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When I was in middle school, I ate lunch every day with the same group of boys. Most of us brought the same brown-bagged peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, faithfully made by our parents. One boy, however, regularly brought fluffernutter and banana sandwiches. Before long, curiosity turned into demand, and classmates began paying him fifty cents for the alternative. Our parents still packed peanut butter and jelly — but most went uneaten, discarded unopened into cafeteria trash cans.America’s depots are increasingly becoming the uneaten peanut butter and jelly.
Tensions between India and Pakistan — two countries that President Donald Trump claimed had been fighting for 1,500 years — escalated rapidly over a few days in May 2025.On May 7–10, the two countries fought an 88-hour war after India accused Pakistan of orchestrating a gruesome terrorist attack in April that killed 26 civilians. This was one of the most significant conflicts between the two nuclear-armed rivals in decades. The war involved a series of unprecedented strikes on Pakistani territory, counter-air battles, aerial-drone duels, naval maneuvers, and disinformation campaigns.
The U.S. Marine Corps has reportedly begun to deploy 3,000 personnel for operations in the Norwegian Arctic, which will be conducted alongside the Norwegian Armed Forces and other NATO units. Forces will conduct cold-weather training deployments beginning in January, before Exercise Cold Response 26 formally commences in March.
L Todd Wood sits down with retired US Army MAJ Chase Spears on Marxism in the service academies – West Point trans madness.
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The Russian Airspace Forces on January 22 deployed Tu-22M3 strategic bombers for a patrol over the neutral waters of the Baltic Sea, a leading potential hotspot for conflict with NATO. Reporting on the operations, the Russian Defence Ministry observed: “Tu-22M3 long-range bombers of the Russian Aerospace Forces have performed a scheduled flight over neutral waters of the Baltic Sea. They were escorted by Su-35S and Su-30SM aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces.
The U.S. Coast Guard is refining and integrating a new generative AI-enabled platform to help personnel quickly retrieve reliable answers from referenceable internal sources via a secure data environment that is configured to support their specific operations.
This prototype system — named Ask Hamilton, in honor of the so-called “father of the Coast Guard” Alexander Hamilton — is being designed to streamline information access and improve user efficiency across typically tedious tasks like marine inspections.
“We have 11 missions. There’s a lot of communities out there.
Less than two years after its operational debut abroad, the Marine Corps is looking to replace corroding struts on its Amphibious Combat Vehicle fleet.
With a gross weight of 35 tons, the eight-wheeled ACV is capable of carrying up to 16 Marines (including its three-person crew) from ship to shore and has emerged as a critical tool in the service’s amphibious repertoire since the first batch of vehicles arrived to units in 2020.
In late December, a new wave of protests broke out in Iran — eventually spreading around the country and across many sectors of society. Due to an internet blackout imposed on Jan. 8, information is limited, but reports suggest that thousands of Iranian protesters were killed in the government’s crackdown. The protests came at a time when the Iranian regime looked particularly vulnerable due to a struggling economy, an aging leadership, and a weakened regional position.
After years of testing mishaps and schedule delays, the Army says it has begun the fielding process for its Long-Range Hypersonic Weapon (LRHW) system.
Fielding activities for the missile, also known as Dark Eagle, began in December and are expected to wrap up in the next few months, an Army spokesperson told DefenseScoop on Tuesday. Once delivery of the entire battery is complete, Dark Eagle will be the United States’ first-ever operational hypersonic weapon system. Although some of the ballistic missiles — such as ICBMs — that are already in the U.