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Since the beginning of his second term, U.S. President Donald Trump has taken a contradictory approach to the war in Ukraine and how it should end. In September 2025, Trump said that Ukrainians should “get their land back” and that Russia was “a paper tiger.” Just two months later, however, he presented a 28-point peace plan widely seen as favorable to Russia, saying that Ukraine would “lose in a short period of time” if it did not agree to the plan. Since then, Trump has continued his efforts to end the war as quickly as possible, even if that path…

The next-generation aircraft is expected to be in service by 2035. Credit: © Edgewing. A £686m ($922m) international contract has been awarded to Edgewing to advance design and development activities for the Global Combat Air Programme (GCAP).   The contract represents the first joint agreement for GCAP, a collaborative effort among Italy, Japan and the UK to develop a next-generation combat aircraft.  Discover B2B Marketing That Performs Combine business intelligence and editorial excellence to reach engaged professionals across 36 leading media platforms. Find out more Edgewing, a joint venture (JV) formed by BAE Systems, Leonardo, and Japan Aircraft Industrial Enhancement Co. (JAIEC), received the contract from the GCAP Agency, which manages the project on behalf of the…

UFC heavyweight contender Curtis Blaydes issued his first remarks after a brutal three-round war against Josh Hokit at UFC 327. At a time in which the UFC’s heavyweight division desperately needed excitement and juice, Curtis Blaydes and Josh Hokit delivered with an instant classic at UFC 327. Blaydes, a Top 10 mainstay in the UFC’s heavyweight division, lost to the unranked Josh Hokit at UFC 327 last Saturday in Miami. It was a captivating three-round war between Blaydes and Hokit, as fans were treated to quite the show inside the cage as they were in the lead-up outside of it.…

“Unless he is caught up in murderous ecstasy,” Glenn Gray wrote in reflection of his time as a draftee in the U.S. Army during the Second World War, “destroying is easier when done from a little remove.” In the link between distance and ease of aggression, there’s a direct relationship between empathy, physical proximity of the victim and the resultant difficulty and trauma of the kill, according to Lt. Col. Dave Grossman in his 1995 study “On Killing.”For Vietnam veteran Eugene “Gene” Marion Simmers, a close proximity to death and the actions he wrought haunted him for more than fifty…

A two-man team of Army Rangers from 75th Ranger Regiment won this year’s Best Ranger Competition, marking the sixth consecutive year the unit has placed first in the grueling three-day event. Spc. Caleb Godbold and Sgt. Drew Schorsch finished first after completing a host of physical, technical and cognitive tasks at Fort Benning, Georgia, over the last week. Ranger school is widely viewed as the Army’s premier leadership and small unit tactics course. The monthslong course has a high failure rate and its graduates earn a coveted Ranger tab — worn on the left shoulder sleeve of Army uniforms —…

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.—A $1 trillion baseline defense budget is the standard for future funding, but additional multi-billion spending measures to cushion 2027’s request are less certain, the chairman of the House Armed Services Committee chairman said Sunday.The $1.5 trillion defense budget request unveiled this month would mark the highest level of military funding in a single year since World War II, if passed. That figure includes $350 billion in reconciliation funding and $1.15 trillion from the annual discretionary defense bill. And the trillion-dollar baseline figure is here to stay, Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Ala., said Sunday evening during a roundtable at the Space Symposium…

This is the complete voice actor list for Arknights: Endfield, covering all characters across English, Japanese, and Chinese dubbings.The list will be updated as new characters are added! Arknights: Endfield is the newest 3D strategy RPG from GRYPHLINE that introduces a variety of powerful yet cool Operators for the Arknights community, like Tangtang, Lifeng, and more. However, what truly brings these heroes to life are the voices behind them. In this article, I’ll list the characters in Arknights: Endfield along with their wonderful voice actors. Complete list of Arknights: Endfield voice actors What really makes these characters stand out are the voice actors, who…

A Pentagon-ordered review on the effectiveness of women in combat is now under new management, Military Times has learned.The six-month independent review, commissioned by Undersecretary of Defense Anthony Tata in December, was originally set to be performed by the Institute for Defense Analyses, a Washington, D.C.-area nonprofit that administers three research centers supported by federal funding. The effectiveness study, according to a Pentagon official, was set to kick off with the 10-year anniversary of Defense Secretary Ash Carter’s lifting of the ban on women in ground combat roles at the end of 2015. This review, the official told Military Times…

Carlos Ulberg captured the UFC light heavyweight title with a stunning knockout over Jiri Prochazka in the UFC 327 main event. What made it so remarkable was the fact that Ulberg was badly injured, leaving him with just one working leg to compete on, and now that calls into question where the division goes if Ulberg is sidelined for a significant period of time? Where do the UFC 327 headliners go from Saturday night?On an all-new edition of On To the Next One, MMA Fighting’s Mike Heck and Alexander K. Lee discuss what’s next for Ulberg after his title win,…

The UFC was in Miami, Florida, for UFC 327 on Saturday. In the main event, the vacant light heavyweight title is up for grabs as Carlos Ulberg takes on Jiri Prochazka in a highly anticipated bout. Ulberg entered the bout riding a nine-fight winning streak and was coming off a KO win over Dominick Reyes. Prochazka, meanwhile, was riding back-to-back knockout wins over Khalil Rountree and Jamahal Hill and was looking to reclaim his light heavyweight title. In the end, it was Ulberg who won by first-round KO in a stunning result. Ulberg hurt his knee early on in the…