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After months of large-scale Ukrainian strikes against high-value Russian oil and energy infrastructure, Moscow is stepping up its attacks against Ukraine’s capital city as winter approaches — and it looks like the Kremlin isn’t backing down any time soon.

Rather than concentrating primarily on Ukraine’s power grid and military infrastructure, Russian forces are getting increasingly aggressive, targeting transport and communications infrastructure, fuel sites, and other facilities that keep Kyiv running.

Tu-22M3 from Russian Air Force. Image Credit: Creative Commons.

Iran appears to be preparing for a much larger military response if the United States launches another major round of strikes—and signs suggest Washington is preparing for it, too.

President Donald Trump continues to publicly hint at the likelihood that Iran will concede after the November midterm elections, and that the regime is close to giving up, but Tehran appears to be preparing contingency plans that could expand the conflict beyond direct attacks against American assets.

Gen. Frank McKenzie inaugurated as The Citadel’s 21st president
(The Citadel) When Gen. Frank McKenzie, USMC (Ret.), ’79, graduated from The Citadel nearly 47 years ago, he left campus a changed man.
On Friday, Sept. 25, McKenzie stepped onto the stage inside McAlister Field House as a changed man yet again, for his inauguration as the 21st president of The Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina.

South Korean President Lee Jae Myung has accused Ukraine of attempting to provoke a war on the Korean Peninsula amid an escalating diplomatic dispute over Kiev’s public disclosure of the transfer of two North Korean prisoners of war to South Korea. Lee warned that Seoul would take “additional measures” against Ukraine unless it acknowledges what South Korea says was an agreement to keep the transfer confidential and issue a public apology.

Troops in combat zones can now get a maximum of $450 per month in hostile fire pay, or as much as $275 per month in imminent danger pay. This week, new combat pay amounts went into effect, as the war with Iran stretches on.
The new stipends, announced by the Department of Defense on Oct. 1, are the first increases to special combat pay since 2002. The increased pay rates went into effect on Thursday, which was the start of the new fiscal year.
The new policy doubles the amount of hostile fire pay troops can receive, and increases the maximum amount of Imminent Danger Pay by $50.

There’s a controversial mechanic in modern video games where players can pay for better equipment, making it easier for a wealthy player to beat a more experienced or more skilled player, thanks to their fatter wallet.
On the one hand, kids born with a silver spoon now get to shoot silver bullets. But on the other, do we really want doctors to spend 60 hours grinding for good gear in a video game? It seems risky to incentivize a lack of sleep in my surgeon, who has easy access to amphetamines. Let him pay to win.

For four days, thousands of people from across the military-connected world came together in Tampa, Fla.—service members, veterans, milspouses, entrepreneurs, creators, nonprofit leaders, executives, advocates, and community builders—for the Military Influencer Conference. They come looking for connection and community.
And they find it.
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The conference describes the experience as more than a conference, rather a place to learn, build, create, connect, find opportunity and get support.

Russian losses in Ukraine have been staggering. According to some estimates, Russia has lost nearly 1.5 million men killed or wounded on the battlefields in Ukraine — more than in all conflicts Russia or the Soviet Union has fought in combined since the end of the Second World War. The Ukrainian General Staff says that September was the deadliest month of the war this year, with over 46,000 Russians killed or wounded.

Over four and a half years into the war, Ukrainians know what to expect as the region’s bitterly cold winter months approach. Stymied on the battlefield, Russia has bombarded Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital, as well as other cities around the country and placed vital civilian infrastructure in its crosshairs, hoping to batter the country’s noncombatants into submission and leverage their misery to affect political change and, if successful, the submission of the Ukrainian state to the will of the Kremlin.