping Lady” proved too slippery for the Nazis to catch.
“We must find and destroy her,” the Gestapo ordered.
They never did.
…it didn’t have to be like this…
Remember, we must revisit the failures of the past in order that they shall not be repeated. Well, that’s the theory.
Of all the disastrous series of failures this century to build a surface combatant, none were as unnecessary and avoidable as the failure of the Constellation Class FFG.
Over six years ago, we found out that we were going to build a U.S. version of the Franco-Italian FREMM in a push to finally get a proper frigate into the fleet. I was ecstatic…but wary.
A Ukrainian drone seems to have sparked a fire and damaged an oil and gas facility at Moscow region’s largest refinery on Tuesday.
The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), the Unmanned Systems Forces, the Special Operations Forces, and Ukraine’s military intelligence (HUR) were involved in the operation, according to the Ukrainian General Staff.
The Ukrainian drones struck the oil plant in Moscow and Russia’s southern Krasnodar Krai region overnight.
Vladimir Putin Back in June 2022 Russian Federation Photo.
Nothing Is Safe in Moscow after Ukrainian Energy Attacks: These two countries are boiling with hatred. It seems that Russia and Ukraine can’t seem to keep attacking each other in tit-for-tat strikes that are becoming more destructive each day. A favorite tactic for Ukraine has been to send one-way drones to blow up energy infrastructure, and that is what Volodymyr Zelensky’s forces did overnight on June 16.
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Ukraine Switchblade Drone. Image Credit: Creative Commons.
Sometimes called the City of Golden Domes, gilt Eastern Orthodox onion domes dot the Kyiv old town’s skyline. Under normal circumstances, the domes reflect the glittering light of summertime sunsets.
This week, however, Kyiv’s domes reflected open flames overnight on Monday.
Nearly a dozen people died in Kyiv following a Russian drone and missile attack that struck the Pechersk Lavra monastery, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Kyiv, along with other targets throughout the city, part of a wider Russian strike campaign against targets across Ukraine.
Russia’s supply of T-80 main battle tanks numbers in the low triple digits, according to one close watcher of the war in Ukraine, and points to how steep losses have been for the Russian war machine. Posting on X, formerly Twitter, one open-source analyst wrote that there are only 203 T-80s parked outside Omsktranshmash, a Russian state-owned engineering company in Omsk.
Oryx, a website that uses images and video of damaged or destroyed equipment to tabulate losses for both sides in Ukraine, counts nearly 4,400 Russian tanks damaged, destroyed, abandoned, or captured.
Iranian state media released footage on June 10 showing an Iranian F-14 Tomcat returning from an operational mission during the Iran-Iraq War.
The plane, which might as well be an antique by today’s standards, remains a point of curiosity among American audiences because Iran is still using it.
F-14 Tomcat on Flight Deck of USS Intrepid. National Security Journal Photo.
On board USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75).An F-14B Tomcat assigned to the”Swordsmen” of Fighter Squadron Three Two (VF-32) launches off of one of four steam powerd catapults on the flight deck. The Harry S.