The top U.S. commander for the Middle East has warned troops that cellphone videos shared online can help Iran target American bases, and sources told Reuters some deployed personnel could soon be ordered to surrender their phones. Any crackdown on mobile communications would add a new dimension to the conflict for the thousands of U.S. troops in the region, many of whom still rely on phones to periodically message loved ones and assure them they are well.Adm. Brad Cooper, in a previously unreported letter, said Iran was benefiting from being able to see the success or failure of its strikes…

Sign up for the Quick Strike Newsletter The hottest fishing news, tips, and tactics I wish I could say that I’m about to clue you in to a culinary treat that me and my family have been enjoying for years, but that’s simply not the case. I ate my first fried fish tail just a week before penning this column. For some of you, nibbling on crispy, crunchy fins is old news, but despite that fact that I’ve been eating fish my entire life, all the fins went in the trash can prior to a recent nudge from a guest…

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The U.S. Army has pitted three manufacturers against each other to build competing prototypes of its future infantry squad vehicle.The service on June 30 awarded firm-fixed-price Other Transaction Agreements to Ford, GM Defense and BC Customs, the Army confirmed Tuesday. Each company will deliver three Infantry Squad Vehicle-Heavy, or ISV-H, models, with the first expected by March 30, 2027. The six-seat platforms will then be tested with the Army Test and Evaluation Command.The Wall Street Journal first reported the awards on Monday. Military Times requested the dollar amounts of the contracts, but the Army did not specify the cost.In a…

This article was originally published by Michael Snyder at The End of the American Dream under the title: On August 12th We Will Witness A Total Solar Eclipse, A Rare Parade Of 6 Planets, And The Peak Of The Perseid Meteor Shower It is not often that we get to experience three major celestial events on the exact same day. On August 12th, a rare parade of 6 planets will be visible before sunrise. Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, Saturn, and Neptune will all be lined up across the morning sky. The only planet that we will not get to see…

The House of Representatives passed its version of the National Defense Authorization Act last week, leaving in place a controversial provision that would encourage co-development and co-production between the U.S. and Israeli defense industrial bases. The House’s version of this provision, known as Section 219, proposes further integration between the U.S. defense industrial base and Israel’s. It comes amid a dramatic shift in U.S. public opinion about military aid to Israel.Both the House and Senate versions of the provision would shift the model of security cooperation the U.S. and Israel now employ. Though there is already co-production between the two…

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Editor’s Note: This article first appeared on The War Horse, an award-winning nonprofit news organization educating the public on military service. Subscribe to their newsletter.The United States recorded at least 17 life-threatening casualties during the first phase of the war with Iran, according to newly obtained Defense Department records that provide the most detailed accounting yet of troops wounded in the conflict. More than 400 casualties were recorded between Feb. 28 and April 8, with Army personnel accounting for most of the casualties.The data obtained by The War Horse details the specifics of troop injuries from the beginning of the…

For starters, Dr. Thomas Easterly, known as the Army’s “AI Guy,” has recommended that soldiers transitioning out of the military and looking for a job might want to try turning artificial intelligence loose on the information in their DD-214s. Think of it as “using AI to navigate your next mission,” Easterly said in a June 29 podcast of the Army’s Transition Assistance Program. Troops can feed information from the DD-214, the record of military service, into AI — minus the Social Security number and other identifiers — and give it prompts to decipher what jobs might be suitable, how much…

This article was originally published by Willow Tohi at Natural News.  AI companies are purchasing millions of physical books from secondhand markets, destroying them after scanning for training data. Federal Judge William Alsup ruled Anthropic’s destructive scanning of legally purchased books qualifies as “fair use” under copyright law. Pre-2022 printed books are sought because they contain no AI-generated text, avoiding “model collapse” during training. ISBNdb and other intermediaries facilitate bulk purchases of 1,000 to 1 million books per order while keeping AI buyers anonymous. Rare, foreign-language, and out-of-print volumes face potential extinction as the last physical copies are destroyed. The…

The Pentagon is moving to rename a joint military base in South Carolina after Lindsey Graham, a Republican U.S. senator from the state who died July 11.Joint Base Charleston, housed in North Charleston, South Carolina, is slated to be renamed after Graham, a U.S. Air Force official told Military Times.Graham spent 33 years in the Air Force as an active-duty staff judge advocate, a South Carolina Air National Guard officer and a senior lawyer in the Air Force Reserve.He died unexpectedly from an aortic dissection at the age of 71. Graham was born in Central, South Carolina, and was elected…

Sign up for the Outdoor Life Newsletter Get the hottest outdoor news from Outdoor Life. THE HUGE RAM’S HORNS shone in the sunlight as he slowly turned his head to look across the slopes. The horns were massive and even, and they seemed to be longer than a curl and a half. I was lying on my stomach at the edge of a cliff about 100 yards above him. I chambered a round into my .264 Winchester Magnum and slowly pushed the muzzle out over the edge. The angle was so steep that I had to hold the rifle tightly…

The U.S. Navy announced updates to its policy regarding the temporary transfer of sailors under investigation for sexual assault after a high-profile murder in 2025 at Naval Station Norfolk, Virginia.Military personnel who are being investigated for alleged sexual misconduct, sexual assault or stalking, in violation of the Uniform Code of Military Justice, will now only be permitted for brief relocation to shore commands.Previous policy stipulated more broadly that service members under investigation for a crime could be temporarily transferred from their parent command to another command.“This revision was taken as a result of reviews by the Navy in the wake…

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Weather has always mattered to warfighters. Sometimes it changes the outcome of a battle. Sometimes it means the difference between life and death. Eisenhower credited his meteorologists as one reason the Allied invasion of Normandy succeeded. They gave him the information he needed to make a decision at a moment when weather meant the difference between victory and defeat.This underpins a simple reality: Weather does not accommodate the mission. The mission accommodates the weather.That is why the Pentagon should be paying attention to the El Nino forecast now. Whatever one’s views on long-term climate trends, the military still has to…

Sign up for the Outdoor Life Newsletter Get the hottest outdoor news from Outdoor Life. On Friday the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service opened a short public comment period to seek information about wetland easements in the Prairie Pothole Region and drainage locations adjacent to those wetlands. While there is not currently any proposal on the table — the USFWS says it’s only looking for input on current policies — conservation groups are on high alert. Organizations like Delta Waterfowl and Ducks Unlimited say it’s essential the policies around federal wetland easements in the northern Great Plains — which have stood…

Anduril’s first Ohio-made unmanned, semi-autonomous aircraft rolled off the production line Monday, just four months after its beginning.The defense company’s first YFQ-44A was built in its Pickaway County, Ohio, manufacturing facility, dubbed Arsenal-1, according to a social media post. Anduril first announced the facility’s construction in January 2025 and slated its first products manufacturing to begin July 2026.In January 2026, Anduril declared that its first product would be the YFQ-44A, a missionized variant of the company’s FQ-44, or “Fury,” autonomous fighter jet, for the U.S. Air Force’s Collaborative Combat Aircraft program.The $1 billion, 5 million-square-foot facility is located near Rickenbacker…