This Silver Star citation is wild.

David's video shows how China is destroying the environment of its nearest neighbors. Clams and coral reefs devastated in the waters of the Philippines and Vietnam. The map below shows how it's state subsidized fishing fleet is expanding this destruction around the world. H/T

📸Pope Leo is Getting Rock Star's Reception in #Lebanon. That's how embracing Beirut is, clinging to message of hope and better life that he brings. Details + photos: al-monitor.com/originals/2025…

The harrowing description of a Bangledeshi crewman on board the tanker Kairos describes the attacks and efforts to get off the ship in the Black Sea.

Soldiers with the 25th Infantry Division have been developing and 3D printing their own drones for Pacific operations staradvertiser.com/2025/12/01/haw…

By my count, I've got at least two or three desks left at the Pentagon. Lost count.

Chinese Rare-Earth Dealers Find Ways to Dodge Beijing’s Export Restrictions—Chinese companies are experimenting with workarounds aimed at keeping magnet sales to Western buyers humming Jon Emont wsj.com/world/china/ch… wsj.com/world/china/ch…

Per The Guardian A family in Colombia filed a petition today with the Washington DC-based Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, alleging that “the Colombian citizen Alejandro Carranza Medina was illegally killed in a US airstrike on 15 September." The petition represents the

Not only is Rubio skipping the NATO foreign ministers' meeting, a break from 20 years of practice, but the US is sending Christopher Landau, a man who publicly questioned NATO's need to exist less than six months ago. Message received loud & clear. nytimes.com/2025/06/12/us/…

If MAGA prevails and the Trump administration follows through by formally renouncing the idea of strategic competition with China in the new national defense strategy, such a pivot would mark the most fundamental shift in American strategic thinking since the end of the Cold War,

A few years ago, the US got ahold of a damaged Shahed drone and had US companies reverse-engineer it, a defense official said. Now the US military is standing up the first one-way attack drone squadron in the Middle East — and using drones based on Iran's own playbook.

Military selects Pacific training preferences. Exercises include missile tests, submarine training and the biennial Rim of the Pacific. More: 808ne.ws/3XyB2ep 📷: COURTESY U.S. NAVY / 2020

This guy is the main through-line in U.S. Afghanistan policy and I cannot emphasize enough how much he can go fuck himself. And journalists -- you can quote me on that.

I have avoided clapping back on this BS because it’s a waste of time but I think it’s particularly nasty for Kingsley to allege that Pentagon reporters covered up the Afghanistan withdrawal when many reporters spent many hours working behind the scenes to help Afghans evacuate.

Insane excerpts from the Navy’s investigations:

DAMASCUS, Dec 5 (Reuters) - Former loyalists to Bashar al-Assad who fled Syria after the dictator’s fall are funneling millions of dollars to tens of thousands of potential fighters, hoping to stir uprisings against the new government and reclaim some of their lost influence, a

this is my main strategy when I’m out on a story and talking to people, basically just be a fun person to talk to and people will talk to you, but being a fun person to talk to is a lot of work because you must to listen & respond to what the person across from you is saying