Military

Read the exclusive account of what kinds of gear SOG recon teams carried during their top-secret missions into Laos, Cambodia, and North Vietnam.

Xi’s sweeping purge of his own generals exposes a deeper truth: behind the parades and new hardware, China’s military remains politically shackled, combat-untested, and far less ready for a real war than its leadership wants the world to believe.

A six-foot, turbojet-powered mini-cruise missile that flies nap-of-the-sea out past 200 miles for roughly the price of a JAGM, Red Wolf gives Marine Corps Vipers a way to hit ships, radars, and missile sites from well outside the danger ring and in numbers that actually matter.

Washington is tightening the screws from Cambridge to the Caribbean while quietly reopening a line to Moscow, a reminder that influence is applied with universities, warships, and phone calls long before it is applied with bullets.

A civilian Antonov turned night-fighting gunship now prowls Ukraine’s skies, proving that ingenuity and a minigun can swat down swarms of cheap Russian drones far more efficiently than million-dollar missiles.

NATO just put the UK in the hot seat that answers first when things go sideways, handing London the alliance’s rapid-response SOF command for 2026–2027 and betting that speed, integration, and a multinational special operations brain trust can buy time before a crisis turns into a war.

He was not built for parades or speeches, but for the dark hours when the line is breaking, the ammo is gone, and one man’s refusal to quit decides whether others live or die.

U.S. forces are transferring ISIS detainees from Syria to Iraq as Damascus and the SDF begin security integration talks, while deadly floods hit Idlib displacement camps and coordinated militant raids escalate violence in Nigeria’s northwest.

From the chilling echoes of Roswell to the high-tech probes of today’s Pentagon, America’s enduring obsession with UFOs reminds us that the skies hold mysteries far beyond our grasp—or at least, that’s what they want us to believe.

DARPA’s Blackjack program demonstrates how low-cost, proliferated satellites in low Earth orbit can deliver resilient military space capabilities by leveraging commercial technology, autonomy, and distributed architectures instead of relying on a few vulnerable high-value systems.

A decade ago, a soldier asked me for the secret to enduring endless pain, and all I could offer was a chaplain’s silence. Today I know the brutal truth: suffering isn’t solved, it’s survived through raw, unglamorous defiance that forges meaning from the void

BROTHERS rips Yaël Sion out of the warm, so‑called safety of the team, strips her down past rank, résumé, and operator ego, and dares you to suck it up and ride shotgun while she bleeds, breaks, and still brings unholy hell to the world that cut her loose.