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For 70 years, the United States has been fighting an invasion at our southern border, but its not the invasion of illegal immigrants we are talking about.
The United States has, for 70 years, been fighting a continuous aerial war against the New World screwworm, a parasite that eats animals alive: cow, pig, deer, dog, even human. (Its scientific name, C. hominivorax, translates to “man-eater.”) Larvae of the parasitic fly chew through flesh, transforming small nicks into big, gruesome wounds.

During the first sighting of an F-16 Block 70 fighter built for the Republic of China Air Force in the air near Fort Worth Naval Base in Texas, the aircraft was seen integrating five external fuel tanks, including three drop tanks under its fuselage and wings, two further conformal fuel tanks. The configuration has highlighted the gradual evolution of the F-16 program to increasingly rely on outstandingly high external fuel carriage to a much greater extent than was the case in the late 1970s with the fighter type first entered service.

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Originally published at Real Clear Defense
The Instrument of Power
In today’s military, particularly within the National Guard, administrative process has become the preferred method for resolving career-ending allegations and personnel disputes. What many service members experience is a kind of shadow kingdom—a legal twilight zone where the rules of the UCMJ are sidelined in favor of administrative control. In this space, the law does not function as a shield for the innocent; it functions as the primary instrument of the Commander.

The first F-16 Block 70 fighter built for the Republic of China Air Force was seen taking off from Fort Worth Naval Base in Texas, integrating conformal fuel tanks and three external fuel tanks. The aircraft is question is a twin seat F-16D variant, and is expected to cross the Pacific Ocean via aerial refuelling to Hualien Air Force Base on Taiwan Island later in June. Although the aircraft was officially handed over in March 2025, it has yet to be ferried to Republic of China Air Force facilities. Sixty-six F-16C/D Block 70 fighter aircraft were ordered under an $8.

President Donald J. Trump declared the war with Iran finished on Sunday evening, posting on Truth Social that “The Deal with the Islamic Republic of Iran is now complete” and authorizing the toll-free reopening of the Strait of Hormuz and the immediate removal of the United States naval blockade. Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, the lead mediator, announced minutes earlier that the deal had been reached, with both sides declaring an end to military operations on all fronts.

And this time, unlike every previous false start in this war, Iran responded — and confirmed it.

The Navy will lift its two-month-long blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, President Donald Trump announced, after the United States and Iran reached an agreement to end the war.
Posting to social media, Trump said that he authorized “the immediate removal of the United States Naval blockade.”
Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif first announced that a deal had been reached on Sunday. Both parties will meet in Switzerland to sign the agreement on Friday, June 19, Sharif said.

Warsaw, Poland – On the morning of Sunday, 14 June, the United Kingdom armed forces intercepted a Russian shadow fleet oil tanker transiting through the English Channel. The announcement, which came from the Ministry of Defence (MoD) in London, is one of the more recent efforts by the NATO-member nation – and one of Ukraine’s strongest supporters – to disrupt Moscow’s sanctions-evading oil exporting network.

The Navy is once again launching planes from Wake Island. This time, the island will serve as the base for P-8 Poseidon patrol aircraft, according to contracts posted by the Navy. 
The contracts, listed on SAM.gov, say that the service will use the island and its airfield for “Navy Summer Exercise 26.” That itself was not specified, but the P-8 Poseidon is used for reconnaissance flights and this operation is being overseen by the Seventh Fleet’s main reconnaissance and surveillance arm, Task Force 72.

Israel Strikes Beirut Hours Before Trump’s Iran Deal Signing — And Now Israel Is Bracing For Iranian Missiles: Hours before the Iran deal, President Trump says, gets signed today, Israel struck the one place that could unravel it, and by late Sunday morning, the Israeli military was bracing for Iran to fire back. The Israel Defense Forces hit Hezbollah targets in Dahiyeh, Beirut’s southern suburbs, killing at least three people, in what Prime Minister Netanyahu and Defense Minister Katz called a response to Hezbollah firing into Israeli territory.