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Two guys sit three feet apart reading verified stories and walk away believing opposite truths, because the most loyal yes-man either of them ever hired fits in a pocket and runs on Wi-Fi.

Recruiting is rebounding, but with warships on alert overseas and Guard units cycling through nonstop domestic missions, the force is rebuilding under pressure, not in peace.

Twelve men, no script, and a mission set that swings from training guerrillas in the mountains to calming down armed allies in a cramped room at midnight—this is the quiet, decentralized grind where Special Forces actually earns its keep.

On a good team, birthdays are background noise, but the moment someone needs the mission to orbit their need for recognition, you’ve learned exactly where their loyalty will bend when the stakes get real.

As Moscow reels from yet another high-level hit, the shadow war between Russian and Ukrainian intelligence services is spilling far beyond the battlefield and into a ruthless campaign of targeted killings that risks becoming a self-sustaining spiral of retaliation.

I went in hunting monsters and came out with convictions in hand and the unsettling realization that some of the men I put away laughed, argued, and felt more like me than the clean map in my head ever allowed.

Violence didn’t excuse the man he became, but if you trace the line from the boots on the porch to the needle in his arm, you can see how a boy dies long before the state ever calls it justice.

In my SEAL training I learned to develop positive habits that affect real change by identifying the negative self-talk I wanted to fix.

At Daytona this weekend, Rob O’Neill is trading the usual trackside beer for something that better fits the life he’s living now, showing up with hi Seltzer, a full schedule, and the same forward momentum that has kept him moving since the Teams.

Authenticity isn’t radical oversharing, it’s disciplined alignment, receive everything, say less than necessary, fix the problem first, then speak with results instead of running commentary.

As Britain retreated from empire and the United Nations elevated procedure over consequence, Rhodesia became the proving ground for a moral framework that promised democratic legitimacy while quietly ensuring that the most ruthless actors would inherit the state.

The Pentagon is drawing new authority lines along the border, keeping the C-17 fleet flying into the 2070s while pushing more U.S. weapons overseas, and trading nuclear accusations with China as the last guardrails of arms control continue to crack.