Military

Second phase of BUD/S doesn’t just test your body—it tries to crush your soul, your sanity, and, occasionally, your ability to keep your reproductive organs in their rightful place.

Lt. Gen. Joshua Rudd’s decades of Special Forces experience and Indo-Pacific operations could soon shape the nation’s most sensitive cyber missions at NSA and U.S. Cyber Command.

I have stood shoulder to shoulder with NATO warriors in Afghanistan and beyond, watched them bleed and die for a shared mission, and any leader who diminishes their courage, sacrifice, or honor insults not politics but the very brotherhood and duty that war demands.

Tonight, from the Arabian Sea to a quiet Las Vegas street and back through the Strait of Hormuz, American forces and investigators navigated drones, gunboats, and thousands of mysterious vials, each a reminder that danger often hides in plain sight, and volatility waits in every corner.

From the Justice Department dumping millions of Epstein intel, to NATO testing Europe without American boots, to a Russian cargo jet stirring Caribbean ghosts, the world feels like it’s flipping through raw, unfiltered intelligence and asking who’s really in control.

The 1st CIG’s greatest expertise lies in precisely locating American hostages held by foreign terrorist groups and pinpointing high-value terrorist leaders, a capability they demonstrated when helping track down Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein in December 2003, al-Qa’ida leader Osama bin Laden in Pakistan in May 2011, and ISIS terrorist leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in Syria in October 2019.

The administration’s reflexive reach for military force, led by leaders who’ve never shouldered a rifle or smelled cordite, betrays a dangerous detachment from the grotesque arithmetic of war that every combat veteran carries home.

From a quiet Mississippi upbringing to a rooftop in Marjah, Kyle Carpenter’s life is a study in what happens when ordinary resolve collides with an extraordinary moment.

Alex Pretti’s killing is driving a rush of left‑leaning Americans to get guns, Iran is talking, Balochistan saw a major coordinated assault on security forces, and Nigeria’s Army hit a major terrorist stronghold in the northeast.

Mental health issues in the military should be openly addressed. We’ve talked to some experts to open up these discussions.

A combat veteran reflects on how a rescued cat became his emotional support animal long before he understood how much he needed one.

More than a book review, this is a portrait of David Petraeus as a great but imperfect man whose service and ideas shaped modern American warfare.