Ukraine Targets Russia in Drone Assault Just Hours After U.S. Envoys Leave Kyiv – A fire broke out at one of Russia’s largest oil refineries in overnight Ukrainian drone attacks.

Key Russian assets across the country were targeted in the attacks leading into Monday, 7th September.

Tennessee Army National Guard Soldiers with Alpha Battery, 1-181st Field Artillery Regiment conduct a training exercise using the M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) at Camp Shelby, Mississippi, June 9.

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North Korea has formally commissioned its second Choe Hyon class destroyer, the warship Kang Kon, at the eastern port of Wonsan on September 6, marking another significant step in efforts to transform its largely coastal defence-oriented navy into an advanced power projection capable force. The first ship of the class, the Choe Hyon, was commissioned in late June. The class represents a major qualitative departure from previous North Korean surface combatants, and incorporate multirole  vertical launch systems and phased-array radar.

Former Army chief Gen Sir Peter Wall is urging

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Oil Prices Are Rising Again – And They May Not Stop – Oil prices have risen to their highest levels in six weeks amid ongoing escalations between the United States and Iran.

The conflict, now well into its seventh month, reignited at the end of August after more than a month without a confirmed strike by either side.

Oil Platform. Image Credit: Creative Commons.

Generic Oil Tanker Image. Image Credit: Creative Commons.

Commercial shipping has increasingly become a target since military hostilities resumed just over a week ago.

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The Russian defence export conglomerate Rosoboronexport’s CEO Alexander Mikheev has confirmed that a new foreign client for the Su-57 fifth generation fighter will begin to receive its fighters before the end of 2026. This follows considerable speculation that India, Kazakhstan, Iran or North Korea may have placed orders, and follows the first confirmed export delivery of the new fighter type to Algerian in November 2025. It follows a statement by Rosoboronexport in April confirming that multiple countries have now placed orders for the aircraft.

In June 2021, an incident involving a Royal Nav

Hanwha Aerospace, a subsidiary of Hanwha Group, has presented a new operating concept for its K9 self-propelled howitzer that integrates vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) drones into artillery operations, aiming to accelerate targeting and battle assessment capabilities for future battlefields.

WARSAW, POLAND – This Sunday, the NY Times reported discouraging results from a series of military audits conducted by the State Audit Service of Ukraine and the Ministry of Defense’s (MoD) internal audit department.  Earlier this year, the paper received several audits reviewing how the Ukrainian military has been spending money on weapons and ammunition for its war against Russia.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has finally acknowledged a monumental miscalculation on the part of his government with regard to the Ukraine war. Speaking at last week’s Eastern Economic Forum in the Pacific coast city of Vladivostok, the former mid-level KGB officer admitted that he and his military were fundamentally unprepared for the scale and intensity of Ukraine’s attacks on Russia’s oil refineries.

The net effect of the Ukrainian campaign, which its president Volodymyr Zelenskiy has referred to as “long-range sanctions”.

Military Police at a base gate. Photo: STARRS.us

What kind of horrible thing happened on Kirtland Air Force Base in New Mexico????
Officials at the gate have been saying to people (oh horror of horrors):
“God bless you” or “Have a blessed day.”
How far down low have we become as a nation that was founded on religious principles (as Capt. Brent Ramsey, USN ret, writes in his recent book review) to now have members of American armed forces find it disgusting for someone even to mention God and wish them well?
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On Sept. 1, 2026, American Rheinmetall announced delivery of the first Lynx XM30 combat vehicle prototype to the U.S. Army. The first of eight contracted prototypes, the XM30 will start developmental and performance testing with the Army. Designed and intended to replace the M2 Bradley Infantry Fighting Vehicle, this first delivery is a significant milestone in the combat vehicle program.
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Army, Navy, and Air Force went a combined 3-0 and outscored their opponents 135-18, while rushing for an astonishing 1,506 yards during Week 1. Despite going up against underdog Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) teams, the three service academies performed well on both sides of the ball, averaging 502 rushing yards per game, possessing the ball for a combined 113:38, and allowing no sacks, all while committing zero turnovers.

Thales and Kalyani Strategic Systems Limited have agreed to collaborate on the development and local production of 70mm rockets in India.

The INEOS Grenadier will be offered in a unique armoured configuration as part of the British Army’s Light Mobility Vehicle programme.

Former CIA Director Says Iran War Could Drag On For Months – Former CIA Director and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has warned that the war with Iran is far from over and that the conflict could drag on for months more. Panetta said that neither Washington nor Tehran currently possesses a clear route to end the fighting — and his words carry weight.

Panetta is a former cabinet official, but his national security career also stretches back decades, having served as an Army intelligence officer in the 1960s and later joining the bipartisan Iraq Study Group during the Iraq War.

The Marine Corps is continuing its push to bring in recruits to fill high-tech jobs, once again offering up to $15,000 in enlistment bonuses, as the service works to build out its cyber and electronic warfare force.
The coming fiscal year’s enlistment bonuses were laid out in a Marine Administrative Notice this past week. The FY2027 Enlistment Option Program and Enlistment Bonus Program MARADMIN, released on Sept. 2, outlines financial incentives for enlistees who sign up for specific military occupational specialties and extended service.

Iran Is Preparing for Economic War – Iran appears to be preparing for a prolonged conflict — and the associated economic costs. On Sunday, September 6, Iran’s Economy Ministry said it had established an “Economic War Headquarters” and begun intensifying efforts to address the problems associated with the conflict and sanctions imposed by Washington.

Economy Minister Ali Madanizadeh also promised that economic reforms were coming to address the conditions affecting the daily lives of Iranian citizens.

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The Iran War Could Cost the West for Years – Iran is preparing to deal with the economic consequences of the war, not by ending the conflict and accepting America’s terms, but by implementing government measures designed to mitigate the impact of what could be another six months of war.

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Illicit Iranian funds are flowing through U.S.

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The Strait of Hormuz viewed from 35,000 feet — the world’s most critical energy chokepoint. Photo: Wikimedia Commons

The U.S.-Iran confrontation at the Strait of Hormuz entered a new and more dangerous chapter on September 7, 2026, as American forces sank an Iranian crude oil tanker and Tehran responded with ballistic missile strikes targeting a U.S. aircraft carrier and a Navy warship in the region.
U.S. Central Command released video footage it said showed the Iranian tanker M/T Kilo sinking and settling on the seafloor in the Gulf of Oman following a precision American strike.

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The Russian Su-57 has become the first ever fifth generation fighter aircraft to land in Egypt, touching down in the country on September 7 ahead of the El Alamein International Airshow from September 8-10. At El Alamein, Russia will present the aircraft with new weapons that have not previously been displayed publicly, as well as with advanced air-to-air missiles and precision-guided strike weapons.

Editor’s note: This is the tenth article in a limited series celebrating American defense technologies born from wartime and their effects on broader national security, politics, and society. This series will run for several weeks to commemorate America’s 250th anniversary, and winners will be selected by a reader vote undertaken through our newsletter later this summer. Prior installments can be found at the Arsenal of Innovation page.I was fortunate enough to do something that would be a benefit to mankind. It’s been an extremely satisfying discovery.

When Israeli warplanes struck the Abu al-Duhur airbase in Syria on Aug. 18, 2026, the smoke rose over the demolition of an old geopolitical assumption about the Middle East. This time, Israel directly targeted a strategic sphere of influence where the Turkish military had been working to build local security capacity.Turkey rapidly filled the power vacuum in post-Assad Syria, expanding its military and intelligence footprint southward and positioning itself as a founding actor in the Levant’s new security architecture.

Arms trafficking in the Caribbean has soared in recent years, with many states now ranking firearms trafficking as the number one public safety and security threat. As new methods of arming individuals and gangs emerge across the Caribbean, gun violence continues to rise throughout the region. While armed gangs in Haiti currently possess superior firepower to the police, most countries are trying to get a handle on the problem before it becomes that bad.

Iran Says “Proportionate” Responses to America Are Over – Iran is warning that its approach to the war with the United States has now changed, with one of Tehran’s most senior officials declaring on Sunday, September 6, that the country will no longer limit itself to “proportionate responses” following the latest exchanges of strikes around the Strait of Hormuz.

Dr. Theresa Long, a longtime Army doctor board-certified in aerospace medicine, has been named senior medical military adviser to U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., according to an Aug. 14 deposition obtained by Politico. Long is investigating whether COVID-19 vaccines caused the deaths of over 2,500 U.S. military service members.

A military doctor is investigating whether COVID-19 vaccines caused the deaths of over 2,500 U.S. military service members, Politico reported Thursday.
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Trump Faces Iran Pressure From All Angles – President Donald Trump is facing immense pressure to bring the war with Iran to an end, with criticism rife among his own supporters, polling putting the Republicans behind the Democrats ahead of the November midterms, and criticism from a former senior Pentagon official all hitting headlines in just the last day.

The challenge is simple: There seems to be no end in sight.

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The Air Force said last week that its M18 service pistol is “safe, reliable, and functional” following a review of tens of thousands of the firearms. The findings came as part of the final review in a large-scale inspection of the gun ordered last year after an airman was killed by a bullet fired from a M18. 
Last July, Airman Brayden Lovan, 21, with the 90th Security Forces Group was shot and killed at F.E. Warren Air Base. The shooting was initially reported as an accidental discharge.

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The U.S. Marine Corps has deployed another squadron of F-35B fifth generation fighters to Japan, reinforcing one of the most strategically important U.S. airpower deployments in the Western Pacific. The South Carolina-based squadron has taken over rotational duties in Japan, replacing an ageing Marine F-18C/D Hornet squadron under the service’s programme for periodically rotating U.S.-based aviation units through the Pacific.

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Why Trump Is Threatening Pickaxe Mountain – As the U.S. and Iran exchange fire again, President Trump is threatening to attack one of the few major components of Iran’s nuclear infrastructure that has so far survived the war. On Friday, September 4, Trump said that the United States could make moves to attack the heavily fortified Pickaxe Mountain complex “very soon.”

Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office, Trump said the United States was closely monitoring activity at the site and elsewhere in Iran, declaring that Washington knows “everybody that’s moving at Pickaxe.

USS Princeton (CG 59) transits the Strait of Hormuz. Photo: U.S. Navy / Public Domain
The U.S. military struck three Iranian oil tankers on Saturday after Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps launched ballistic missiles at two American Navy warships patrolling the Strait of Hormuz, U.S. Central Command confirmed.
CENTCOM Commander Admiral Brad Cooper announced that a U.S. aircraft carrier and a missile destroyer “successfully evaded multiple unprovoked Iranian attacks” and that no American personnel were injured.

How the Drone War Is Changing Lives in Ukraine – Russia’s ongoing missile and drone campaigns against Ukraine have killed dozens of people around Kyiv in barely more than a week. The strikes have damaged homes and infrastructure, and what used to be overnight attacks have become prolonged campaigns intended to intimidate the government in Kyiv and generate enough political pressure to push President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to call off his own long-range campaign.

The stalemate between the United States and Iran in the Strait of Hormuz again escalated on Saturday, September 5, after Iranian forces targeted two U.S. Navy warships with ballistic missiles. The United States then responded with attacks on three Iranian oil tankers — a series of strikes that confirmed recent reports that Washington was considering a new “tanker for tanker” approach intended to wipe out Iran’s tanker fleet.

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A former CIA station chief says the West is dan

The Algerian Air Force is scheduled to receive at least one new batch of Su-34 long range strike fighters before the end of 2026, according to unconfirmed reports from multiple sources. This follows confirmation of the delivery of the first batch in June, which made the country the world’s only foreign operator of the type.