Reports of food shortages and other serious issues on a major U.S. aircraft carrier have shocked many in the public, even as the Pentagon has rushed to insist sailors on the USS Abraham Lincoln are well-supplied.
But for the Navy, the situation aboard the Lincoln is larger than just one ship and underscores the strain that attacks on logistics hubs can place on a fleet when supply chains are interrupted.
Iranian missile and drone attacks on a major U.S.

Is This How Ukraine Will Overcome Its Patriot Shortage? – Ukraine’s Patriot interceptor shortage is becoming impossible to ignore following another enormous Russian missile attack that killed 17 people in Kyiv and the surrounding region overnight. The strikes are becoming so devastating that Ukraine is now looking for entirely different ways to stop the attacks, with Patriot deliveries not expected to arrive in time to fend off Russian attacks over the coming winter.

A U.S. Navy messman, Doris “Dorie” Miller, was a Black 22-year-old sharecropper’s son from Waco, Texas. Because of his rating, he was restricted from handling any weapons. His duties included serving the officers’ mess, collecting laundry, and shining shoes. Despite the institutional racism built into the Navy at the time, Miller found success as the boxing champion of his ship, the battleship USS West Virginia.
That didn’t change the fact that he was Black, and as a result, he was segregated from his white shipmates in both his duties and berthing.

Earlier this week, President Donald Trump threatened to bomb Oman if it got in the way of his plans for the Iran war.

Later, he suddenly announced a scaling down of a planned military exercise with South Korea, citing what he called South Korea’s refusal to involve itself in the Iran war.

President Donald Trump meets with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, Tuesday, May 6, 2025, in the Oval Office. (Official White House Photo by Daniel Torok)

President Donald Trump meets with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, Tuesday, May 6, 2025, in the Oval Office.

In the now-famous 2016 Republican primary process, part of Donald Trump’s pitch to Republican voters was that he would avoid foreign policy mistakes like the Iraq War.

His opponents, he implied, would get the country into more wars like Iraq, and one of them, former Gov. Jeb Bush, was the brother of the president who had launched that war.

President Donald J. Trump speaks to the press during a presentation of the Religious Liberty Commission Report in the Oval Office, Friday, June 26, 2026. (Official White House Photo by Joyce N.

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Ask any military historian and they’ll probably tell you that tactical aggression is a game changer. Throughout the history of armed conflict, forces who were more aggressive saw more success. Say it however you want: Seize the day. Take the initiative. Fortune favors the bold. It’s all the same maxim.
In a game of strategy and tactics like NFL football, the same kind of aggression pays off—and there’s a mathematical reason for it.
Also Read: Patton’s famous speech was way more vulgar than the one in the movie
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The first batch of three F-16 Block 70 fighters ordered to equip the Republic of China Air Force have departed from Lockheed Martin’s Greenville plant in South Carolina and transited to the Fort Worth base in Texas, with the aircraft expected to arrive in Taitung in the coming days for delivery. Although the United States was originally scheduled to deliver all 66 aircraft by the end of 2026, production delays have pushed deliveries significantly behind schedule.

Russian Drones Are Crossing into NATO Territories – NATO’s southeastern border is being violated by Russian projectiles with growing frequency, and Romania is increasingly shooting back.

Izmail, one of Ukraine’s key Danube River ports, sits directly across the river from Romania, with parts of the waterway forming the international border. Last week, a civilian Togo-flagged vessel sustained damage near the port, and four people were injured in the attack.

Gulf Shipping Data Paints Complex Picture: While the White House insists it maintains full control over the Strait of Hormuz, data show that the number of commercial ships passing through the Strait has fallen back to single digits. Only seven commodity vessels crossed the strait on Thursday, August 20, according to the latest ship-tracking data from Kpler.

Those figures include four ships entering the Persian Gulf and three departing. None of the vessels were very large crude carriers (VLCCs) or liquefied natural gas tankers.

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AUGUSTA, Ga. — The Army is on the hunt for AI agents to help defend its cyber infrastructure from attacks without draining the bank for tokens or letting loose a horde of bots that create new network vulnerabilities. 
Project Griffin, a pilot program, aims to build an ecosystem of agents that will ingest feeds from the service’s vast array of network sensors and automatically execute defensive actions against malicious cyber actors, according to Army officials and a newly public solicitation.

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Acting Secretary of the Navy Hung Cao released an administrative message to the force this week warning them to stay vigilant against a multi-pronged campaign by adversaries targeting service members, department civilians and military installations.
Since the launch of Operation Epic Fury against Iran earlier this year, the Department of the Navy — which includes the Marine Corps — has faced an evolving threat landscape, he noted.
“In the current global security climate, adversaries and hostile actors are executing a coordinated, multi-domain campaign against the DON enterprise.

Power Size Technologies’ modelling indicates the feasibility of integrating laser weapons onto British Army Foxhound and Boxer vehicles.

Iran threatens “devastating” response to the U.S – The United States and Iran aren’t quite in a shooting war right now, but they’re certainly not at peace, either. In the place of both, at least in recent weeks, there has been a lot of tension and many threats.

According to Reuters, President Donald Trump on Thursday promised economic consequences to countries that offer “any type of lifeline to Iran.”

President Donald Trump plays golf in the Senior Club Championship at Trump National Golf Club Jupiter, Sunday, April 6, 2025, in Jupiter, Florida.

The United States military hasn’t operated a seaplane, or amphibious flying boat, since the Coast Guard retired the HU-16 Albatross in 1983. For 73 years, this kind of aircraft had been essential for everything from search and rescue to resupply. With the vast expanses of the Pacific theater in mind, an argument can be made that the versatile seaplanes of yesteryear should return to their former glory.
United States Pacific Command is made up of over one hundred million square miles of territory, which is over half the Earth. The majority of that is water.

Drivers in Moscow have been forced to queue for hours, as Ukrainian attacks on Russian energy infrastructure prompted a second wave of fuel shortages.

The return to fuel rationing comes after a period of looser rules following an improvement in supplies in June.

Putin Interview from Back in 2012 Image Credit Creative Commons

Putin Back in 2012 Creative Commons Image

Kilometer-Long Lines 
Despite the impact of the war, Russia remains the third-largest oil-producing nation in the world. On Monday, Reuters said lines at some gasoline stations were a kilometer long.

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Multiple sources have reported that Chinese People’s Liberation Army Air Force J-16 fighters deployed to Pakistan in 2019 to participated in the Shaheen air-combat exercises demonstrated vast superiority over other participating aircraft in simulated engagements. The J-16 currently forms the backbone of China’s fighter fleet, alongside its lighter single engine counterpart the J-10C, and the newer J-20 stealth fighter. The aircraft reportedly achieved 51 simulated kills involving five different fighter types, including the J-10C, J-11B, and Pakistan Air Force JF-17, J-7 and Mirage III.

AEVEX Aerospace has been awarded a $41m contract to supply one-way attack uncrewed systems to US government customers.

Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace (Kongsberg) has finalised an agreement with General Dynamics Land Systems–Canada (GDLS-Canada) worth Nkr1.1bn ($117.8m) for the supply of Protector RS4 Remote Weapon Systems.

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A New York National Guard mobilization that put soldiers into state prisons to work as guards was so expansive that at least a handful of soldiers were airlifted by Black Hawk from a baseball field in the Bronx to report for duty at a small prison 250 miles away.
The flight was part of a strikingly large-scale mobilization that tapped thousands of New York National Guardsmen to work as replacement prison guards in 42 of the state’s 45 prisons last year, according to a 2025 annual report on the New York National Guard published in July.

One is the fastest jet ever produced, capable of outrunning anti-air missiles while capturing reconnaissance in some of the most hostile airspace on Earth. The other was a state-of-the-art warship… from the 17th to 19th century.
Also Read: The SR-71 Blackbird was almost the most versatile fighter plane ever
But, weirdly enough, the SR-71 and ships of the line have more in common than being featured in Hollywood blockbusters that fundamentally misunderstand the military and how it works: They both rely on (very different) materials staying swollen in order to function normally.

Ulchi Freedom Shield exercise. Photo: Wikimedia Commons / U.S. Army (CC)

South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff confirmed Thursday that North Korea fired approximately ten short-range ballistic missiles into the East Sea, with the launches happening within hours of President Trump announcing that he would like to hold a new summit with Kim Jong Un. The missiles traveled approximately 300 kilometers before splashing down in the East Sea. The launches were also tracked by the coast guard of Japan, who issued advisories to all of the maritime traffic in the region as a result.

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A U.S. Air Force flight enroute to Antarctica turned around to New Zealand after being notified of “potentially hazardous” space activity this week.

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Saildrone launched two Lockheed Martin JAGM missiles from a Surveyor USV during RIMPAC

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Two rocks surrounded by coral, with a total land size of less than 10 square meters (approximately 108 square feet) at high tide, are the entire basis on which Japan claims a 150,000-square-mile exclusive economic zone, an area nearly the size of Japan itself. The uninhabited feature, located more than 1,000 miles south of Tokyo, is called Okinotori.In late July, Japan protested Sino-Russian live-fire drills held within the exclusive economic zone it claims around Okinotori.

“You cannot be at mental peace always. You will be worried. So even my family — they are scared all the time, and they were anxiously praying [for] the vessel [to] come out of this area safely.

The first U.S. Air Force F-15EX Eagle II long range fighter intended for permanent basing at Kadena Air Base in Okinawa, Japan, has been unveiled, marking a significant milestone in the Air Force’s efforts to significantly strength its presence on one of its most strategically important facilities worldwide. The aircraft, serial 22-0022, has now appeared in the markings of the 18th Wing, providing the first visible indication that the long-delayed transition from obsolete Cold War era F-15C/D fighters, to the much more capable F-15EX, is making progress.

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The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo, 1914. Photo: Achille Beltrame / Wikimedia Commons (Public Domain)

When Archduke Franz Ferdinand was killed in Sarajevo, the world did not immediately understand that it was standing on the edge of a war that would become a kind of pestilence. The assassination did not create World War I by itself. It exposed a system already loaded with alliance commitments, imperial insecurity, military timetables, elite arrogance, and leaders who believed escalation could be managed. That is the part of history worth remembering now.

The United States appears to have found a way to move millions of barrels of oil through the Strait of Hormuz despite Iran’s best efforts to control the strategic waterway.

But the latest shipping data shows just how far Washington is from actually restoring normal commercial traffic and saving the global economy.

A U.S. Sailor inspects an aircraft catapult launch track on the flight deck of the world’s largest aircraft carrier, Ford-class aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78), while underway in the Caribbean Sea, Nov. 25, 2025. U.S. military forces are deployed to the U.S.

Russia launched one of its heaviest attacks on Kyiv in months on Thursday, killing at least 17 people as waves of ballistic and cruise missiles and drones struck the Ukrainian capital.

Ukraine’s neighbors were also affected, with drones entering Romanian and Moldovan territory and Romania scrambling fighter jets against an explosives-laden unmanned vessel close to a major Black Sea gas project.

Lancet Drone. Image Credit: Russian State Media.

Lancet Drone from Russia. Image Credit: Creative Commons.

Ukraine’s military recruitment system is a critical part of its defensive efforts, but recent reports have shown that it is generating a substantial number of allegations of abuse and corruption. There are even reports of violent resistance from civilians.

More than four years since Russia launched the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Kyiv is still fighting to recruit sufficient numbers of soldiers required to defend a front that stretches hundreds of miles.

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FP-5 Flamingo Cruise Missile.

Sochi has long been Vladimir Putin’s favorite resort on the Black Sea. In 2014, it hosted the Winter Olympics, largely seen around the world as a crowning moment for Putin’s Russian premiership.

But now, over a decade later, Sochi has been regularly bombarded by Ukraine.

Putin in 2018 Russian Federation Photo

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The Financial Times wrote about this this week, noting that a Moscow hairdresser recently posted an Instagram video from the resort town before an air raid siren interrupted it.

The Defense Innovation Unit has a new, specialized team that’s hustling to clear major constraints associated with transitioning proven commercial technologies directly into the military services.
“Within one year, we will open co-use classified facilities nationwide, slash cyber authorization timelines by half, and enable agile, end-to-end testing capabilities for young companies desperate to demonstrate,” DIU’s Director Owen West wrote in a memorandum unveiling the Bridge Program this week.

The war with Iran has been underway for almost half a year, and its impact on global energy is obvious. Still, the focus is no longer only on crude oil prices, but also on how fuel is refined, transported, and traded worldwide.

On Thursday, Brent crude soared to $93.81 a barrel, the highest level in more than three weeks.

Generic Oil Tanker Image. Image Credit: Creative Commons.

Oil Platform. Image Credit: Creative Commons.

Refined fuels, however, are facing even bigger problems. European diesel prices have surged by upwards of 70% since the U.S.

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President Donald Trump is promising what he calls an “Economic D-Day” against Iran, but the details of Washington’s next move are still to come.

“The entire country can be taken out in one night, and that night might be tomorrow night,” Trump told a White House press conference on Thursday.

The Iran War Could Start Again Next Week 

President Donald Trump addresses members of the media in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room, Tuesday, January 20, 2026. (Official White House Photo by Joyce N. Boghosian)

He also suggested that if a deal was not reached by 8 p.m.

The Department of War’s decision to suspend Phase 2 of the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) program creates an opportunity to strengthen — not weaken — how we protect the defense industrial base (DIB). Many small and mid-sized defense contractors struggle to absorb the cost, complexity, and administrative burden of the current compliance model, while defense programs that depend on a supplier base are already under significant pressure to maintain readiness.   
Before this announcement, I was a CMMC skeptic.

Ukraine announced another successful long-term attack on Russian infrastructure on Wednesday, hitting the Taneco oil refinery in Russia’s Tatarstan region, Bloomberg News reported.

The facility is 900 kilometers (560 miles) east of Moscow, according to a map posted to Telegram by the General Staff in Kyiv.

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In another strike the same night closer to home, Ukraine struck the Tamanneftegaz oil terminal on the Russian side of the Black Sea.

That terminal, per Bloomberg, has a loading capacity of 20 million tons a year.

Ukraine’s long-range drone and missile strike campaign against Russia is still expanding, even as Moscow seeks to take advantage of Kyiv’s shortage of Patriot interceptors with its own long-range ballistic missile campaign.

Ukraine’s devastating strikes against Russian infrastructure are beginning to create problems that the Kremlin is being forced to address at the national level.

The Russian Aerospace Forces on August 19-20 deployed its most heavily armed aircraft, the Tu-160 and Tu-95MSM strategic bombers, to support a large-scale strike against targets in the Kiev region, as the country’s combat aviation has played an increasingly central role in its air campaign. The two bomber types between them are reported to have launched over 40 cruise missiles. The strikes targeted a series of facilities in Kiev involved in the production, assembly and storage of unmanned systems.