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Gas prices in the United States are once again on the rise, with many top market analysts predicting further increases in the coming months due to the renewed conflict in Iran.

However, the United States is once again the world’s leading oil producer. The US imports only 8 percent of its oil from the Middle East.

F-22 Raptor Elephant Walk. Image Credit: Creative Commons.

Lt. Col. James Hecker (front) and Lt. Col. Evan Dertein line up their F/A-22 Raptor aircraft behind a KC-10 Extender to refuel while en route to Hill Air Force Base, Utah.

Crimea was seized by Russia in 2014 and has been occupied by Russia ever since. Eight years later, Russia launched its wider invasion of Ukraine.

The Crimean Peninsula has remained a battleground in the war for the last four and a half years, especially in recent months.

Secretary of the Army, Hon. Dan Driscoll, fires a round from a M1A2 Abrams Tank while visiting Fort Stewart, GA., June 23, 2025.

The Army’s newest psychological operations unit will be focused on Africa, as the United States shifts away from direct combat against militants on the continent.
On Wednesday, July 15, the 1st Special Forces Command (Airborne) officially activated Delta Company, 7th Psychological Operations Battalion. The new company will assist the battalion in its psychological operations mission under U.S. Africa Command.

Welcome to The Ukraine Compass, a weekly digest of Ukrainian commentary from across the political spectrum.Every Monday, War on the Rocks members get a curated selection of op-eds and editorials from Ukrainian-language media to understand how Ukrainians themselves debate the biggest issues shaping their country. Western coverage of Ukraine often narrows to the battlefield; these pieces widen the view to daily life, politics, and public argument in a nation at war.

U.S. Special Operations Command is looking for vendors of small one-way-attack drones that could be launched from aircraft and use automatic target recognition capabilities to find their prey.
Specifically, SOCOM is interested in Group 1 and Group 2 unmanned aerial systems that could fit inside a common launch tube with a form factor of 5.9-inch diameter and 42-inch maximum overall length, according to a sources-sought notice published Friday on a government contracting website.
Most of the loitering munitions that have made headlines in recent years have been ground-launched.

The director of the CIA made an eyebrow-raising claim this week: That when Russian recruits go on the battlefield in Ukraine, they have an average life expectancy of just 20 to 30 minutes.

According to Business Insider, the Central Intelligence Agency Director John Ratcliffe made the claim while speaking this week at the Pennsylvania Defense and Innovation Summit.

The Department of Defense task force established to conduct a top-to-bottom review of the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification kicked off Thursday, according to the Pentagon’s top IT chief.
Kirsten Davies, chief information officer of the DOD, told reporters the task force met for the first time Thursday in the Pentagon after she formally announced its creation Monday as part of a 60-day pause of forthcoming phase 2 requirements under the CMMC program and a review of the overall program.
Phase 2 requirements were set to take effect Nov. 10.

War stories often end with a homecoming.
Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” begins there.
The film delivers everything audiences expect from Homer: towering monsters, impossible voyages, brutal combat, gods who play with men, and just enough spectacle to be worthy of Nolan’s mythic epic. But beneath the surface is a quieter, more devastating observation—one familiar to generations of warriors.
Getting home isn’t the victory. It’s learning how to live there again.

L3Harris Technologies and Shield AI have conducted the first live flight trial of their Distributed Spectrum Collaboration and Operations (DiSCO) system.

The return of hostilities between the United States and Iran has led to a double-digit increase in oil prices in the span of just a week.

According to oilprice.com, oil prices were set for a 12 percent weekly gain, the largest one-week jump since April.

“The re-escalation in the Middle East and the abrupt halt to the recovery of Strait of Hormuz flows pushed crude futures prices to the highest in over a month,” the report said.