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by Mitchell “Taco” Bell “Taco” is a retired Marine KC-130 pilot flying for a major airline on the B-737. Here’s what he encountered this month while flying into Mexico. Guadalajara, MX? Yeah, the law there is optional. That is the best comment about having a seemingly coordinated attack on a …

Chechen strongman Ramzan Kadyrov says he will challenge the Wagner mercenary group, and command his own private military company after he leaves office, according to Russian state media. Kadyrov announced the move Sunday on Telegram, TASS reported. “It can be said already now that Wagner has indisputably proved its effectiveness …

An employee of the Russian Defense Ministry has been found dead after apparently falling from a high-rise apartment building in St. Petersburg in the latest mysterious death of a senior official. Marina Yankina, 58, was the head of finance and procurement of the Russian Defense Ministry’s Western Military District. The …

SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA — North Korea confirmed that the intercontinental ballistic missile it fired Saturday was the Hwasong-15, which it said was part of a “surprise” exercise to test its war readiness with a “mobile and mighty counterattack.” The ICBM had the capacity to reach the continental United States given a …

Everything became eerily still, until… it blinked. “ENEMY!” Fils screamed. Then all hell broke loose.  by Heath Hansen The sun was just setting on the thick canopy of trees and bushes surrounding their position. It was a long day of humping through the dense growth; but it had been productive. …

An ISIS assassination cell leader was killed in a foray that was separate from a recent helicopter raid that killed Senior ISIS leader Hamza al-Homsi in Syria, according to the U.S. military. Officials from U.S. Central Command announced the development on Twitter, in an update about the raid on al-Homsi. …

A senior ISIS leader was killed, and four U.S. servicemembers and a military working dog were wounded in a helicopter raid in Syria, military officials said. Officials from U.S. Central Command announced the developments on Friday. Senior ISIS leader Hamza al-Homsi was killed in the raid. The Americans and the …

The new leader of al-Qaida is a combat-experienced former Egyptian special forces officer with a $10 million bounty on his head in connection with terrorist acts that killed Americans and others, the United Nations announced this week. More than six months after the United States killed al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahiri …

The USS James E Williams has Tomahawk cruise missiles, air-launched torpedoes, anti-ship missiles, and more. Two of its guns are called Thelma and Louise. Here’s a look at this U.S. Navy destroyer as it patrols the Mediterranean. Video by British Forces News Please leave this field emptySubscribe to the Soldier of …

by Susan Katz Keating The “domain awareness gap” that caused American air defenses to miss the original Chinese spy balloon may have been an automated filtering program that now has been shut off, resulting in a flurry of “UFO” discoveries, security sources said. “We’re not filtering out slow moving objects …