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The long march through the institutions by the diversity commissariat may be shocking for those who just look at DOD, but if you really want a peek in to how bad it is, look around. Today, I would offer to you the foreign service sector. Think about all critical challenges facing our foreign service from Central Asia, to Europe, to the western Pacific, to Africa, to the Middle East ... and then look what they are spending their time on. Check out the July/August edition of The Foreign Service Journal. You can get the PDF here, but here are the critical issues our diplomats must focus on; - Asian Americans Can No Longer Be Silent, and Neither Should You: Generation…

I'm not sure what percentage you can assign to greed, what to wishful thinking, and what to outright corruption, but the last four decades the West has not just sold companies, manufacturing, and economic leverage to the Chinese Communist Authorities - but at critical nodes through the world's critical choke points we've sold and leased to them unique land and resources they now control. How can smart nations try to recover from such a strategic mistake? Well, Australia is trying to figure that out. Details over at USNIBlog. http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/FAFV?d=yIl2AUoC8zA http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/blogspot/FAFV?d=qj6IDK7rITs http://feeds.feedburner.com/…

Americas According to Jane’s, the Pentagon’s intelligence directorate is investing heavily in systems and programmes specifically designed to knock down barriers to collaboration between US armed forces, allies, and partner countries across all strata of command. Increasing capabilities to foster increased collaboration between the Pentagon and its allies, from an information-sharing and technology perspective, has emerged as a priority for the department’s intelligence directorate. The Brazilian Navy commissioned its first-of-class Riachuelo Class diesel-electric attack submarine, S Riachuelo (S-40), on September 1. The general director of the Directorate-General for Nu…

Americas Lockheed Martin won a $2 billion modification for Phased Array Tracking Radar Intercept on Target (PATRIOT) Advanced Capability-3 missile production. Work will be performed in Grand Prairie, Texas, with an estimated completion date of December 31, 2029. The PATRIOT Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3) is a missile defense system developed by the United States, designed to […]View the full article

Americas Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday backed a suggestion by US counterpart Donald Trump for Russia, the United States, and China to all cut their defense budgets in half. “I think it’s a good idea. The US would cut by 50 percent and we would cut by 50 percent and then China would join if it wanted,” Putin said in a televised interview. Russia has massively ramped up military spending since launching its offensive in Ukraine in 2022, boosting economic growth but also inflation. GE Aerospace and Pratt & Whitney have passed the detailed design review of their offerings for the US Air Force’s Next-Generation Adaptive Propulsion (NGAP) program. The detailed …

South Korea’s military is under investigation over allegations that armed Apache helicopters conducted provocative flight operations near the Northern Limit Line (NLL) last year, accompanied by false radio transmissions suggesting imminent strikes on North Korean territory. The operations, reportedly ordered by higher command, are now part of a broader probe into whether Seoul sought to […] The post Seoul accused of using Apache helicopters to provoke North Korea first appeared on Defence Blog.View the full article

The U.S. Army has taken delivery of its first mobile laser weapon systems designed to counter unmanned aerial threats, according to a release issued September 3 by AeroVironment, Inc. The company confirmed the handoff of two prototype Laser Weapon Systems (LWS) under the Army’s Multi-Purpose High Energy Laser (AMP-HEL) program, a directed energy initiative managed […] The post U.S. Army gets first laser-armed squad vehicles first appeared on Defence Blog.View the full article

Ukraine launched a coordinated series of deep strikes overnight, damaging a Russian Buyan-M missile corvette operating in Lake Onega and targeting key elements of Moscow’s military infrastructure across several regions, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said on October 4. The Buyan-M — a small missile ship capable of launching Kalibr cruise […] The post Ukrainian strike hits missile corvette deep inside Russia first appeared on Defence Blog.View the full article

Indonesia’s defense minister said the country has not finalized any agreement to buy Chinese J-10 fighter jets, tempering earlier expectations that Jakarta was close to a deal. “Not finished — we are window shopping,” Defense Minister Sjafrie Sjamsoeddin told Bloomberg News on the sidelines of a regional security conference in Kuala Lumpur when asked Friday […]View the full article

Frankly, this should have started in earnest years ago, but I have a theory. We’ll get to that in a moment, but here’s the summary of developments since we all fell into a turkey coma. Ukrainian naval drones hit two oil tankers from Russia’s so-called “shadow fleet” as they travelled through the Black Sea, Ukrainian officials have said. Footage verified by the BBC shows waterborne drones speeding through the waves into the vessels, before detonating into a ball of flame, sending black smoke into the air. The targeted tankers were named by Turkish authorities as the Kairos and Virat, both flagged to the Gambia. Both were hit off the Turkish coast on Friday, with the Virat …

The United States has awarded Boeing a ceiling $8.58 billion contract to design, produce, and deliver new F-15IA fighter aircraft for the Israeli Air Force, according to a newly issued contract award notice released on December 29. The hybrid contract covers the design, integration, instrumentation, testing, production, and delivery of 25 new F-15IA aircraft, with […]View the full article

An Israeli drone manufacturer has secured a new foothold in Central Asia after Aero-Sentinel confirmed an exclusive distribution agreement in Kazakhstan, expanding its access to one of the region’s most established security and defense markets. The announcement was made on Sunday by Ofir Avram, chief marketing officer at Aero-Sentinel, who said the company had finalized […]View the full article

The Ukrainian Air Force has begun using French-supplied Mirage 2000 fighter jets to conduct airstrikes against Russian ground targets, according to reporting by Ukrainian defense outlet Militarnyi and footage released by the aviation-linked “Sonyashnyk” community showing precision-guided bomb employment on the battlefield. According to Militarnyi, video published by the Sonyashnyk community shows a Mirage 2000 […]View the full article

Iranian military officials have issued warnings to the United States over a potential ground operation targeting Kharg Island, as new footage circulating on social media shows preparations on the island, including deployment of FPV drones and construction of defensive positions. The statements and imagery emerged amid reports of possible U.S. force positioning in the region. […]View the full article

Shield AI announced on April 20, 2026, that the U.S. Navy has selected the company to provide contractor-owned, contractor-operated intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance services in support of naval and joint force operations. Under the arrangement, Shield AI will compete for up to $800 million in task orders alongside other selected industry partners, delivering persistent ISR […]View the full article

Red Cat Holdings has partnered with satellite communications company Kymeta to integrate multi-orbit connectivity into its Blue Ops Variant 7 uncrewed surface vessel, announcing the collaboration on May 14, 2026. Kymeta, a flat-panel satellite terminal manufacturer that has shipped more than 9,000 units across deployments in more than 80 countries and territories, joins Red Cat’s […]View the full article

A Russian Shahed attack drone struck a building at Ukraine’s centralized spent nuclear fuel storage facility before dawn on Sunday, June 7, 2026, approximately 15 kilometers (9.3 miles) from the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant, in what Ukrainian officials described as the latest act in a systematic campaign of nuclear terrorism. The strike hit the container […]View the full article

A spinning umbrella built to save armored vehicles from a kamikaze drone sounds like something out of a cartoon, but Russia’s military has patented exactly that. The Combined Arms Order of Zhukov Academy, one of the Russian Armed Forces’ premier officer training institutions, has designed and patented a rotating cartridge launcher meant to protect vehicles […]View the full article

Strategic bombing campaign theory has only been with us for a century. People are still arguing everything from the utility of B-17s over Germany, B-29s over Japan, or B-52s over Vietnam, but the theory has always held promise for those who are trying to find a way to achieve from the air what would otherwise be outsourced to a long bloody slog paved with the bodies of young men in the mud. Books are filled with the results—hundreds of thousands of civilians burned alive, starved, or crushed under rubble to take out one railroad junction moving soldiers and supplies, a ballbearing factory seen as the key to war production, mining the approaches to a port bringing in food,…

Let's go back in the time machine and quote your humble blogg'r back in May 05 on an issue I have been writing about since '04. Taking out their tried and true smear template, the Hollywood Left and their fellow travelers are starting out to libel today's veterans just like they did Vietnam veterans. I don't think they can help themselves. For the sake of this post, it would be best if you have read B.G. Burkett's book Stolen Valor . If you have not read it; buy it , read it, and then donate it to your local library. He exposes the macro lies, smears, and half truths that the anti-war/anti-military/anti-veteran slathered over the Vietnam veterans. …