If President Donald Trump decides to order the U.S. military to capture Kharg Island from Iran, the operation would require at least 1,200 troops, experts told Task & Purpose. Whether or not that number would be enough to hold the island is less clear.
For the moment, it is uncertain whether U.S. troops may be tasked with capturing the island, which processes about 90% of Iran’s crude oil exports.
Trump initially wrote in a Thursday social media post that “at some point in the not too distant future, we will be taking Kharg Island.” He later announced that he had canceled further U.
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Is A Peace Deal Imminent on Iran? U.S. President Donald Trump announced on Truth Social on June 11, 2026, that a deal with Iran is imminent and that a “time and place of the signing” will be announced shortly. The president also confirmed that planned strikes on Iran, scheduled to begin this evening, have been canceled. The statement is the clearest indication yet that a deal with the Iranian regime could be arriving soon.
It might come as a surprise to some veterans, but there are service members who leave the military and just kind of drop off the system’s radar. They don’t make VA appointments, submit benefits claims, or try to join veterans organizations.
Sometimes, veterans just pack away their uniforms and move on—until they need something because of their time in the military. Wounded Warrior Project calls this “the deadly gap.”
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Jessica Baltazar, a national service officer with WWP, is trying to close it.
The House Armed Services Committee pushed through its version of the fiscal 2027 defense policy bill late last week, adopting new “right to repair” provisions.
The committee adopted the FY27 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) in a 44-12 vote, with Democrats making up all of the “no” votes. However, despite most of the amendments being split along party lines, the “right to repair amendment was one of the rare moments that enjoyed wide bipartisan support.
The amendment, which was introduced by a bipartisan duo of Reps.
The Senate Armed Services Committee’s defense policy bill for fiscal 2027 gives the green light for the Defense Department to establish a separate combatant command dedicated to autonomous systems.
SASC’s $1.14 trillion National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) “encourages the department to adopt the future of warfare by permitting the establishment of the Robotic and Autonomous Systems Combatant Command,” according to a summary of the draft legislation published Thursday.
The war in Ukraine has now officially surpassed the length of World War I. Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine has lasted longer than the four years, three months, and 14 days (1,568 days) of the First World War.
And just like the muddy, static lines of 1914–1918, the fighting in Ukraine settled into a grueling war of attrition where soldiers from both sides operate from thousands of kilometers of trenches and bunkers. Maneuver warfare has virtually disappeared in the stalemated fighting.
Iran Threatens Hell Over Hormuz, But Trump May Have Just Prevented It – As the White House weighs putting boots on the ground in Iran and insists that the Strait of Hormuz is still open, an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps commander has warned that Iran will turn the region into “hell” if the regime’s control of the Strait of Hormuz is challenged.
“We will bring the region into hell for you from across Iran if you make the sacred Strait of Hormuz safe,” IRGC Aerospace Force commander Brigadier General Majid Mousavi warned this week.
Iran Missiles.
Today, the war in Ukraine has been raging for 1,569 days, meaning it has continued longer than WWI. The war has been raging for four years and has become the most devastating war in Europe since the Second World War.
Despite all the devastation, the war continues and shows little sign of stopping. Given the current state of the battlefield, neither side can bring the war to a quick military close, so it is up to diplomacy to end the conflict.
However, considering the current state of negotiations, it is unlikely that either side will reach an agreement anytime soon.
Ukraine’s latest barrage of long-range attacks inside Russia has struck military and energy infrastructure at shocking distances – and they can thank the domestically-made “Flamingo” for the chaos it’s causing for Moscow.
Flamingo Missiles Hit Russia’s Defense Industry
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Ukraine Cruise Missile. Image Credit: Government of Ukraine.
With negotiations between Tehran and Washington stalled, the American President is on the offensive, though only verbally so far. But in order to break the deadlock, President Trump is seemingly interested in pummeling Iran yet again — and suggested a Venezuela-style takeover of at least some of the country’s energy infrastructure and an invasion of what is perhaps the crown jewel of Iran’s oil and gas infrastructure.