Footage released on Chinese social media has shown a J-16 fighter launching a KD-88 standoff ai rlaunched precision strike missile, highlighting the fighter type’s versatility and advanced air-to-ground capabilities. Designed to engage high-value land targets from outside the engagement envelope of most enemy air defence systems, and entering with the People’s Liberation Army Air Force around 2006, the missile is broadly comparable in concept to the Russian Kh-59 series that has been used extensively against targets in the Ukrainian theatre.

In late May 2026, South Korean Defense Minister Ahn Gyu-back unveiled a roadmap to achieving one of Seoul’s top military acquisition goals: nuclear-powered submarines. This roadmap is heading in the wrong direction.During last month’s inaugural meeting of the Future Defense Strategy Committee, South Korea published its Basic Plan for the Development of Nuclear-Powered Submarines. Chaired by President Lee Jae Myung, the committee was formed to help South Korea build robust, self-reliant defense capabilities.

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The AI platform is finalised, already trialled with unspecified armies, and is being launched at the Eurosatory defence exhibition.

For 70 years, the United States has been fighting an invasion at our southern border, but its not the invasion of illegal immigrants we are talking about.
The United States has, for 70 years, been fighting a continuous aerial war against the New World screwworm, a parasite that eats animals alive: cow, pig, deer, dog, even human. (Its scientific name, C. hominivorax, translates to “man-eater.”) Larvae of the parasitic fly chew through flesh, transforming small nicks into big, gruesome wounds.

During the first sighting of an F-16 Block 70 fighter built for the Republic of China Air Force in the air near Fort Worth Naval Base in Texas, the aircraft was seen integrating five external fuel tanks, including three drop tanks under its fuselage and wings, two further conformal fuel tanks. The configuration has highlighted the gradual evolution of the F-16 program to increasingly rely on outstandingly high external fuel carriage to a much greater extent than was the case in the late 1970s with the fighter type first entered service.

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The Instrument of Power
In today’s military, particularly within the National Guard, administrative process has become the preferred method for resolving career-ending allegations and personnel disputes. What many service members experience is a kind of shadow kingdom—a legal twilight zone where the rules of the UCMJ are sidelined in favor of administrative control. In this space, the law does not function as a shield for the innocent; it functions as the primary instrument of the Commander.

The first F-16 Block 70 fighter built for the Republic of China Air Force was seen taking off from Fort Worth Naval Base in Texas, integrating conformal fuel tanks and three external fuel tanks. The aircraft is question is a twin seat F-16D variant, and is expected to cross the Pacific Ocean via aerial refuelling to Hualien Air Force Base on Taiwan Island later in June. Although the aircraft was officially handed over in March 2025, it has yet to be ferried to Republic of China Air Force facilities. Sixty-six F-16C/D Block 70 fighter aircraft were ordered under an $8.

President Donald J. Trump declared the war with Iran finished on Sunday evening, posting on Truth Social that “The Deal with the Islamic Republic of Iran is now complete” and authorizing the toll-free reopening of the Strait of Hormuz and the immediate removal of the United States naval blockade. Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, the lead mediator, announced minutes earlier that the deal had been reached, with both sides declaring an end to military operations on all fronts.

And this time, unlike every previous false start in this war, Iran responded — and confirmed it.

The Navy will lift its two-month-long blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, President Donald Trump announced, after the United States and Iran reached an agreement to end the war.
Posting to social media, Trump said that he authorized “the immediate removal of the United States Naval blockade.”
Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif first announced that a deal had been reached on Sunday. Both parties will meet in Switzerland to sign the agreement on Friday, June 19, Sharif said.

Warsaw, Poland – On the morning of Sunday, 14 June, the United Kingdom armed forces intercepted a Russian shadow fleet oil tanker transiting through the English Channel. The announcement, which came from the Ministry of Defence (MoD) in London, is one of the more recent efforts by the NATO-member nation – and one of Ukraine’s strongest supporters – to disrupt Moscow’s sanctions-evading oil exporting network.

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The Navy is once again launching planes from Wake Island. This time, the island will serve as the base for P-8 Poseidon patrol aircraft, according to contracts posted by the Navy. 
The contracts, listed on SAM.gov, say that the service will use the island and its airfield for “Navy Summer Exercise 26.” That itself was not specified, but the P-8 Poseidon is used for reconnaissance flights and this operation is being overseen by the Seventh Fleet’s main reconnaissance and surveillance arm, Task Force 72.

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Israel Strikes Beirut Hours Before Trump’s Iran Deal Signing — And Now Israel Is Bracing For Iranian Missiles: Hours before the Iran deal, President Trump says, gets signed today, Israel struck the one place that could unravel it, and by late Sunday morning, the Israeli military was bracing for Iran to fire back. The Israel Defense Forces hit Hezbollah targets in Dahiyeh, Beirut’s southern suburbs, killing at least three people, in what Prime Minister Netanyahu and Defense Minister Katz called a response to Hezbollah firing into Israeli territory.

Warsaw, Poland: On 12 June, the Commander-in-Chief of Ukraine’s Armed Forces, General Oleksandr Syrskyi, announced an initiative to aggressively recruit foreign mercenaries for Kyiv’s front-line military units. The announcement, made on the Telegram messaging platform, states that the ultimate goal is for these foreign, contract-paid soldiers to make up 30 to 50 percent of all of Ukraine’s assault and infantry units.

F-35 Full-Mission Readiness Falls to Just 25%: The Pentagon’s most expensive weapons program is under new scrutiny after a government watchdog report found that only one-quarter of the U.S. military’s F-35 fighter jets were fully mission-capable in fiscal year 2025, meaning they could fly any and all missions the stealth fighter was designed for.

According to a report published by the Government Accountability Office (GAO), America’s most advanced fighter jet may still be technically capable, but it is being bogged down by a series of problems that make it hard to maintain readiness.

According to reports citing multiple senior European officials, the United States is preparing to scale back several major military contributions to NATO in Europe, including its fighter-jet presence on the continent. The reports suggest that Washington intends to put greater responsibility for European defense on its allies. According to the New York Times, the American

“Green Mountain Boys” may sound a bit silly in the modern day, but the moniker is attached to one of the OG American warfighting units: the Vermont National Guard.
Originating from colonial Vermont militias, the Green Mountain Boys repeatedly earned their place in history. When America met times of great conflict or friction, Vermont stood ready and answered the call.
Also Read: Why the National Guard should embrace its illustrious history
Unfortunately, this may not be what people think when you mix the National Guard into the conversation.

Russia is offering men $80,000 to sign up and fight in Ukraine, more than quadruple the country’s average annual salary, along with debt relief of up to $140,000 for those who would otherwise face penalties for defaulting. According to a CNN report published this week, the money is no longer working: Russian military recruitment fell by 20 percent in the first quarter of 2026 compared with the same period a year earlier, even as billboards and social media feeds promise recruits they will become heroes and earn fast-tracked citizenship.

Could The Ukraine War End Putin? Why The Cracks Are Real, And Why He Probably Survives Them Anyway: For the first time since Russian tanks rolled toward Kyiv in February 2022, serious analysts of Russian politics are writing that Vladimir Putin’s grip may be slipping. Western media reported in May that his position within the power structure had weakened. The economy has contracted for the first time in three years. The army is stalled along the front. Ukrainian drones strike refineries hundreds of miles inside Russia.

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United States Air Force Chief of Staff General Kenneth Wilsbach has referred to the MQ-9 Reaper drone as the “most valuable player” of the country’s war effort against Iran, raising questions regarding the extent of its role which saw the aircraft take particularly high losses. Wilsbach said the MQ-9 was by far the most widely used aircraft to support strikes against more than 13,000 targets during the war.

A new Government Accountability Office report has provided insight into the state of the U.S. Armed Forces’ F-35 fifth generation fighter fleet, highlighting severe ongoing issues with the sustainment of the aircraft, resulting in full mission-capable rates of just 28.5 percent in Fiscal Year 2025. The Air Force’s full mission capable rates have generally been higher than the Navy and Marine Corps over the past five years, but are still trending downward overall.

The U.S. Navy has established a new submarine squadron, Submarine Squadron 3, at a Royal Australian Navy base HMAS Stirling in Western Australia, as part of broader efforts to refocus the large majority of American attack submarine operations to the Pacific theatre. Rear Admiral Chris Cavanaugh, commander of Submarine Force, U.S. Pacific Fleet, formally reestablished the squadron, laying the command infrastructure needed before the first nuclear powered attack submarines begin rotating through the base in 2027.

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Following the resumption of high intensity hostilities between Iranian forces, and both the U.S. and U.S.-aligned states across the Middle East, the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps on the night of June 7-8 launched multiple ballistic-missile salvoes against military installations in northern and central Israel. The known targets include Ramat David Air Base, Nevatim Air Base, and Tel Nof Air Base. The Corps announced that these were a “warning” for Israel’s military actions in Lebanon and that they had “targeted Israeli military facilities.

A Marine Corps F/A-18 Hornet crashed near Mount Rainier in Washington state this afternoon, sparking a wildfire in the area that required several helicopters to suppress.
The crash happened at approximately noon today, the 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing announced Saturday evening. The Hornet, part of Marine Aircraft Group 11, 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing, “experienced a non-fatal aviation mishap while conducting routine training.” 
The pilot ejected safely and was recovered by the local sheriff’s department, the Marine Corps said.

President Donald J. Trump announced earlier today that the war with Iran ends tomorrow. In a Truth Social post, he said the agreement is scheduled to get signed Sunday, with the Strait of Hormuz “OPEN TO ALL” the moment the ink dries. Within hours, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said the opposite, calling Sunday a date on which signing is “definitely not happening” and describing the announcement as a test aimed at its own negotiators.

As the number of fighting-age men dwindles in Ukraine, as the Christian ethnocide plays out, Ukraine is launching a major recruitment drive that will allow private companies to source, screen, and deliver foreign fighters to its armed forces, with the goal of filling 30 to 50 percent of its assault and infantry positions with non-Ukrainians. This will allow globalist forces to keep the war going at any cost.
There has also been talk of enabling mass migration of third world men into the area.

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The military defines Personnel Recovery (PR) as the sum of military, diplomatic, and civil efforts to recover and reintegrate isolated personnel. Driven by the moral imperative to “Leave No One Behind”, it aims to preserve critical human resources and deny adversaries intelligence or propaganda leverage in a world driven by instant coverage and viral social media posts.
Two months ago, the U.S.

U.S. troops have deployed to an air base in Kenya to help with the construction and set up of a planned Ebola quarantine facility meant to house Americans. That planned site has sparked ongoing protests in Kenya, with multiple people killed by police.
Stars & Stripes first reported on the deployment. It is not clear how many troops were sent or what units they were drawn from.
An American official confirmed the deployment, saying in a statement to Task & Purpose that U.S.

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Holy kung fu Batman! A Ukrainian man went ballistic and took down a whole squad of mobilization bounty hunters with his bare hands when they tried to kidnap his brother to the front.
In all seriousness, the rage among the population is palpable, and sad.
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The United States plans to start cutting dozens of aircraft and several warships assigned to NATO operations in Europe, the latest move in a series of cuts to the American military presence on the continent.
The New York Times first reported on the cuts, citing European defense officials and parts of a written document shared by the United States with its allies. On Friday, NATO said that it is aware of the planned changes, and positioned it as a shift in the “balance of responsibility.

In major conflicts throughout American history, the lines are blurred between who did what and when. Unless someone decides to “Stephen Ambrose” your unit, any action or glory is usually reduced to a paragraph in a history book or a vaguely accurate sentence on Wikipedia.
The National Guard’s exploits get reduced to a negative stereotype. While it may not be all inaccuracies or embellishments of reality, the majority of National Guard history gets rolled in with everyone else’s.

According to a CNN report just yesterday, on 19 May, US Air Force (USAF) Dan Caine, the Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS), made an unplanned, classified trip across the Atlantic to the US Central Command (CENTCOM) headquarters in Tampa, Florida. The purpose was reportedly for him to be briefed in person on a proposed but extremely sensitive military operation – the likes of which had not been previously attempted.

The plan being briefed was for the US military to deploy a force of specialized ground troops into Iran.

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The war in Ukraine is not going well for Russia. Russia and President Putin believed that Ukraine would collapse, as would the Western NATO alliance and its support for Ukraine. Putin believed that the Russian military would take Kyiv in a few days and the entire country in a few weeks.

None of that has happened. Russia hasn’t achieved one of the main objectives that it set out four and a half years ago. The Russian Army has suffered horrendous casualties and lost an incredible amount of tanks, aircraft, artillery, and equipment.

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Carvelli, MWI
More than Just Another Echelon

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Trump said the U.S. military “delivered a swift and lethal kinetic strike.

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IntEng
Saronic and Castelion, two defense technology companies, have announced plans to combine an autonomous warship with a hypersonic strike weapon.

The Ukraine War Was Never Meant To Last This Long: When Russian troops crossed into Ukrainian territory in February 2022, they had been told by their leaders in Moscow that the so-called “special military operation” was likely to last a matter of weeks. Russian forces quickly advanced toward Kyiv from Belarus, and even Western intelligence was assessing that the Ukrainian capital was at risk of falling within 72 hours.

But what has happened since is remarkable.

Germany’s defense establishment is issuing one of the starkest warnings heard from a major NATO government since the Ukraine war began. According to German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius, Russia could be able to threaten a NATO member by 2029. Notably, German Army Inspector General Christian Freuding says Pistorius’ view is not an isolated German assessment but rather a broader conclusion. According to Freuding, all 32 NATO members agree that Russia could regain the capability to challenge NATO military as early as 2029.

Ohio has never really been synonymous with “good,” even for some people who are from there. In fact, Gen Z and Gen Alpha turned “Ohio” into a colloquialism, a standalone adjective meant as an insult—both to the thing described and to the state itself.
But there are still plenty of good things the state has produced: LeBron James, “Superman” creators Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, zippers (maybe a sign to check yours), Blake Stilwell (We Are The Mighty’s editor in chief), and the NFL, just to name a few.

For the first time since the 2023 counteroffensive, Ukraine has clawed back some territory in its ongoing war against Russia. Though the war is grumbling toward its fifth year, momentum on the battlefield has shifted in Kyiv’s favor and put Russia on the back foot. Squeezed both at home and in Ukraine, Moscow is feeling the heat. Here’s why.

Ukraine Holds Longer Ranges

Ukraine Cruise Missile. Image Credit: Government of Ukraine.