Christian D. Orr

Idaho (a name long incorrectly assumed to have been derived from a Shoshone Native American tribe word meaning “gem of the mountains”) is the 43rd state of the Union. Officially known as “The Gem State,” the name has been bestowed upon the newest gem in the United States Navy's fleet of nuclear-powered fast-attack submarines (SSNs ). The USS Idaho (SSN-799) just became the 26th ship of the Virginia-class SSNs to be commissioned. And the timing couldn't be better for the sake of the USN submarine force

The U.S. Navy 's Seawolf class nuclear-powered fast-attack submarines (SSNs ) are extremely impressive warships, and back in the day, they seemed like The Next Big Thing in undersea warfare. However, despite their tremendous potential, only three were built: USS Seawolf (SSN-21) USS Connecticut (SSN-22) , and USS Jimmy Carter, commissioned in 1997, 1998, and 2005, respectively . So then, one might reasonably ask: Why were so few of these blockbuster boats built? And how did that impact the U.S. Navy in the long run

Today's world of “ near-peer ”/ Great Power competition , between the United States of America, the Russian Federation, and the People's Republic

Dwight D. Eisenhower famously said it best: “What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight—it's the size of the fight in the dog.” Spoken during a 1958 Republican National Committee speech, the words capture the philosophy of a general who had no combat experience yet went on to mastermind the largest amphibious invasion in human history—D-Day.

George C. Marshall said it best: "Don't fight the problem, decide it." Rejected from West Point, he attended VMI instead, then transformed the U.S. Army from 174,000 men to 1.25 million. He's the only general ever awarded the Nobel Peace Prize—for the Marshall Plan that rebuilt Europe.

General George S. Patton once said it best: “How can a man fail if he replaces everything subordinate to success?” The legendary “Old Blood and Guts” was more than just a hard-charging warrior—he was a master military planner whose preparation skills saved the day at the Battle of the Bulge and conquered Sicily before Field Marshal Montgomery could get there.

“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.” – Colin Powell

Summary and Key Points: The Tsar Bomba is still the largest nuclear device ever detonated: a 50-megaton blast over the Arctic that outstripped every weapon fired in the Second World War combined — and one its own designers had planned to build twice as powerful.

Summary and Key Points: A Hangzhou defense firm, Jingan Technology, says its “Jingqi” AI system intercepted radio signals from four B-2 Spirit bombers — call signs Petro 41 to 44 — and reconstructed their flight path over Iran. It has produced no recordings or transcripts, and the boast echoes an earlier, still-unverified Chinese claim to have tracked the F-35.

Britain set out to build its army a next-generation fighting vehicle. What $8 billion produced, according to a scathing parliamentary report, is a machine that left soldiers vomiting and with permanent hearing damage, and that officials say must be serviced every time it stops. Whether it ever reaches the battlefield is now an open question.