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For ISIS, December 19 was the moment the desert learned, again, that America keeps receipts and collects its debts from the sky.
President Trump salutes the remains of an American civilian slain by ISIS. Image Credit: Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images
Rubio defends Venezuela pressure as Syria sanctions lift and Russia blamed in EU hacks. Here’s what’s making headlines this Friday evening.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio answers questions from reporters during a year-end news conference, December 19, 2025. Screengrab via CSPAN
Two weapons, one mission set, one ballistic brain: the M7 and M250 were built to fight as a paired system so squads can put accurate, sustained 6.8×51mm fire where it counts and keep constant pressure on the enemy.
The M7 rifle and M250 automatic rifle side by side illustrate the Army’s intent to give squads a matched set of weapons built around one cartridge, one fire-control logic, and one way of fighting. Image Credit: SIG Sauer
Ammo was life in Prairie Fire, because when the NVA hit hard and the sky went quiet for hours, the only thing standing between ST Idaho and getting overrun was what we could carry, shoot, and keep running in the dark.
Recon team members pose for a quick photo. Image courtesy of the author.
Read the entertaining account of a former Delta Force member describing the interaction between the two elite units.
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You do not get to interview your defenders for ideological purity when the rockets are already inbound, you take the ones who hold the line and you judge them by what they do under fire, not by what comfortable people say about them afterward.
Azov fighters pose on frozen ground after holding terrain that mattered, the kind of ground where ideology gives way to mud, cold, and the simple fact of who stayed when the fight came. Image by the author.
Brown suspect found dead as DOJ readies Epstein files and EU approves Ukraine aid. Here’s your Friday morning brief, December 19, 2025.
Navy tests new attack drone as Trump eyes cannabis shift and EU wrangles Ukraine aid. Here’s what’s making headlines this Thursday evening.
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.
In Delta, there was a bifurcation of schools of thought among the men, whose physical training program was NOT dictated at any level of command, recognizing that the Unit was fueled by big boys who played by big boy rules.
Liberal democracies did not fail because they defended themselves after 9/11, but because they spent the next two decades pretending that ideology, borders, and integration no longer mattered in a world where all three still kill people.
The Senate’s vote is Congress doing its job the way the Constitution intended, putting sunlight on military force and drawing a hard line against any president who thinks war powers come with no questions asked.
Pentagon hosts first Christmas service as China’s Fujian transit Taiwan Strait. Here’s your Thursday morning brief, December 18, 2025.
Senate advances $901B defense bill as Hegseth reforms chaplains and Putin issues new threats. Here’s what’s making headlines this Wednesday evening.
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Dürer’s knight rides on as a reminder that leadership is measured less by the enemies at your back than by whether you keep your principles intact when politics, temptation, and fear start whispering in your ear.
I am not crossing into Cambodia because I want to, but because borders now behave like quiet intelligence services, and once you have been attached to a war, even a routine visa run starts feeling like you are moving through someone else’s threat matrix.
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