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The sudden recent escalation of the Iran war has cast renewed attention on its civilian toll after Iran reported 18 dead in the last U.S. assault, including four killed and dozens wounded at a wedding.Iran’s health minister said 18 people were killed and 108 wounded in Tuesday night’s U.S. strikes across Iran. The Iranian Red Crescent said four people were killed and 67 wounded at a wedding ceremony near the coast of the Strait of Hormuz.The return of combat operations has alarmed countries throughout the region, as Iran launched missile and drone attacks against what it said were U.S. assets…

The Department of Veterans Affairs is nearly tripling the ceiling on its contract with Oracle to modernize the agency’s electronic health record system, yet lawmakers left a House Veterans’ Affairs Committee hearing Wednesday without clear answers about why the increase is necessary or how much taxpayers will ultimately pay.VA’s original electronic health record contract had a ceiling of roughly $10 billion. The department has increased that ceiling to roughly $27 billion, an increase of about $17 billion.The nearly $27 billion figure discussed repeatedly during Wednesday’s hearing is not money VA has already spent. It is the maximum potential value of…

​There is a big difference between reading a survival blog and actually living through a disaster. You may have all the highest-rated gear, or shelves filled with top freeze-dried meals, but you have no way of knowing what really works. If a severe storm hits, or a local power grid collapse occurs, you don’t want to be opening boxes of unused gear in the dark. The middle of a disaster is a bad time to discover that your main backup power source needs to be charged, or your manual can opener is missing from your emergency bin. ​The best way…

Sign up for the On The Gun Newsletter The latest for gun hunters and competitive shooters. Modern hunting rifles, which borrow many of their features from the precision shooting world, are optimized for long-range shooting — but they don’t have the handling or ergonomics for making accurate offhand shots. Traditional rifles have great handling — but they don’t have the same level of accuracy for long-range shooting. These are, at least, the assumptions that so many hunters make about rifles today. That’s why on this week’s episode of the Outdoor Life Podcast, I’m talking to senior staff writer Tyler Freel…

A Navy corpsman was found dead near a South Carolina waterway on Sunday after he was last seen days earlier close to the Broad River Bridge.The body of Yu Wei Huo, 33, was found near the river’s shore, according to the Beaufort County Coroner’s Office, which said that an autopsy is pending to determine the cause of death. HM3 Huo, from Flushing, New York, worked as a dental assistant and was stationed at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot at Paris Island, the Corps confirmed. “Out of respect for the sailor’s family and loved ones, no additional details will be released…

Sign up for the Deer Camp Newsletter Get everything from whitetail news and opinion pieces, to advanced hunting tactics and cutting-edge gear reviews. Food plots are great, agricultural crops are good too, but during the right window in mid-fall, nothing draws in deer like acorns. These oak tree nuts are packed with nutrients, they’re often available in large quantities, and they allow deer to feed while staying within the cover of the woods. But not all oaks and their acorns are created equal. There are about 90 different native oak species in the U.S. To keep this simple for deer…

The U.S. Army moved its Tactical Intelligence Targeting Access Node (TITAN) program from prototyping to production earlier this week with a combined $192 million award to Palantir Technologies and Anduril Industries.A cornerstone of the Army’s ground system modernization effort, TITAN was designed to simplify the data-gathering process for soldiers aiming at far-off targets. The Army chose Palantir as the prime contractor to develop the next-generation targeting system in 2024.Palantir, which received $127 million, will lead TITAN’s production, alongside L3 Harris Technologies, Sierra Nevada Corporation, Strategic Technology Consulting and World Wide Technology. Anduril, which received $65 million under the award, will…

The Navy’s top officer issued a directive to get high-energy lasers into sailors’ hands as soon as possible to adapt to the modern combat environment.Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Daryl Caudle released his 10th C-NOte on Wednesday, saying the service needs to incorporate directed energy technology sooner rather than later to combat a threat environment in which mass-produced, low-cost drones challenge traditional munitions.“The question is no longer whether these systems work—it is how quickly we can field them across the fleet and place them in the hands of sailors,” Caudle said. “For too long, we have viewed directed energy as…

Sign up for the Outdoor Life Newsletter Get the hottest outdoor news from Outdoor Life. Three Mississippi alligator hunters were on the water after midnight on August 28 searching for what turned out to be an absolutely massive gator. They were on an unidentified river in Mississippi’s West Central Zone on the opening of the state-sanctioned alligator hunting season. John Raines of Ripley, Mississippi, had the state gator tag. His two buddies Morgan Perkins and Ben Holcomb accompanied him that night in Raines’ 18-foot aluminum boat. The tag allowed Raines to take one gator under 7 feet long, plus a…

More Marines are coming to infantry battalions, drone units and air defenses under a sweeping plan to grow the force by more than 6,500 billets over the next five years. The additional Marines will be spread across 64 initiatives, including reinforcing the Pacific fleet, creating a drone school and establishing new occupational specialties, the service announced Tuesday in a statement. The Corps is aiming for a 4% end-strength increase by 2031 and an additional 1% increase by 2032.The announcement shows the Corps is looking to simultaneously bolster infantry units and digital tactics.“By aligning trained Marines with modernized capabilities, the Marine…

Warsh is Worried… Kevin Warsh spoke on Friday. Gold and silver SOLD OFF big on his remarks. In fact, gold closed below its 200-DMA, which means I must discuss what’s likely to happen next. We’re entering two of the most important economic periods in world history right now and it is essential to understand the IMMINENT DANGER. I have been discussing the September-October market sell-off at length throughout the summer, so to recap my concern: China’s economy is in free fall, which means it isn’t buying Treasuries. Between Japan’s financial crisis and China’s, the two foreign holders of U.S. debt…

As supply pipelines become more risky and tenuous, the Army is rolling out what it’s calling the first major revolution in ammo packaging since World War II. And, officials said, they’re looking ahead to a future where the military may be able to produce its own ammo cases at point of need using advanced manufacturing.In late August, the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Armaments Center in Picatinny, New Jersey, announced the development of the SixPAC, a polymer ammunition container designed to fit two to a case inside the conventional wire-bound outer packaging and hold the 6.8mm rounds used by…

Sign up for the Outdoor Life Newsletter Get the hottest outdoor news from Outdoor Life. Broadheads are like religion. You need faith in the one you choose and when it’s time to find out if you chose the right one, it’s too late to change sides. Choosing a broadhead is also a matter of personal preference. What works for me, might not work for you.  To separate bowhunting lore from fact, I spent a week shooting nine popular mechanical broadheads while testing them for durability, accuracy, wound channel size, and out of the box sharpness. At the end of testing,…

The copper bull market has become much bigger than copper. This is rapidly becoming a do-or-die industrial challenge for the Western world. America wants AI supremacy. It wants gigantic data centers, new electrical grids, semiconductor fabs, autonomous factories, robots, drones, missiles, nuclear plants and a manufacturing renaissance. There is one problem: Almost everything America wants to build requires copper. And Washington has finally recognized copper as a national-security issue. ·        President Trump imposed Section 232 tariffs on copper products after determining that excessive import dependence threatened U.S. national security. In 2026, Washington strengthened the regime further: most covered copper products now…

Sign up for the Quick Strike Newsletter The hottest fishing news, tips, and tactics The signs are subtle, starting as the sun breaks over the horizon on a crisp morning in Indian summer. Here and there a ring materializes on the otherwise placid surface of the water. Then other circles appear and the area of disturbance widens. Within moments, larger swirls and boils appear and suddenly the surface tension is fractured by panicked baitfish and determined predators charging into them from below. Water and minnows skitter in all directions. If you’re a fisherman who’s close enough to cast, there’s no…

President Donald Trump announced Tuesday on social media that he was nominating Acting Navy Secretary Hung Cao to assume the position full time.The former Virginia Senate candidate and special operations veteran took over the temporary role in April 2026 after the previous acting Navy secretary, John Phelan, was fired.“I am pleased to nominate a true warrior, Hung Cao, to become the next secretary of the Navy,” Trump said in a Truth Social post. “We need patriots like Hung leading our Navy and Marine Corps, and I can think of no one better than him to make sure our great Navy…

Sign up for the Outdoor Life Newsletter Get the hottest outdoor news from Outdoor Life. I still remember the moment 12 years ago when I realized how many weekends of my life I was about to donate to hunting. Five months out of 12, give or take. My soon-to-be-husband, Josh, was explaining that antelope season comes after archery elk season, followed by pheasant season, followed by ducks and geese and chukars, which somehow ends only narrowly before spring turkey. We’d been together for years, though much of that was long distance. I hadn’t added it all up…until now. “You mean…

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Ten new barracks buildings are coming to Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California, according to a U.S. Navy notice.The Navy put out a fast-track solicitation for new on-base housing facilities for unmarried military personnel. The project includes four Bachelor Enlisted Quarters, or BEQs, with 401 rooms each, three with 361 rooms apiece and three more with 261 rooms each.“The initiative will replace 10 outdated barracks buildings … nearly 656,000 square feet in total … with modern, high-quality facilities engineered to meet revised spatial standards and living configurations for today’s Marines,” according to a Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command news release.On…

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