Army

The M7 started life as the heavy new kid in the squad, but once soldiers had their say and engineers listened, it grew into a rifle worth carrying.

Three quick hits this evening: Lockheed just fired up a new Huntsville hypersonics lab to speed Army strike programs, Benin swatted down a coup attempt when most of the army stayed loyal, and back in D.C. Pete Hegseth is catching shrapnel for allegedly pushing Yemen strike details over Signal like OPSEC is optional.

Medal of Honor recipients just got their pension bumped finally putting real weight behind the nation’s highest award. Meanwhile, the Gaza ceasefire is barely holding as clashes flare around the unmarked Yellow Line, and a final Afghanistan watchdog report says the U.S. left billions of arms and equipment in the hands of the Taliban.

Reflecting on how Jimi Hendrix’s time as a 101st Airborne paratrooper instilled in him the discipline, fear management, and humility that later fueled his relentless pursuit of musical mastery and redefined what a guitar could do.

In December 1944, Hitler’s last gamble slammed into a “quiet” Ardennes sector, forcing green grunts and hard paratroopers to share frozen holes, man-handle 57s into ambush lanes, outlast Skorzeny’s chaos, and bleed the German offensive dry in the snow.

The next Army special operations fight will unfold in the shadows of a digital battlespace, where dispersed teams use drones, data, and deception to stay alive inside a peer adversary’s sensor net.

Soldiers are pushing the M7 through real field conditions, and the rifle is changing fast because the people who carry it refuse to accept anything less than combat ready performance.

November has repeatedly served as war’s decision month, delivering hinge battles from El Alamein and Guadalcanal to the Somme and Fallujah that either broke enemy momentum or forced conflicts into their endgame.

A new three star just walked into the USASOC hangar, grabbed the colors, and took charge of America’s shadow army at the exact moment the world is begging for harder and smarter answers.

The U.S. military is using cheap Chinese-made drones as live targets in Florida to give troops realistic counter-drone training and speed up new technology development.

Atlas Lion showed that AI can replace a crowd of observer controllers and still give commanders a sharper, doctrine-based read on how ready their Civil Affairs teams are for large-scale combat.

On Veterans Day I carry my grandfathers’ quiet courage with me—a reminder that the Greatest Generation’s faith in duty, sacrifice and simple decency is not a relic of the past but a living call we must answer every day.