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.

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Algerian state media has published rare footage of Navy personnel equipping one of the country’s Kilo class attack submarines being equipped and operating in the Mediterranean Sea, and firing a cruise missile. The ships have long provided the most robust underseas warfare capability in Africa or the Arab World, and in many respects form the backbone of the country’s maritime combat capability due to the relatively limited capabilities of the Algerian surface fleet.

The United States struck an Iranian oil tanker off Kharg Island on Saturday, September 5, bringing U.S. military strikes to the waters surrounding Iran’s primary crude oil export hub. The island, whose infrastructure has so far not been heavily hit by the United States despite six months of intermittent bombing campaigns, handled roughly 90% of Iranian crude exports before the war began in February.

The attack was just one in an operation that saw three Iranian oil tankers hit following ballistic missile attacks directed at U.S. Navy warships by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

Trump’s Envoys Arrive In Moscow As Russian Strikes Kill Five – President Donald Trump appears to be attempting new negotiations with Moscow, sending two envoys to Moscow for talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin while Russian forces continue their extensive attacks in Ukraine, killing at least five people overnight.

Special envoy Steve Witkoff landed at Moscow’s Vnukovo International Airport with President Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner. Kirill Dmitriev, Putin’s presidential envoy and one of the Kremlin’s main intermediaries with the Trump administration, met the two.

The U.S. military has disabled advertising tracking tools in government-issued phones, computers and other devices, officials recently told Congress.
The different military branches confirmed they had done so, some only this summer, following reporting that commercially available data taken from these devices and sold freely by data brokers, was being used by Iran and other adversaries to track and in some cases target American bases and personnel. The confirmation came from a letter shared by Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Rep. Pat Harrigan (R-NC).

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Sometimes the path forward isn’t perfectly mapped out—something military spouses know all too well. We adapt and learn. We also recognize opportunities. And, most poignantly, when we see a problem that needs solving, we figure out how to do something about it.
That spirit of reinvention is one reason stories about women entrepreneurs resonate so strongly with the Mighty MilSpouse community, and Kelsey Robertson is one of those entrepreneurs worth watching.

Footage from an unknown urban location in China has shown the Type 100 next generation main battle tank in previously unseen colours in active service. The footage follows unconfirmed reports from local sources that the vehicle is being brought into service in larger numbers, following its unveiling as the first tank in the world of its generation in September 2025. The Type 100 has cemented China’s position of leadership in armour development, where previously the USSR and Russia were expected to lead the world into the new generation with the respective T-95 and T-14 programs.

A U.S. Marine Corps F-35B Lightning II conducts flight operations aboard USS Boxer (LHD 4), April 2026. Photo: U.S. Marine Corps/DVIDS (Public Domain)

The Pentagon announced this week it has finally disabled advertising trackers on government-issued phones and computers across every branch of the U.S. military. The mobile advertising ID — the tiny piece of code that lets data brokers follow a single device across every app it touches, map where it sleeps, where it works, where it travels, and sell that information to anyone with a credit card — has been shut off.

American forces hit three Iranian oil tankers around the Strait of Hormuz on Saturday, after Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps attacked two U.S. warships.
U.S. Central Command said that the IRGC fired ballistic missiles at an American aircraft carrier and destroyer, but both ships were able to evade “multiple” attacks. Soon after, U.S. forces targeted three Iranian crude oil ships operating in or around the Strait of Hormuz. They “permanently disabled” the M/T Downy, sailing near Kharg Island and the M/T Stark 1 operating near Jask.

An Air National Guard F-16 squadron’s six-month deployment to Kadena Air Base in Japan has highlighted the growing age and strain facing the American fighter fleet, and its resulting growing limitations. The Colorado Air National Guard’s 120th Fighter Squadron deployed a dozen F-16C Block 30 fighters to Kadena during 2026, which is one of the most strategically critical American bases in the world due to its proximity to a leading potential hotspot for Sino-U.S. tensions – the Taiwan Strait.

The Ukrainain Army has been forced to operate its newly supplied U.S.-built M1A1 Abrams main battle tanks far from the frontlines, as the vehicles have proven highly vulnerable to Russian strikes. Abrams tanks supplied by the United States were first used in combat in February 2024, and quickly took extreme losses. Despite multiple withdrawal from the frontlines and extensive efforts to improve armour protection levels, by early June 2025 the Ukrainian Army was  assessed to have lost 87 percent of the vehicles, most of which were destroyed while some were abandoned and captured.

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Freedom. Liberty. Democracy. These words constitute the ideology of the American Revolution. But ideology does not win wars.

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Today’s conflicts overlap and interact, colliding without converging – a deeper history is a better guide.

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Tom Rogan’s Assessment of Trump, Colombia, and the Cartels as a Maneuver Problem

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Modern naval power is often equated with technological superiority.

JDAM family of precision-guided munitions. Photo: Wikimedia Commons (U.S. Air Force/Public Domain)

The U.S. State Department has approved a potential $5 billion Foreign Military Sale to Saudi Arabia of more than 10,000 Joint Direct Attack Munition-Extended Range (JDAM-ER) tailkits, and over 5,000 BLU-111 500-pound general purpose bombs, 5,000 BLU-117 2,000-pound general purpose bombs, fuzes, target detectors and other related technical assistance and equipment. Primary contractor for the sale will be Boeing.
DSCA notified Congress of this possible sale on Friday.

The government is considering a new training ce

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L Todd Wood talks with former USAF Commander COL Rob Maness about the WaPo lies and defamation against him.
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Prepared Moderna COVID-19 vaccine syringes at Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado, April 11, 2021. Photo: U.S. Space Force / Wikimedia Commons (Public Domain)

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The Trump administration is investigating whether COVID-19 vaccines contributed to the deaths of U.S. service members following the Biden administration’s military vaccine mandate, according to testimony from an Army doctor assigned to the effort.
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Six months into a war President Donald Trump believed would last no longer than five weeks, Washington appears to have reached the point where it can continue to hurt Tehran but cannot translate that pressure into an end to the conflict.

And with Iran hurting so badly, it now appears to have so little to lose that the regime is willing to launch pre-emptive strikes. 

A U.S. Air Force B-1B Lancer sits on the flightline at Lajes Field, Azores, Aug. 22, 2025. The aircraft landed for a hot pit refuel during a Bomber Task Force Europe mission. (U.S.

The United States is again claiming victory in the Strait of Hormuz, announcing that it has succeeded in pushing enormous volumes of oil through the waterway despite ongoing Iranian efforts to keep ships from moving.

New shipping data released on Friday, September 4, however, shows how fragile the progress really is.

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A U.S. Air Force B-52H Stratofortress assigned to the 23rd Bomb Squadron sits on the flightline during exercise Prairie Vigilance 25-1 at Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota, April 12, 2025.

After a resumption in fighting over the last week, the Pentagon added dozens of wounded troops to its online tally of casualties in the Iran conflict. As of Friday, Sept. 4, 794 troops have been wounded in action since the start of the Iran war.
The update comes two weeks after the Pentagon confirmed that the number of service members wounded in the war had surpassed 750.
The 794 troops wounded in the conflict is the full number reported since the U.S.

The top civilian who oversees the Army Corps of Engineers was named the Acting Secretary of the Army following the sudden resignation of Dan Driscoll’s from the top Army post Monday.
President Donald Trump posted to social media Thursday that Adam Telle would be elevated to the position as the Army’s top leader until a permanent replacement is found. In naming Telle, whose position as Assistant Secretary of the Army (Civil Works) is a relatively minor role in the Army hierarchy, Trump passed over Driscoll’s second-in-command, Under Secretary of the Army Michael Obadal.

Republicans Know Iran Killed Their Midterm Hopes – Midterm elections have historically been lost by the incumbent president’s party, but President Donald Trump hoped his historic 2024 victory and the radical measures he implemented soon after entering office would be enough to win him sufficient support to buck that trend. Since entering office, the president has touted victory after victory, teased the possibility of running for a third term, and even welcomed a new “golden age” of American prosperity.