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Washington is shifting NATO toward grown-up burden sharing, chasing sanctioned tankers across oceans, and quietly buying more intelligence horsepower for SOCOM, all signs that the next phase of competition will be fought with allies who carry more weight, ships that have nowhere left to hide, and analysts working the night shift.

In my SEAL training I learned to develop positive habits that affect real change by identifying the negative self-talk I wanted to fix.

Washington is hemorrhaging power across the military, diplomatic, economic, informational, and reputational fronts, and from Beijing and Moscow the spectacle looks less like strategic competition than an opportunity handed to them by a White House they can exploit without firing a shot.

At Daytona this weekend, Rob O’Neill is trading the usual trackside beer for something that better fits the life he’s living now, showing up with hi Seltzer, a full schedule, and the same forward momentum that has kept him moving since the Teams.

Authenticity isn’t radical oversharing, it’s disciplined alignment, receive everything, say less than necessary, fix the problem first, then speak with results instead of running commentary.

Zelenskyy rules out elections under martial law as fighting intensifies, Bondi testifies on Epstein files, and the FAA defends an El Paso airspace closure.

From Langley speeding tech to operators, to the Pentagon leaning on contractors to build faster, to AI moving inside the wire, Washington is quietly rewiring how it thinks, builds, and fights for the next war.

Read the exclusive account of what kinds of gear SOG recon teams carried during their top-secret missions into Laos, Cambodia, and North Vietnam.

As Britain retreated from empire and the United Nations elevated procedure over consequence, Rhodesia became the proving ground for a moral framework that promised democratic legitimacy while quietly ensuring that the most ruthless actors would inherit the state.

Xi’s sweeping purge of his own generals exposes a deeper truth: behind the parades and new hardware, China’s military remains politically shackled, combat-untested, and far less ready for a real war than its leadership wants the world to believe.

The presidency is not a monument to personal ambition but a solemn trust to serve the Constitution and the American people with integrity, humility, and an unwavering commitment to the nation above self.

Russia tightens controls on Telegram, Trump warns Iran of consequences, and new reporting links Ethiopia to training Sudan’s RSF fighters.