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KEKAHA, Hawaii — U.S. Army 3rd Multi-Domain Task Force fires the High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS), which can fire traditional rocket artillery rounds or long-range missiles with various payloads, on Pacific Missile Range Facility, Barking Sands, during Exercise Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) 2024, July 11. Twenty-nine nations, 40 surface ships, three submarines, 14 national land forces, more than 150 aircraft and 25,000 personnel are participating in RIMPAC in and around the Hawaiian Islands, June 27 to Aug. 1. The world' s largest international maritime exercise, RIMPAC provides a unique training opportunity while fostering and sustaining cooperative relationships among participants critical to ensuring the safety of sea lanes and security on the world' s oceans. RIMPAC 2024 is the 29th exercise in the series that began in 1971. (Japanese Ground Self Defense Force Courtesy Photo)

Ukraine War

Putin Has A Problem: Ukraine Smashed Russia in a ‘Massive Drone Attack’ That Hit Vital Grain Terminals

Moscow is rerouting cargo to the Baltic and Caspian and calling the campaign an attack on world food markets. Kyiv frames it as long-range...

Stephen SilverAugust 13, 2026

Ukraine War

Ukraine Just Dropped a New Warning for Putin: Kyiv’s Drones Just Hit a Major Oil Refinery as Russia Energy Crisis Keep Getting Worse

The news comes just a few short days after an August 11 drone attack damaged the Orsknefteorgsintez oil refinery, prompting the introduction of limits...

Georgia GilholyAugust 13, 2026

An M109 Paladin, assigned to 1st Battalion, 82nd Field Artillery Regiment, fires a round of high-explosive artillery during Dynamic Front on Forward Operating Site Torun, Poland, Nov. 19, 2024. Dynamic Front takes place from Nov. 4-24 in Finland, Estonia, Germany, Poland, and Romania, and demonstrates NATO’s ability to share fire missions, target information, and operational graphics from the Arctic to the Black Sea. It increases the lethality of the Alliance through long-range fires, builds unit readiness in a complex joint, multi-national environment, and leverages host nation capabilities to increase USAREUR-AF’s operational reach. Dynamic Front includes more than 1,800 U.S. and 3,700 multi-national service members from 28 Allied and partner nations. (U.S. Army photo by Spc. Julian Winston)

Ukraine War

Ukraine Just Pulled Off a Strategic Master Stroke on Russia in the Black Sea Using Drones — Putin Has a Problem

Zelensky called the Novorossiysk strike a 'unique operation' against the fleet's last Black Sea stronghold, with hits on piers and port infrastructure confirmed and...

Jack BuckbyAugust 12, 2026

Putin Looking Grim. Image Credit: Russian Federation

Ukraine War

Russia Just Dropped a New Warning: Putin Threatens to Answer European Ship Seizures ‘Anywhere,’ Even the Pacific

Putin threatens to answer European ship seizures 'anywhere,' even the Pacific — while just nine of up to a thousand shadow tankers sit held.

Georgia GilholyAugust 12, 2026

Ukraine War

Putin Spent Last Week Promising Victory — Moscow Spent It Holding Secret Funerals After the Bombing Near the Kremlin

Putin's week of victory promises collided with secret funerals in Moscow. A major general was buried in a closed, guarded ceremony; state registers point...

Reuben JohnsonAugust 12, 2026

Iskander Missile Attack Creative Commons Image

Ukraine War

Putin Is Said to Have a ‘Pathological Fear’ of Drone Strikes — and Kyiv Just Burned the S-400 Guarding His Favorite Palace

Ukraine's Unmanned Systems Forces say their drones destroyed the S-400 battery screening Putin's palace near Gelendzhik, leaving it 'ablaze and sputtering' for three hours....

Reuben JohnsonAugust 11, 2026

Ukraine War

Vladimir Putin Just Got Handed a Map-Sized Problem: Every Refinery and Weapons Factory in Russia Sits Within Kyiv’s Reach

Jack Buckby reports Ukraine struck the Orsknefteorgsintez refinery in Orenburg, more than nine hundred miles from its border, as its drone force claimed forty-three...

Jack BuckbyAugust 11, 2026

U.S. Soldiers assigned to 2-11 Long Range Fires Battalion, 25th Infantry Division Artillery, fire a High Mobility Artillery Rocket System during a counter-landing live-fire exercise as part of Exercise Balikatan 2026 at La Paz Sand Dunes, Laoag City, Philippines, May 4, 2026. Balikatan is a longstanding annual exercise between the Armed Forces of the Philippines and U.S. military that represents the strength of our alliance, improves our capable combined force, and demonstrates our commitment to regional peace and prosperity. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Duke Edwards)

North Korea Talk

Something Is Missing From Russia’s Missile Barrages: Kyiv Says the Hypersonic Kinzhal Was Quietly Pulled From Production

Ukraine's defense intelligence says Russian missile factories exceeded July's production targets across the board, even as Moscow leans on ballistic missiles from Pyongyang and,...

Isaac SeitzAugust 11, 2026

Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More

Ukraine Just Got Handed July’s Interception Math: 195 Russian Ballistic Missiles Fired, and Only 29 of Them Stopped

Germany is weighing Kyiv's needs against the minimum it must hold to defend itself and meet NATO commitments. Poland, Spain and Greece have stocks....

Stephen SilverAugust 11, 2026

National Security Journal

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Ukraine War

Putin Has A Problem: Ukraine Smashed Russia in a ‘Massive Drone Attack’ That Hit Vital Grain Terminals

Ukraine War

Ukraine Just Dropped a New Warning for Putin: Kyiv’s Drones Just Hit a Major Oil Refinery as Russia Energy Crisis Keep Getting Worse

Ukraine War

Ukraine Just Pulled Off a Strategic Master Stroke on Russia in the Black Sea Using Drones — Putin Has a Problem

Ukraine War

Russia Just Dropped a New Warning: Putin Threatens to Answer European Ship Seizures ‘Anywhere,’ Even the Pacific

Ukraine War

Putin Spent Last Week Promising Victory — Moscow Spent It Holding Secret Funerals After the Bombing Near the Kremlin

Ukraine War

Putin Is Said to Have a ‘Pathological Fear’ of Drone Strikes — and Kyiv Just Burned the S-400 Guarding His Favorite Palace

Ukraine War

Vladimir Putin Just Got Handed a Map-Sized Problem: Every Refinery and Weapons Factory in Russia Sits Within Kyiv’s Reach

North Korea Talk

Something Is Missing From Russia’s Missile Barrages: Kyiv Says the Hypersonic Kinzhal Was Quietly Pulled From Production

Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More

Ukraine Just Got Handed July’s Interception Math: 195 Russian Ballistic Missiles Fired, and Only 29 of Them Stopped

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