Drone warfare is expanding from the skies to the seas, and the United States must be ready. The Russia-Ukraine war, which has become synonymous with aerial drone warfare, has now featured the “first naval battle in history between unmanned boats,” according to the Ukrainian Navy. On Sept. 14, a Ukrainian Sargan 300 drone boat fired at and sank a Russian unmanned surface vessel (USV) in the Black Sea — a significant milestone in warfare’s rapid evolution.
Unmanned naval platforms are also starting to see combat beyond the battlefield laboratory of Eastern Europe.
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President Donald J. Trump is anticipating an electoral defeat for the Republican Party in the coming midterms, and he is already formulating excuses for why this new reality will occur.
Is it his policies?
President Donald J. Trump tours the White House with Fox News host and daughter-in-law Lara Trump, Thursday, May 28, 2026. (Official White House Photo by Molly Riley)
The unpopular war that he started?
No.
According to the forty-seventh president, the real reason the GOP is set to lose is because of mail-in voting and voter-registration rules.
As part of the government’s new plan to quickly secure domestic military assets and infrastructure against cyberattacks, sabotage, power grid failures, and foreign supply chain disruptions, the Pentagon’s acquisition chief on Tuesday initiated the process to set up the new FORTRESS America Program Office.
Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment Michael Duffey instructed eight senior officials to take concrete steps to begin operationalizing the initiative, according to an official memorandum obtained by DefenseScoop on Wednesday.
At this point, Ukraine’s summer “influence operation” to force Russia to the negotiating table has failed. In fact, it seems to have had the opposite effect of what President Zelenskyy originally intended.
With the front line moving at a snail’s pace and diplomatic efforts in a gridlock, Russia is opting to play the long game in Ukraine, hoping to wear down Kyiv and its Western supporters.
T-14 Armata Tank. Image Credit: Creative Commons.
T-14 Armata Tank from Russia. Image Credit: Creative Commons.
President Donald Trump generated an immediate backlash Monday after appearing to suggest Iran could “take out” Los Angeles or San Diego. Speaking at a campaign rally in Grand Island, Nebraska, Trump was defending the costs of the ongoing war with Iran when he made the statement. “It’s a small price to pay for keeping the world safe, keeping our country safe,” the president said. “They can take out a city.” He elaborated: “Let them take, let — let them take out Los Angeles. Let them take out San Diego.
Oil is flowing through the Strait of Hormuz again. Whether it keeps moving is another matter. The numbers, at least on paper, are looking much better. Tanker traffic through the strait is running at roughly 81 percent of its pre-conflict level, depending on the tracking data used.
Kpler reported that oil and petroleum product flows totaled 13.1 million barrels per day last week, down from 17.1 million before the conflict.
A U.S. Air Force F-15EX Eagle II flies over the Gulf of America, September 16, 2025.
Earlier this week, oil prices seemed to be easing, but they jumped again on Wednesday because of several global factors.
As of Wednesday morning, Brent crude was trading just under $102 a barrel, continuing gains from the previous day.
U.S. CENTRAL COMMAND AREA OF RESPONSIBILITY (Nov. 23, 2025) Low-cost Unmanned Combat Attack System (LUCAS) drones are positioned on the tarmac at a base in the U.S. Central Command operating area, Nov. 23. Costing approximately $35,000 per platform, LUCAS drones are providing U.S.
The last time the U.S. military executed one of its death row inmates was in 1961, when Army Pvt. John A. Bennett was hanged for the rap and attempted murder of an 11-year-old Austrian girl. Despite being the newest addition to the military’s death row, Nidal Hasan (sentenced in 2013) will be next, according to a statement from Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell.
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Hasan was tried and convicted for perpetrating a mass shooting at Fort Hood, Texas in 2009.
Leonardo DRS has completed delivery and final training for Improved Night/Day Observation Device Block III thermal weapon sights ordered by the Australian Army through the LAND 159 Tranche 1 programme.
Ken Paxton is one of the most controversial Republican candidates in the country. He’s running for the United States Senate against young Democratic candidate James Talarico. In a state that is overwhelmingly Republican and pro-Trump, the fact that a recent Fox News poll has the young Liberal Democrat at 51 percent to Paxton’s 49 percent is stunning. According to unnamed sources, Paxton is starting to feel the squeeze, and he’s blaming the forty-seventh president for his troubles.