The U.S. Navy is facing a serious logistics problem in the Middle East. Around 20 ships carrying roughly 20,000 sailors and Marines need more than 420,000 meals and about eight million gallons of fuel every week. The situation became much harder after Iran destroyed a key Navy logistics base in Bahrain and made other nearby ports too dangerous to use. Supply ships now have to travel about 2,200 miles to Diego Garcia, or even farther to Singapore, before returning to the fleet. Source: NYT

Most deranged sick Zionist bullshit I’ve ever read

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The Sterlitamak Petrochemical Plant produces synthetic rubber, ionol and aviation gasoline, with its products also used by Russia's military-industrial complex. Local reports described explosions and a fire. #Russia

Source: https://x.com/rubizhbrigade/status/2095164117401104388

GUAVIARE DEPARTMENT, COLOMBIA — Direct tactical footage has leaked from the front lines of Colombia's newly launched Operation Azarías, showing the brutal reality of the country's escalated anti-cartel warfare.

What Is Happening and Where?

The video, captured from inside the cabin, shows a Colombian military Técnico de Vuelo Artillero (Flight Technician Door Gunner) laying down unrelenting suppressive fire from a pivot-mounted machine gun "FN MAG / M240" firing "7.62x51mm NATO" ammunition. The air crew is fighting to keep a hostile landing zone clear in the remote jungles of the Guaviare Department while elite Comandos Jungla (Jungle Commandos) rapidly jump out of the helicopter directly into the brush.This high-speed "hot drop" insertion was executed to deploy the commandos directly into a major jungle stronghold belonging to the Carolina Ramírez Front—a powerful drug-trafficking guerrilla faction. A splinter group of the FARC dissidents.

This operation is the first major litmus test for Colombia's newly inaugurated President, Abelardo de la Espriella (who assumed office on ). Moving away from previous peace talks, the administration has instituted an uncompromising "iron fist" security policy.The stakes in this region could not be higher:

Operation Azarías was officially authorized to permanently dismantle cocaine production corridors and capture high-ranking cartel commanders operating deep in southern Colombia.The Air Support: These aggressive airborne raids are being accelerated following a massive push by the U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) to restore Colombia's helicopter fleets under the new Americas Counter Cartel Coalition (A3C).

While military officials have confirmed multiple rebels killed in the immediate sweeps, the operation has drawn intense international media scrutiny after the Ministry of Defense acknowledged that minors recruited by the armed group were caught in the preceding fights.

The heavily damaged structure is a German armored steel cupola (specifically a Sechsschartenturm or 6-embrasure machine gun turret). This particular fortification is part of the Ra230 Cité d'Aleth bunker complex located on a high cliff overlooking the port of Saint-Malo in Brittany, France. --The Fortress Strategy: Built over the remains of an old 17th-century French fort, the German military heavily reinforced this strategic position during World War II as part of the Atlantic Wall defensive system. The fort housed an extensive underground tunnel network linking command posts, artillery batteries, and multiple heavy machine gun bunkers. ---The August 1944 Battle: During the Allied liberation of France, Saint-Malo was designated a "fortress" (Festung) by the German command. The commander, Colonel Andreas von Aulock, famously vowed to "fight until the last stone." In August 1944, American troops (including the U.S. 83rd Infantry Division) encircled and subjected the citadel to a fierce, multi-day artillery bombardment and infantry assault before the garrison finally surrendered

--The intense "chocolate bubble" warping and cratering seen on the 50-ton steel dome came from two distinct phases of fire:Combat Fire: During the August battle, U.S. forces utilized artillery guns and M10 tank destroyers targeting the embrasures to blind and suppress the German machine gun positions inside. --Post-War Ballistic Evaluation: Interestingly, historical records show that the majority of the dense pitting was actually caused after the battle concluded. Intrigued by the extreme durability of the German metallurgical design, U.S. forces brought up various tanks and anti-tank weapons to use the captured bunkers for live-fire target practice. They pounded the cupolas at point-blank range to test the limits of the 10-inch thick steel shielding. --The Lodged Shell: If you look closely at this exact cupola in person, you can actually spot an unexploded 75mm armor-piercing shell still physically fused and stuck into the twisted, cratered metal from these tests.

"In August 2026, operatives from the "Group 13" special unit of the Defence Intelligence of Ukraine successfully struck a Russian "Bastion" coastal missile system—a launcher for "Zircon" and "Oniks" missiles, which the aggressor state uses to carry out terrorist strikes against Ukraine.

"Group 13" operators also destroyed and damaged two fuel tankers and a command-and-staff vehicle belonging to the Russian invaders on the peninsula.

There is no hiding for the occupiers!
The armed struggle continues!"

Archive video, recovered from mechanized assaults on the Zaporizhzhia front during the 2023 Ukrainian offensive, June 7, shows small fragments of a Ukrainian Leopard 2A5 supplied by Germany, firing several shots and deploying smoke.

Source: noghtezan_info Telegram channel.

Source: noghtezan_info Telegram channel.

(Description by FotrosResistancee telegram channel, AryJeayBackup on X):

🇺🇸🇮🇱| Iran has unveiled a large collection of US & Israeli aircraft & UAV wreckage recovered during the recent war, displayed inside an underground IRGC Aerospace Force air-defense base.

Among them are wreckage from MQ-9 Reapers, Hermes 900s, Hermes 450s, alongside an MQ-9 identified with serial number 261.

Iran says some UAVs were also recovered largely intact despite multiple methods to evade air-defense detection and interception.

Iran also displayed the remains of the USAF F-15E Strike Eagle shot down on April 3.

According to the IRGC, the aircraft was shot down using a new domestically produced air-defense system and missile combined with unconventional tactics, leaving its crew only seconds to react before impact.

The IRGC says more than 85% of its air-defense production infrastructure survived the war, allowing production and deliveries to continue without significant interruption. Production rates for several missiles and systems that proved effective during the fighting have reportedly since risen above pre-war levels.

Also displayed are Starlink terminals, which Iran says were associated with communications involving U.S. and Israeli UAV operations and networks inside Iran.

171 aircrafts (majority drones) were targeted/attempted to be downed during the war, including 10 crewed aircraft, alongside numerous UAVs and cruise missiles.

Iran says the wreckage displayed at the underground facility represents only a portion of the aircraft and drones it has brought down.

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Most notable thing is that 109/152 soldiers are recruits/conscripts. The rest are "professional" soldiers (including NCOs and lower-ranking officers).

I'm looking for accounts by soldiers from conflicts other than World War I and World War II. I wouldn't mind reading accounts by Americans who volunteered to fight for another country, like Simmonds Murray. I have read dozens of accounts by American soldiers who fought in wars ranging from World War I to GWOT. Right now I am more interested in reading accounts by soldiers from outside my country. I'm going to leave a list of the ones I have already read below. Thank you for any and all recommendations.

Excursion Into Hell - Vincent Bramley

Vince Bramley was a Lance corporal machine gunner in B Company, 3 Para. He fought in the Falklands War in 1982 where he saw most of his combat during the Battle of Mount Longdon on June 11-12.

A Soldier's Story - Ken Lukowiak

Ken Lukowiak was a private in the Falklands war in 1982 as the Company clerk in Support Company, 2 Para. He fought at the Battle of Goose Green (May 28-29) and later at the Battle of Wireless Ridge (June 13-14).

Contact - AFN Clarke

Alan Clarke was a platoon leader in 3 Para who did two four-month-long tours in Northern Ireland at the height of the Troubles. The first one was in Belfast, where he patrolled the Ardoyne neighborhood and Shankill Road in 1973. The second tour was in South Armagh, Crossmaglen in 1976.

Fire Force - Chris Cocks

Chris Cocks was drafted into the Rhodesian Army at the age of 18 in January 1976, when fighting was at its peak during the Bush War. He was assigned to 3 Commando, Rhodesian Light Infantry, where he served until January 1979.

Legionnaire - Simon Murray

Simon Murray is an Englishman who joined the French Foreign Legion in February 1960 on a five year contract and became a member of the 2nd Foreign Parachute Regiment (2REP) after completing basic training and parachute school in early November. Right after joining the regiment he started participating in combat operations against the FLN in Algeria, most of them taking place in the Aurès Mountains. During his time in Algeria there was a attempted junta in April called the Algiers Putsch of 1961 or the Putsch of the generals where the 1st Foreign Parachute Regiment, other foreign and regular army units mutinied to prevent the indepence of Algeria. After the failed coup he would continue fighting in Algeria until the ceasefire on March 18th. His memoir is heavily based on entries from diaries he kept during his five years in the French Foreign Legion.

Mine Were Of Trouble - Peter Kemp

After arriving in Spain in November 1936, Kemp soon joined a Carlist militia called the Requetés and later joined the Spanish Foreign Legion where he was wounded several times, the last being when he was severely wounded in the summer of 1938 by a mortar shell.

One Soldier's War - Arkady Babchenko

Arkady Babchenko was drafted into the Russian Army at the age of 19 and fought in the First Chechen War in the Signal Corps from 1995-96. Soon after the Second Chechen War erupted in 1999 he volunteered to return to Chechyna on a 6-month contract.

This means non of these media channels are reporting full truth. Thus, why do so many people still feel the compulsion to choose 1 side?