Navy

The Navy finally built a fitness test that looks like the work its most dangerous sailors actually do, not the paperwork they fill out afterward.

Major John L. Plaster’s SOG is a blunt, first-hand account of MACV-SOG’s small-team missions behind enemy lines that makes Hollywood action look fake by comparison because it’s built on real consequences, brutal odds, and men who did not get to choose how it ended.

He did not kill Jennifer Evans, but he has spent over thirty years in prison because Virginia’s felony-murder doctrine treated his worst decision that night as if he had.

This is the Pentagon chambering an administrative round at a sitting senator’s military pension.

Maduro remains in U.S. custody as Venezuelans celebrate and stabilization plans take shape, RAF Typhoons struck an ISIS weapons cache in Syria, Wagner continues fueling Sudan’s RSF proxy war, and gunmen killed at least 30 in a raid in Nigeria.

Delta Force with DEVGRU support removed Nicolás Maduro as the U.S. moves toward prosecution and a short stabilization plan, Iran threatened U.S. forces after Trump warned Tehran over killing protesters, and Russia claimed Huliaipole while Ukraine and independent mappers describe a heavily contested gray zone in Zaporizhzhia.

Reports indicate Delta Force with DEVGRU support captured Nicolás Maduro in a pre-dawn raid as U.S. airstrikes sank narco-trafficking boats and the Coast Guard searched for survivors, while off-duty NYPD officers saved choking infants in separate life-saving rescues.

Iran escalated its rhetoric to “total war,” Russian forces drew outrage by using horses in frontline assaults, the Department of War flagged hazardous operating zones north of Venezuela amid rising regional pressure, and a gunman attacked a sheriff’s office in Wallace, Idaho, wounding three before police killed him.

These are badass boats. Combat boats. Even the “luxury” ones are built to go straight from a marina slip into a maritime raid. The catch is this: they are designed to kill drama. They turn chaos into routine and make your worst day on the water feel like a normal Tuesday. When things go wrong, they stay afloat, stay controllable, and keep the crew moving. That is not marketing. That is the point.

Yaël Sion does not survive the apocalypse by hoping harder; she survives it the way a cutting tool survives steel, by biting down and refusing to let go.

From an ambush that wounded three Rochester police officers, to the killing of UN peacekeepers overseas, to US forces seizing sanctioned oil tankers off Venezuela, a series of escalating incidents highlights growing risks for security forces operating in unstable and increasingly contested environments.

Out on the dark water where the rules get thin and the trigger gets heavy, Southern Spear is less a drug bust than a deliberate message: if you run narco-terror cargo under a cartel flag, the United States will hunt you down and end the problem at sea, not in court.