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BERLIN — Ukrainian military instructors will deploy to German army schools to help the Bundeswehr meet a readiness target against a hypothetical Russian attack on NATO by 2029, the head of the German army said Wednesday.The announcement, reported by Reuters, marks a striking role reversal from years of Western forces training Ukrainian troops and underscores the value of lessons learned on the increasingly drone-dominated battlefield of the Russian invasion. ​“We have high expectations,” Lt. Gen. Christian Freuding told Reuters in an interview. “The Ukrainian military is currently the only one in the world with frontline experience against Russia.”RELATEDThe deployment follows…

Introduction As we get older, the world gets a bit more complicated, and the long afternoons and evenings we once spent playing without a care in the world might seem like they’re long gone. I have very fond memories of my childhood playing strategy games, and sometimes it just feels right to go back and replay some games that were an integral part of me while growing up. In this list, I’m going to go over the 10 games I play whenever I want to take myself back to the late 90s and early 2000s, when I was but a…

Former interim UFC welterweight champion Colby Covington expected to be part of the UFC White House fight card. After all, he’s been one of President Donald Trump’s biggest supporters on the UFC roster. When the fight card was officially announced, Covington’s name did not appear. Instead, he was offered a fight against the eventual UFC Fight Night 273 main event winner. “I really wanted the fight. I was campaigning with the UFC. I thought they were holding me out for the fight specifically, but they couldn’t find anybody to fight me at that event. I asked for multiple names. I…

Background Depression and/or posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) commonly co-occur with opioid use disorder (OUD), and such co-occurring disorders (COD) are especially common among patients in primary care settings. Therefore, addressing the mental health needs of people with COD in primary care is essential. Methods We compared the characteristics of three groups of patients who screened positive for OUD and depression and/or PTSD: (OUD + depression, OUD + PTSD, and OUD + depression + PTSD) and examined how membership in these groups was associated with suicidality and treatment. We analyzed cross-sectional baseline survey data from a larger study of collaborative care for COD. 797 adult patients were seen in…

Lawmakers are considering updating the fiscal year 2026 National Defense Authorization Act to address how artificial intelligence systems are used in military operations following the fallout between Anthropic and the Department of Defense, one elected official said this week. Speaking on Wednesday morning during a conversation at the Brookings Institution, Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., said he and fellow elected officials have been examining how effectively current legal operating frameworks are governing advanced AI technologies and how AI should be safely used alongside warfighters. The results of this analysis could potentially update governance provisions in this year’s National Defense Authorization Act. “For this…

The Pentagon plans to buy 30,000 one-way attack drones this month, but the military’s ability to repair or even build drones on the battlefield could make or break operations in modern conflicts. So when Dan Magy, the CEO of Firestorm, first told me in December about a mobile industrial-grade 3D printing shop inside a shipping container, I needed to see it for myself. And I did, a couple months later on a rare rainy day in San Diego. The entire setup felt like walking into a field lab—white floors, ceilings, and walls draped in vinyl sheets—and smelled like brand new toys just…

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Listen to the article 7 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. LONG BEACH, Calif. — The impact of the conflict between the U.S. and Iran on ocean shipping reaches beyond the Middle East. As a result, the return of Red Sea services are now out the window, carriers are implementing surcharges and contract negotiations have stalled, Vespucci Maritime CEO Lars Jensen said at TPM26 by S&P Global. The U.S. and Israel launched military strikes against Iran on Feb. 28, disrupting logistics activity in the Middle East as air and ocean carriers deployed temporary…

After nearly two weeks of withering attacks, the Islamic Republic is weaker than it has been at any point in its history. U.S. and Israeli strikes have killed much of its leadership, including Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, destroyed much of its navy, heavily degraded its missile program, and buried its nuclear facilities. Bombings have cratered government ministries, police stations, and military buildings. Even the headquarters of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps—or the IRGC, the country’s most powerful institution—has been reduced to ruins.But although the Islamic Republic is down, it is not out. The regime selected Khamenei’s hard-liner son, Mojtaba, to…

Facing jittery global markets and drooping poll numbers since launching a war on Iran, President Donald Trump has cycled from calls for “unconditional surrender” to sounding amenable to an end state in which Iran trades one hard-line ayatollah for another.Shifting comments from the Republican president and his top aides are adding to the precariousness of the 12-day-old conflict, which is impacting nearly every corner of the Middle East and causing economic tremors around the globe. With neither side budging, the war is now on an unpredictable path — one in which a credible endgame is still unclear.Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth…