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MOSCOW (Reuters) – The Kremlin on Thursday complained that flights by U.S. nuclear-capable B-52 strategic bombers across the Baltic Sea near Russia’s borders were creating tensions in the region, but Washington said they were needed to deter potential adversaries. Russia’s Defense Ministry said earlier on Thursday that it had scrambled two Sukhoi SU-27 fighter jets […]

An Army Ranger stationed at Fort Bragg in eastern North Carolina was killed Friday “during routine military free-fall training” at a site in Arizona, the U.S. Army said in a press release. Sgt. First Class Ethan Carpenter, a native of Trumansburg, New York, was a reconnaissance specialist with the Regimental Special Troops Battalion, 75th Ranger […]

An Army combat veteran from upstate New York has been found guilty of a double homicide in which he shot and killed his wife and a state trooper. Justin Walters, 32, who served as an infantryman during two tours in Afghanistan, shot his wife Nichole Walters, 27, multiple times on July 9, 2017. Nichole died […]

A B-52 Stratofortress deployed from Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana, lands on the flight line at RAF Fairford, England, March 14, 2019. The B-52s are deployed to support U.S. Strategic Command’s Bomber Task Force in Europe. Learn more about what the B-52 is capable of in the video below: This article was first published on The […]

Netflix’s new science fiction animated series, Love, Death & Robots, wasn’t at the top of my list of military shows to check out when it premiered on March 15. But after watching most of the series’ 18 episodes, I feel like it belongs on there now. Why? Because it has superstitious space Marines, and MARPAT-wearing […]

Everything that is old may indeed be new again. During World War II, U.S. Marines moved from island to island, famously fighting bloody battles against entrenched Japanese forces determined to dominate the Pacific. Now, as a potential conflict with China looms, the Marine Corps is dusting off this island-hopping strategy. Last week, U.S. Marines from […]

Editor’s Note: This article by Patricia Kime originally appeared on Military.com, a leading source of news for the military and veteran community. The newest FDA-approved medication to treat severe depression, a nasal spray based on the anesthetic (and misused hallucinogenic party drug) ketamine, will soon be available to veterans treated within the Department of Veterans […]

Note: This is part five of a multi-part series exploring the various units within the U.K. Special Forces (UKSF). The Special Air Service (SAS) is the British Army’s most distinguished and renowned special forces unit. From the moment operators of the 22 SAS emerged on the balconies of the Iranian embassy in London in 1980, […]

Should your friend and humble Pentagon correspondent live for another 50 years, you can expect to read a Pentagon Run-Down in 2069 about how many U.S. troops President George P. Bush III plans to leave in Syria. (Assuming, of course, that Joe Biden doesn’t run in 2068.) That’s because current President Donald Trump had vowed […]

On Tuesday March 19th, a group of armed men opened fire on police escorting a shipment of uranium destined for one of Brazil’s two operational nuclear power plants. The convoy came under fire while passing through the town of Frade, about 19 miles from its ultimate destination in Angra dos Reis. Details surrounding the incident […]