On the same day that William McRaven graduated from the University of Texas in 1977 with a degree in journalism, he received his commission into the United States Navy.
That day was a highlight of McRaven’s young life. Many more followed as McRaven became a four-star admiral and commander of United States Special Operations Command from 2011 to 2014.
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A few months before McRaven’s time leading USSOCOM ended, he returned to his alma mater and delivered the spring commencement address.
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A fragile ceasefire between Iran and the United States is under even more pressure as both sides traded attacks overnight on June 3. U.S. Central Command said it launched more “self-defense” strikes against Iran. The Americans had to shoot down missiles and drones fired by Iran that were traveling toward ships and targets in Gulf allied countries.
The United States conducted its retaliatory strikes on Qeshm Island in the Strait of Hormuz, the BBC reported. Central Command revealed that Iran fired two missiles at Kuwait and three at Bahrain.
Summary and Key Points: It stretched nearly two football fields and carried twenty ballistic missiles tipped with as many as 200 nuclear warheads — all, by one account, once aimed at the United States. The Soviet Typhoon remains the largest submarine ever built and one of the most feared weapons of the Cold War. Yet for all its menace, it was quietly outmatched by an American rival with even more firepower. And stranger still, despite its size, it could run quieter than boats a fraction as large. What finally sank the giant wasn’t a torpedo — it was a budget.
Face down in the dirt, with his hands held behind his back, Sgt. Maj. Russell Hull inched his body up a hill. It was around that time that he started to rethink the choices that led him to that moment.
“That was miserable,” said Hull, who graduated from the Army’s Sapper Leader Course in the Spring. “There was a few minutes where I wanted to quit, because I was just like, ‘What am I doing? I’m 43 years old. I’ve been in the Army over 20 years.
Summary and Key Points: Top Gun: Maverick reminded the world why the F-14 Tomcat is the most beloved fighter the Navy ever flew. What the film leaves out: there was supposed to be an even deadlier one. The Super Tomcat 21 would have super-cruised at Mach 1.3 without afterburners, added thrust-vectoring and a glass cockpit, and flown farther than the original — a jet one expert believes might have been the most maneuverable fighter on Earth for decades. The Navy had its chance. It said no, and the reason had nothing to do with the airplane.
Summary and Key Points: He broke the sound barrier — and in his 1986 memoir, Chuck Yeager called it the finest fighter in the world. The F-20 Tigershark was supersonic, deadly, easy to fly, and far cheaper than the F-16 it was built to rival. By every measure that mattered, it was a winner. Yet the U.S. never bought a single one, and the jet vanished before it reached a squadron. What killed it wasn’t a design flaw or even the two fatal crashes investigators blamed on the pilots. It was something else.
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F-20 Tigershark Model at Western Museum of Flight.
Donald Trump took the United States to war with Iran on February 28 to prove that American power still wrote the rules of the Middle East, and that meant Tehran would never get nuclear weapons. If the war ends the way it now looks like it might, with Tehran left controlling the Strait of Hormuz and the rest of the world paying for the privilege of passing through it, he will have proved something close to the opposite.
Right now, a meaningful share of the oil that keeps the global economy moving is not being pumped from the ground. It is being drained out of emergency reserves that governments spent decades filling for exactly this kind of catastrophe, and those reserves are running down at a pace that gives the world a hard deadline.
A standardised engine family is powering a new generation of heavier, smarter and more connected armoured vehicles.