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Greenland has pushed back against US President Donald Trump’s claim that a surge of oil, gas, and mineral exploration is on the horizon, asserting such projects are several years from starting in earnest.

“Massive Oil, Gas and Mineral Exploration is getting ready to begin,” Trump wrote on the social media site Truth Social on October 14, referring to the Danish territory as “our new and beautiful Greenland.

The U.S. military is deploying a sizeable autonomous maritime drone with a Navy carrier strike group to support and enhance a real-world conflict operation for the first time, according to the sea service’s acting Secretary Hung Cao.
“The Teddy Roosevelt Carrier Strike Group just deployed on October 8 with a medium-sized unmanned surface vessel. This is the first carrier strike group to ever deploy with a large-size unmanned surface vessel, and this is a force multiplier,” Cao said Thursday. “Imagine having more guns out there.

Russia has almost finished building a sprawling new base for launching jet-powered attack drones near Ukraine, satellite images show.

The site, in Russia’s southwestern Rostov region, was a bare field on August 31, but by October 14 it was largely developed, with satellite imagery showing eight launch platforms.

Su-57 Felon Fighter. Image Credit: X Screenshot.

Su-57 Felon Fighter from Russia. Image Credit: Creative Commons.

The Army is sending 500 soldiers from the 10th Mountain Division to Latin America and a headquarters company to Florida as the Army finds itself further involved in the U.S. campaign in the region against drug trafficking groups.
Hundreds of soldiers from the division are heading to Panama to train in jungle warfare, while a contingent of troops will support the task force command overseeing renewed U.S. military efforts in Latin America. The deployment marks a major escalation in U.S.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has refused President Donald Trump’s demands to halt attacks on Russian oil refineries, as the war rages on.

Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine at the end of February 2022.

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Tensions spiraled after Moscow annexed the Crimean Peninsula from Ukraine in 2014.

Previous rounds of peace talks have floundered after Moscow continued to demand that Ukraine cede territory that Russia has failed to occupy.
“The block [on attacking refineries] is out.

A Royal Navy Merlin helicopter has airlifted 18

Republicans’ Tax Cut Strategy Isn’t Winning Over Voters – Every new poll appears to be bad news for the Republicans and President Donald Trump these days, and it looks as though their efforts to win over American voters with sweeping tax cuts aren’t turning their fortunes around. The latest polling suggests that the signature legislative achievement of President Trump’s second term is failing to generate the enthusiasm the party needs ahead of the November 3 midterm elections, as Republicans spend hundreds of millions of dollars promoting their economic policy victories.

Relations between Washington and Kyiv continue to spiral downward as Presidents Zelenskyy and Trump keep escalating tensions.

Currently, Zelenskyy is in Brussels, shoring up support from Europe while the White House expresses its frustration with Kyiv’s attacks on Russia’s oil infrastructure.

Lancet Drone. Image Credit: Russian State Media.

Lancet Drone from Russia. Image Credit: Creative Commons.

The Ukrainian President has accused his American counterpart of betraying Kyiv and restricting Ukraine’s Starlink access for the Ukrainian military for political purposes.

Iranian Foreign Minister Urged to Resign Over U.S. Talks – Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian is facing calls to impeach his foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, after reports that he contacted American officials to negotiate terms to end the ongoing war.

Iran’s Foreign Minister Faces Challenges

Capt. Kristin “Beo” Wolfe, F-35A Lightning II Demonstration Team pilot and commander, banks hard left making vapor trails over and behind the wings during a practice demonstration at Hill Air Force Base, Utah, Mar. 23, 2021.

Throughout the first nearly two years of Donald Trump’s second term, the stock market has risen more than 30 percent, while unemployment has remained low. However, because inflation remains stubbornly high, voters don’t see the economy as strong, and it could cost the president’s party the midterm elections.

“It’s still the economy, stupid,” Eduardo Porter wrote in a Friday analysis for The Guardian, referencing Bill Clinton’s adviser, James Carville, and his famous slogan from the 1992 presidential election.

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The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) has committed £26m ($34m) to procure 157 construction and earthmoving vehicles from JCB.

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Army Spc. Nicholas Cabo was visiting a Sam’s Club near a small airfield outside Fort Hood, Texas, when a small plane buzzed overhead.
“I was like, ‘oh, drone,’ and so I stopped and looked. I’m like, ‘it’s coming,’” Cabo recalled.
Finally, he spotted the source of the noise.
“I saw the plane,” Cabo said. “I was like, ‘oh crap, it’s just in my head.’”
Cabo was one of three soldiers at Fort Hood awarded Purple Hearts on Oct. 1 for a ballistic missile attack on a U.S. military base in Saudi Arabia last March.

Strikes on commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz reached a wartime record last week amid intensified Iranian activity in the vital international waterway.

At least 12 vessels were struck the week beginning Monday, 5th October, the highest weekly tally of the conflict so far, according to data from the UK Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO).

PACIFIC OCEAN (Nov. 27, 2019) The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Russel (DDG 59) and the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) transit the Eastern Pacific Ocean Nov. 27, 2019.

Hundreds of thousands of homes across Ukraine were left without power overnight into Friday, 16th October, following yet another night of Russian bombardment.

At least 15 people were injured overnight – the latest in a steep rise in civilian casualties in recent weeks.

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The strikes came as tensions remain between the United States and Ukraine, one week after Washington and Moscow agreed to a surprise diesel deal.

Trump Has Few Good Options Left In Iran – President Donald Trump is closing in on the November 3 midterm elections and the second half of his final term as president — and his options in the fight against Iran are narrowing. American military planners are preparing for another potential escalation, including the deployment of the famed “Mother of All Bombs” against Iran’s Pickaxe Mountain, and Iranian attacks against commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz continue.

Hanwha Systems’ Cheongwang laser air-defence system has recorded a 100% interception rate after neutralising three target drones during a live demonstration for the Republic of Korea (ROK) Army.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said his country is “done” with a short-lived energy ceasefire in the conflict with Russia.

Kyiv had ceased attacks on Russian oil refineries since Sunday, when U.S. President Donald Trump announced an energy ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine, which only the latter had observed.

Main battle tank T-14 object 148 on heavy unified tracked platform Armata. Image Credit: Creative Commons.

T-14 Armata. Image Credit: Creative Commons.

Trump Threatens Pickaxe Mountain Site – President Donald Trump is threatening to launch a new military strike against Iran — and this time, he’s offering specifics. Trump says that Iran’s heavily fortified Pickaxe Mountain nuclear complex could be the target for the next round of strikes, telling Newsmax on Thursday, October 15, that U.S. conventional weapons are capable of reaching it. The president’s comments came just hours after new reports were published about the Pentagon’s plans to attack Iran using the largest non-nuclear bomb in the American arsenal.

The Republican Party is looking at a potentially brutal midterm election, thanks to discontent with the high cost of living and the Iran war, among other issues. And while gas prices get a lot of attention, new reporting suggests higher-than-usual grocery prices are also bothering many voters.

The Grocery Prices Elections 
The Bureau of Labor Statistics released data showing consumer prices are up 3.7 percent from a year ago, with food costs up 2.5 percent. Some specific food items were notably more expensive year over year, including fruits and vegetables (up 3.

Key Voters Blight GOP Hopes in Latest Pre-Election Poll – Key voter groups remain critical of U.S. President Donald Trump’s economic management as the midterm elections approach in under three weeks.

A new Harris Poll for the Guardian found that 58% of Americans said the economy was getting worse, up 10 percentage points from the final comparable poll of Joe Biden’s presidency.

President Donald Trump greets President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine, Friday, February 28, 2025, in the West Wing Lobby.

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They die when we abandon them; we lose trust and the strategic advantage. We saw it in Vietnam; we witnessed it in Syria; we continue to see it in Afghanistan; and now we risk repeating the same tragedy with the Iraqi Kurds… again.
If the moral implications of abandoning our allies and leaving them to their fate do not move you, then consider the dire consequences to America’s national security.

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The war in Ukraine has been a breeding ground for new technologies. Some, like today’s explosive-laden, AI-controlled drones, began their lives as civilian hobbies. Others, like Elon Musk’s Starlink network, initially offered global connectivity, but thanks to its low-latency, high-speed internet, it has become a vital dual-use tool for Kyiv’s forces and is used to direct their weaponry against Russian forces. Another shift that the war has revealed is the precarious position of air traffic.

Civilian airports today appear more vulnerable than they have in decades, perhaps ever.

A U.S. Space Force Guardian assigned to Space Delta 5 monitors a computer workstation at Vandenberg Space Force Base, Calif., Dec. 18, 2025. Photo: U.S. Space Force via Wikimedia Commons (public domain)

The Space Force activated a dedicated component command for U.S. Special Operations Command, its ninth component command, according to a Space Force announcement and an internal memo first reported by Axios. Space Forces Special Operations, or SPACEFOR-SOC, activated October 7.
The new component command will be headquartered at MacDill AFB, Florida, home of U.S.

Conditions at a cemetery in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, recently sparked outrage among veterans and service members on social media following a post to the Army subreddit over the weekend that showed a collapsed burial vault and an exposed casket at the grave marker of a U.S. Army soldier who died during the Korean War.
Pfc. Samuel Pierre Jr. was 23 when he died in Korea in July 1952. Military casualty records list his death as nonhostile. His grave marker now stands beside a collapsed brick tomb at Sweet Olive Cemetery, a historically Black burial ground established in 1898.

Serving in the Army wreaked havoc on Johnny Vargas’ body.
In the past couple of years, doctors fused vertebrae in Vargas’ neck and spine in separate operations. He also has undergone other procedures, including one to fix a torn biceps. Vargas speaks with a youthful exuberance, but he feels the aches and pains of military service.
He is going through another one now. Vargas is in the midst of transitioning out of the military. He did not enter the process unprepared, and speaking recently at the 2026 Military Influencer Conference (MIC) in Tampa, Florida, he thanked his mother for that.

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Joseph Trevithick, WarZone The Army sees modular laser systems not tied to specific vehicles as key to truly operationalizing and distributing counter-drone laser capabilities

Sydney Freedberg the Army’s special operations school is building a cadre of expert warrant officers to wrangle the robots on the battlefield

Courtney Albon, Chris Gordon, A&SF the service wants to deepen its space operations expertise and is making plans to expand its own cadre of operators in the coming years.

Bloomberg The Army said it still hasn’t fully fielded the country’s first hypersonic weapon, acknowledging a more than three-year delay in deploying the advanced technology

As China and India have improved their relations in recent months, many observers have attributed this improvement to the end of U.S. strategic altruism toward India. Indeed, in the past year, China has watched India lose its balance and simmer in a sense of strategic disorientation due to America’s change of heart. Delegation after delegation of Indian strategists visited China, trying to mend ties in search of balance in the Chinese view.

An unidentified foreign government has committed a further $18.8 million to developing and integrating a customised version of the F-35 fifth generation fighter, extending a long-running program whose intended customer and technical requirements remain undisclosed. The U.S. Department of War announced the contract modification on October 15, with Lockheed Martin Aeronautics receiving $18,789,801 for additional system development, demonstration and integration work under the Foreign Military Sales (FMS) programme.

Russia’s Tu-160 strategic bomber remains the world’s leading supersonic aircraft of its class, according to Yury Abrosimov, chief executive of Tupolev, the design bureau responsible for developing the aircraft. “The Tu-160 strategic missile carrier is still the best supersonic aircraft in the world, outperforming a comparable aircraft system used by the United States. The Tu-160 holds 46 official world records, including those for flight duration and range,” Abrosimov argued. His remarks came as Russia continues serial production of the modernised Tu-160M.

Footage released by Chinese state media has for the first time shown the launch of a YJ-21 anti-ship ballistic missile by a Chinese People’s liberation Army H-6K bomber, eight years after the missile was unveiled. First seen at the 2018 Zhuhai Airshow, the missile is estimated to have an engagement range of approximately 2000 kilometres and Mach 8-10 speed.

The Pentagon implemented a one-year “transition plan” for its Cyber Mastery Incentive Pay (C-MIP) initiative, DefenseScoop has learned, for now staving off pay cuts that troops and service leaders were bracing for just days before the new program was set to launch and giving them more time to upskill. 
In June, the Pentagon billed C-MIP as a way to financially reward troops for achieving progressively advanced cyber skills as part of a sweeping change to the department’s cyber force generation process.

China’s first dedicated overseas military aviation facility has opened at a former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) airfield in Laos. The China-Laos Joint Support and Training Center and the China-Laos Friendship Aviation Academy began operating at Ban Keun Airport on September 29, 2026, marking a significant expansion of China’s military cooperation with its landlocked neighbour. The site, approximately 50 kilometres north of the Laotian capital Vientiane, was previously used by Air America, a covertly CIA-owned airline that supported U.S.

In another case of the Trump Administration telegraphing a major military maneuver by talking about it in advance, they are reportedly considering dropping a Mother of All Bombs (MOAB) on Iran.

The weapon, which is officially called the GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast, is considered the most powerful non-nuclear bomb in the United States military’s arsenal.

U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Hunter Kaloci, 393rd Bomber Generation Squadron crew chief, adjusts a wheel chock in front of a parked B-2 Spirit aircraft at Pease Air National Guard Base, New Hampshire, Sept. 20, 2025.

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American service members have been awarded 202 Purple Hearts in the Iran war so far, officials told Task & Purpose, the vast majority to soldiers in the Army or Army Reserve.
Purple Hearts are awarded to U.S. service members from all branches who are wounded or killed in support of U.S. combat operations.  
As of early October, 184 soldiers, 16 airmen, one Marine, and one sailor have received Purple Hearts.
Eleven of the Purple Hearts, an Army official said, were posthumously awarded to soldiers killed in action. As of Oct.

Selected U.S. Marines and other members of the joint force are expected to go head-to-head against an AI-controlled adversary later this year in wargames that involve drone swarms and carrier strike groups, according to an administrative message released Wednesday.
The so-called “Mindgame Tournament” will be conducted online via Marine Corps University’s Wargaming Cloud and use Command Professional Edition software.

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Things may be at a standstill when it comes to negotiations between the U.S. and Iran, amid the possibility that the United States could resume military action after the midterm elections next month.

However, some strikes have continued on ships near the Strait of Hormuz.

Oil Platform. Image Credit: Creative Commons.

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According to Reuters, two cargo ships have sunk in the last 24 hours after projectile strikes.

While on the campaign trail, ahead of November’s midterm elections, Trump gave an update on the war with Iran.

The bottom line up front is that the U.S. has not come any closer to negotiating an end to the war.

U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Richard Turner, 40th Flight Test Squadron commander flies 40 FLTS Senior Enlisted Leader, MSgt Tristan McIntire during a test sortie in the F-15EX Eagle II over the Gulf of Mexico on Jun. 14, 2022. Assigned to the 96th Test Wing at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla.

The recent death of a Russian laboratory worker

A pair of cargo ships were reportedly sunk close to the Strait of Hormuz this week amid Iran’s threats to attack commercial shipping.

The Singapore-registered container ship GFS Pride caught fire after being hit on October 13.

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A formation of four U.S. Air Force F-15EX Eagle II fighter jets, assigned to Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, fly over the Gulf of America, Nov. 21, 2025. Secretary of the Air Force Troy Meink flew in the backseat of the lead jet as part of his visit to Eglin AFB.