On December 16, 2024, A24 Films released the first trailer for Warfare, a film written and directed by Iraq War veteran and former Navy SEAL Ray Mendoza along with Civil War director Alex Garland. Based on Mendoza’s experiences in Iraq, the film’s tagline is, “Everything is based on memory.”

Set in 2006, Warfare follows a team of SEALs as they fight to survive and extract from an Iraqi city (likely Ramadi) after what appears to be a compromised sniper overwatch mission.

Lithuania plans to integrate these small, vertical-lift support drones with larger Switchblade 600 loitering munitions

The beloved A-10 Warthog continues to show its worth even though the Air Force is rapidly draining them out of its current fleet and plans to retire all the aircraft in a few years.
Most recently, A-10s took part in airstrikes against the Islamic State group, or ISIS, from Dec. 30 to Jan. 6 around Iraq’s Hamrin mountains, U.S. Central Command recently announced.
“The A-10s tasked to support ground forces in the area were successful in eliminating the ISIS fighters within a cave,” a Jan. 6 news release from CENTCOM says.

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FN Herstal has initiated the Small Arms Ammunition Technologies (SAAT) project to develop a unified standard for small arms ammunition.

Elbit Systems has secured a nearly $60m contract to provide a NATO member state in Europe with its C-UAS solution.

I’m A Soldier – “Turning The Tide”

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A California group commander explains how MCAS Miramar is prepping for the transition.

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Kratos Defense & Security Solutions has secured a $1.45 billion contract from the Department of Defense to advance testing for hypersonic technology.

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Block V Virginia-class submarines are being built with massively increased firepower.

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Russia wields a formidable capability to target NATO’s undersea infrastructure in critical regions such as the Baltic, Barents, and North Seas, as well as across the world’s oceans: its “research” vessels. These are ostensibly civilian ships used for scientific exploration that double as intelligence-gathering platforms. Equipped with advanced surveillance technology, these ships often operate near critical undersea infrastructure, raising concerns about covert espionage and sabotage capabilities under the guise of academic study.

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Former Defense Department Chief Information Officer Dana Deasy is now working at Boeing as the organization’s chief information digital officer and senior vice president for information technology and data analytics, the company announced Jan.3.
Deasy served as the Pentagon CIO during the first Trump administration starting in May 2018 and oversaw a variety of high-profile modernization initiatives.
He was at the helm when the department moved to large-scale telework as employees adapted to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Defense Department has tapped Kratos to develop a testbed for hypersonic vehicles under the Multi-Service Advanced Capability Hypersonic Test Bed 2.0 program, the company announced Monday.
The other transaction authority agreement is for Task Area 1 of MACH-TB 2.0, an initiative that broadly aims to expand options for the Pentagon to demonstrate and validate hypersonic weapons and related technologies. If all options are exercised, the deal has a performance period of five years and a total value of $1.45 billion — the single largest contract ever awarded to the contractor.

Two U.S. soldiers behind the fatal attacks in New Orleans, Louisiana and Las Vegas on New Year’s Day served on the same Army base and were both sent to Afghanistan at the same time during the U.S. “surge” there. The new timelines of the two men’s service record appear to contradict a law enforcement official’s statement last week that there were no overlapping assignments in the service record of the two men.
The two men served in different units under separate commands on Fort Liberty, North Carolina — then known as Fort Bragg — for 11 months in 2012 and 2013.

The Night of Power is revered as a sacred night in Islam. Taking place during Ramadan, it’s a time when devoted Muslims pray, study the Qur’an and ask for forgiveness from Allah. And, as with any religion, it has been weaponized by some extremists for their own agendas. My husband, an Apache pilot, had recently arrived in Afghanistan, and his unit was briefed that Islamic extremists would likely attack that night, wanting to claim an enormous reward from Allah. At sunrise, 150 insurgents dressed in stolen American uniforms surrounded two bases in Afghanistan.

One of the milestones of Marine Corps boot camp is when recruits take a break from getting IT’d to get their official photo taken. They stand in a long line to briefly slip on a modified dress uniform coat and white hat, or “cover,” as a photographer snaps a quick picture.
These (often embarrassing) pictures are treasured by Marines’ families and prominently displayed on their mantles, even though, as Adam Driver’s boot camp photo shows, they are not glamour shots.
But for some recent Marine recruits, the uniforms in their photos were ‘photoshopped’ on.

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The US government has denied its setting up a n

As of 6 January 2025, Ukraine claims to have inflicted nearly 800,000 Russian combat casualties in the near three-year-old war.

A Chinese company has unveiled the Unitree B2-W

The Spanish MoD has reached a milestone in the High-Performance Tactical Remotely Piloted Aircraft System (SIRTAP) programme.

The Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Ukraine has launched a detailed inspection of the Land Forces Command at the request of the Ground Forces commander major general Mykhailo Drapatyi.

The first Americans to earn the Distinguished Service Cross were not combat soldiers but two women serving as nurses with the British Army before the U.S. entered World War I. 
On Aug. 17, 1917, Nurses Beatrice MacDonald and Helen McClelland of the Army Nurse Corps Reserve were assigned to a surgical team at the British Casualty Clearing Station Number 61 near Lillers, France. 
During a German night air raid, MacDonald and McClelland continued caring for their patients despite bombs raining down all around them.

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The Multi-Domain Artillery Cannon System battery will consist of eight MDAC artillery units, four MFPR multi-function radars and a minimum of 144 HVP hypersonic projectiles.

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According to information published on the X Account of AirPower 2.

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JetZero is working on the subscale BWB aircraft demonstrator, named “Pathfinder,” while Northrop Grumman’s Scaled Composites division is fabricating the full-size…

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Walk across any U.S. Air Force base, and you’ll likely notice senior officers wearing patches from elite military institutions like the Weapons School or the School of Advanced Air and Space Studies. These emblems reflect the Air Force’s emphasis on tactical and strategic mastery. Yet, the operational level of warfare remains underdeveloped.  To rapidly train officers in operational warfare, the U.S.

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Neither of the explosive devices were detonated, and it remains unclear whether the failure was due to a malfunction, lack of activation, or another issue.

Gamboa et al., NBC News The 42-year-old Texas man showed no signs of radicalization. “It’s a complete surprise, a shock, to everyone,” his half-brother said in an interview.

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More than a million U.S. military veterans who served in multiple enlistments are now eligible for an extra year of education benefits, the Department of Veterans Affairs announced on Friday.
The decision, announced on Jan. 3 by VA Secretary Denis McDonough, gives veterans who meet the requirements a full 48 months of education assistance. The policy change comes in the way of a Supreme Court decision last year, which ended a cap of three years of educational support.

Vilnius, Lithuania, the country’s capital, was named European Christmas Capital 2025 by the Christmas Cities Network. This honor highlights the city’s holiday spirit, culture, and community engagement. To that end, Vilnius is decorated to the nines with wreaths, garland, trees, and angels adorning its historic streets. On November 29, 2024, Cathedral Square in Vilnius hosted a Christmas concert and tree lighting ceremony to kick off the festivities; the Christmas market set up around the tree includes vendors selling ornaments, Christmas socks, and mulled wine.

Reports of strange facts and inconsistencies continue to follow the Jan 1 ‘terror’ attacks in the United States, leading many to insinuate these attacks were ‘inside jobs’.

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AFP has reported on suspicion regarding the narrative promoted by the Shawn Ryan interview with Sam Shoemate, and the alleged emails which were quickly ‘confirmed’ by the FBI.
UPDATE: Lara Logan Says Shawn Ryan Interview CIA Narrative Push
More questions are now being asked, including surveillance video which appears to show the Tesla driver erect and moving prior to the explosion.
Law enforcement reported the driver had shot himself prior to the explosion.
The video in question is below – we report, you decide.

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I recently have enjoyed many conversations with former military colleagues, and defense contractors.
Since Nov 5th, I have asked them what was the mood was on the ground in the force, concerning the incoming administration and everything that entails…you know, America First, anti-Marxism, anti-DEI, etc.
I have been shocked by their response.
Many of them In my opinion have lost the ability to critically think.
They have been absorbed by ‘the blob’, likely scared for their careers, their livelihood, and future political futures.

The Army’s Criminal Investigation Division’s Carolinas Field Office is offering a $10,000 reward for a bunch of stolen HMMWV, better known as Humvee, doors. The debauchery is afoot at one of the largest military bases on the East Coast, home of the Army’s special operations, heart of the airborne and now the site of an ongoing misdemeanor spree involving the stolen doors. 
These stolen doors are from the arguably most useless vehicles in the U.S. military’s arsenal, non-armored Humvees. U.S. Army WTF Moments shared the CID award release on Thursday, Jan.