Summary and Key Points: Behind the headlines about Iran’s war is what’s happening to ordinary Iranians: their money is becoming worthless.

-Inflation has hit a level the country hasn’t seen since World War II — the last time, people starved — and the rial has collapsed to a fraction of its value a decade ago. The regime has no plan to ease the pain, and one expert warns the streets could explode by summer.

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Summary and Key Points: The USS Nimitz, commissioned in 1975, is scheduled to decommission next spring after nearly 52 years of service — even as the Ford-class carrier meant to replace her, the USS John F. Kennedy, runs behind schedule and the Navy’s carrier fleet is already stretched thin across the Pacific, the Middle East, and now the Caribbean.

With shipbuilding delays showing no sign of easing, the question is whether retiring America’s oldest carrier on schedule leaves the fleet dangerously short.

USS Nimitz Sailing Near Canada. Image Credit: Creative Commons.

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There aren’t many people who can say they once had nuclear missiles aimed at the same people they later recruited as an MTV audience. Bill Roedy might be the only one.
In May 2026, West Point’s Jefferson Hall Library and Learning Center dedicated its second-floor rotunda in Roedy’s honor. It’s an inspiring capstone for a man who graduated near the bottom of his class in 1970 and went on to launch HBO and give cable television a footing in households around the world. He would also give the Eastern Bloc its greatest access to Western music and culture.

Summary and Key Points: Iran just threatened to ‘completely’ close the Strait of Hormuz — the narrow waterway that carries a fifth of the world’s oil.

-If it follows through, the damage won’t stay in the Gulf: analysts warn of the worst oil crisis in history, record U.S. gas prices, and inflation in every grocery aisle.

An F-22 Raptor performs an aerial demonstration at Naval Air Station Oceana, Virginia, Sept. 21, 2025. Designed for both air superiority and ground attack missions, the F-22 demonstrates the flexibility and power of fifth-generation fighter technology. (U.S.

Summary and Key Points: Russia can’t seem to fight a war without breaking something — and the latest casualty is its own budget, thanks to the Ukraine conflict.

-The treasury is running billions over what Putin planned, the economy is inching toward recession, and the war bill keeps climbing into next year and beyond.

Tu-22M Backfire Bomber from Russia. Image Credit: Creative Commons.

-He’d hoped the oil-price spike from the Iran crisis would bail him out. It didn’t.

Nearly 82 years to the day after the USS Herring went missing during World War II, the Navy said it had found the wreck of a submarine that fought in three major theaters during the war before disappearing without a trace.
On Monday, the Navy’s Naval History and Heritage Command said that it had confirmed that a submarine wreck located nearly a decade ago off of Matsuwa Island, about 500 miles north of the Japanese mainland, was the Herring.

Summary and Key Points: Picture the war in Ukraine ending tomorrow on terms Putin can sell. The map might look like a draw. Russia’s place in the world would not. The country that invaded Ukraine to reassert itself as a great power wakes up as China’s junior partner, frozen out of the West, watching the empire it spent decades building — its bases, its clients, its own backyard — drift away. Putin went to war to make Russia feared. He’s made it smaller in every lasting way.

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Summary and Key Points: From space, the project seems to have no end: more than 80 new nuclear launch pads spread across thousands of square kilometers of Chinese desert, ringed by bunkers and command nodes.

-A Reuters investigation pulled it into the open, and the analysts who studied the satellite images came away unsettled — one said he’d never seen anything like it.

-The scale points to a shift in China’s entire nuclear posture, and a single, sobering goal aimed at Washington.

US-based manufacturer ArmorSource is ramping up production after securing a $17.6m contract to supply 25,000 Advanced Combat Helmet Gen II (ACH Gen II) systems to the US Army.

Northrop Grumman has completed a key flight test of its Jackal precision strike missile, advancing the development of its next generation weapon system.

When Russian tanks rolled into Ukraine in 2022, no one believed the war would reach Moscow, 500 kilometers away, behind dense air defenses. That assumption is dead. Over three years, Ukraine turned the occasional symbolic drone into a campaign that closes the capital’s airports, torches its suburbs, and burns its refineries. But the most revealing part isn’t what Ukraine has hit.

The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) has entered into new contracts worth £36m ($48m) with Thales in the UK to deliver several hundred Lightweight Multirole Missiles (LMMs) for the British Armed Forces.

A flight of the Marine Corps’ legendary AV-8B Harrier IIs, ground attack jets that can take off and land vertically, will make a final public flight this week to mark the aircraft’s retirement after more than four decades of service with the Corps.
The Harrier’s “sundown” ceremony is scheduled for Wednesday at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, North Carolina. The Harriers being retired belong to Marine Attack Squadron 223. A detachment from the squadron deployed to the Caribbean last year as part of the U.S. military’s buildup in the region that culminated in the Jan.

Russia is bleeding up to 1,500 men a day in the Ukraine war — enough that the army must rebuild a full division every two weeks just to stand still. A national mobilization would fix it, but that’s the one order Putin won’t give: last time he tried, hundreds of thousands fled. So he built something else — a quiet machine for finding bodies without ever signing the decree. It’s running out of room, and the day he’s been dodging only gets worse.

Ukraine’s drone war has entered a phase its commanders call a ‘logistics lockdown,’ and it’s taking out things Russia can’t replace. The latest strike hit an aircraft plant inside Russia and destroyed two rare planes that sat in maintenance for over a decade. But it’s what one of them does that makes the loss sting: it’s part of the system Moscow uses to reach its nuclear-armed submarines at sea. Russia spent years getting it ready — Ukraine needed seconds.

For many Americans, their first introduction to Bruce Crandall was his portrayal by Greg Kinnear in the 2002 film “We Were Soldiers.” While the film depicts the actions for which Crandall earned the Medal of Honor, the Army aviator had a distinguished career beyond his service in Vietnam.
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Born in Olympia, Washington in February 1933, Crandall was an All-American high school athlete and played baseball at the University of Washington with MLB hopes.

When China rolled the DF-17 through Beijing, it was unveiling a weapon built for one purpose: to sink American carriers before they get close. It flies too fast and turns too sharply for the defenses that stopped an earlier generation of missiles, and its reach covers nearly every U.S. base that matters in the Pacific. But the carrier-killer has a hidden weakness — and the Navy has built its defense around exploiting it. Whether that’s enough is the open question.

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Northrop Grumman has partnered with satellite manufacturing startup Apex to develop space-based interceptors for the Golden Dome missile defense program

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Lawmakers want the Army to examine the use of unmanned surface vessels to escort its watercraft against threats the ground branch may face during contested logistics

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Engineered to outmatch any foreign adversary, the new battleship class will be the centerpiece of naval power.

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Sweden’s Defence Materiel Administration has placed another order for wide area air defence systems with Saab.

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The Russian state run United Aircraft Corporation has begun work on the first flight prototype commissioned for the S-75 Checkmate fifth generation fighter program, according to the corporation’s CEO Vadim Badekha. Local sources report that the aircraft, which was unveiled in 2021, is expected to fly as early as 2027, which would still place it several years behind schedule. At the time of its unveiling, the aircraft was projected to be ready for service entry in 2026, indicating a first flight scheduled for 2023 or earlier.

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The Russian Navy on June 1 deployed the heavy nuclear-powered battlecruiser Admiral Nakhimov for the final phase of its sea trials, bringing a much stalled program that has lasted for close to 30 years to its final stage before the warship reenters frontline service. The Admiral Nakhimov is one of two Kirov class cruisers in service, and for the first time in 28 years began to set sail under its own power in August 2025. This followed the warship’s re-floating on July 25 that year.

On May 8, Taiwan’s Legislative Yuan broke a grueling six-month stalemate by passing a landmark $25 billion defense budget, catching many observers off guard. The vote brought sudden end to an agonizing legislative deadlock that had pushed U.S.-Taiwanese relations to the edge. For months, long-simmering frustration in Washington over Taiwan’s defense trajectory has threatened to boil over, catalyzed by an unprecedented bipartisan open letter from U.S. senators, demanding that Taiwan authorize the pending defense packages.

In late February 2026, Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz to foreign shipping. What began as a chaotic wartime closure has, in the past few days, hardened into something more consequential: an official sovereign toll regime, codified in Iranian law, and priced in cryptocurrency.On May 18, Iran operationally launched the Persian Gulf Strait Authority, a formal state bureaucracy with its own internet domain (pgsa.ir), account on X, and contact email.

The U.S. Armed Forces have confirmed the shoot down of an MQ-1 drone in combat during engagements with Iranian forces on May 30-31c with the statement widely interpreted by analysts as an indication that the MQ-1 Predator drone has been brought back into service in a limited capacity. U.S. forces attacked “Iranian radar and command and control sites for drones in Goruk, Iran, and Qeshm Island this weekend,” according to a brief press release by the U.S. Central Command, with the strikes resulting in the aircraft’s destruction by local air defences.

The U.S. Marine Corps’ 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit have conducted Realistic Urban Training exercises simulating a limited-scale urban assault, which has demonstrated the strengthening of expeditionary forces’ capabilities to conduct rapid raids in contested and densely populated areas. The exercise provided insight into how the Corps is refining its expeditionary assault capabilities, which have applications in a wide range of contingencies, including in the Pacific where the Corps’ assets are increasingly heavily concentrated.

Russian Army units have reportedly rapidly advanced into the city of Konstantinovka, with vanguard assault units firmly securing positions on the outskirts of the city to serve as a staging ground for broader efforts to take the disputed territory. Located between the major Ukrainian-held strongholds of Sloviansk and Kramatorsk, the city forms part of the heavily fortified “fortress belt” in the disputed Donbas region that has anchored Ukrainian defences for much of the war.

​Canada and the F-35 Problem: Canada finds itself in quite a quandary. The country lies geographically above the United States, but in no way is it powerful enough to counter the wishes and interests of its American neighbor. It is often little more than an extension of US power and will.

Since Donald Trump’s return to the presidency, however, tensions and trade wars have defined the US-Canada relationship. One of the victims of this ongoing spat between Washington, D.C., and Ottawa is Canada’s long-delayed military modernization plan.

The Islamic Republic of Iran and Israel are again shadow boxing over the fate of Hezbollah in Lebanon.

Hezbollah has long been a proxy of Iran. More importantly, though, the Iranians have told the Israeli government to clear their civilians out of northern Israel if Tel Aviv does, in fact, continue with strikes directed at Southern Lebanon.

Obviously, Tehran is not going to wait for things to deteriorate.

The regime will act in defense of what it perceives as its interests.

As the French fabulist and poet Jean de la Fontaine once wrote, “a person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.” This quote quite nicely sums up the Constellation-class program. Following the troubled Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) program, the United States Navy launched the Constellation-class project to build a new lightweight surface ship on an existing design. Despite efforts to avoid the mistakes of the LCS, the program quickly spiraled out of control, running into many of the same issues that nearly crippled its predecessor.

Russia’s most advanced combat aircraft, the Su-57, appears to be back in action in Ukraine after a period of prolonged reduced activity earlier in the year. In recent weeks, Ukrainian air raid monitoring channels have recorded more than ten separate Su-57 cruise missile launch incidents across multiple parts of the front, with the aircraft reportedly detected over the Kursk border region and over the Azov Sea. The aircraft has also been spotted over occupied Crimea, launching Kh-59 and Kh-69 missiles from positions well inside Russian-controlled airspace.

Summary and Key Points: China has fielded a weapon that can threaten a US aircraft carrier from a launcher sitting thousands of miles inland — and according to the Pentagon’s most recent assessment, that same missile can reach parts of the American homeland with a conventional warhead. The DF-27 is the newest and longest-legged member of a carrier-killer family that has spent fifteen years pushing the US Navy out of waters it once dominated, the moment the threat stopped being regional and became global.

The Pentagon’s next iteration of the Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability (JWCC) contract would establish a cloud marketplace for military users while expanding support for artificial intelligence, edge computing and cross-domain operations, according to a draft solicitation.
On May 20, the Defense Information Systems Agency published a draft performance of work statement for the upcoming JWCC Unified Cloud Marketplace (UCM) contract on Sam.gov.

Summary and Key Points: When Trump announced his blockade of Iran in April, the goal was simple: choke off the oil money that keeps the regime alive. Two months later, the squeeze is real — tanker traffic around Iran has collapsed and the economy is hurting. Tehran is scrambling for a way around it, from shadowy Chinese buyers to a pipeline meant to bypass the Strait of Hormuz. But every escape route hits the same wall — one Tehran may not have time to climb.

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Oil Platform. Image Credit: Creative Commons.

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After a nearly year-long deployment, the USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78), the newest and most advanced aircraft carrier in the U.S. Navy, could be out of action for as long as 14 months.

The carrier recently completed her long and grueling deployment, during which she suffered from faulty sewage systems, an onboard fire, and an intense combat deployment in Iran. The ship and her crew have been pushed to their limits, and extensive maintenance will likely be required before the carrier is back up to full operational standards.

The world’s largest aircraft carrier, USS Gerald R.

As the series of successful Ukrainian strikes on Russia’s oil and gas infrastructure has demonstrated, Kyiv can inflict meaningful, long-term damage on several key nodes in Russia’s energy extraction, refining, and export, though Ukraine would be unlikely to force a complete Russian energy shutdown. Still, the ongoing Ukrainian strike campaign has forced Russia to shutter some of its oil output, but Russia has adapted by rerouting some energy product flows and has managed to continue energy exports at substantial, though somewhat crimped, volumes.

In 2019, Army specialist Lauren Palladini was rushed to a hospital for a cesarean section delivery of her daughter, Everly. During the procedure at Womack Army Medical Center at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, the medical resident lacerated her right uterine artery. It was a life-threatening error that would eventually cost her any chance of having more children. It would also launch a six-year, uphill battle for accountability. 
In the weeks that followed, Palladini hemorrhaged seven times.

Summary and Key Points: For three years, Moscow watched the war it started from a safe distance. That’s over. Ukraine’s long-range drones are now reaching the Russian capital — hitting refineries, defense plants, and logistics hubs, and puncturing the city’s sense of immunity. And the clearest sign of how rattled the Kremlin has become wasn’t a strike at all. It was what Putin no longer felt safe putting on display, on the one day Russia exists to flaunt its military might.

Iran isn’t just blockading the Strait of Hormuz anymore — it’s monetizing it. A new law creates a dedicated agency, backed by the Revolutionary Guard, that turns the world’s most important oil chokepoint into a tollbooth: pay up, or your tanker doesn’t pass. Tehran believes it can squeeze tens of billions of dollars a year out of the scheme — and it’s betting the rest of the world will have little choice but to go along.

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