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When Congress considered a resolution to make “The Star-Spangled Banner” the United States’ official national anthem in 1929, resistance soon followed.
One argument was that the melody came from an old English drinking song. Some felt that connection was too low-brow and should disqualify the song from becoming America’s anthem. Other concerns, according to the American Battlefield Trust, included claims that “The Star-Spangled Banner” was difficult to perform and wasn’t good for marching. Naysayers also asserted it was overly militaristic. (No kidding.

Russia’s Sukhoi Design Bureau has disclosed new details regarding the planned two-seat variant of the Su-57 fifth-generation fighter, presenting the aircraft not simply as a trainer, but as a platform intended to introduce technologies associated with sixth generation combat aviation. According to Design Bureau Director Mikhail Strelets, the additional cockpit will allow the aircraft to function as an airborne command post capable of directing unmanned combat aircraft while simultaneously carrying out conventional fighter missions.

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Water and energy infrastructure have become one of Iran’s main levers of deterrence against the United States. Iranian Foreign Minister Aragchi recently made it clear to Gulf states that if the U.S. military renewed large-scale strikes on Iran, their critical infrastructure would be struck. Iranian forces’ operational history over the past six months confirmed the threat’s credibility.Kuwait first reported damage near a desalination plant early in Operation Epic Fury, when debris from an intercepted drone struck the Doha West facility.

The Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) progressively refined its missile and drone operations during the the first five months of hostilities with the United States, allowing it to exploit weaknesses in American air defenses while simultaneously forcing Washington to expend increasingly scarce interceptor missiles. Sources cited by The New York Times reported that this involved using increasingly sophisticated combinations of missiles and drones to complicate the U.S.

The Defense Intelligence Agency’s chief AI officer is anticipating a future in which digital agents work together across a combatant command to help the military and intelligence community achieve mission success.
DIA is currently undertaking a 90-day “sprint” to build out an AI enterprise platform service, Maj. Gen. Robert Kinney said Wednesday during a panel at the DODIIS Worldwide conference in Tampa, Florida.
Another “deliverable” in the works is a model context protocol, or MCP, that will provide “a more universal way” to be able to access intel data, he noted.

Ukraine needs 10 percent of the U.S. Patriot interceptor stockpile to defend itself against Russia’s ballistic missile attacks, President Volodymyr Zelensky claimed on Wednesday.

Zelensky’s ‘Millions’ Of Calls

Hypersonic Missile. Image Credit: U.S. Military.

Typhon Hypersonic Missile. Image Credit: YouTube Screenshot.

The Ukrainian leader told CNN he had been making “millions” of phone calls in a bid to negotiate more of the U.S.-built missiles.

He explained: “This is what I live each day: from 1% to 5%.

Deputy Defense Secretary Steve Feinberg’s new instruction for the Pentagon to provide nearly $244 million through March for undisclosed Palantir products was influenced by the Trump administration’s Business Operators for National Defense program, according to two sources who said it also illustrates the government’s plans to further fast-track the tech giant’s military offerings.
The somewhat vague, one-page memorandum — entitled “Funding Palantir” — was issued Aug. 4 and viewed by DefenseScoop on Wednesday.

The Space Force’s acquisition arm has contracted five vendors to demonstrate that its future mega-constellation can effectively share information between systems owned by different companies.
Each contractor will receive $12 million under a set of other transaction authority agreements that will fund work for two related efforts, Space Systems Command announced Thursday. Together, the deals are intended to lay the groundwork to field optical laser communication terminals for the service’s planned Space Data Network (SDN) architecture.

The USS Abraham Lincoln has been at sea for more than 250 days, an extraordinarily long deployment for the roughly 5,000 sailors and Marines aboard the aircraft carrier.
Originally deployed in November 2025, the Lincoln was redirected to the Middle East as the conflict with Iran intensified, resulting in multiple extensions to a deployment that was initially expected to last about seven months. The ship has gone more than 200 days without a port call, according to recent reporting.
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Department of Veterans Affairs researchers say they are embarking on what will be the largest study to assess whether GLP-1 semaglutide medications can help combat alcohol addictions. Their hope, they say, is that the study will help change U.S. regulations and potentially make the treatment more widely available to Americans also dealing with the disease.
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With the Iran war in its sixth month and unmanned systems having played a defining role in the conflict, U.S. Central Command said Thursday it was launching a new drone task force.
Task Force Falcon Strike will use air, surface and sub-sea one-way attack drones alongside regional partners, ones the command said it was still in the process of “consulting and officially inviting” to the new “first-ever multinational” unit of its kind, according to a press release.

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The prolonged disruption in the Strait of Hormuz has exposed one of the biggest vulnerabilities in the global energy system, amid repeated strikes that have forced some Middle Eastern refiners to slow operations.

Some of the world’s biggest oil producers have spent decades building enormous production capacity to satisfy world demand, but much of that oil depends on a single narrow waterway to reach international markets.

U.S. Air Force Maj. Taylor “FEMA” Hiester, F-16 Viper Demonstration Team commander and pilot, performs aerial maneuvers in a U.S.

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America might run on Dunkin’, but even Dunkin’ has to get its coffee transported to its stores—and for that, it needs trucks, drivers, and a pipeline of people interested in trucking careers.
For some reason, America is always looking to lean on veterans to fill in its shortcomings. Remember when the country thought it was running out of teachers, so it started “Troops to Teachers” but didn’t really fully fund it? Well, now the government is looking to service members to fill the ranks of big rig truckers.

Pyongyang Might Send 50k Troops to Putin – North Korea is gearing up to ship tens of thousands of more men to support Russia’s war with Ukraine, Kyiv claims.

Almost 10,000 North Korean Troops Already in Russia

M2020 Tank from North Korea. Image Credit: KCNA/North Korea State Media.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has called for South Korea to improve its ties with Ukraine in light of the troubling news.

Up to 50,000 North Koreans could be deployed by Russia under the alleged arrangement.

A strong commercial space industry is an important partner for the U.S. government, as it contributes to building more robust space and defense capabilities and facilitates innovation more broadly. As competition between the United States and China heats up, both countries look to the commercial space sector to help them get ahead in both the space race and defense technologies. We asked five experts: What is a crucial step for the United States to take now to stay ahead in commercial space competition with China?Read more below.

The Japan Air Self-Defense Force scrambled F-15 fighter aircraft to intercept a Chinese Y-9 reconnaissance aircraft conducting a flight through the East China Sea. The engagement occurred near Okinawa and the Taiwan Strait. The incident occurred as Chinese surveillance and combat aircraft have operated with increasing frequency around the Nansei island chain, possibly in response to the rapid expansion of the hostile Western military presence in Japan. The published Japanese flight track indicates that the Chinese aircraft remained over international waters throughout the reported flight.

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World Risks Major Oil Crisis As IEA Issues New Warning – Just as analysts have warned would happen for months, the world is burning through hundreds of millions of barrels of stored oil as the Strait of Hormuz remains effectively closed – a problem that could lead to a much more serious energy crisis later this year if Iran and the United States cannot break their deadlock.

According to a warning from the International Energy Agency (IEA) this week, the global oil market is expected to run a deficit of around 1.

Russian President Vladimir Putin made his first visit to the disputed Kuril Islands on August 13, travelling to Iturup, one of the four southern islands claimed by Japan. The visit was highly symbolic, coming only two days before Japan’s August 15 commemoration of the end of the Second World War, and was used by Moscow to reinforce its assertion of sovereignty over the islands.

A major oil spill from a sanctioned tanker carrying Russian crude has reached the Omani coastline as salvage teams work to prevent hundreds of thousands of barrels of oil from leaking into the Arabian Sea.

The Caroline Bezengi tanker ran aground near the Omani Hallaniyat Islands on June 30 after it suffered an explosion weeks earlier near Yemen.

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Military officials are “actively addressing the state of the showers” at Camp Bullis, Texas, after a photo shared on social media appeared to show the floor of one of the base’s showers covered in grime, a spokesperson for Joint Base San Antonio said.
“Our civil engineers inspected the showers and determined that the last unit to occupy the facility did not maintain it as required,” said the spokesperson, who added that base officials have “since addressed the immediate cleanliness of this shower.

The UK signed a statement of intent to cooperate closely with Australia in advancing AESA radar and integrating the CEAFAR2 radar suite.

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A Russian Aerospace Forces Su-35S fighter pilot reportedly destroyed two Ukrainian Su-27 fighters during a single air engagement, according to Sergey Kobylash, commander of the Russian Air Force and deputy commander-in-chief of the Russian Aerospace Forces. He reported that the Su-35S was conducting combat air patrols to protect an advancing group of Russian ground forces, and detected two hostile Su-27s despite Ukrainian electronic jamming.

For more than a week, Iran and Oman have been in talks to develop a framework for governing the Strait of Hormuz. However, there has still been no word of a deal. And now, according to CNBC, belligerence is continuing.

Iran’s Persian Gulf Strait Authority said on Thursday that “the Strait of Hormuz remains blocked and will not be reopened until Iran’s conditions are accepted.”

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Ukraine’s long-range strike campaign is now causing significant damage to Russian grain exports, with drone and missile attacks knocking out two of the country’s largest grain export terminals.

The overnight attack in Novorossiysk is the latest example of Ukrainian forces widening their long-range campaign, which President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has described as “long-range sanctions” intended to raise the cost of sustaining the war.

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When precision guided munitions like the Tomahawk missile entered service, they allowed the U.S. military to strike targets with lethal accuracy while reducing collateral damage. But these weapons were expensive.
To cut costs, the Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) was developed. By adding a GPS and steering fins to a “dumb,” free-fall bomb, the military created “smart” bombs. Now, Boeing is giving the JDAM legs with turbojet engine kit to extend its range.
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Ukraine, in recent weeks, has been struck by some devastating ballistic missile attacks from Russia, some of which have included missiles from Russia’s allies in North Korea.

Ukraine has also run dangerously low on interceptors and has been asking its Western allies for more, even as the United States and countries in Europe face their own stockpile concerns.

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In the meantime, a report this week looked at Ukraine’s efforts to build its own ballistic missiles.

Ukraine on Wednesday launched what was described as a massive drone attack on Novorossiysk, a Russian port city on the Black Sea.

According to Al Jazeera, the strike killed three people, including what the regional governor described as a child, while also knocking two grain terminals offline. The latter blow, the report said, risks raising “fears in global markets of a disruption to supplies,” as Russia is the world’s largest exporter of wheat.

Ukrainian drones struck a major oil refinery and warehouse in central Russia on Thursday. Radiy Khabirov, head of the Bashkortostan republic, said two people had been injured in the attack.

A blaze erupted at the Gazprom Neftekhim Salavat plant in Russia’s Republic of Bashkortostan, some 1,200 kilometers (750 miles) east of the capital Moscow, Ukraine’s General Staff announced via Telegram on the morning of August 13.

The Uzbekistan Air and Air Defence Forces have reportedly received their first Chinese J-10C fighters, following months of reports that pilots and maintenance crews from the country were training in China, and multiple reports of delays and difficulties adapting to the new aircraft. The delivery makes the service the third in the world to transition to the fighter type, after the Chinese People’s Liberation Army Air Force and the Pakistan Air Force. Unconfirmed reports indicate that 24 J-10C fighters have been ordered, although the.

Two service members died after a US Army AH-64 Apache helicopter crashed in a field south of Salado, Texas, on Wednesday afternoon.

Lockheed Martin has completed the first integrated live-fire test of its Kodiak containerised launcher at at Yakima Training Centre.

The U.S. Congressional Budget Office has released a new assessment estimating that the first vessel of the U.S. Navy’s proposed BBG(X) nuclear-powered battleship program, commonly referred to as the Trump class, will cost approximately $23 billion to construct. The report estimates the total cost of a planned fleet of 15 ships at around $275 billion, with an average procurement cost of roughly $18 billion per vessel over the life of the program.

The United States is looking to develop a new generation of highly mobile air-defence radars, after U.S. and allied missile-defence systems faced sustained attacks and saw multiple high and medium value radar installations destroyed. The destruction of air defence radars in the early stages of the war, after Washington initiated hostilities on February 28, has served as a valuable force multiplier for Iranian ballistic missile and drone strikes, limiting situational awareness for the U.S. and its strategic partners.

As terrorists attacked the United States on September 11, 2001, Pat Tillman sat transfixed in front of the television.
The attacks occurred on a Tuesday, and Tillman was in the Arizona Cardinals’ media room. Tillman didn’t say much. He just watched footage of terrorists flying two planes into the World Trade Center in New York and another one into the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. (A fourth plane crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, after passengers fought with hijackers.)
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A Sunday, 9 August report on the American Fox News network details what it calls the opening of “a dangerous new front emerging in the Russia-Ukraine war.” Different defense industry analysts are reporting that attacks by assassins and alleged intelligence operatives are increasingly targeting the executives and engineers who are “developing the cutting-edge drone technology that is reshaping the battlefield.

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Given the relentless demand for computing power, electronic components are in scarce supply. Prices for certain memory chips, known as DRAM, have surged by more than 50 percent in a single quarter this year, and have roughly quadrupled since last fall. Because DRAM supply is tight, Apple, Dell, and HP are currently evaluating memory from ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT), a company the Pentagon has designated as a Chinese military company. Apple, in particular, has sought assurances from the U.S. government that CXMT will not face future sanctions that would cut off its supply.