Four dead after a Florida-registered speedboat traded fire with Cuban forces, as Freedom Shield ramps up in Korea, winter damage tops $4 billion at home, and the War Department races to field counter-drone defenses in a year already testing readiness on multiple fronts.
Cuban Coast Guard. Image Credit: The Miami Herald
A clogged toilet on a $13-billion aircraft carrier makes for easy propaganda, but it doesn’t ground the air wing, sideline the strike group, or signal the fall of American sea power — it just means sailors are fixing pipes while the ship stays on mission.
Flight deck operations on the USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78): Image Credit: DVIDS
Designed for discreet KGB carry rather than battlefield firepower, the ultra-thin Soviet PSM pistol traded stopping power for concealment, mystique, and a lasting reputation as both spy gun and status symbol.
Russian Izhevsk PSM pistol with 5.45x18mm ammunition. Photo credit: Guns.com.
Whether a President may strike Iran without Congress turns not on politics but on a single legal threshold, the difference between stopping an imminent attack and launching a preventive war.
President Donald Trump meets with senior advisors in the Situation Room as U.S. officials weigh potential military action amid rising tensions with Iran. Image Credit: The White House.
Discipline is not blind obedience but the daily choice to serve the mission, manage risk with clear eyes, and lead with humility so teams can adapt, innovate, and win.
Brigadier General (Ret.) Donald C. Bolduc, U.S. Army Special Forces veteran and former commander of U.S. Army Special Operations Command. (U.S. Army)
President Donald Trump’s 2026 State of the Union address focused on Iran’s nuclear ambitions, border enforcement and economic policy. Meanwhile, separate reporting shows Russia assessed capable of sustaining the war in Ukraine through 2026 as global defense spending continues to rise.
Donald Trump delivers his State of the Union address before a joint session of Congress at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Feb. 24, 2026. Credit: Kenny Holston/The New York Times
As the President steps to the podium tonight, Americans aren’t looking for applause lines, they’re looking for straight talk on inflation, border control, and whether the country is actually on stable footing at home and abroad.
When the shouting stopped and the questions started, three kids in a sticky-floored pizza joint learned that justice, like most hard truths, refuses to fit inside a single statistic or a single story.
Across the Western Hemisphere, governments invoke sovereignty while cartels exercise coercive authority, and until security and law are restored in fact, not rhetoric, the contest for control will continue to tilt toward those who rule through fear.
Real strength is not measured by how much weight you can carry into a fight, but by whether your mind stays clear and your emotions stay disciplined when the pressure is on and lives depend on your next decision.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was not improvisation but doctrine. Four years later, the war reveals how restoration politics and instability became instruments of state survival.
Four years into the Ukraine war, the conflict remains defined by attrition and energy pressure as Russian forces sustain offensives and Kyiv relies on Western support; meanwhile, tensions rise in the West Bank after a mosque arson during Ramadan, and scrutiny grows in Washington as a former ICE official calls the agency’s training program “broken.”
Cartel aftershocks in Mexico, gray-zone pressure in the South China Sea, and submarines stuck in American shipyards all point to the same quiet truth, instability grows fastest where deterrence slips and nobody moves quickly enough to stop it.
A field watch built with real volcanic sand from the Pacific campaign and sized like the A-11s that crossed those beaches, the Praesidus Pacific Front carries its history in the dial rather than just in the marketing copy.
As the Epstein files unfold and executive power continues to stretch its limits, the real test is whether America’s institutions will enforce the rule of law evenly, or prove that some elites still operate beyond its reach.
We drove up to Quincy together to support a campaign stop and left as three men instead of four, after a device that should have gone off the night before waited for Ken Foster the next morning.
When the second Black Hawk went down and the city closed in, Gary Gordon did not hesitate, he asked to be put on the ground, knowing exactly what it might cost and choosing it anyway.
Iran student protests resume as Tehran faces domestic unrest, U.S. military signaling intensifies, Russia targets Ukraine’s energy grid, and cartel violence in Mexico prompts shelter advisories for Americans.
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