In Washington, confidence often looks like a man walking off a cliff with a plan in his hand, convinced that history will blink first when gravity shows up.
U.S. planners step toward a cliff labeled “Increase military presence near Damascus,” with chaos raging below
A 2025 relook at Michael Hastings’ fatal crash that respects the lack of proof for assassination while explaining how modern connected-car technology makes certain “what if” scenarios technically plausible.
Image captured from a video released by KTLA News shows Hastings Mercedes Coupe burning as if it were full of thermite.
Over the last four administrations, Congress has steadily surrendered its constitutional authority, allowing presidents to expand executive power, especially through executive orders and unsanctioned military action, and unless the American people demand a revival of congressional oversight, the balance of our constitutional republic will continue to erode.
Brigadier General (Ret.) Donald C. Bolduc, former US Army Special Forces Commander. (US Army)
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Russia battered Kyiv with a winter missile-and-drone strike as Canada announced new Ukraine aid ahead of Florida talks, Thailand and Cambodia moved to lock in a ceasefire, Israel’s recognition of Somaliland sparked a regional flare-up, and Yemen’s south shifted as the STC expanded while the Houthis held the north.
Kyiv burns after Russian Missile Strikes. Image Credit: The State Emergency Service of Ukraine
China sanctioned 20 U.S. defense firms and 10 executives over a record Taiwan arms package, Russian “hillbilly armor” got chewed up by Ukrainian drones near Pokrovsk, and the Department of War had to tell troops in Bahrain to stop ordering sexual wellness products that local customs keeps seizing.
Military members in Bahrain unable to receive "sexual wellness" products due to customs rules that classify them an "imminent danger to life and limb." Image Credit: Armyupress.army.mil
The M250 is not the Army polishing an old idea, it is the Army admitting the fight moved out, got tougher, and demands a belt-fed demon that can reach out and make every burst count.
Bombing terrorist organizations is a tactic not a strategy, and SOCAFRICA’s 2015–2017 Gray Zone approach used a long-term, population-focused, partner-enabled campaign that integrated military and non-military efforts to neutralize Boko Haram and ISIS–West Africa by strengthening governance, protecting civilians, and building sustainable regional security.
Armed with amphibious rifles, Russian Spetsnaz turn the waterline into a kill zone instead of a transition point.
Most “loophole” gun gadgets blur lines and invite backlash. The Kali Key is different: it mechanically converts an AR into a manually operated straight-pull rifle, shifting it out of the semi-auto category without permanent changes.
The Washington and California National Guards surged forces to manage flooding and mudslide threats as atmospheric rivers hit the West Coast during the holidays. In separate incidents, two officers were critically wounded in a North Carolina custody exchange shootout, and a Washington State Patrol trooper was assaulted and had her cruiser stolen during an I-5 stop before the suspect was captured.
US hits IS targets in Nigeria as Zelenskyy–Trump talks near and border clashes surge. Here’s what’s making headlines this Friday evening.
America has always been a beautiful, loud, half-broken experiment run by argumentative primates, and the only reason it keeps surviving its own dumpster fires is because enough people keep choosing the hard option, speaking up when power tells them to shut up.
Haunted by the mine blast outside Da Nang in 1968 and the ringing that never stopped, my father carried survivor’s guilt home from Vietnam and spent a lifetime asking the same question: Why Them and Not Me?
Between Myanmar’s bloodletting, the 2016 interference debacle, and Cambridge Analytica, Facebook stopped looking like a neutral town square and started looking like an accelerant that only reached for the fire extinguisher once the building was already burning.
Denmark and Greenland should deny this envoy entry and engagement, because sovereignty is not a courtesy extended at Washington’s convenience but a hard line that allies have a duty to respect.
US hits IS in Nigeria, Yemen tensions rise, and Japan boosts defense spending. Here’s your Friday morning brief for December 26th, 2025.
Trump’s NORAD calls, Pope’s plea for peace, Ukraine hits Russian energy sites. Here’s what’s making headlines this Thursday evening.
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