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Most people think they know how to hip-hinge until something goes wrong. Pulling a Sumo deadlift with a rounded back isn’t something I’d recommend, because I did it one too many times. There’s a big difference between bending and hinging. The hip hinge is the foundation for deadlift variations, kettlebell swings, cleans, and broad jumps. It’s also a movement you use when picking up groceries, unloading luggage, or picking up something off the floor. But the trouble starts when people don’t know the difference between hinging and bending. Instead of loading the hips and hamstrings, they bend their lower back…

President Donald Trump’s announcement, on June 14, of the end of the war in Iran and the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz came as a relief to countries around the world. A negotiated settlement was in the United States’ interest, but its likely terms fall far short of what Washington hoped the war would achieve. After nearly four months of fighting, concerns over Iran’s nuclear program, ballistic missile arsenal, and support for proxies across the Middle East remain largely unresolved. The regime that Trump set out to change is still standing, and it may now be set to receive…

The Indian Army, which already operates 50 vehicle-mounted mortar systems, could acquire as many as 3,000 additional examples. (Indian Army)On 5 June, the Indian Ministry of Defence (MoD) issued a request for information (RfI) seeking a new Mortar Specialist Vehicle (MSV), a platform intended to provide infantry battalions with highly mobile, automated, indirect-fire capabilities.The army plans to deploy the new MSVs in the plains and in high-altitude terrain up to 4,500m high. They will operate along India’s northern borders (Jammu & Kashmir, Ladakh, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Sikkim and Arunachal Pradesh), where tensions with China continue to simmer over border disputes.The…

Paris, June 16th, 2026. EM&E Group, a leading Spanish group in Defense and Security innovation and technologies, today presented its new ODIN 6×6 anti-drone system at Eurosatory during an event attended by authorities and representatives from the international defense industrial and technological sector. ODIN 6×6 is a comprehensive mobile C-UAS solution based on the combination of various technological capabilities, enabling everything from early threat detection and identification to neutralization. The entire setup is integrated through a C2 system. The solution detects threats in real time thanks to four radars with three-dimensional precision. It also inhibits them through an electronic warfare…

Open this season of the video game “Battlefield 6,” and you might find yourself dropping into a firefight as one of the Strix Raiders, the special operations team at the center of the shooter’s “Nightfall” update. What most players sprinting across the map won’t know is that three of those characters are built from real Marines, and that the men behind the motion capture have spent the years since their service trying to keep other veterans alive. Prime Hall, Don Tran and Rick Briere served together in the 1st Marine Raider Battalion. In the game, they appear as Rob Brooke,…

The Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center bid farewell to the 7240th Medical Support Unit and welcomed the 7210th MSU in a ceremony June 12.The mission of the 7210th is to support CRDAMC in operating the Fort Hood Deployment Readiness Center, playing a vital role in providing a wide range of deployment and redeployment medical services to thousands of personnel, service members and civilians.“Under the leadership of Lt. Col. Anna Rhodes and Master Sgt. Delgadina Gonzales, the 7240th has not only maintained the standard, they have truly raised the bar, setting a new higher standard, ensuring that each and…

During our brigade’s recent rotation at the Joint Readiness Training Center, an infantry battalion discovered something essential to success on the modern battlefield. Tasked to screen the approach of a larger air assault, 2nd Battalion, 506th Infantry built a layered web of sensors—company drone operators tied directly to mortar sections, scout teams pushed beyond the forward line of troops, and medium-range reconnaissance drones feeding the targeting cycle. The battalion’s single most effective intelligence asset was that medium-range platform. And the after-action lesson its leaders drew was blunt: The drone and its operators had become such a high-payoff target that the…

Global Times By Global Times Published: Jun 17, 2026 11:48 AM The Chinese mainland firmly opposes any form of military contact between the US and China’s Taiwan region, Chen Binhua, spokesperson for the State Council Taiwan Affairs Office, said at a regular press conference on Wednesday. Chen made the remarks in response to a question about recent Taiwan regional media reports claiming that US military personnel have been stationed at Taiwan’s “military intelligence bureau” for the first time since the beginning of this year, with speculation that the deployment is related to cooperation in “monitoring the mainland.” The Democratic Progressive…

Bottom lines up front WASHINGTON—In just a matter of months, the cost of finding and exploiting a software vulnerability has collapsed. Frontier AI labs are now surfacing flaws in the open-source code that underpins nearly all modern software at a pace and volume that exceed anyone’s ability to triage them. Take Anthropic’s new “safeguarded” version of its Mythos model that was released last week under the name Claude Fable 5, before the administration’s decision to apply export control directives to the model led Anthropic to disable customer access. As the company publishes performance results and additional research, eye-popping figures continue…

“The Butcher” is coming to “Queen City.”Professional Fighters League (PFL) today announced its return to Charlotte on Aug. 7, headlined by the middleweight matchup pitting former UFC bruiser Bryan Battle opposite Dalton “Hercules” Rosta. In addition, PFL tournament finalist Josh Silveira Takes on ex-Bellator title challenger Aaron Jeffrey.The PFL Charlotte main card will also feature No. 9 ranked-Josh Fremd against Jhony Gregory. The event airs live in the U.S. on ESPN at 10:00 p.m. ET from inside Bojangles Coliseum with preliminary action streaming on the ESPN App beginning at 7:00 p.m. ET. Tickets for the event are available now at…