When first responders rushed to the scene after a Marine Corps F/A-18 crashed in Washington State in June, they were greeted by the pilot. The Marine walked towards them, holding up a phone and calling 911, with blood smeared across his face.
On Friday, the Yakima County Sheriff’s Office released body camera footage of the moment responders found the aviator on June 13. Shortly beforehand, around noon, the F/A-18 Hornet was flying near Rimrock Lake, near Mount Rainier, approximately 55 miles south of Seattle.
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In 2025, James Cameron wrote, “Eurodeterrent: A Vision for an Anglo-French Nuclear Force,” where he argued the United Kingdom and France should cooperate to develop a nuclear deterrent umbrella for Europe, independent of Washington. A year later, after French President Emmanuel Macron’s landmark nuclear speech, we asked him to revisit his argument. Image: SAC Rob Bourne/MODIn your 2025 article, you argued that, given Europe’s perceived uncertainty about the U.S.
The U.S., after months of war with Iran, is running low on missile interceptors.
The Trump Administration’s response has been a combination of denials, threats of reprisals to leakers, and the president reportedly demanding answers from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth about the status of the missile stockpile.
President Donald J. Trump meets with his cabinet at Camp David, Maryland on Friday, July 31, 2026.
U.S. President Donald Trump claimed on Tuesday, August 18, that the Strait of Hormuz is open and operational, and even went as far as to share a map that labeled the waterway as “NEW U.S. Territory.”
But the ships aren’t moving, and Trump’s narrative appears to be based on the fact that a limited number of ships continue to move through the Strait.
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On Monday, the 60-day period from the June Memorandum of Understanding between the U.S. and Iran expired, seemingly rendering that agreement even more dead than it previously appeared.
This leaves the conflict between the U.S. and Iran in a sort of limbo, as the sides have not been attacking each other in recent weeks, but have also not made peace.
Wasp-class amphibious assault ship USS Boxer (LHD 4) transits the South China Sea, June 4, 2026. Boxer, flagship of the Boxer Amphibious Ready Group, is underway with the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of operations.
U.S. Special Operations Command’s program executive office for SOF digital applications is planning to test and evaluate new mission autonomy software that could boost drone operations.
The command is pursuing the effort in partnership with the SOFWERX innovation hub to support the Unmanned Systems Autonomy and Interoperability (UxSAI) program.
SOCOM will hold multiple events to assess industry capabilities in the coming months, according to a special notice released Monday.
Ukraine again launched hundreds of drones toward Moscow overnight into Tuesday, August 18.
It is the second massive assault on the Russian capital in just three days, with Kyiv accelerating its long-range campaign designed to disrupt logistics and infrastructure and raise the cost of sustaining the war in Ukraine.
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Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin said that at least 620 Ukrainian drones were launched toward Moscow and surrounding areas through early Tuesday, with Russian air defenses destroying 180 over the Moscow region.
A 41-year-old Kentucky woman charged with vandalizing Washington D.C.’s World War II Memorial walked free Monday after a federal magistrate judge ordered her release — over the strenuous objections of U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro. Melissa Farris faces two federal felony counts, each carrying up to ten years in prison. A judge decided that was not enough to keep her behind bars while she awaits trial.
The vandalism happened on August 13.
The Department of the Navy announced Tuesday that Barry Tanner will serve as the chief information officer for both the Navy and Marine Corps on a permanent basis.
Tanner enters the role having served as the department’s acting CIO following Jane Rathbun’s departure from the position in 2025. Prior to taking on that job, he served as the Department of the Navy’s deputy CIO beginning in 2024 and has held a number of IT leadership posts in both the military and private sector.
In a surprising move this week, President Donald Trump put some distance between the United States and longtime ally South Korea.
In a Sunday Truth Social post, Trump announced that, based on his “very good relationship” with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un, “I am not happy with the fact that the United States has, long ago, agreed to participate in Joint Military Exercises with South Korea.”
Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) meets with North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un in Vladivostok, Russia April 25, 2019.