Fifty years ago, a U.S. Air Force colonel named John Boyd offered a profound insight into why battles are won or lost. His famous Observe, Orient, Decide, Act — or OODA — Loop described the mental cycle by which combatants, from fighter pilots to generals, assess and react to a constantly changing situation. Those with a faster OODA Loop could exploit opportunities while their befuddled opponents struggled to understand what was going on. Germany crushed France in 1940 largely because of a sluggish French command system that was always one OODA step behind the swift panzer divisions. More recently, OODA might explain why tactically rigid Russian tank columns were decimated by outnumbered but agile Ukrainian troops in 2022. Had the Soviets invaded Western Europe during the Cold War, NATO would have relied on OODA — plus airpower and more advanced weapons technology — to stop the Soviet steamroller. To the troops watching waves of Soviet tanks roll into the Fulda Gap or the North German Plain, OODA would have been just a buzzword. But NATO needed every advantage it could get to compensate for superior Soviet numbers and firepower. Flashpoint Campaigns: Cold War, published by Matrix Games, is a computer…

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization has launched an experimental Arctic drone task force expanding its military presence in the region. The United States-led bloc has consistently cited an alleged Russian threat to justify its Arctic buildup. According to a report by RT, this latest NATO initiative was unveiled over the weekend as the research vessel Alliance departed La Spezia, Italy, launching Task Force X-Arctic (TFX-Arctic). The experimental unit is set to operate through 2026 and into next year, with the stated aim of demonstrating how uncrewed systems can provide persistent multi-domain situational awareness across the North Atlantic, the Arctic, and the High North. The deployment builds on experience gained from a similar task force launched in the Baltic Sea last year. NATO is using Russia as the scapegoat for this drone expansion in the Arctic. The bloc claims that the Russian threat is enough justification. Moscow has rejected the claims that it’s posing a threat to NATO, arguing that the region’s militarization has been driven by NATO’s own actions and pledging to respond accordingly to activity in the Arctic, where Russia controls more than half of the coastline. “Task Force X-Arctic is about testing and integrating new technology in one of…

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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! President Donald Trump became the first sitting president to attend an NBA Finals game on Monday night in New York.A native New Yorker, Trump attended Game 3 of the NBA Finals between his hometown Knicks and the San Antonio Spurs, sitting in a suite with members of his family, Knicks owner James Dolan, Bruce Blakeman and others, while NBA Commissioner Adam Silver joined him later.Trump criticized the NBA for being “highly political” in 2020. NBA players were given the option to wear social justice messages on their jerseys, and numerous players knelt for the national anthem. “I hope football and baseball are watching and learning because the same thing will be happening to them. Stand tall for our Country and our Flag!!!” Trump posted to X on Sept. 1, 2020.Fox News Digital/OutKick asked Trump after the game if he felt the NBA had gone away from its “left-wing” tendencies. But it appears that Trump will put politics to the side if it means watching some good ball.”It’s a little left-wing. I think so, tends to be a little left-wing. But it’s great entertainment,” Trump said.Trump also praised the NBA for getting “rougher”…

The days of brotherly body odor and tossing and turning to the sound of a bunkmate’s late-night calls with his “one and only,” may soon be over for junior enlisted service members stationed at Camp Hansen, Japan, as the installation prepares to move service members into new barracks with individual bedrooms.Last week, U.S. Marine Corps and local leaders attended a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the three new six-story barracks buildings designed to house over 1,000 Marines and sailors near the shores of Kin Bay, according to a spokesperson from the service. In July, the first new residents will begin moving in. Each service member will have an individual room connected to a shared bathroom, kitchenette and in-unit washer and dryer. The buildings also have amenities, including a dedicated parking garage, bike racks, common areas and a 50-yard turf field outside. They also have a dedicated space for washing and drying military gear.The new barracks feature individual rooms for Marines. These barracks were the first addition to Camp Hansen under the Defense Policy Review Initiative. (Pfc. Dulce Alvarez Lemus/U.S. Marine Corps)“This state-of-the-art facility will be replacing six other facilities on Camp Hansen,” said Maj. Gen. Brian N. Wolford, the commanding general of…

Los Angeles Rams offensive lineman Alaric Jackson was arrested Monday night on suspicion of felony domestic violence as the NFL’s offseason domestic violence problem has begun growing to epidemic proportions.Jackson, 27, joins the growing list of current and former NFL players who this offseason have run afoul of the law and been arrested, charged, tried or sued in civil court over domestic violence allegations.It is a problem Fox News Digital asked the NFL to address on Tuesday. The league so far has not answered the request for comment.FORMER JETS FIRST-ROUND PICK DARRON LEE CHARGED WITH MURDER IN GIRLFRIEND’S DEATH Jackson, the Rams’ starting left tackle the past three seasons, was taken into custody after Los Angeles police assigned to Topanga Area responded to a radio call of a “battery domestic violence” incident on the 7400 block of Cliffside Court in West Hills, the LAPD told Fox News Digital.Officers learned the player and a woman had gotten into a verbal argument because Jackson believed the woman was recording him with her phone, according to KNBC-TV. The 6-foot-7, 338-pounder took the phone out of her hands.Police said the woman had scratch marks on her arms.Jackson was arrested on suspicion of felony domestic…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Surveillance video captured the final moments before a Pennsylvania State University student was killed after an armed robbery attempt.The Philadelphia Police Department said Billy Schmidt, 22, was close to home when the armed robbery attempt happened on Saturday around 1:30 a.m. When officers arrived, the college student was found with a gunshot wound to his chest. He was taken to a hospital and pronounced dead at 1:47 a.m., according to police.Schmidt can be heard saying, “Give me my phone,” before a gunshot could be heard seconds later.Bill Schmidt, his father, told ABC7 that his son was coming back from a bar where he was watching the NBA Finals with his friends. Additional security video shows a man throwing a cellphone before another individual can be seen running around a corner being chased by Billy Schmidt, who was then shot in the chest.SEND US A TIP HERE “He was a really good person who cared about everybody and never hurt or bothered a soul, never bothered anyone and for him to get shot like that is a travesty,” Bill Schmidt said. “I’m shocked when they stole his phone that he chased them.”LISTEN TO…

The Pentagon recently named the winners of the Lethality Prize Challenge in the Drone Dominance program, a $1.1 billion effort to expand domestic drone production and reduce the cost of commercial drones for military use.The Defense Innovation Unit announced in a LinkedIn post last month that the winners — Bravo Ordnance, Kela Technologies, Kraken Kinetics, Mountain Horse Solutions and Northrop Grumman — developed “cost-effective, mass-producible, and easily integrated lethal payloads for small drones.”According to the program’s Industry Day presentation, military officials reviewed submissions from 17 vendors. Evaluators examined both the payloads themselves and how they interfaced with various Electronic Safe and Arm Devices, or ESADs, as well as their compatibility with drones being considered in the program’s broader competition.Although the cash prize was just $10,000 — a modest sum compared to the scale of the Pentagon’s investment — the selected designs will be presented to companies participating in the program as “preferred munitions” for one-way attack drones.Northrop Grumman’s winning design, dubbed the Common UAS Payload, was built to require “no redesigns” and is “ready to integrate and deploy immediately,” according to a statement from Tanya Santers, the company’s director of fuzes and warheads.The company added that it has invested more…

I recently heard someone say that handguns have no place in military combat. History shows us otherwise. For the tanker, artilleryman, radio operator or medic whose hands are too busy at designated tasks to hold a rifle, the pistol makes enormous sense. Behind the lines when unpleasant surprises come, the handgun is just as much an emergency rescue tool as an armed citizen’s carry gun in civilian society. Medal of Honor recipient Alvin York single-handedly killed or captured a reported 132 German soldiers with his rifle as well as his 1911 .45 pistol. Image: NARA My older daughter owns a .38 Special revolver bought from the heirs of a Navy cook who took it with him to the Pacific in World War II and used it to kill two Japanese sappers who had attacked the cook’s base camp. We’ll look here at the single service handgun that served America’s military longest — the 1911/1911A1 .45. No American fighting man ever earned more respect than Audie Murphy, the Medal of Honor winner and most highly decorated soldier of WWII. In his autobiography “To Hell and Back,” here’s what he had to say about his issue .45 auto, speaking of a time behind…

The media is reporting on the “good news” about the Ebola outbreak this week. The first piece of good news is that three new vaccine candidates are being “fast-tracked” to create one that will work well in a short amount of time. Authorities also said that they have downgraded both the confirmed number of cases and deaths in the region affected, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), as the second piece of “good news.” First, we heard there’s new funding of up to US$62 million to fast-track the development of vaccine candidates against the type of virus circulating in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and neighboring Uganda. As of June 2nd local time, DRC health authorities reported 344 confirmed cases, including 60 confirmed related deaths. Uganda has reported 15 confirmed cases, including one death. Previously, suspected cases in the region were more than 1,000. –Science Alert There are currently only two approved Ebola vaccines. One is Ervebo, the other Zabdeno/Mvabea. However, neither is effective against the Bundibugyo strain of Ebola that’s circulating in Africa. Different types of Ebola viruses have different surface proteins that the vaccine targets. This means existing vaccines against the Zaire virus aren’t effective enough to be used against the Bundibugyo virus. The outbreak of…