The Force is strong with Sam O’Hara. The District of Columbia agreed to pay an undisclosed amount of money to O’Hara, a district resident who says he was illegally detained for following a group of Ohio National Guardsmen and playing the “Imperial March” from “Star Wars.”
On Thursday, the American Civil Liberties Union of the District of Columbia, which is backing O’Hara’s lawsuit over his detention, said on Friday that the District of Columbia agreed to pay him to settle the case.

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The price tag for rebuilding Ukraine keeps climbing, and the latest official estimate puts it close to $588 billion. That figure, daunting as it is, may be the easier half of the problem. Money can be borrowed, seized, or donated. People are far harder to replace, and after more than four years of war, Ukraine has lost millions of them, including a large share of the young, educated, and skilled workers any reconstruction will depend on.

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In the latest test of the Washington-Tehran memorandum of understanding (MOU), U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) announced a series of strikes against Iran on June 26. The announcement followed news that an Iranian drone had struck a ship transiting the Strait of Hormuz close to the Omani side of the waterway.

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For the first time, all 22 National Guard generals who command America’s Air National Guard fighter squadrons put their names on a single letter to Congress, and their message was blunt. The United States Air Force, they wrote, is the oldest, the smallest, and the least ready it has been in its 78-year history. The independent data largely backs them up. The fighter force has shrunk by more than half since the Cold War ended, the jets that remain are decades old, and readiness has fallen to its lowest level in a generation.

Ukraine has turned its drone war into an explicit instrument of coercion. President Volodymyr Zelensky announced this week that he approved a 40-day operation by Ukraine’s security service aimed squarely at one goal, forcing Russia to negotiate an end to the war.

The operation comes with a deadline and a clear purpose: to make the war hurt deep inside Russia until Moscow agrees to negotiate, and its early results are already severe.

Ukraine Switchblade Drone. Image Credit: Creative Commons.

Ukraine has spent the early summer methodically choking off Crimea, hitting the fuel depots, the rail bridges, the ferry terminals, and the supply routes that keep the peninsula running, and the effect is now impossible for Moscow to hide. Russian occupation authorities have rationed gasoline, brought in fuel vouchers, and watched the summer tourist season collapse. Vladimir Putin’s options for hitting back are real, but they are also narrower than the Kremlin’s rhetoric suggests, and most of them are versions of things Russia is already doing without decisive effect.

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The United States and Iran spent the past three days shooting at each other around the Strait of Hormuz, and the ceasefire they signed barely a week ago looks like it is falling apart. Iran hit a cargo ship in the strait on Thursday, the US struck Iranian military sites on Friday, and early Saturday, Iranian drones hit Bahrain, home to the US Navy’s Fifth Fleet. President Donald Trump called Iran’s attack a foolish violation of the agreement, and Iranian hardliners are promising more. It has the shape of a slide back toward open war.

Ukraine reached roughly 900 kilometers into Russian territory overnight and struck one of the most important weapons plants in the country, the factory that builds the launchers for the same Iskander missiles Russia fires at Ukrainian cities. The weapon that did it was not American or European. It was the FP-5 Flamingo, a long-range cruise missile that Ukraine designed and now builds itself.

That combination is the story of where this war is heading.

One of the largest memorials for Soviet soldiers isn’t in Russia—or on former Soviet ground. It’s in Berlin, Germany, where more than 80,000 Soviet soldiers died during the Battle of Berlin in 1945. The memorial was built just months after the Soviets captured the city, put together while the rest of Berlin remained in ruins.
Located in the Tiergarten—a massive public garden of 520 acres—much of the area was in ruins due to incendiary bombs. The Tiergarten was in the British sector of Berlin; however, all Allied powers agreed to its construction.

An oil replenishment ship will receive the nation’s highest unit-level military honor for combat valor for its support of the Ford Carrier Strike Group during Operation Epic Fury. The USNS Kanawha, a refueler ship under Military Sealift Command, will get the Presidential Unit Citation next month, becoming the first auxiliary ship in the command’s history to receive the combat award.
Rarely given out, the Presidential Unit Citation’s award history runs through some of the most daring and complex operations in U.

Seoul is moving forward with plans to deploy nuclear-powered attack submarines, marking a stark shift in defense posture for one of Asia’s leading submarine builders. The class, which will be the first of its kind for South Korea, is slated to enter service sometime during the end of the next decade.

American President Donald Trump and the United States Department of Defense appear poised to approve the sale of fighter jet engines to Turkey, a sale that could run into the hundreds of millions of dollars. According to at least one report, the sale could total more than $700 million.

While the United States routinely sells military kit to close allies around the globe, this sale to Ankara is more unusual.

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New footage has shown ten Chinese People’s Liberation Army Air Force Y-20B strategic transport aircraft elephant walk on an unknown runway, representing the largest publicly observed concentration of the aircraft to date. Elephant walks, a term for a large formation of aircraft taxiing together in close succession, are typically used to demonstrate fleet readiness and production progress. While the baseline Y-20 first entered service in 2016, the enhanced Y-20B variant is a significantly enhanced variant with a greater operational range and higher payload.

The British Army has turned to its junior ranks

Chinese and Russian forces on June 27 launched their 11th Joint Strategic Air Patrol, continuing a series of increasingly complex long-range bomber operations that began in 2019. The formation reportedly consisted of Chinese H-6K and Russian Tu-95MS strategic bombers accompanied by fighter escorts. Chinese escorts included J-11B, J-16, Su-30MKK/MK2, and J-10B fighters, making it the most diverse escort on record, while Russian escorts included Su-30SM and Su-35 fighters.

Following confirmation that a Ukrainian Air Force MiG-29 fighter crashed in Poltava region on June 27, closely coinciding with the destruction of two further MiG-29s on the ground in drone strikes, multiple sources have indicated that a Russian Aerospace Forces Su-35 fighter was responsible for shooting down the aircraft. The Su-35 reportedly shot the fighter down using an R-37M long range air-to-air missile at a range of approximately 190 kilometres, which may represent the longest successful air-to-air kill ever recorded in combat.

Footage published by Russian state media has shown an Geran-4 single use attack drone striking a Ukrainian Air Force MiG-29 medium weight fighter as the aircraft prepared to take off at Voznesensk Airfield in southern Ukraine, destroying it. Ukrainian sources confirmed the aircraft was lost, with the Ukrainian Air Force Command also confirming that a second MiG-29 was destroyed during a combat mission on June 27 over the Poltava region. Russian sources reported that two MiG-29s were destroyed at the airfield during the strike, indicating that three MiG-29s may have been lost in total.

The Russian Navy’s Kirov class nuclear-powered missile cruiser Admiral Nakhimov was on June 26 confirmed to have returned to its home port of Severomorsk after 29 years out of service for refurbishment work, with the vessel reported to be near the end of its sea trials. The Nakhimov was re-floated on July 25, 2025, before setting sail under its own power for the first time in 28 years in August 2025, and beginning the final phase of its sea trials on June 1.

L Todd Wood sits down with Col. Tom Rempfer (USAF, Ret) to discuss the underlying agenda behind the decades-long military vaccine campaign by the biomedical industrial complex.
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The awarding of a contract by the U.S. Missile Defense Agency to increase annual production of interceptors for the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system from an estimated 96 missiles annually to approximately 400 was announced on June 26, and is expected to impose several billion dollars in additional annual costs on the already heavily strained U.S. defence budget. The contract stipulates a transition from a relatively limited procurement scale into one of the largest sustained missile acquisition programmes in the U.S.

A reputation can now be destroyed by someone whose face you will never see.
Sometimes it begins with an anonymous account on X. Sometimes with a whisper inside a private veterans’ group. Sometimes with a sentence buried in an administrative file few people outside the institution will ever read.
The methods differ. The result rarely does. A person’s career begins to close around him. Friends become quiet. Professional opportunities disappear. People who have never examined the evidence begin speaking with certainty because repetition has replaced proof.

The U.S. Department of War Missile Defense Agency has awarded Lockheed Martin a seven-year contract worth up to $35 billion to quadruple production of anti-ballistic missile interceptors for the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system. The award converts a framework agreement signed earlier in 2026 into a long-term procurement programme, giving Lockheed the confidence to make major investments in manufacturing capacity and supply chains.

After more than four years of war, Ukraine is no longer just defending itself. Kyiv has inflicted major damage on Russia in recent weeks with a sustained pressure campaign designed to cripple the Russian economy and Moscow’s ability to sustain the war.

Ukrainian drones and domestically manufactured missiles have repeatedly struck oil refineries and military facilities, logistics hubs, and fuel depots, some 1,500 kilometers away from the front lines – and that pressure is about to be ramped up even further.

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U.S. aircraft carried out multiple strikes on Iranian missile and drone infrastructure on Friday in response to a Thursday attack on a cargo ship in the Strait of Hormuz.
U.S. Central Command said the attacks were in response to Iran’s June 25 attack on the M/V Ever Lovely, a Singapore-flagged cargo ship that was near the Omani coast when several one-way attack drones neared it. On social media, President Donald Trump said that the U.S. shot down some of the drones, but one hit the ship.

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An Air Force special operations plane made an emergency landing last October on a rural Oklahoma road after a student pilot mistakenly switched off the fuel supply to the plane’s engine while 5,000 feet in the air. When the plane skidded to a halt in an empty nearby field, a stop sign from the road was lodged in its wing.
Neither the student nor the instructor pilot on board, who took over the plane’s controls as the engine sputtered and the plane began to fall from the sky, were hurt in the October 2025 mishap outside Oklahoma City.

PIÑON CANYON, Colo. — It was hard for the naked eye to tell the difference between the Strykers, shrouded by deep-green camo nets, and the clusters of one-seed Junipers that turned dark emerald when dusk threw shadows across the high plains of southeastern Colorado.  
The eight-wheeled troop carriers, soldiers and trees alike cast dark, irregular shapes for miles, though they often cloistered in dusty draws or behind gold-grass hills that cut across all quarter million acres of the Piñon Canyon Maneuver Site.

Keeping the beautiful game safe on and off the

Russian authorities in Crimea declared a state of emergency on Friday, June 26, following weeks of Ukrainian strikes that have disrupted the peninsula’s power grid and crippled its fuel supply network.

The announcement also comes after the Russian Ministry of Defense confirmed that 660 Ukrainian drones were intercepted overnight, with Crimea targeted alongside roughly a dozen other Russian or Russian-controlled regions.

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The United States is sending hundreds of personnel, two warships, fixed and rotary-winged aircraft, and search and rescue teams to Venezuela in the wake of Wednesday’s earthquake that killed more than 500 people. The first arrivals, with a Marine Corps general leading them, reached Caracas Thursday night.
“[U.S. Southern Command] is surging available assigned U.S. military forces in our region to support U.S. government relief operations in Venezuela, following the devastating earthquakes that struck the nation June 24, 2026,” the command announced in a statement Thursday.

Two new emergency response helicopters have arr

Thomas Wigle was a concert violinist and teacher when the Japanese Imperial Navy attacked Pearl Harbor in December 1941. He was 32 years old. He was a skilled marksman, shooting on rifle ranges, but he disliked hunting and hated war. That wouldn’t change , but he decided to fight anyway after spending three days in Washington, D.C., looking at monuments and buildings and reviewing our nation’s historic documents.
He joined the Army in Detroit in May 1942. He later wrote a friend, “I’ve decided that this government is worth fighting for.

Growing Ukrainian Drone Strikes Overwhelm Russian Air Defenses: Ukraine is overwhelming Russia’s air defenses with a growing fleet of long-range drones that target oil and gas refineries, port infrastructure, military industries, and Russian air defense systems.

This growing campaign, which Ukrainian President Zelenskyy refers to as “Ukraine’s long-range sanctions,”  is leading to shortages of fuel in Russia, rationing in gas stations, surging gas prices, and the now common images of black smoke clouds over parts of the country that thought the war in Ukraine was far away.

Ukraine launched one of its largest long-range drone attacks of the war overnight into June 26, reportedly sending more than 660 drones against targets across Russia and occupied Crimea. Russian officials claimed more than 700 drones were intercepted across multiple regions, while Ukrainian officials highlighted successful strikes against industrial and military targets. Beyond the immediate damage, the operation illustrates how inexpensive, mass-produced drones are reshaping strategic calculations—even against sophisticated air defense networks.

The Army announced Thursday that it has officially created a branch for soldiers specializing in space operations.
The new Space Operations Branch will consolidate the service’s space professionals — including Army Space Operations Officers and enlisted Tactical Space Operations Specialists under the military occupational specialty (MOS) 40D created in 2025. The decision elevates space ops from a functional area to basic branch, formalizing the career within the service.
“Establishing the Space Operations Branch is an important step in the Army’s continuous transformation,” Lt. Gen.

Everyone knows about George Washington’s famous Crossing of the Delaware River, where the Continental Army surprised the Hessians in the darkness of late Christmas Day. But who were the infamous Hessians that Washington and his men killed and wounded that Christmas? And what happened to the ones who didn’t get killed by the Continental Army?
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As it turns out, Hessian mercenaries liked freedom as much as any other colonial immigrant, because many Hessians just stuck around after the war ended.

A Wall Street Journal report published this week revealed some new details about Iran’s missile and drone campaign against one of America’s most important military headquarters. The revelations include suggestions that Washington may not have been entirely honest about the scale of the damage done by Iranian strikes.

According to the report, repeated Iranian strikes damaged the headquarters of the U.S. Navy’s Fifth Fleet at Naval Support Activity Bahrain, as well as more than a dozen other buildings and two satellite communications systems.

According to a bombshell report by the Wall Street Journal, Iranian missiles and drones targeting the nerve center of America’s naval operations in the Middle East did extensive damage.

The U.S. Navy’s sprawling base in Bahrain, and the headquarters of the US Fifth Fleet, is located only 150 miles south of the coast of Iran, and it was targeted numerous times between late February and June.

Zumwalt-Class U.S. Navy. Image Credit: Creative Commons.

Crimea feels the pressure from Ukraine as drone