CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand — On March 4, when a U.S. Navy submarine torpedoed an enemy combatant for the first time since World War II, three Australian submariners were aboard.This was a contentious point for Canberra, as it is not a party to military actions against Iran.Two days later, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese confirmed the presence of Royal Australian Navy (RAN) sailors aboard the U.S. submarine when the Iranian frigate IRIS Dena was sunk.“We wouldn’t normally confirm such an issue, but given our meetings and the public interest, I can confirm that there were three Australian personnel on board that vessel,”…

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For over 100 years, Arlington National Cemetery has been the site of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, but it hasn’t always been guarded — or revered.Following the soldier’s 1921 internment, the burial site was unguarded and often treated as a tourist attraction by visitors. That is, until 1925, when “concern over the lack of respect led Army Maj. Gen. Fox Conner, the Army’s deputy chief of staff, to order an armed military guard on March 24, 1926,” according to the Department of Defense. The first sentinel was posted the very next morning, with soldiers from the 3rd Infantry Regiment…

Multiple U.S. Air Force B-1B Lancer bombers have arrived at RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire, United Kingdom, as American forces intensify strike operations against Iran under Operation Epic Fury. The U.K. Ministry of Defence confirmed Saturday that U.S. forces had begun using the British base for “specific defensive operations to prevent Iran firing missiles into the region.” The BBC reported at least three B-1B Lancers at the base, with the first aircraft arriving the evening of March 6 and two more on March 7. Aviation tracking outlet The Aviationist reported four arrivals in the initial deployment, followed by a second flight…

President Donald Trump declared on Monday that the United States has already “won” the war with Iran “in many ways,” but conceded that broader objectives of the conflict — which he described as a “little excursion” — remain unresolved. Trump, speaking from his eponymously named golf club in South Florida during a House Republican policy retreat, addressed the state of the war, while reflecting on its human cost. “The hardest thing to do is go to Dover,” he said, referring to his weekend visit to the Air Force base in Delaware where the remains of the first six American service…

NEW DELHI — The United States and Iran have offered sharply different accounts of the sinking of an Iranian warship in the Indian Ocean last week, with Washington rejecting Tehran’s claim the vessel was unarmed and Iranian officials insisting it was operating in a noncombat role.The United States Indo-Pacific Command on Sunday rejected Iran’s claim that the warship IRIS Dena was unarmed when it was sunk in a submarine attack in international waters off Sri Lanka on March 4. In a statement on X, INDOPACOM called Iran’s assertion that the vessel was unarmed “false.”The response followed strong objections from Tehran,…

Sign up for the Quick Strike Newsletter The hottest fishing news, tips, and tactics Dick Grzywinski, better known as the Griz, is a fishing legend in the Upper Midwest.  He did his most notable his fishing in the 1990s, which were arguably the golden age of fishing media here, when icons like Larry Dahlberg, Ron Schara, and the Lindner brothers dominated outdoor television, print media, and radio. During this time the Griz was featured in countless magazine articles, newspaper columns, fishing shows, and radio programs for his expert fishing advice. When a writer needed a column or a TV show…

The Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush and its strike group finished a pre-deployment training event that prepares naval forces for long-term sustained combat, according to the U.S. Navy.The carrier completed Composite Training Unit Exercise, or COMPTUEX, on March 5, certifying and readying the carrier strike group for deployment for U.S. Fleet Forces Command.“COMPTUEX is the certification event for the strike group to let us know we are ready for major combat operations around the world,” said Rear Adm. Alexis Walker, commander of Carrier Strike Group 10. “It brings the entire strike group team together and enables us to…

This article was originally published by Tyler Durden at ZeroHedge under the title: Iran Says ‘No Room’ for Talks As US Seeks To ‘Partition Country, Take Oil’ – New Hardline Ayatollah Takes Command Summary: Younger, reportedly more ‘hardline’ Ayatollah takes command as regime stability continues: Military and political elites have pledged allegiance to Mojtaba Khamenei, who replaces his slain father as supreme leader and is viewed as a figure favored by the IRGC. Offramp, or more global shock & pain ahead? Trump, after seeing oil prices: Short-term oil prices, which will drop rapidly when the destruction of the Iran nuclear threat is…

“Wake up, daddy’s home,” Robert Downey Jr., playing the role of Iron Man, says at the beginning of a video posted to the White House’s X account Friday. In the post, the clip kicks off a high-energy mashup of scenes from popular movies and TV shows cut together with real-world footage of U.S. military strikes against Iran.The video was one of six posts Friday on the White House’s social media accounts that liberally pulled snippets from popular films, TV shows, sports events and music — running the gamut from AC/DC’s “Thunderstruck” to SpongeBob SquarePants — and paired the clips with…

Sign up for the Quick Strike Newsletter The hottest fishing news, tips, and tactics The morning of March 5 was a good one for Silas Turner, who’d been guiding a pair of crappie anglers on Georgia’s Lake Blackshear. Turner returned to the dock around midday and dropped off his happy clients, leaving him plenty of time to do some fishing himself. “I decided to try that early afternoon for largemouth bass,” Turner, the co-owner of C&S Guide Service, tells Outdoor Life. “I was just fun fishing alone in the middle of a creek on the lake’s east side. Using sonar,…

The U.S. Coast Guard set a new record for the largest drug seizure made at sea in 18 years, which also turned out to be the largest bust ever in the history of its tactical helicopter unit.The California-based Coast Guard cutter Munro announced the news after returning Sunday from a 119-day deployment that began in November of last year. Sailing in the Eastern Pacific, the Munro spotted a go-fast smuggling boat and took up what became an intense pursuit. A Scan Eagle surveillance drone participated in the pursuit alongside an MH-65 helicopter of the Coast Guard’s Helicopter Interdiction Tactical Squadron.…

United States ruler Donald Trump claims that Iran bombed its own school during the U.S. strike on Minab. This claim goes against investigative reports that the U.S. ruling class was likely responsible for leveling the school. The strike on an Iranian school that killed 175 people, most of them children, and now Trump is claiming it was an Iranian missile that hit the school. U.S. Strikes Iranian School Killing At Least168 Children and Staff According to a report by RT, investigations by the Associated Press, CNN, the New York Times, and the Washington Post concluded that the U.S. was the…

A U.S. intelligence assessment completed shortly before the United States and Israel launched a war in Iran had determined that American military intervention was not likely to lead to regime change in the Islamic Republic, according to two people familiar with the finding.The National Intelligence Council’s assessment in February concluded that neither limited airstrikes nor a larger, prolonged military campaign would be likely to result in a new government taking over in Iran, even if the current leadership was killed, according to the two people, who spoke on condition of anonymity to describe the classified report.The determination undercuts the administration’s…

Sign up for the Quick Strike Newsletter The hottest fishing news, tips, and tactics An angler was arrested during a bass tournament in Texas on Sunday and charged with violating fishing tournament rules. Officials with the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department say they arrested Curtis Lee Daniels after finding multiple weights inside a bass he’d caught during the competition.   Daniels was booked in the Wood County Jail Sunday, according to county records, and charged with violating fishing tournament rules. Because the tournament was offering a cash prize of $10,000 or more, the charge is a third-degree felony. Records show Daniels…

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth contends that American troops are not in danger across the Middle East – even as the Pentagon announced on Sunday that a seventh U.S. service member had been killed in the war against Iran.The latest casualty, Sgt. Benjamin Pennington, 26, died of wounds sustained in an Iranian attack on Prince Sultan Air Base, Saudi Arabia, according to the Department of Defense. His death came one day after President Donald Trump and other senior officials observed the solemn return of six flag-draped cases to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware. With the conflict now in its second…

Sign up for This Happened to Me News on backcountry adventure and wilderness survival. This story, Buffalo Bill’s Last Interview, ran in the May 1917 issue of Outdoor Life. The author reportedly saw William Frederick Cody a few days after they spoke, by which time the 70-year-old had entered a coma. Buffalo Bill Cody died of kidney failure in Denver on January 10, 1917. He was regarded as a hero in his own time by many; a century later, his legacy is more complicated. To write anything new of Buffalo Bill is almost impossible. The world has known him for…

United States senator and infamous war hawk Lindsey Graham has said that the ruling class is going to “make a ton of money” off the war it just started with Iran. If the U.S. is successful in toppling the Iranian government, the U.S. will control almost a third of the world’s oil and make record profits. Graham has already said that the cost of the attacks on Iran were the “best money ever spent,” arguing that the purpose is to prevent the country from developing nuclear weapons. Iran has repeatedly denied that it intends to create nukes and insists that…

Anthropic is suing the Trump administration, asking federal courts to reverse the Pentagon’s decision designating the artificial intelligence company a “supply chain risk” over its refusal to allow unrestricted military use of its technology.Anthropic filed two separate lawsuits Monday, one in California federal court and another in the federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., each challenging different aspects of the Pentagon’s actions against the company.The Pentagon last week formally designated the San Francisco tech company a supply chain risk after an unusually public dispute over how its AI chatbot Claude could be used in warfare.“These actions are unprecedented and unlawful,”…