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Stay ready for anything with expert tips, gear reviews, and real-world advice to protect yourself and your loved ones.

Air Force Global Strike Command conducted an operational test launch Tuesday of an unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile equipped with two test reentry vehicles.Designated GT 255, the launch was scheduled years in advance and was not in response to current world events, according to an official AFGSC release. The…

Netflix released “War Machine” on Friday, a science fiction action film starring Alan Ritchson that raises an oddly believable military premise: What if the final phase of U.S. Army Ranger selection suddenly involved fighting a giant alien robot?Directed by Patrick Hughes, “War Machine” follows a group of Ranger candidates grinding…

Trump administration officials conceded during a private briefing on Capitol Hill this week that Iran’s Shahed-136 drone is proving more disruptive on the battlefield than the Pentagon had anticipated, two people familiar with the matter told Military Times. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of…

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This article was originally published by Tyler Durden at ZeroHedge under the title: “This Will Bring Down Global Economy”: Qatar’s Energy Minister Offers Dire Warning About Hormuz Chokepoint Chaos Brent crude futures are on track for their biggest weekly gain since the early days of Covid, with the move now exceeding the 20% weekly spike at the start of the Russia-Ukraine war, as the U.S.-Israeli air campaign against Iran, Operation Epic Fury, has tipped the Gulf into an energy crisis, freezing commercial traffic through the Strait of Hormuz and pushing some regional oil and gas production offline. On Friday, Qatar’s…

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Sign up for This Happened to Me News on backcountry adventure and wilderness survival. Folding saws have been around for quite a while, but they’ve recently become much more popular with all types of outdoorsmen. Hunters, bushcrafters, survivalists, campers, backpackers and gardeners are all carrying them now. This is because they are incredibly useful tools that can take on a wide variety of tasks without the bulk of a traditional saw, and without the common risks of an axe. Whether you’re brushing in a blind, breaking down big game, clearing a shooting lane, building a shelter, bucking firewood, clearing a…

President Donald Trump demoted Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Thursday, naming Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., to fill the post, which is responsible for overseeing the U.S. Coast Guard, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Transportation Security Administration and dozens of other federal agencies. In a post on Truth Social, Trump said Mullin will take over the department on March 31, although he must go through the Senate confirmation process. Noem will become a special envoy for a new security initiative called the “Shield of the Americas,” which Trump said will be unveiled Saturday. Mullin is a former mixed martial arts…

The U.S. military’s increased use of missile interceptors during the war with Iran poses long-term strategic risks to integral defense capabilities if fighting spills into a long term conflict, experts caution.Military Times spoke with several national security specialists, defense analysts and foreign policy pundits who warned that the U.S. military’s finite interceptor stockpile could be strained and potentially exhausted if the ever-changing projected timeline of Operation Epic Fury depletes a resource that cannot be replenished at the scale and pace of war.“You can’t replace those kinds of missiles overnight,” said Kelly Grieco, a senior fellow at the Stimson Center, a…

The Trump administration is following through with its threat to designate artificial intelligence company Anthropic as a supply chain risk in an unprecedented move that could force other government contractors to stop using the AI chatbot Claude.The Pentagon said in a statement Thursday that it has “officially informed Anthropic leadership the company and its products are deemed a supply chain risk, effective immediately.”The decision appeared to shut down the opportunity for further negotiation with Anthropic, nearly a week after President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth accused the company of endangering national security.Trump and Hegseth announced a series of…

Adm. Brad Cooper, commander of U.S. Central Command, said Thursday that Iran’s navy has been decimated and its drone capabilities damaged, as the United States and Israel continues military strikes against Iran.Cooper spoke alongside Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth at CENTCOM headquarters at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Florida, providing updates regarding Operation Epic Fury, which began early Saturday morning.“We’re now up over 30 ships,” Cooper said of the number of Iranian navy vessels that the U.S. has sunk or destroyed. “And in just the last few hours, we hit an Iranian drone carrier ship roughly the size of a…

Sign up for the Quick Strike Newsletter The hottest fishing news, tips, and tactics Jim Franklin of Hemphill, Texas, was fishing alone on March 4 at the south end of Toledo Bend Reservoir. The famed lake on the Texas-Louisiana state line is well known for giant bass, and Franklin has fished it most of his life. “I’d been catching a lot of bass, some days up to 50 fish, but nothing over 5 pounds,” Franklin tells Outdoor Life of his last few trips to Toledo Bend. “I decided to change it up and fish another area I hadn’t tried this…

This article was originally published by Mike Adams at Natural News.  A Global Food Catastrophe Has Been Ignited The United States and Israel have struck Iran, and the consequences are already cascading far beyond the Middle East. This is not merely another regional skirmish; it is the ignition of a global food catastrophe that will unfold with terrifying speed. The Strait of Hormuz, a critical artery for global energy and fertilizer shipments, is effectively closed. This single act has severed a massive portion of the world’s natural gas supply, the foundational feedstock for modern agriculture. If nothing changes, the price…

The House narrowly rejected a war powers resolution Thursday to halt President Donald Trump’s attacks on Iran, an early sign of unease in Congress over the rapidly widening conflict that is reordering U.S. priorities at home and abroad.It’s the second vote in as many days, after the Senate defeated a similar measure along party lines. Lawmakers are confronting the sudden reality of representing wary Americans in wartime and all that entails — with lives lost, dollars spent and alliances tested by a president’s unilateral decision to go to war with Iran.While the tally in the House, 212-219, was expected to…

Democrats are condemning Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth after he derided media coverage of the six American service members killed in the war with Iran, accusing the press of focusing on the fallen soldiers to make President Donald Trump “look bad.” “This is what the fake news misses,” Hegseth said at a Pentagon briefing Wednesday, in which he also avowed that the United States was “winning decisively” in its battle against the Islamic Republic. “But when a few drones get through, or tragic things happen, it’s front-page news,” he said, adding, “I get it – the press only wants to make…

The war in the Middle East is quickly expanding. Israel was pounded with missiles by Iran overnight. The hopes of a “quick victory” are evaporating. Israel was hit hard overnight, according to a report by ZeroHedge. The United States Senate blocked an effort to curb President Trump’s Operation Epic Fury. The vote, which was 53–47 against a procedural motion aimed at limiting the warring operation. At the same time, Iran is increasing its response to the “preemptive” strikes on the country over a failure to come to terms on its nuclear policy.  Tehran officials are saying that the war is…

The North American Aerospace Defense Command detected and tracked two Russian Tu-142 maritime patrol aircraft operating within the Alaskan and Canadian Air Defense Identification Zones on Wednesday.The command dispatched two U.S. Air Force F-35 Lightning II fighter aircraft, two F-22 Raptors, four KC-135 Stratotankers, one E-3 Sentry AWACS aircraft, two Canadian CF-18 Hornets and one CC-150 Polaris tanker to positively identify, monitor and intercept the Russian aircraft, according to a NORAD release.The Russian aircraft remained in international airspace and did not enter American or Canadian sovereign airspace. “This Russian activity in the Alaskan and Canadian ADIZ occurs regularly and is…

Sign up for the Outdoor Life Newsletter Get the hottest outdoor news—plus a free month of onX Hunt Elite. Some families go to the beach or into the mountains together. Others prefer museums, movies, or theme parks. Carl Jackson’s clan, though, would rather be chasing invasive Burmese pythons through the heart of Florida’s Big Cypress National Preserve.  That’s where they were on Jan. 13, as Carl drove the truck from Bear Island campground to another site. He was with his wife, Tasha, their 20-year-old son, Ryker, and 16-year-old daughter, Jazzlyn. Although they’d hunted snakes before, Ryker and Jazzyln had just…

The largest U.S. Department of Defense hospital abroad is pausing its labor and delivery services until further notice to focus on the needs of the conflict across the Middle East.The Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, located near Ramstein Air Base in Germany, is temporarily referring some labor and delivery patients to other hospitals within the local community, hospital officials told Military Times on Thursday. The medical center sent a notice about the halt in those services to Landstuhl patients through a Tuesday memorandum that circulated on the unofficial Air Force amn/nco/snco Facebook page. “Our staff is in direct contact with impacted…

Master the Art of
Preparedness and Survival

Master the Art of Preparedness and Survival

Stay ready for anything with expert tips, gear reviews,
and real-world advice to protect yourself and your loved ones.

Stay ready for anything with expert tips, gear reviews, and real-world advice to protect yourself and your loved ones.