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U.S. naval forces mass near Iran as tensions rise, while fighting intensifies in Tigray and Myanmar and new allegations shake Ukraine’s foreign legion.
When promotions hinge on politics instead of performance, we risk eroding the trust, readiness, and integrity that our force depends on to win and to lead.
Pete Hegseth’s push to remove a senior Army spokesman has exposed a quiet power struggle inside the Pentagon, where promotions, past loyalties, and politics are colliding in ways the Army is not eager to explain.
They drove us into oxygen debt until the pool felt like a grave, and when one man actually died and came back, the only question waiting for him at the surface was whether he was tough enough to climb back in.
From a 1958 request for one Army bomb tech on standby to today’s global JEOD VIPPSA mission, EOD’s quiet partnership with the Secret Service has stood watch over presidents and candidates for decades.
The dead were spared the truth; the living have to carry it.
A veteran writes about the soldiers he couldn’t save as a way to carry the weight of their loss and keep himself standing.
Read the exclusive account of what kinds of gear SOG recon teams carried during their top-secret missions into Laos, Cambodia, and North Vietnam.
BROTHERS rips Yaël Sion out of the warm, so‑called safety of the team, strips her down past rank, résumé, and operator ego, and dares you to suck it up and ride shotgun while she bleeds, breaks, and still brings unholy hell to the world that cut her loose.
Lt. Gen. Joshua Rudd’s decades of Special Forces experience and Indo-Pacific operations could soon shape the nation’s most sensitive cyber missions at NSA and U.S. Cyber Command.
The 1st CIG’s greatest expertise lies in precisely locating American hostages held by foreign terrorist groups and pinpointing high-value terrorist leaders, a capability they demonstrated when helping track down Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein in December 2003, al-Qa’ida leader Osama bin Laden in Pakistan in May 2011, and ISIS terrorist leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in Syria in October 2019.
More than a book review, this is a portrait of David Petraeus as a great but imperfect man whose service and ideas shaped modern American warfare.
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