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The U.S. Army this fall activated an artillery battalion in New York that is intended to give commanders in Europe new options for long-range strikes and deterrence. Third Battalion, 12th Field Artillery Regiment was activated under the 56th Theater Multi-Domain Command on Oct. 17, a move that signaled “a significant step in the Army’s ongoing modernization and the expansion of long-range fires capability in the European Theater,” according to the command’s Monday announcement. Though administratively tied to the 10th Mountain Division at Fort Drum in New York, the new unit falls under the operational control of the 2nd Multi-Domain Task…

The Department of Veterans Affairs plans to realign its community care network, reducing the number of regions from five to two.In addition to streamlining management oversight and cutting administrative costs, the move will ensure that the program that provides VA-covered medical care to veterans in private networks will continue as current contracts expire next year.The VA’s community care network is now divided into five regions, with TriWest Healthcare Alliance managing two regions consisting of 14 states and three territories, and Optum Serve overseeing three regions that include 36 states, two territories and Washington, D.C.The new contracts will be divided into…

This article was originally published by Joshua Mawhorter at The Mises Institute.  While there exists the beautiful and productive possibility of cooperation between individuals and groups, there is also the opportunity for and reality of conflict. Interpersonal conflict is intensified when hegemony and intervention, especially via the political state, disrupt peaceful cooperation and instead create a caste system—stratifying those “privileged or burdened by the state.” Distinguished from dishonest Marxian “class” analysis, which suffers from the ideological fallacy, caste analysis—which has a rich tradition in libertarianism—coherently examines how certain castes are privileged or burdened by the state, namely, by dividing them into the net tax-paying caste and the net tax-consuming caste. One of the most…

María Corina Machado emerged from her hiding place aboard a small fishing boat in the middle of the Caribbean Sea. It was the night of Dec. 9. “It’s me, María!” the Venezuelan opposition leader shouted down into the darkness as 10-foot waves slammed around her. Radar complications had delayed her at-sea rendezvous with Bryan Stern, a current U.S. Army reservist and veteran of both the Army and Navy, who was scanning the ink-black ocean for her silhouette. Now they had connected. Machado descended onto Stern’s boat and they headed toward a landing site. The moment marked the second phase of…

Sign up for the Outdoor Life Newsletter Get the hottest outdoor news—plus a free month of onX Hunt Elite. Wildlife officials in Pennsylvania are still seeking information about a tagged buck that was stolen from a hunter in the Tuscarora State Forest on Dec. 5. The deer, which officials are calling a “lifetime” buck, had been shot, tagged, and then stashed near a pipeline on the public forest that Friday. When the hunter returned later with his group to retrieve the buck, it was gone. Oddly enough, however, a number of outspoken social-media users have blamed the hunter for the…

Sign up for the Outdoor Life Newsletter Get the hottest outdoor news—plus a free month of onX Hunt Elite. YOU’VE JUST KILLED the buck of a lifetime. After a few quick photos, you carefully field dress and cape your deer. Then you flesh, prep, and salt the hide, or maybe just freeze it. The next day you carry the cape, along with that massive rack, through the doors of your local taxidermy shop, holding the two items with all the pride and diligence of a mother clutching her newborn twins. But now you must hand over your trophies, swipe your…

The first B-52H Stratofortress to receive a major radar upgrade last week flew to Edwards Air Force Base in California for testing, marking a significant milestone in the Air Force’s work to modernize its oldest bomber fleet.The B-52 conducted a ferry flight from Boeing’s San Antonio, Texas, facility, where the new radar was installed, to Edwards on Dec. 8, the Air Force said in a Dec. 10 statement. A crew from the 49th Test Evaluation Squadron at Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana and the 419th Flight Test Squadron at Edwards conducted the ferrying flight.Now that the bomber is at…

It might seem inconceivable that the use of drones in future battles would have come to the forefront of discussions of NATO strategy in the 1950s, but that is exactly what happened when Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery delivered an address to the Royal United Service Institution in 1954. Montgomery, who helped create the foundations of NATO and was then serving as its Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe (DSACEUR), gave a speech entitled, “A Look Through A Window at World War III,” which stirred up much controversy at the time. Many of the thoughts Montgomery expressed regarding Western defense and the…

Sign up for the Outdoor Life Newsletter Get the hottest outdoor news—plus a free month of onX Hunt Elite. Like a lot of deer hunters, Seth Sorrell, of Shoals, Indiana, runs multiple trail cameras on the property he hunts. And over the last four years, Sorrell has captured hundreds of trail cam pictures of the same buck. Studying these photos has given him a detailed idea of where the deer travels and when.     “The one I called ‘Possum,’ I first noticed [him] in 2021,” Sorrell tells Outdoor Life. “I knew that young buck had great rack potential, and I…

At least 15 people were killed after a mass shooting during a Hanukkah event at Australia’s Bondi Beach in Sydney on Sunday. Officials in Australia are vowing to further tighten the country’s already strict gun laws after what they said was a terrorist attack targeting Jewish people celebrating Hanukkah. On Sunday, December 14th, at 18:47 local time (07:47 GMT), police received reports that shots had been fired at a park in Bondi Beach. Footage verified by the BBC appears to show two gunmen firing from a small bridge near a car park on Campbell Parade, on the northern end of Bondi…

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad — The government of Trinidad and Tobago said Monday that it would allow the U.S. military access to its airports in coming weeks as tensions build between the United States and Venezuela.The announcement comes after the U.S. military recently installed a radar system at the airport in Tobago. The Caribbean country’s government has said the radar is being used to fight local crime, and that the small nation would not be used as a launchpad to attack any other country.The U.S. would use the airports for activity that would be “logistical in nature, facilitating supply replenishment and routine…

The Iowa National Guard has identified two soldiers who were killed Saturday in an ambush by an apparent ISIS gunman in the Syrian city of Palmyra. Sgt. William Nathaniel Howard, 29, of Marshalltown, and Sgt. Edgar Brian Torres Tovar, 25, of Grimes, were killed in the Dec. 13 attack, the Guard announced. Both soldiers were assigned to 1st Squadron, 113th Cavalry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, which is currently deployed to the region in support of ongoing counter-terrorism operations. Three additional Iowa National Guard soldiers were wounded in the attack, officials confirmed. In addition, one U.S. civilian, who Pentagon chief…

Sign up for the Outdoor Life Newsletter Get the hottest outdoor news—plus a free month of onX Hunt Elite. Okay, so maybe I was being just a little dense when my editor wrote and asked if I’d be interested in doing a piece titled ‘The Best Late Season Duck Hunts.’ Self-explanatory, right? Well, I needed more.  He responded: “Basically, if I called you last minute and was like… Hey! I need to get in one last good duck hunt this year. Where should I go?”  My response? Come January, there’s still a lot of excellent duck hunting, and even more…

The little road junction of Wahlerscheid was a veritable German fortress. Large concrete bunkers and log-covered pillboxes dotted the landscape, while the forest trails and roads bristled with mines and machine-gun nests. Barricades of barbed wire, piled high and 8 to 10 feet deep, covered all avenues of approach. Out in front of the bunkers, fields of fire had been cleared to provide yet another advantage to the defenders, while the thick trees and dense undergrowth further stymied attackers.For 2 1/2 days the Americans had been stopped in their tracks, but by 0600 on Dec. 16, 1944, the Americans’ hold…

A new and potentially serious flu variant is currently spreading. A mutated strain of influenza A, H3N2 subclade K, is surging worldwide, sparking concern about a severe flu season in the United States. This new variant has already caused a surge in infections in Japan, which declared an influenza epidemic after experiencing an unusually early and harsh flu season, Dr. Robert Hopkins Jr., medical director of the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases, told TODAY.com. “Knowing that there’s a new mutated strain out there and H3N2 generally causes more severe disease is concerning,” says Hopkins. The variant has also been circulating…

According to the new U.S. National Security Strategy, one of America’s policy priorities for Europe should be “ending the perception, and preventing the reality, of NATO as a perpetually expanding alliance.”By opposing NATO membership for Ukraine, the Trump administration has already expressed its doubts about the wisdom of NATO’s enlargement policy. However, other allies continue to adhere to NATO’s agreed-upon stance that the door remains open and Ukraine is on an “irreversible path” to membership.This could turn into another transatlantic train wreck, but it doesn’t have to.European allies should also recognize that NATO’s enlargement process has become counterproductive. Doubling NATO’s…

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Days after Pete Hegseth was installed as the Pentagon’s top civilian, some all-volunteer teams of service women working to address obstacles and improve policy became casualties of his war on diversity, equity and inclusion, or DEI. But a provision tucked into the $900 billion defense policy bill would bring them back.The National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal 2026, which passed the House Dec. 11, contains a provision that restores service-level women’s initiative teams. The bill would require the service secretaries to establish one of these teams for each of the five services under the Defense Department within a year after…

This article was originally published by Evangelyn Rodriguez at Natural News.  Aluminum, a neurotoxic metal with no biological benefit, contaminates cookware, cosmetics, vaccines, food packaging, and drinking water, contributing to chronic diseases. Studies link aluminum accumulation to Alzheimer’s, ALS, bone disorders, hormonal imbalances, and cognitive decline due to oxidative stress in the brain and organs. Children receive 17 aluminum-containing shots by 18 months—four times more than decades ago—raising concerns about long-term neurological damage. Avoid aluminum cookware, processed foods, and contaminated water. Boost detox with vitamin C, cilantro, sulfur-rich foods (garlic, onions), and curcumin to combat oxidative stress. Blood tests often…

Ralph J. Osterhoudt, now 96, was 15 when World War II began. His family’s Hudson Valley, New York, farm was just a bicycle ride north of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Hyde Park estate, where Osterhoudt worked summers. Though a schoolboy, he stepped up to serve, first as a volunteer in the Ground Observer Corps, organized to alert military authorities should enemy aircraft penetrate American skies. Later — as a U.S. Army replacement rushed to Europe’s frontlines — Osterhoudt got a much more intimate view of the war when he fought through France and into Germany. Describe your life before World…