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Yaël Sion does not survive the apocalypse by hoping harder; she survives it the way a cutting tool survives steel, by biting down and refusing to let go.
ARISEN Operators, Book 1:The Fall of the Third Temple. Image Credit: Michael Stephen Fuchs
From an ambush that wounded three Rochester police officers, to the killing of UN peacekeepers overseas, to US forces seizing sanctioned oil tankers off Venezuela, a series of escalating incidents highlights growing risks for security forces operating in unstable and increasingly contested environments.
Police block the street at West and Gardiner Avenues in Rochester, N.Y., late on the evening of Dec. 19, 2025. Image Credit: Kayla Canne/ Democrat And Chronicle
After a deadly ambush near Palmyra, US forces hit more than 70 ISIS targets across central Syria in a heavy retaliation strike meant to keep ISIS cells from regrouping. Russia is pounding Odesa while massing forces near Pokrovsk, and back home a Bellevue officer-involved shooting is under review by King County’s independent investigators as both the officer and suspect recover.
A-10 striking with the GAU‑8/A Avenger, a 30 mm, seven‑barrel cannon with a fixed rate of fire of about 3,900 rounds per minute. "Fry half a city with this puppy." - Hudson
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Even as the Army steps away from formal MRT requirements, the resilience skills it taught are still mission-useful and should be shared through strong mentorship to help soldiers stay alive and pass their PT tests.
While none of us like the touchy feely training, sometimes we can find value between the lines. Image by the author
War has always had a myth side, and today’s “tactical glam” pin-up imagery sells that fantasy with real kit and lethal swagger, drawing civilians in while vets instinctively spot the gaps between the poster and the patrol.
Looking like a long range badass with an AR-10 variant DMR. Where is she? Who is she teamed up with? What's the mission? Stories like this dang near write themselves. Image Credit: Pinterest
The killing of an MIT professor is not just a crime story, but a reminder that America’s scientific power lives in real people, real places, and is more vulnerable than we like to admit.
Nuno F.G. Loureiro. Image Credit: Linked/Nuno F.G. Loureiro
Breaking down how neoconservatism and America First both demand a dominant U.S. military, but one aims to shape the world while the other uses power to secure direct benefits for Americans.
Federal regulators are moving to let massive AI data centers connect closer to power plants, a fast-track grid shift that could bring reliability. Norway is also stocking the shelves with consequences, funding F-16 munitions and air-defense weapons for Ukraine while tightening security rules on Jan Mayen as the Arctic heats up.
For ISIS, December 19 was the moment the desert learned, again, that America keeps receipts and collects its debts from the sky.
Rubio defends Venezuela pressure as Syria sanctions lift and Russia blamed in EU hacks. Here’s what’s making headlines this Friday evening.
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.
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.
Read the entertaining account of a former Delta Force member describing the interaction between the two elite units.
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.
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.
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