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Military life has a way of teaching you that the best outcomes usually start with a plan, and buying a car is no exception.
But buying a car isn’t just about what looks good in the driveway and feels good in the driver’s seat. It is about what works through PCSing, long commutes to base, deployments, and everything in between.

Vladimir Putin is learning that his country is not safe from Ukraine. Just when he thinks his military has achieved some level of battlefield progress, in comes a flight of enemy drones that ruins his day. That is what happened on June 8 when Ukraine sent a bevy of one-way kamikaze craft to attack Russian energy infrastructure that is sure to infuriate the Russian dictator.

The latest incident happened in the Moscow region. Russia claimed it shot down 310 enemy drones overnight.

A doorman at Douglas MacArthur’s hotel stopped the legendary general as he prepared to visit the United States Military Academy for the final time.
MacArthur told the inquisitive employee that he was headed to West Point. The reply surprised MacArthur, one of the most imposing military figures in American history.
“Beautiful place,” the doorman said.

Russia’s energy ministry admitted that Ukrainian drone attacks on oil refineries and energy infrastructure are the cause of fuel shortages in Crimea and parts of southern Russia.

The Moscow Times reported that the country’s energy ministry said fuel and energy facilities have faced an increase in aerial attacks in recent months, leading to disruptions in fuel resupply.

President Donald Trump insists that an agreement to end the war with Iran is within reach. Speaking to reporters, Trump said that negotiators are in the “final throes” of securing a major diplomatic breakthrough – yet even as he projected optimism on Tuesday morning, Israeli warplanes were again striking targets in southern Lebanon that same morning.

The most alarming number in American energy this spring is not the price on the gas pump sign. It is the speed at which the country’s gasoline cushion is vanishing. Between early February and late May, US gasoline inventories fell by 47.5 million barrels, the largest drawdown in the Energy Information Administration’s weekly records dating back to 1990. The next-largest declines over that stretch of the calendar clustered around 30 million barrels, and the last time the country saw even that was fifteen years ago.

Mark Carney has been handed a genuinely hard problem, and folded inside it is an unusually clean solution, at least, that’s what I would argue. Canada’s CF-18 Hornets are decades past their prime, having entered service in the 1980s and been life-extended well beyond their intended careers. Ottawa has signed for 88 Lockheed Martin F-35s but has locked in only the first 16. And the prime minister has spent a year pledging to wean Canadian defense off its near-total reliance on the United States.

The Australian Government has signed a contract worth A$72m ($50m) with Rheinmetall NIOA Munitions to set up a new forging capability that will manufacture large calibre ammunition for the Australian Defence Force in Maryborough, Queensland.

On Monday, NATO fighter jets shot down an errant drone that wandered into Latvian airspace presumably as a result of electronic warfare interference, though the origin of the drone was not explained. In a statement, the Latvian Ministry of Defense said that a “foreign unmanned aerial vehicle (drone)… entered Latvia as a result of Russian electromagnetic warfare.”

The Ministry of Defense statement explained that “fighter jets from the NATO Baltic Air Policing mission were scrambled in response to the threat in Latvian airspace.

Two crew members of an Army AH-64 Apache attack helicopter were safely rescued after the aircraft crashed at sea on Monday near the coast of Oman.
The incident occurred at 7:33 p.m. Eastern Time on Monday, when the Apache went down near the coast of Oman, according to U.S. Central Command, or CENTCOM. Both crew members were rescued within about two hours and are currently listed in stable condition. The cause of the incident is under investigation.
No information was immediately available about what may have caused the crash.