Military

USS Ford redeploys to Latin America, Cheney dies at 84, NATO shifts command roles. Here’s what’s making headlines this Tuesday evening.

Forged by colonial lines that ignored its people, Nigeria now strains under insurgency, corruption, and oil politics as the military grinds on multiple fronts and voices like Ojy Okpe refuse to look away.

By gagging commanders from speaking to Congress, Pentagon leadership trades trust for control, leaving lawmakers blind to battlefield reality and the force less ready to defend the nation.

Congress challenges Trump strikes, Seoul shows unity, Sudan crisis deepens. Here’s your Tuesday Morning Brief rundown, November 4, 2025.

Russia’s nuclear-powered 9M730 Burevestnik (SSC-X-9 Skyfall) is a low-altitude, long-endurance cruise missile, with a claimed 14,000 km in 15 hours still unverified, built to slip past missile defenses and push the nuclear arms race into a harder phase.

On a moonlit run into North Vietnam on November 21, 1970, Bull Simons and 56 Green Berets hit Son Tay with surgical violence, found the cells empty, and left the nearby Secondary School littered with bodies that looked a lot more like Chinese advisors than local NVA, a truth the official record preferred to bury.

On a winter day over Oschersleben, James H. Howard turned a lone P-51 into a brick wall for the Luftwaffe, riding nerves of steel and dead-eye gunnery to shove a sky full of Fortresses home.

From Darfur to Khartoum, Sudan’s war reads like the worst kind of rerun: militias rebranded, generals trading uniforms for power, and civilians paying in blood while the world shrugs.

A former Army HUMINT team leader who treated Top Secret access like a ticket to Beijing now has four years to think about the keys he tried to hand a hostile service.

From midnight to dawn, a mapped trail from Sugarcreek to West Milton left three Wright-Patterson colleagues dead and a base community clutching grief while investigators work the why.

Dan Crenshaw has turned the House into a war room, aiming the intelligence, sanctions, and if needed the rifle sight of American power at cartel empires that poison our streets while daring Washington to flinch.

At Saab’s Linköping plant on October 22, 2025, Zelensky and Kristersson unveiled a landmark deal to equip Ukraine with at least 100 Gripen fighters starting in 2026, a rugged highway-strip-capable fleet with long reach and low costs that signals Europe is serious about beating back Russian aggression.