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The United States is preparing to send troops to Nigeria where they will train the country’s armed forces as they battle an Islamist insurgency, authorities in Lagos said recently. Roughly 200 troops are expected to be deployed in the coming weeks, according to a U.S. official. They will supplement a small team of American military officers already embedded with Nigerian forces. The Wall Street Journal was the first to report on the imminent deployment. Nigerian officials insisted that the new American contingent will not be engaging in combat. Maj. Gen. Samaila Uba, a spokesman for Nigeria’s Defense Headquarters, said in…

Introduction This is a new one for me! I don’t remember seeing Steam run a PVP Fest before in the years prior, so that’s always nice to see. In this list, I’m going to go a bit more generic and not delve too deeply into each game. It’s just a very quick game, in case you might be interested in picking up some games, because there are plenty of good strategy games on Sale. The Steam PVP Fest 2026 runs from February 9th until February 16th. For more in-depth guides, please explore some of my other lists. 10 – Wargroove…

The U.S. Army’s Global Response Force will begin assessing the Bumblebee V2 drone interceptor in March following a $5.2 million contract award inked on January 30 by the Pentagon. The Defense Department’s Joint Interagency Task Force 401 announced the agreement with Perennial Autonomy on February 4, which will see deliveries of the Bumblebee V2 start next month. The Bumblebee V2, a first-person view drone with four rotors, acts as its own drone hunter-killer system. Advanced artificial intelligence software enables it to identify other unmanned aerial vehicles and engage them in combat. It attacks other drones and knocks them out of…

In 2023, the U.S. Air Force (USAF) implemented several changes to the officer and enlisted performance evaluation systems, including a redesign of the performance reports and a change in the USAF’s approach to providing developmental feedback. The USAF asked RAND Project AIR FORCE researchers to first establish a method to evaluate and monitor whether the performance evaluation changes are having the intended effects and then to conduct the designed evaluation. The project team used a mixed-methods approach that included a survey with a stratified random sample of airmen; focus groups with raters, ratees, and higher-level reviewers (HLRs); interviews with board…

Meetings Coverage Security Council 10104th Meeting (AM) SC/16291 12 February 2026 The Security Council today extended for 12 months the mandate of the team tasked with monitoring sanctions against the Taliban and its associated groups and individuals, as membersdisagreed over references to human rights and the situation of Afghanistan’s women and girls under Taliban rule. Unanimously adopting resolution 2816 (2026) (to be issued as document S/RES/2816(2026)) under Chapter VII of the United Nations Charter, the 15-member organ decided that all States will continue to implement the sanctions measures laid out in resolution 2255 (2015). Those are imposed both on the…

SAN DIEGO – 12 February 2026 – General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) passed a new milestone this month, successfully integrating 3rd-party mission autonomy into the YFQ-42A Collaborative Combat Aircraft to conduct its first semi-autonomous airborne mission. For this test, GA-ASI used mission autonomy software supplied by Collins Aerospace, an RTX business, to fly the new YFQ-42A CCA, designed and developed by GA-ASI for the U.S. Air Force. The Sidekick Collaborative Mission Autonomy software was seamlessly integrated with the YFQ-42A’s flight control system, utilizing the Autonomy Government Reference Architecture (A-GRA). The integration enabled robust and reliable data exchange between the…

The central question for AI in 2026 is not whether governments have an artificial intelligence (AI) strategy—it’s whether they can operationalize it and quickly deliver the benefits to their citizens. Governments are increasingly treating AI as an essential capability for economic competitiveness, public service delivery, and political legitimacy. The United States and China may frame the global narrative most loudly, but other countries are feeling the same pressure in a more practical way. They are increasingly confronted with the difficulties of building AI-enabled infrastructure from the ground up, including the dependencies that come with it. What does it take to…

Former middleweight champion Sean Strickland believes you can make more money in the UFC middleweight division by not fighting for the title due to current titleholder Khamzat Chimaev’s inactivity.”It’s kind of weird what the UFC did with Chimaev. You brought a guy in that fights once a year who’s like Madonna who probably gets like, you know, I mean, how much money does that dictator give him under the table? Like, the guy doesn’t need to fight dude. He’s best friends with a f*cking warlord. He doesn’t need to f*cking fight. Dude gets gifted G Wagons,” Strickland told ESPN MMA.”You…

ABU DHABI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES – OCTOBER 25: Tom Aspinall of England prepares to face Ciryl Gane of France in the UFC heavyweight championship fight during the UFC 321 event at Etihad Arena on October 25, 2025 in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. (Photo by Chris Unger/Zuffa LLC)

Whenever Iran is shaken by nationwide protests, as it was just last month, analysts and activists are consumed by the same two questions: Will the country’s regime finally fall, and what will come next if it does? Answers abound. Some analysts think that the country’s leadership is surprisingly secure and that the regime can withstand more demonstrations. Some believe it will collapse, only to be followed by another dictatorship under the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, the most politically powerful branch of the country’s armed forces. Others are more optimistic, arguing that the entire system will go down and that an…