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In the four years since Russian President Vladimir Putin launched his “special military operation,” Ukraine and its foreign supporters have consistently framed their objectives in the language of territorial integrity. During the first year of fighting, Western officials explicitly called for the restoration of Ukrainian sovereignty over all its internationally recognized territory, including Crimea and the part of the Donbas that Russia has controlled since 2014. This theory of victory, which was always implausible, collapsed after the failure of Ukraine’s 2023 counteroffensive. Since then, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and most Western leaders have reluctantly conceded that Russia will maintain de…

The United States Department of War and the Department of Energy transported a next-generation nuclear reactor aboard a C-17 military aircraft on Feb. 15, 2026, from March Air Reserve Base in California to Hill Air Force Base in Utah for testing under a federal nuclear modernization initiative. The compact reactor, developed by Valar Atomics, is […]

This article is a re-publish of a critique of Frank Hoffman’s Assessing “Cognitive Warfare” article that ran on Small Wars Journal on November 11, 2025. The critique ran on Matt Armstrong’s substack, Arming for the War We’re In on November 17, 2025. Introduction Contemporary security discourse is frequently captured by a false narrative on new forms of warfare. The recent emergence of the term “cognitive warfare” is a symptom of this misconception, suggesting a novel evolution in warfare that does not exist. This form of non-military aggression was not unknown to us; on the contrary, at the onset of the…

Longtime UFC commentator Joe Rogan has recalled why he decided to stop competing in combat sports. Before Rogan became a well-known entertainer and UFC broadcaster, he competed in taekwondo. Rogan rose to prominence quickly in the sport, as he won the U.S. Open Taekwondo Championship at the age of 19. He was also a four-time Massachusetts state champion. It wouldn’t be long before Rogan decided that competing was no longer suited for him. During a recent episode of “The Joe Rogan Experience,” the beloved UFC commentator explained why he ended his fighting career early (via MMAFighting). “I stopped fighting when…

In the late 2020s, we hear increasingly of the demise of international law and “the rules-based international order.” Donald Trump’s use of force against Iran and Venezuela and threat to use it against Greenland, following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, are widely seen as representing a turning point in international relations, linked to the rise of authoritarianism in domestic politics. No episode in the new world disorder speaks more to this sense of change than Israel’s genocide in Gaza, in which Trump has also played a major role. It is over Gaza that the USA has most definitively rejected international law,…

On June 12, 1944, Joseph “Jerry” Brenner was training at Camp Forest in Tennessee, preparing to deploy to Europe with the U.S. Army’s 740th Field Artillery Battery and the rest of the Third Army as part of the “Great Crusade” to end the tyranny of Nazi Germany. Like most GIs, he was lonely and missed his family: wife Norma and baby Laurie back in Brooklyn, New York.The corporal’s day brightened considerably at mail call when he received several letters from home. One dated June 10 was from Norma. Along with details about his 3-month-old daughter, the letter included a tender…

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UFC veteran Matt Brown doesn’t believe that the UFC White House Card will be the best card ever, as has been promised. In a recent interview with MMA Fighting, “The Immortal” doubled down on why he thinks Dana White, Hunter Campbell, and the team will fail to pull off the biggest UFC event ever. Brown started by stating his belief that the UFC doesn’t have the stars it used to have, and hence, the June 14 card will be a disaster. The 45-year-old also stated that he is sure Conor McGregor won’t be a part of this event, and the…

Pick which gods to serve, stack blessings across your party, and try to survive handcrafted grid battles on the road to the Sin bosses. Today I was able to spend about an hour digging through TBL’s pages to gather more information on an intriguing project that just surfaced on the Reddit channel. It’s called Goddess of Strategy, an SRPG with clear and openly stated inspirations from Fire Emblem, as well as Darkest Dungeon and Slay the Spire. The developer is Lost Grace Games, based in Austria, and in my view they have something very promising on their hands. Each run…

MACOMB-BASED ARMY NATIONAL GUARD ENGINEER UNIT COMPLETES MISSION IN MIDDLE EAST, RETURNS TO ILLINOIS Your browser does not support the audio element. More than 150 Soldiers from the Illinois Army National Guard’s 661st Engineer Construction Company returned to Illinois this month after completing their mission in the Middle East.About 50 Soldiers returned on February 7 and the remaining approximately 100 Soldiers returned on February 14 (Valentine’s Day). Both groups flew into Abraham Lincoln Capital Airport’s Stellar Aviation in Springfield to throngs of family and friends.While deployed, the unit was based in Kuwait and built and maintained infrastructure for U.S.…