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Kris Osborn, Warrior Maven
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Making a plan to leave the military and step into the civilian workforce is probably one of the most stressful times for any military member. Their steady paycheck is ending, bills are still due, and finding a job suddenly becomes their full-time job.
So when a company finally calls, interviews them, and puts a salary offer on the table, it can feel like the only rational move is to grab it, hang on, and thank whatever god they believe in that the job search is finally over.

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems has carried out a mission autonomy test flight with its MQ-20 Avenger drone.

Ukraine’s 46th Airmobile Podilsk Brigade is using drones equipped with a fishing rod and weighted cord to intercept Russian unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV). 
Footage posted by the brigade on Sunday showed the Ukrainian drone approaching the target from above, causing the Russian drone’s propellers to become entangled in or damaged by the cord. The video captured the system successfully intercepting one fixed-wing drone and one quadcopter. writes SOFX.
Nets are also used by both sides.
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In July, the team at EarthTraq, a dual-use space company, received an email suggesting we “go through the Space Force Front Door process.” It seemed simple. We offer clear applications for pressing U.S. national security needs. The front door appeared to be the place to learn about capability gaps and seek funding to address them. Between July and December 2025, we navigated three such “front doors” at the U.S. Space Force, National Reconnaissance Office, and National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.

The Battle of Marengo was the culmination of Napoleon’s campaign in Italy in May–June 1800. It completely unraveled the string of Second Coalition victories across the peninsula that began the year before. The battle is notable for Napoleon’s initial underestimation of his enemy. Only timely reinforcements and Austrian hubris won him the day. Napoleon recounted the words of Gen. Louis Desaix at Marengo, that “the battle is completely lost; but it is only two o’clock and we still have time to win another today.

Even after Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro was captured, U.S. nationals may still be prosecuted under international law for the country’s previous attacks against suspected drug-carrying boats in the Caribbean and Pacific, including those that happened as recently as Dec. 31, 2025.

The Royal Danish Air Force has become the third service in the world to field a fighter fleet fully comprised of fifth generation fighter aircraft, following the Royal Norwegian Air Force in 2022, and the Royal Netherlands Air Force in 2024. All three Northern European countries were partners in the F-35 program, and procured the F-35A to replace their small fleets of Cold War era F-16 fourth generation fighters. The retirement of the last Danish F-16s occurred on January 18, ending more than four decades of service.

The Israeli Air Force received three new F-35I fighters from the United States on January 18 , bringing the total fleet up to 48 of the aircraft. The aircraft landed at Nevatim Airbase in southern Israel, where all F-35s are currently based under the 116th and 140th squadrons. The Air Force received its first F-35s in December 2016, declaring them operational the following year, and expanded its fleet with the formation of the 116th Squadron in January 2021.

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U.S. forces have withdrawn from Iraq’s Ain al-Asad Airbase, which housed U.S.-led forces in Western Iraq, and the Iraqi army has assumed full control, the Iraqi defence ministry said on Saturday.
In 2024, Washington and Baghdad reached an understanding, opens new tab on plans for the withdrawal of U.S.-led coalition forces from Iraq and a move towards a bilateral security relationship.
Ain al-Asad has hosted U.S.