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Border clashes, China’s military purge, and France’s postal cyberattack lead tonight’s Monday evening brief, December 22, 2025.
A US Air Force C-17 sits loaded with THAAD support equipment bound for Israel, October 16, 2024. Image Credit: DVIDS
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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.
President Harry S. Truman pins the Medal of Honor on James R. Hendrix, a farm kid from Arkansas whose Christmas week in the Ardennes was spent silencing guns, saving lives, and doing the work others could not. Image credit: Harry S. Truman Library.
Landry named Arctic envoy as US ramps Venezuela pressure and Europe backs Ukraine. Here’s your Monday morning brief for December 22nd, 2025.
A video screengrab shows a US Coast Guard aircraft flying over an oil tanker last docked in Venezuela before its apprehension, December 20, 2025. Image Credit: @Sec_Noem/X
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.
Army troops doing what we do best, following the artillery. Image Credit: Army Times
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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