Military

In a quiet room in Chantilly this April, CIA tech minds and SOCOM operators will start sketching the tools that will let small teams see more, move lighter, and think faster than the enemies waiting for them.

When promotions hinge on politics instead of performance, we risk eroding the trust, readiness, and integrity that our force depends on to win and to lead.

European missile stocks for Ukraine run dry as winter strain intensifies; the U.S. weighs new Taiwan arms sales while Iran temporarily closes the Strait of Hormuz during renewed nuclear talks.

Violence at a hometown rink, carrier decks warming in the Gulf, and U.S. missiles moving onto Philippine islands all point to the same reality, the line between domestic shock and global tension is thinner than most people think.

Pete Hegseth’s push to remove a senior Army spokesman has exposed a quiet power struggle inside the Pentagon, where promotions, past loyalties, and politics are colliding in ways the Army is not eager to explain.

They drove us into oxygen debt until the pool felt like a grave, and when one man actually died and came back, the only question waiting for him at the surface was whether he was tough enough to climb back in.

From AI deepfakes targeting officials to quiet U.S. boots returning to West Africa and a nuclear micro-reactor riding a C-17 toward the future fight, the common thread is simple: trust, presence, and power are all being contested at once. Plus…We’ve lost Robert Duvall.

From a 1958 request for one Army bomb tech on standby to today’s global JEOD VIPPSA mission, EOD’s quiet partnership with the Secret Service has stood watch over presidents and candidates for decades.

Franklin D. Miller’s Medal of Honor was forged in the chaos of a SOG reconnaissance mission gone wrong, where discipline, loyalty, and relentless action under fire turned a near-annihilation into a survival story that still sets the standard for how a man carries himself when everything collapses.

Ukraine detains ex-minister in graft probe; UN details Darfur massacre; Mexico mine workers found in graves; US boards Venezuela-linked tanker.

U.S. forces intensified strikes against ISIS in Syria as Russia tested a high-altitude communications platform positioned as a Starlink alternative, motorcycle gunmen massacred civilians in Nigeria, and NASA’s Crew-12 restored full staffing aboard the ISS.

Home defense is not a single tool but a layered system of intelligence denial, visible deterrence, hardened barriers, and decisive response that keeps criminals on the street or leaves them trapped inside.