Military

The ocean is a merciless adversary, indifferent to our struggle, but today we carved a small victory out of its ancient fury and lived to fight another round.

Theodore Roosevelt Jr. didn’t just carry his father’s famous name ashore on D-Day—he carried the fight, a cane, and the kind of guts that turned chaos into victory.

By federalizing the California National Guard and defying the governor, President Trump is doing more than responding to a crisis—he’s staging a demonstration of force to prove he still holds the biggest stick in the room.

For the first time in years, the Army stopped chasing quotas with TikTok dances and started pulling in recruits with something far more potent—purpose.

Military supremacy might win battles, but it can’t untangle the centuries of blood, belief, and bitterness that fuel these wars—and that’s the hard truth no arsenal can fix.

As NATO scrambles to meet Hegseth’s 5% defense demand, Poland ditches its Black Hawk deal, transgender troops brace for forced separation, and Trump rings up Xi to hit pause—briefly—on a trade war that’s far from over. It’s Friday, June 6, 2025 and here is your Evening Brief.

Frank M. Bradley isn’t some PowerPoint general ticking boxes at the Pentagon—he’s the kind of warfighter who’s lived every line of the operations order and still has dust from Kandahar in his boots.

They were kids turned killers by circumstance, storming a foreign shore not for glory, but because someone had to break the grip of evil—and they didn’t flinch.

We launched for war in the dead of night, rucks strapped tight and nerves tighter—only to turn around midair and win a battle no one would ever hear about.

Derrick Anderson’s journey from battlefield commander to Pentagon nominee reads like a war-hardened blueprint for how grit, failure, and redemption can forge the type of leader that this country needs.

Building rapport in the field isn’t about charm school polish—it’s about checking your ego, reading the room like your life depends on it, and remembering that sometimes the most powerful weapon you carry is a hot cup of tea and a well-timed compliment.

The decision to rename the USNS Harvey Milk highlights the ongoing tension between honoring diverse legacies and redefining military tradition in today’s tense political landscape.