Category: Europe

Russia’s truce claims in Ukraine clash with continued fighting as sanctions, tech scrutiny, Cuba policy shifts, and a Georgia election probe widen the security landscape.

Greenland matters, but how the United States pursues its interests matters more. Power exercised without restraint weakens alliances and erodes leadership.

Austria’s Jagdkommando is an elite special forces unit shaped by brutal selection, alpine warfare, global deployments, and a Never Retreat ethos.

Federal authorities have placed active-duty Army units on standby amid escalating immigration protests in Minneapolis, as court rulings tighten ICE crowd-control limits, fringe pro-ICE activism collapses locally, regional tensions shift in Syria with a Kurdish withdrawal east of the Euphrates, and President Trump moves to assert U.S. control over postwar Gaza through a new international “Board of Peace.”

U.S. forces killed an Al-Qaeda-linked leader tied to the Palmyra ambush as counter-ISIS strikes continue, Democrats are pushing back on abolish-ICE rhetoric, ISIS-linked militants in Nigeria executed captives over ransom, and Trump’s Greenland push is driving NATO resistance and tariff threats.

Germany’s airborne scandal, Taiwan’s major arms-driven defense buildup, and Russia’s improvised thermal concealment tactics all show how discipline, politics, and adaptation are shaping readiness in today’s high-pressure fights.

The Beretta ARX160 is a piston-driven, modular service rifle designed to fix the real shortcomings exposed by modern combat, emphasizing ambidextrous controls, adaptability, and ease of use while taking a different technical path than newer rifles like the UK’s KS-1.

BRICS navies are flexing off South Africa as the U.S. shifts Army forces toward the Indo-Pacific, Trump escalates rhetoric on owning Greenland for Arctic defense, and Taiwan searches for a missing F-16V while grounding its fleet for safety checks.

Maduro remains in U.S. custody as Venezuelans celebrate and stabilization plans take shape, RAF Typhoons struck an ISIS weapons cache in Syria, Wagner continues fueling Sudan’s RSF proxy war, and gunmen killed at least 30 in a raid in Nigeria.

Pipehitters delivers relentless, research-heavy zombie warfighting while turning Yaël Sion’s story into a hard lesson on how isolation and arrogance get people hurt, and why trust, connection, and the team are the only way elite operators survive the long grind.

All hell broke loose over Bavaria as Eduard Schallmoser, a 21-year-old Me 262 hotshot handpicked to fly wingman for Adolf “Dolfo” Galland, came screaming up from six o’clock on a B-26 formation, guns blazing and metal shredding, until he clipped a Marauder’s prop and somehow lived long enough to earn the only nickname that fit: “The Rammer.”

Iran escalated its rhetoric to “total war,” Russian forces drew outrage by using horses in frontline assaults, the Department of War flagged hazardous operating zones north of Venezuela amid rising regional pressure, and a gunman attacked a sheriff’s office in Wallace, Idaho, wounding three before police killed him.