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Bottom lines up front WASHINGTON—On August 10, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned that the Kremlin has decided to deploy between 30,000 and 50,000 North Korean troops on Russian soil. According to a Ukrainian intelligence official, Moscow has also recently deployed 120 KN-23/KN-24 ballistic missiles, six launchers, and ninety North Korean military personnel in Russia’s western Voronezh region. The reports came shortly after news broke that the United States is reconsidering granting Ukraine a license to produce Patriot interceptor missiles.   While troop transfers are significant, North Korea’s ballistic missiles may prove more consequential in the battle for Ukraine’s skies. The ground war has stalled…

Yampier Ramirez has a simple view of fighting, he wants opponents standing in front of him. That is why the unbeaten Cuban bare-knuckle champion says he moved away from MMA and committed himself to BKB ahead of his August 29 fight with Tristian Harrison in Miami. Ramirez, 22, meets Harrison in a super lightweight bout on the BKB 58 undercard at the James L. Knight Center. The Hialeah-based fighter enters with a 4-0 BKB record, all four wins ending inside the distance. Yampier Ramirez Explains Why MMA Was Never for Him Ahead of BKB 58 “I like to fight,” Ramirez…

News August 24, 2026 Lisa Daigle Assistant Managing Editor Military Embedded Systems LGNDX graphic WASHINGTON. Software-technology company LGNDX won a U.S. Air Force Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase III contract to deploy Innovation Exchange (IX.MIL), its defense acquisition platform designed to accelerate how defense organizations discover, evaluate, fund, and transition emerging technologies for operational use. According to the company announcement, IX.MIL is currently being developed in partnership with the Air Force’s Digital Transformation Office (DTO) and the Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO) to address one of the defense innovation ecosystem’s most persistent challenges: that of connecting government…

WARSAW, Poland — Poland, Norway, Lithuania and Latvia have signed a framework agreement to buy Piorun (Thunderbolt) man-portable air defense systems from Polish state-run defense group PGZ under a deal worth more than 8 billion zloty ($2.2 billion).The acquisition covers “several thousand missiles and several hundred launch units,” PGZ said in a statement. Deliveries of the group’s flagship weapon are to be completed by 2030, with Poland serving as the consortium’s leader.On Poland’s side, the procurement will be financed from the European Union’s Security Action For Europe (SAFE) scheme which foresees around €43.7 billion ($50.9 billion) in low-cost loans for…

NSA says it has a plan in place to fix the issue. Michele Sandiford August 25, 2026 10:45 am < a min read   The National Security Agency doesn’t appear to be complying with federal laws that require the agency to outline whistleblower protections in its nondisclosure agreement. The NSA’s inspector general said the agency doesn’t have a central repository of its NDAs or an overarching policy. But for four of the five agreements the IG did find, whistleblower protection notifications were left out entirely. The agency said it has a plan in place to fix the issue.The National Guard…

Empire of Japan (1925-1930)Tank – 2 Built (1 Mk.I And 1 Mk.I-Kai) During the 1930s, military thinkers from the major military powers widely expected that any future conflict would resemble the First World War. Crucially though, none wished to see a repeat of static trench warfare, prolonged stalemates in swamp-like terrain, or relentless machine gun fire that prevented movement for months at a time. Consequently, many tanks of the period were conceived primarily as breakthrough infantry support vehicles: large, slow-moving machines equipped with numerous anti-personnel weapons. This era also witnessed a widespread enthusiasm for multi-turret tank designs, adopted in one…

The debate about American grand strategy has long been shaped by familiar schools of thought: restraint, liberal internationalism, and primacy. But the intellectual movement that provided the ideological fuel for U.S. President Donald Trump’s rise to power, the New Right, is forging a new contender: call it “civilizationism.” References to Western civilization permeate strategy documents and speeches by key members of the administration. Vice President JD Vance set the tone in his February 2025 speech at the Munich Security Conference, stressing the “threat from within” to the fundamental values that characterize “our shared civilization.” The Trump administration’s National Security Strategy…

(Original Caption) 2/16/1965-New York, NY-Alfred Hitchcock won’t reveal the subject of his next movie, but he’s obviously bored with the former friends who starred in his scare-film “The Birds.” The maestro of mayhem was caught in the “ho hum” mood when he dropped in at the Rizzoli Bookstore on New York’s Fifth Avenue, to check on the latest “Ghoulology.”

The TWZ Newsletter Weekly insights and analysis on the latest developments in military technology, strategy, and foreign policy. A U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III has made a highly unusual visit to Moscow today, landing at Vnukovo Airport after flying from Riga, Latvia, according to publicly available flight-tracking data. The purpose of the flight remains unclear for now. It does come as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says he has identified a potential opportunity for new U.S. ​mediation to help end the Russian war in Ukraine. Flight-tracking data identified the C-17, operating under the callsign RCH4555, departing Riga at approximately 8:50…

On August 13, three years after construction began, the frigate Wicher—the prototype vessel of Project 106 Miecznik—was launched. This is a milestone for the Polish Navy, as well as for PGZ Stocznia Wojenna, the prime contractor for the program to build a series of frigates for Polish naval fleet as part of the PGZ-MIECZNIK consortium. Due to the launching technology employed, the preparations and the process itself spanned several days. Along with the Miecznik program, the modernization of PGZ Stocznia Wojenna (PGZ SW) began, during which existing facilities were renovated and new buildings were erected, including Poland’s tallest production hall,…