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Saab reported Skr100.11bn ($11.07bn) in order bookings for Q4 2025, a year-on-year increase of 470% fuelled by several major contracts.

The UK’s segmented approach to defence procurement will take effect from April Fool’s Day, capturing the government’s lack of transparency.

The US State Department has authorised a possible FMS to Iraq to extend logistical support for passenger vehicle scanning systems.

Synopsis: As new nuclear talks begin, Iran leans on a familiar negotiating style: stall, extract concessions, and buy time.

-Washington signals both pressure and restraint—warning of consequences after earlier strikes, while still pushing for talks and offering little tangible help to Iranian protestors.

Iran Missiles. Image Credit: Creative Commons.

-Iran, sensing reduced near-term risk, complicates negotiations with venue demands and a refusal to move enriched uranium stockpiles abroad.

A unit with the Nevada Air National Guard completed a series of literal around-the-world missions in 2025, with crews completing airlift missions that took its flyers to all seven continents.
In May, the 152nd Airlift Wing deployed to Santiago, Chile, in South America, in support of Operation Southern Star, training with special operations forces to establish Forward Area Refueling Points, or FARPs.
That mission made the seventh continent in which 152nd personnel had operated in just over a year. 
Just months prior, 152nd crews had flown missions to the most remote continent, Antarctica.

Still, almost nine years later, the disasters of the summer of 2017 involving the USS Fitzgerald and USS McCain come up in conversation with others, and out of nowhere pops into my mind.
As I last did back in 2021, let’s look back to AUG 2017 when I first wrote this.

There can be only one FbF today, nothing else comes close.
The supplemental preliminary inquiry into the collision involving the USS FITZGERALD (DDG 62) and the ACX CRYSTAL from 17 JUN of this year is out.
The report is dated 11 AUG 17. You can get it from the SECNAV’s site here, or read the whole thing posted below.

Henry Knox was born in Boston in 1750, a port city already simmering with political tension long before the first shots of the American Revolution were fired. His family was of modest means, and when his father died, Knox was forced to leave formal schooling early to help support his household. Rather than seeing this as an obstacle, Knox treated it as an opportunity.

If you ask a civilian to picture the history of American warfare, they’ll imagine the greatest hits. It’s a highlight reel of bravery and intestinal fortitude: Minutemen standing firm at Lexington, Marines raising the flag at Iwo Jima, the Rangers scaling the cliffs of Pointe du Hoc.
For 250 years, the U.S. military has been searching for the “Goldilocks” weapon to place into their brave hands, a rifle that is light enough to carry, accurate enough to hit a man at 500 yards, yet reliable enough to work when it’s drenched in the mud, sweat, and confusion of combat.

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Kris Osborn, Warrior Maven
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