Slimming the SIG Sauer M7: How Soldier Feedback Reshaped the Army’s New Rifle
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.
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.
America’s undeclared war on drugs has killed more of our people than any foreign enemy since World War II, yet it remains a conflict fought in legal and political shadows where no one has to admit we are at war or explain how it ends.
If the fall of Maduro means one less outpost for Moscow in our hemisphere, I will not pretend to be conflicted about it, because I have seen what his patrons do to men whose only crime was fighting back.
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From a beach town built on smoothies and Muay Thai camps, I am watching two neighbors drag a century of bad maps, criminal economies, and political ego back to the edge of a shooting war.
He crawled through the jungle on willpower alone, proving that character can outlast bone, muscle, and even the certainty of death.
If senior officers learn that asking hard questions is a career risk, not a professional duty, we will not need an enemy navy to sink us; we will do it ourselves from the inside out.
After a summer of costly Russian pressure and strained Ukrainian defense, the war now feels less like a contest of maneuver than a slow, punishing struggle in which every kilometer is bought with blood and neither side can yet break the other.
Out in the world’s forgotten corners, America’s outposts still bet their lives on walls too thin, warnings too late, and the dangerous illusion that lightning never strikes the same place twice.
The war is unlikely to end with a clear military decision; instead, as Russia’s reserves erode and Ukraine’s strikes steadily raise the cost of continuation, Moscow will be pushed toward a de facto halt sometime in 2026.
USCYBERCOM is the quiet joint warfighting machine that keeps America’s digital guns loaded, shields the Pentagon’s networks from hostile eyes, and hits back in cyberspace long before most people know a fight even started.
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