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Putting a Qatari fighter school in Idaho feels like parking a lit cigar in a powder magazine and trusting the wind to behave.

The Navy yanked the skipper of the USS Wyoming Blue Crew for loss of confidence, a quarterback swap in the middle of the drive that keeps the deterrent machine rumbling while while top brass stay mum as to the reason.

Two hundred American troops will sit at the edge of Gaza, acting like air traffic controllers for a fragile truce, keeping aid lanes open, logging every breach in real time, and pressing partners to fix problems before the rumor mill sparks fresh shooting.

Phase One feels like slapping a tourniquet on a two year hemorrhage, buying enough breath to get the hostages out, pull the troops back, and see if anyone is ready to run Gaza without the gunsmoke.

What rattled the ranks wasn’t haircuts or PT scores but the clear signal that oversight would be trimmed and those who balked should leave, a pressure play dressed up as readiness.

Trump’s October Gaza plan feels like another lap in the same exhausted cycle, where Palestinian leaders refuse statehood, dodge disarmament, and turn ceasefires into reloads while civilians foot the bill.

The drop zone was missed by more than a fraction on this training jump by the French Foreign Legion. The urban terrain led to some uneasy landings for many of the members of 2e Rep.

The Insurrection Act is the fire axe behind the glass, meant for the rare blaze when courts and cops cannot hold the line, not a tool for routine patrols.

Two years after 7 October, the Middle East feels like riding around in the desert in a Humvee with a grenade with the pin half-pulled, grinding from Gaza to the Red Sea while diplomats in Cairo try to keep the spoon down and stop hostages, rockets, and headlines from detonating at once.

Facing Kaliningrad, Belarus, and a live war next door, Poland is pushing its F-16s to the Viper standard with APG-83 radar, Viper Shield, and standoff punch to hold the line while F-35s spin up.

When the line broke at Unsan, Father Emil Kapaun moved toward the fire, pulled the wounded to life, and showed men that leadership starts at the point of impact.

Harrison turned the Navy’s front office into a command post, but when Hung Cao’s confirmation made that turf grab look like a blockade, Hegseth ran the FAFO playbook, pulled the plug, and reminded the E-Ring that power without permission is a short tour.