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NEW TAIPEI CITY, Taiwan — China’s two days of military drills in waters surrounding Taiwan last month came closer than ever to the self-ruled island’s coast and were the largest-scale exercises in more than three years of exercises partly aimed at deterring a U.S. role in an actual war, analysts say.A rocket artillery unit participating in the People’s Liberation Army Eastern Theater Command’s “Justice Mission 2025” drills fired shells into the sea into the contiguous zone 24 nautical miles off Taiwan’s coast on Dec. 30, the National Defense Ministry told domestic media. The unit’s fire took place during PLA drills…

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CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuela’s military held a mass funeral in the country’s capital on Wednesday as it began to bury dozens of soldiers slain during the United States’ weekend operation to capture former President Nicolás Maduro.Men carried wooden caskets cloaked in the Venezuelan flag past rows of uniformed officers. Singing echoed out from a nearby church in Caracas and music from a military orchestra ceremony echoed over the cemetery, while throngs of family members and soldiers marched behind a row of caskets.As the caskets were lowered into the ground, gunfire from a military ceremony echoed out over the state-owned graveyard…

We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. Learn More › Sign up for the On The Gun Newsletter The latest for gun hunters and competitive shooters. In recent years, there has been a resurgence in popularity of .257-caliber cartridges, and the newest offering is the 25 Weatherby RPM, announced today. The .257 bore has been popular for more than a hundred years — its reputation established by cartridges such as the .250-3000 Savage, .257 Roberts, and the .25/06 Remington. Since the implementation of modern cartridge design, it fell into the shadows…

President Donald Trump on Wednesday proposed setting U.S. military spending at $1.5 trillion in 2027, citing “troubled and dangerous times.”Trump called for the massive surge in spending days after he ordered a U.S. military operation to capture Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro and spirit him out of the country to face drug trafficking charges in the United States. U.S. forces continue to mass in the Caribbean Sea.The 2026 military budget is set at $901 billion.Trump in recent days has also called for taking over the Danish territory of Greenland for national security reasons and has suggested he’s open to carrying out…

This article was originally published by Connor O’Keeffe at The Mises Institute.  Early Saturday morning, after months of military buildup, strikes on boats, and verbal threats, US forces entered Venezuela on President Trump’s orders and captured President Nicolás Maduro. A few dozen Venezuelan soldiers and civilians were reportedly killed in the bombings carried out to cover the American soldiers who flew in to grab the Venezuelan leader. Maduro has since been flown to New York City, where he will stand trial for violating numerous American laws against gun possession and for his alleged involvement in a conspiracy to smuggle cocaine. After some initial skepticism from…

This year, NATO allies committed to increasing defense spending to 5% of GDP annually by 2035. 3.5% will go specifically toward core defense spending. As part of these efforts, it is crucial that all NATO nations quantify their biological defense activities and include them in these capability investments. The new NATO expenditure targets are driven by a threat environment that is both severely challenging and dynamic, broadly speaking, and related to biological threats specifically. Russia is bending many norms in its war against Ukraine, including regular use of chemical agents that NATO nations now believe indicates a serious lack of…

The U.S. Navy has introduced new evaluation standards to measure the physical readiness of combat arms personnel such as SEALs and explosive ordnance disposal service members.The service released a breakdown of the new combat fitness test on the MyNavyHR website on Dec. 30, the same day it issued a fact sheet outlining a shift in policy for sailors throughout the service.That sheet said the Navy would be moving from one fitness assessment cycle a year to two and that sailors failing three physical fitness assessments within four years would be processed for administrative separation.While most sailors will complete two physical…

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Current United States ruler, Donald Trump, has said that Minnesota governor Tim Walz has been caught “red-handed.” Trump’s comments come after Walz announced that he won’t run for reelection amid an alleged multi-billion-dollar fraud scheme involving the state’s daycare centers. HHS Freezes Childcare Payments Nationwide After Somali-Linked Daycare Fraud Allegations In MN The federal scrutiny of the Health and Human Services payments followed an exposé posted last month by YouTuber Nick Shirley. The independent journalist visited several Minnesota childcare and healthcare centers allegedly run by locals of Somali background that appeared to be non-operational fronts. He alleged that these centers…

The Air Force’s new physical fitness assessments will start counting sooner than originally planned, and the service will give airmen another option for how they perform their cardiovascular evaluations.The revised physical fitness assessment standards, which were originally announced last September, increased the frequency of testing to every six months. Last September’s standards required airmen to perform a 2-mile run during at least one assessment each year, but gave them the option of performing a 20-meter high aerobic multishuttle run, or HAMR, for the other one.In a Tuesday release, the Air Force said airmen will now have the option of choosing…

Sign up for the Outdoor Life Newsletter Get the hottest outdoor news—plus a free month of onX Hunt Elite. In order to introduce more people to hunting, we’re encouraged to invite hunters (new and seasoned) to accompany us afield. Sometimes, though, after we’re there, we realize that we should never have invited that person in the first place. Here are 11 stories of bad manners and egregious hunting etiquette that ruined hunts. My dad always said everyone provides an example — a good one or a bad one. Here’s how not to be that guy. 1. Taking a Shot That’s Not…

President Donald Trump’s administration on Wednesday sought to assert its control over Venezuelan oil, seizing a pair of sanctioned tankers transporting petroleum and announcing plans to relax some sanctions so the U.S. can oversee the sale of Venezuela’s petroleum worldwide.Trump’s administration intends to control the distribution of Venezuela’s oil products globally following its ouster of President Nicolás Maduro in a surprise nighttime raid, with the Energy Department saying the “only oil transported in and out of Venezuela” will be through approved channels consistent with U.S. law and national security interests. That level of control over the world’s largest proven reserves…

The death of TikTok was exaggerated, and it continues to grow (under American ownership, now) beyond its dance-clip roots. Preppers are everywhere, and one of the main hallmarks of preparedness is information sharing, so it makes sense that TikTok has become a platform with thousands of preppers sharing videos.Some creators promote preparedness products, others share practical prepping advice, and even more do both. There are preppers out there sharing videos with their tens of followers, but the best accounts are resonating with hundreds of thousands. We’ll share more about TikTok preppers and the top 10 accounts to follow below. Contents…

The United States is continually upping the ante, escalating already tight tensions in several regions of the world. Now, the military has attempted to board a Russian-flagged oil tanker in the North Atlantic. UPDATE: Since the original writing of this article, U.S. European Command (EUCOM) confirmed on X that the Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security, in coordination with the Department of Defense, seized the Russian-flagged oil tanker Marinera (formerly Bella 1) for violating U.S. sanctions. The Russian media outlet RT News has posted footage that appears to show U.S. military forces attempting to board the Russian-flagged tanker Marinera early Wednesday…

A Georgia airman earned an Air Force Achievement Medal for helping local law enforcement in the capture of a fugitive wanted for murder.Airman 1st Class Ryland Perez-Settle, a fire team member assigned to the 822nd Base Defense Squadron, recognized his friend from the news after returning from leave, according to a Tuesday Moody Air Force Base statement.“Torn between friendship and duty, he chose justice, a decision that brought peace to a grieving family, closure to a community, and an Air Force Achievement Medal to an Airman who proved that integrity doesn’t end when the uniform comes off,” the statement reads.In…

Even in its formative years during World War I, military aviators became aware that their worst enemy was anti-aircraft fire. And if one made it through that gantlet, the next worst thing a pilot could do was to return to his designated target, where an aroused and ready enemy waited. In the case of Capt. Merlyn Dethlefsen, however, mission came first, even if it set him against all the surface-to-air missiles anti-aircraft artillery and fighter planes the enemy could throw at him.The son of a farmer and schoolteacher, the Iowan graduated high school at age 16 in 1951 and joined…

Sign up for the Outdoor Life Newsletter Get the hottest outdoor news—plus a free month of onX Hunt Elite. Editor’s Note: This is the first of a two-part series on accessing public lands in Wyoming. Part Two focuses on accessing land-locked public ground by helicopter, and it will run later this month. The first corner stood out, a 10-inch-tall steel survey stake flanked by two bright red No Trespassing signs attached to T-posts — a beacon in the rolling, grassy foothills. Half our motley crew of six still stared at our phones, though. We followed our little blue onX dots…