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In recent weeks, the Virginia Military Institute (VMI) has come under attack by politicians in the Virginia Legislature through House Bills #1374 and #1377. These baseless bills attempt to once again falsely portray the problem at VMI as being an institutionally racist and sexist school that resists change. The ill-advised corrective action being called for is a potential radical modification to the VMI Board of Visitors (BOV) make-up and another investigation.

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March 3, 2026
FORT BRAGG, N.C. – The Department of War announced the death of four U.S. Army Reserve soldiers who were supporting Operation Epic Fury. The soldiers died March 1st, in Kuwait at the Port of Shuaiba, during an unmanned aircraft system attack. All Soldiers were assigned to the 103rd Sustainment Command, Des Moines, Iowa. The incident is under investigation.
     “We honor our fallen Heroes, who served fearlessly and selflessly in defense of our nation. Their sacrifice, and the sacrifices of their families, will never be forgotten,” said Lt. Gen.

The Defense Department has identified four of the six service members who were killed over the weekend by an Iranian attack. All four Reserve soldiers were assigned to the 103rd Sustainment Command, based out of Des Moines, Iowa. 
Capt. Cody A. Khork, 35, of Winter Haven, Florida; Sgt. 1st Class Noah L. Tietjens, 42, of Bellevue, Nebraska; Sgt. 1st Class Nicole M. Amor, 39, of White Bear Lake, Minnesota; and Sgt. Declan J. Coady, 20, of West Des Moines, Iowa, were killed on March 1 in Port Shuaiba, Kuwait by an Iranian drone attack, defense officials announced on Tuesday.

Amazon Web Services is grappling with widespread service disruptions this week after drone strikes severely damaged three of the cloud provider’s data centers in the Middle East during a surge of intense military actions in the region.

They’ve been around for every major United States military conflict since the Revolutionary War.
They’ve put themselves in just as much danger as any service member, sometimes more. These warriors do it all without complaint, too, all in exchange for no pay. All they want is just some good belly scratches, unconditional love, and full food and water bowls.
It’s a good bargain for everything these U.S. military dogs do for their country.
Related: 10 military dogs who made history
Army Staff Sgt. Justin Williams calls his most recent military dog, Arina, his sister in arms.

The Defense Innovation Unit successfully launched a 3D-printed hypersonic testbed manufactured by a commercial vendor on Friday as part of an effort to broaden the Pentagon’s ability to try out the complex, high-speed platforms.
During the mission — dubbed Cassowary Vex — the DART AE technology demonstrator developed by Australian company Hypersonix was deployed into a suborbital environment via Rocket Lab’s Hypersonic Accelerator Suborbital Test Electron (HASTE) launch vehicle.

Tensions between China and Japan have been heating up in recent months, sparked in November by a statement from Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi that Beijing interpreted as suggesting that Japan would respond militarily if China attacked Taiwan. Takaichi has pledged to increase Japan’s defense spending, and a major electoral victory in February has strengthened her position. We asked four experts to assess the risks.Read more below.Yun SunSenior Fellow and Director of the China Program at the Stimson CenterIn 2026, China could attempt to push back further in a number of domains.

For as long as troops have loaded bombs onto planes, they’ve marked them with scrawled messages or even their own names.
That tradition appeared to continue this week among sailors on the USS Abraham Lincoln, as pictures released by U.S. Central Command showed. A series of photos posted on Department of Defense websites showed sailors on the Lincoln arranging GBU-31 bombs on the ship’s deck, in preparation for loading onto an F/A–18 strike fighter. Navy Aviation Ordnancemen, or AOs, huddled over the weapons in their distinctive red vests.

Photonis Defense has secured a contract from the US Army Contracting Command for the Binocular Night Observation Device (BiNOD) programme.

Marines assigned to the U.S. consulate in Karachi, Pakistan, recently fired their weapons in self-defense after they were attacked by protestors who had breached the facility, a U.S. official told Task & Purpose.
Reuters first reported that the Marines had fired their weapons when protesters tried to storm the consulate on Sunday following the death of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Hosseini Khamenei, who was killed the day prior during air and missile strikes against Iran launched by Israel and the United States.