Military

White House defends Navy strike, Ukraine talks advance, Iceland expands fuel facility. Here’s what’s making headlines this Monday evening.

On that brutal Sunday morning at Pearl Harbor, Captain Mervyn Bennion stayed on the burning bridge of West Virginia with his guts torn open, still fighting for his ship and his men long after any reasonable man would have let go.

In 2025, Canada’s special operations command balanced Arctic sovereignty patrols and cold-weather training with a major Indo-Pacific deployment, while sustaining elite readiness through specialized units like JTF 2, CSOR, CJIRU, and dedicated special operations aviation.

Drawing on the overlooked grit of Revolutionary War hero John Stark, General Don Bolduc has forged a leadership style grounded in blunt honesty, shared risk, and an uncompromising commitment to his troops.

Congress is tightening bipartisan oversight on the Trump administration’s Caribbean counter-narco strikes even as the White House keeps pressure on cartel networks and Maduro’s inner circle. At the same time, Maduro is trying to project calm from behind blacked-out glass in Caracas, while New York’s anti-ICE protest at Federal Plaza crossed from lawful dissent into street-level disorder and drew a firm NYPD response.

From the Black Sea to Krasnodar and Kyiv, Ukraine and Russia are trading long‑range blows. Inside the U.S., an Afghan evacuee now charged over an alleged TikTok bomb plot in Texas.

November has repeatedly served as war’s decision month, delivering hinge battles from El Alamein and Guadalcanal to the Somme and Fallujah that either broke enemy momentum or forced conflicts into their endgame.

A new three star just walked into the USASOC hangar, grabbed the colors, and took charge of America’s shadow army at the exact moment the world is begging for harder and smarter answers.

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.

Han Kuang 2025 shows that Taiwan can rehearse joint warfighting and whole-of-society defense, but as someone who has worn the uniform and still calls this island home, I know we have not yet built the integrated readiness required to deter, absorb, and survive the war Beijing is actively preparing to fight.

Guard joins D.C. patrols, Zelenskyy’s Chief of Staff resigns, Israel raid kills 13. Here’s what’s making headlines this Friday evening.

Afghan vet shoots Guardsmen, Putin weighs Trump peace plan, and more. Here’s what’s making headlines this Thursday evening.