Christmas on the Front Lines: The Normal Present, And What Normal Costs…
The cold sat with them like an old debt, unpaid and unspoken, while Christmas passed quietly somewhere far enough away to feel almost merciful.
The cold sat with them like an old debt, unpaid and unspoken, while Christmas passed quietly somewhere far enough away to feel almost merciful.
Amidst the surreal backdrop of Cheyanne Mountain, crammed with soldiers in Santa hats tracking the Fat Man for eager callers, I found a unique camaraderie and a poignant reminder of the holiday’s enduring spirit.
In the thin, hard air of Fort Carson, two 10th Group Originals reminded everyone watching that heroism does not need an enemy, only a moment where a man chooses to risk everything so someone else gets to live.
Washington’s Venezuela playbook under Trump looks less like a strategy for stability and more like a reckless regime-change gamble that could detonate humanitarian pressures, spike regional insecurity, and boomerang into political and economic blowback across Latin America.
The M7 and M250 were not selected to look good on a briefing slide; they were built to make sure the rifleman and the gunner are hitting the enemy with the same kind of authority when the fight turns ugly and the squad has to carry the weight together.
Under an almost-moonless Crimean sky, SBU Alpha sent heavy-warhead drones into Belbek and punched holes through Russia’s layered defenses, torching a Foxhound and the radars and missile systems meant to keep the whole peninsula under lock and key.
Battleship revival, Ukraine under attack, and a fatal Pacific boat strike. Here’s your Tuesday morning brief for December 23rd, 2025.
Border clashes, China’s military purge, and France’s postal cyberattack lead tonight’s Monday evening brief, December 22, 2025.
The CIA has revolutionized language learning. These methods can be your secret weapon to linguistic fluency.
With your shield or on it, we are called to live anchored in sacrifice, honor, duty, and respect, holding the line for the people and principles that matter most even when the cost is personal.
He was a sharecropper’s son from Lepanto who spent the day after Christmas turning a Belgian roadside into a firing range for German 88s, dragging wounded men out of the kill zone like he was collecting debts in the snow, and walking away with a kind of courage you cannot wrap, tag, or put under a tree.
The Army is cutting hundreds of hours of mandatory training, the Marine Corps is doubling down on Force Design for a Pacific fight, and Los Angeles is moving to tighten rules on LAPD less-lethal weapons at protests. Today’s brief breaks down what changed, why it matters, and what critics are already warning about.