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How the US captured Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro
After months of growing military pressure on Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, President Donald Trump ordered a brazen operation into the South American country to capture its leader and whisk him to the United States, where his administration planned to put him on trial. In a Saturday morning interview on “Fox and Friends Weekend,” Trump laid out the details of the overnight strike, after whic...[Read More]
How the US Captured Venezuelan Leader Nicolás Maduro
Trump said a few U.S. members of the operation were injured but he believed no one was killed.
How the US military could clear mines from the Strait of Hormuz
As the United States embarks on clearing mines from the Strait of Hormuz, it could draw on an arsenal of drones, explosive‑laden robots and helicopters to reduce risks, though de‑mining crews could still be vulnerable to Iranian attacks. The U.S. is trying to secure the strait from mines as part of efforts to end Iran’s disruption of shipping, which has severely curbed global energy supplies since...[Read More]
How wine and champagne helped to defeat the Nazis
“The French like to maintain that the outbreak of war is always marked by a poor vintage, and victory by a gloriously celebratory one. Thus 1945 was a great vintage, 1939 mediocre, 1918 good, 1914 dismal,” writes Julian Barnes. It was as if the ground itself knew of the invasion and then, six long years later, of victory. Alcohol and war have always been intrinsically tied, with a recent study by ...[Read More]
Hundreds Go On Strike at Major Navy Shipbuilder in Maine over Wages and Benefits
Hundreds of designers, clerks and technicians went on strike in Maine at one of the U.S. Navy’s largest shipbuilding contractors.
Hundreds of US military family members trapped at camp facing closure, group says
Sean Jamshidi was a U.S. Marine Corps gunnery sergeant who served in some of the service’s most prized roles, including as an embassy security guard detachment commander and in psychological operations. But he feels helpless now to aid his brother, who worked for the U.S. government during the war in Afghanistan and has been stuck for nearly two years at a holding camp in Qatar, waiting for a visa...[Read More]
Hung Cao taps civilian to stand up Navy industrial base office
Within the Defense Department’s ongoing efforts to revitalize the industrial supply chain across the military branches, the U.S. Navy announced it is standing up a new defense industrial base office to “expand the domestic manufacturing ecosystem, mitigate supply chain vulnerabilities, and integrate dual-use commercial technologies to enhance the lethality of the Navy-Marine Corps team,” according...[Read More]
I used VR therapy to treat my PTSD. Here’s what happened next.
I was in southern Afghanistan in May 2014 when a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device detonated near me while covering a routine patrol as a public affairs specialist. It was something I had a dozen times before, but in a flash I was on my back, ears ringing, lungs full of dust. The blast knocked me out cold. When I came to, nothing was where it had been. The explosion left me with a traumati...[Read More]
IG finds Hegseth risked endangering Houthi mission with Signal use
A Pentagon inspector general report confirmed Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth sent sensitive operational information about an impending strike in Yemen over his personal cell phone, potentially endangering the mission objectives and troops carrying it out. The report, which was dated Dec. 2 and publicly released Thursday, found that Hegseth has the authority to decide whether information should be ...[Read More]
Immigration concerns and the ‘very typical’ impact on military recruiting
Javier Dela Torre was making plans to join the Army when he learned military service would not provide a pathway to citizenship for his mother. Prior immigration violations meant his mother’s case did not qualify for the immigration benefit he believed military service could provide. He decided not to enlist. Whether cases like Dela Torre’s are isolated — or occur often enough to influence militar...[Read More]
Impacts of Strait of Hormuz tensions stifle searches for US missing in Laos
For the second time since February, the ripple effects of the Iran war have spread to Laos, where fuel shortages have forced the cancellation or curtailment of searches by U.S recovery teams for the remains of troops missing-in-action from the so-called “secret war” in the Southeast Asia nation. In a release last week, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency said, “Due to significant impacts resulti...[Read More]