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Amidst the surreal backdrop of Cheyanne Mountain, crammed with soldiers in Santa hats tracking the Fat Man for eager callers, I found a unique camaraderie and a poignant reminder of the holiday’s enduring spirit.
A US soldier dressed as Santa laughs with a jolly female elf at the Hammer base in southern Baghdad on Christmas Eve 2007. Image Credit: ALI AL-SAADI/AFP via Getty Images
In the thin, hard air of Fort Carson, two 10th Group Originals reminded everyone watching that heroism does not need an enemy, only a moment where a man chooses to risk everything so someone else gets to live.
Major General Lawrence G. Ferguson (left) pins the Soldier's Medal on Sgt. 1st Class Robert A. Haran. Image Credit: Sgt. David Cordova, 10th Special Forces Group (Airborne)
In the frosty breath of a Christmas Eve that forgave no absences, our rifles spoke in double-taps, the rhythm of duty overriding the silent night.
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Washington’s Venezuela playbook under Trump looks less like a strategy for stability and more like a reckless regime-change gamble that could detonate humanitarian pressures, spike regional insecurity, and boomerang into political and economic blowback across Latin America.
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Pentagon warns on China; Guard sent to New Orleans; US–Iran tensions rise. Here’s your Wednesday morning brief for December 24th, 2025
China's People’s Liberation Army troops march on Red Square during Moscow’s Victory Day parade, May 9, 2025. Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons
SCOTUS blocks Guard deployment, leaked CBS report stirs backlash, Ukraine exits Siversk. Here’s what’s making headlines this Tuesday evening.
A former technical school in Siversk lies destroyed after repeated Russian bombing since the start of the war. Image Credit: VOA/Wikimedia Commons
The M7 and M250 were not selected to look good on a briefing slide; they were built to make sure the rifleman and the gunner are hitting the enemy with the same kind of authority when the fight turns ugly and the squad has to carry the weight together.
America’s widening inequality and pay-to-play politics have left millions feeling trapped in a grinding rat race, and in that anger they handed power to a leader they suspected was corrupt, with consequences that will reward the New Nobility while everyone else gets squeezed.
Under an almost-moonless Crimean sky, SBU Alpha sent heavy-warhead drones into Belbek and punched holes through Russia’s layered defenses, torching a Foxhound and the radars and missile systems meant to keep the whole peninsula under lock and key.
With your shield or on it is not a slogan for the untested, it is a hard-earned standard that demands we treat war as a last resort because the bill is always paid in blood, broken families, and the quiet weight carried by those sent to do the fighting.
Battleship revival, Ukraine under attack, and a fatal Pacific boat strike. Here’s your Tuesday morning brief for December 23rd, 2025.
Border clashes, China’s military purge, and France’s postal cyberattack lead tonight’s Monday evening brief, December 22, 2025.
With your shield or on it, we are called to live anchored in sacrifice, honor, duty, and respect, holding the line for the people and principles that matter most even when the cost is personal.
He was a sharecropper’s son from Lepanto who spent the day after Christmas turning a Belgian roadside into a firing range for German 88s, dragging wounded men out of the kill zone like he was collecting debts in the snow, and walking away with a kind of courage you cannot wrap, tag, or put under a tree.
Landry named Arctic envoy as US ramps Venezuela pressure and Europe backs Ukraine. Here’s your Monday morning brief for December 22nd, 2025.
The Army is cutting hundreds of hours of mandatory training, the Marine Corps is doubling down on Force Design for a Pacific fight, and Los Angeles is moving to tighten rules on LAPD less-lethal weapons at protests. Today’s brief breaks down what changed, why it matters, and what critics are already warning about.
In Washington, the NATO argument is no longer about deterrence or doctrine, it is about the bar tab, and the guy holding the bottle is starting to ask why he is the only one paying.
Dick Cheney didn’t just steer America into war, he helped turn war into a business, and soldiers like me and my friends paid the bill in blood while he and his circle counted the profits.
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