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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.
Hell Week isn’t some inspirational Instagram quote—it’s a prolonged beatdown from Neptune himself, and the only way out is through, one sand-chafed, sleep-deprived, surf-tortured hour at a time.
Rucking is as much about mindset as it is about muscle; practice the fundamentals, stretch those hips, and before you know it, the speed will come naturally—without (literally) running yourself into the ground.
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.
As Trump trades blows with Musk, Russia rains missiles on Kyiv, and Israel pounds Beirut’s suburbs, the world feels less like a chessboard and more like a powder keg with a lit fuse. Welcome to Friday, June 6, 2025, here is your morning brief.
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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.
This travel ban isn’t a security strategy—it’s a diplomatic Molotov cocktail lobbed into the middle of America’s already shaky foreign alliances.
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.
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