Reports of food shortages and other serious issues on a major U.S. aircraft carrier have shocked many in the public, even as the Pentagon has rushed to insist sailors on the USS Abraham Lincoln are well-supplied.
But for the Navy, the situation aboard the Lincoln is larger than just one ship and underscores the strain that attacks on logistics hubs can place on a fleet when supply chains are interrupted.
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Is This How Ukraine Will Overcome Its Patriot Shortage? – Ukraine’s Patriot interceptor shortage is becoming impossible to ignore following another enormous Russian missile attack that killed 17 people in Kyiv and the surrounding region overnight. The strikes are becoming so devastating that Ukraine is now looking for entirely different ways to stop the attacks, with Patriot deliveries not expected to arrive in time to fend off Russian attacks over the coming winter.
A U.S. Navy messman, Doris “Dorie” Miller, was a Black 22-year-old sharecropper’s son from Waco, Texas. Because of his rating, he was restricted from handling any weapons. His duties included serving the officers’ mess, collecting laundry, and shining shoes. Despite the institutional racism built into the Navy at the time, Miller found success as the boxing champion of his ship, the battleship USS West Virginia.
That didn’t change the fact that he was Black, and as a result, he was segregated from his white shipmates in both his duties and berthing.
Earlier this week, President Donald Trump threatened to bomb Oman if it got in the way of his plans for the Iran war.
Later, he suddenly announced a scaling down of a planned military exercise with South Korea, citing what he called South Korea’s refusal to involve itself in the Iran war.
President Donald Trump meets with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, Tuesday, May 6, 2025, in the Oval Office. (Official White House Photo by Daniel Torok)
President Donald Trump meets with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, Tuesday, May 6, 2025, in the Oval Office.
In the now-famous 2016 Republican primary process, part of Donald Trump’s pitch to Republican voters was that he would avoid foreign policy mistakes like the Iraq War.
His opponents, he implied, would get the country into more wars like Iraq, and one of them, former Gov. Jeb Bush, was the brother of the president who had launched that war.
President Donald J. Trump speaks to the press during a presentation of the Religious Liberty Commission Report in the Oval Office, Friday, June 26, 2026. (Official White House Photo by Joyce N.
Ask any military historian and they’ll probably tell you that tactical aggression is a game changer. Throughout the history of armed conflict, forces who were more aggressive saw more success. Say it however you want: Seize the day. Take the initiative. Fortune favors the bold. It’s all the same maxim.
In a game of strategy and tactics like NFL football, the same kind of aggression pays off—and there’s a mathematical reason for it.
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The first batch of three F-16 Block 70 fighters ordered to equip the Republic of China Air Force have departed from Lockheed Martin’s Greenville plant in South Carolina and transited to the Fort Worth base in Texas, with the aircraft expected to arrive in Taitung in the coming days for delivery. Although the United States was originally scheduled to deliver all 66 aircraft by the end of 2026, production delays have pushed deliveries significantly behind schedule.
Russian Drones Are Crossing into NATO Territories – NATO’s southeastern border is being violated by Russian projectiles with growing frequency, and Romania is increasingly shooting back.
Izmail, one of Ukraine’s key Danube River ports, sits directly across the river from Romania, with parts of the waterway forming the international border. Last week, a civilian Togo-flagged vessel sustained damage near the port, and four people were injured in the attack.
Gulf Shipping Data Paints Complex Picture: While the White House insists it maintains full control over the Strait of Hormuz, data show that the number of commercial ships passing through the Strait has fallen back to single digits. Only seven commodity vessels crossed the strait on Thursday, August 20, according to the latest ship-tracking data from Kpler.
Those figures include four ships entering the Persian Gulf and three departing. None of the vessels were very large crude carriers (VLCCs) or liquefied natural gas tankers.
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AUGUSTA, Ga. — The Army is on the hunt for AI agents to help defend its cyber infrastructure from attacks without draining the bank for tokens or letting loose a horde of bots that create new network vulnerabilities.
Project Griffin, a pilot program, aims to build an ecosystem of agents that will ingest feeds from the service’s vast array of network sensors and automatically execute defensive actions against malicious cyber actors, according to Army officials and a newly public solicitation.