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Muscle is vital to our health and physical appearance, but some take it to mean that every exercise you do needs to build it, and if it doesn’t, don’t do it. Specific exercises are also broken down to the nth degree, implying there is only one way to do them that counts. Face pulls are one exercise that straddles both worlds. The standard face pull is difficult to load heavily because the weight pulls you forward, making it hard to maintain balance. So, from a pure muscle-building standpoint, load is an issue. Like many exercises in the post-YouTube era, talking…

Tuesday, February 10, 2026 For Immediate Release Office of Public Affairs The president of a metal fabrication and manufacturing company pleaded guilty on Feb. 5, to a conspiracy to rig bids for maintenance, repair, and operations contracts affecting United States military installations, earning his company more than $8.5 million dollars in rigged procurements. According to court documents filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Thomas C. Rollins, of Wilmington, North Carolina, was the president of a company that provided goods and services to military bases through procurements administered by the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA). Between…

Royal Navy Merlin Mk4 helicopter hovers over as team tethers an off road vehicle for transportation, 9 February 2026. Credit: Crown copyright / UK Ministry of Defence. The UK will increase its troop presence in the Norwegian Arctic to deter the threat from Russia This surge will see Britain’s military presence increase from 1,000 to 2,000 personnel over the next three years Amid the Russian military build-up and the Greenland crisis, the UK government is looking to prioritise the High North theatre The UK Ministry of Defence announced a surge of British military personnel to Norway over the next three…

Ukrainian defense manufacturer Inguar Defence has developed a new pickup variant of its Inguar-3 armored vehicle designed specifically for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) crews, the company announced this week. The new configuration, described by the manufacturer as an “Inguar-3 Pickup for UAV crews,” was developed “in strict compliance with the operational requirements defined by Lasar’s […]

DUBLIN, Calif.– More than 100 people, including service members from all military branches, past and present city leaders and former mayors on February 7, 2026, to rededicate a landmark piece of military and architectural history. Officials from the U.S. Army and the City of Dublin formally unveiled the original Camp Parks sign at its new, prominent location at the main gate of the Parks Reserve Forces Training Area (PRFTA). The ceremony marked the culmination of a multi-year collaborative effort. For the past three decades, the sign and its accompanying gate shack stood at the post’s southwest corner. In the fall…

Sputnik News 20260210 Japan has allegedly pledged significant financial support for Ukraine, and committed to providing specialized equipment, with reports indicating long-term assistance. Doubling down on its US-pushed militarization drive, Japan is moving closer to NATO by signing on to the alliance’s Security Assistance and Training for Ukraine (NSATU) program, which facilitates the flow of military equipment to Ukraine, according to NHK. Sources cites by the outlet claim Japan will soon officially announce its participation in the initiative, announced during the NATO Summit in July 2024 and headquartered in Wiesbaden, Germany. The equipment that Japan is expected to procure for…

BLACKTALON Ecosystem at WDS 2026. BLACKTALON Ecosystem is one of the most comprehensive, configurable counter‑UxS systems available today, integrating with multiple vendor-agnostic sensors and effectors. To be shown at the World Defense Show, highlighting how it can respond to increasingly complex threats across land, sea and air. Radio Frequency (RF) specialist, Enterprise Control Systems (ECS), will showcase its BLACKTALON Ecosystem at the World Defense Show (8-12 February 2026, stand H1-E33). The open-architecture counter-UxS system can enable defense and security teams to respond to increasingly complex surface, sub-surface, and above-surface threats across the Middle East. Designed as a fully configurable, multi-vendor…

“I hope I am wrong. My gut tells me we will fight in 2025.”—Leaked internal US Air Mobility Command order, late January 2023 WASHINGTON—Three years after I made that prediction, and with 2025 fully behind us, I can now say that I was wrong. That is good. But I know it was right to sound the alarm.  I was the commander of the US Air Force’s Air Mobility Command when I issued an order to my command to aggressively prepare for possible conflict in the Pacific. I was grappling with a critical question: How can the United States project power…

“Handz of Steel” was fighting a private war.No. 12-ranked Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Welterweight Geoff Neal returns to action next weekend (Sat., Feb. 21, 2026), putting his ranking on the line against fellow knockout artist Uros Medic at UFC Houston inside the Toyota Center in Houston, Texas.On the surface, the last five years have simply looked inconsistent for Neal, who was once undefeated inside the Octagon and riding a five-fight winning streak —with notable wins over Niko Price, Belal Muhammad, and Mike Perry (watch highlights). However, he lost momentum in late 2020, and since then, he has gone 3-5, a…

The UK military is seeking armoured containers to be used as ammunition stores and workshops. Credit: UK MoD/Crown copyright The containerised units will be situated within existing UK military locations located overseas The UK operates a string of overseas bases across Europe, the South Atlantic, the Middle East, and into the Indo-Pacific Such armoured units would be useful for locations that may not have established infrastructure The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) is seeking the provision of armoured containers for use at overseas sites operated by the British military, to be operated as armouries, ammunition stores, and workshops. Contracted via…