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According to the document, the full value of the contract remained outstanding as of 31 December 2024 – meaning nothing had been paid that year – and the engagement is expected to conclude in 2027.

According to the document, the full value of the contract remained outstanding as of 31 December 2024 – meaning nothing had been paid that year – and the engagement is expected to conclude in 2027.

Many observers overlook an important fact: Enemy reconnaissance-strike complexes and their ability to contest the air-ground littoral are neither monolithic nor arrayed uniformly throughout the battlespace. Unevenness of capability across the front line creates opportunities for offensive maneuver, as the success of Ukrainian counteroffensives in Kharkiv and Kursk in 2022 and 2024 can attest. Thus, creating and exploiting positions of relative advantage—the core idea behind maneuver warfare—remains viable. US military leaders should not abandon maneuver and resign themselves to assuming a positional or attritional mindset simply because the conditions of the modern battlefield make it challenging. The conditions of modern warfare encourage positional warfare, but do not dictate it.

Armor’s historic battlefield role remains central to joint success. Armored formations penetrate prepared defenses, seize and hold ground, and dislocate enemy formations. Armor’s protected firepower and mobility enable ground commanders to threaten broad sections of the enemy’s defensive line and to rapidly deliver a powerful combined arms blow when and where opportunities arise. That same protection, mobility, and firepower in exploitation allows ground commanders to transform tactical success into an operational position of advantage. Exploitation into the enemy’s support area, where many of the capabilities of the reconnaissance-strike complex reside, allow ground commanders to knock down the pillars on which the enemy’s means for contesting the air-ground littoral rest.

I don't think Ukrainian armored commanders need to heed these words, they already know this, but I do think the rest of us commenting from the side do...

"We were in our practice when we heard the first impact. We rushed to the door," she recalled.

Then another missile struck, plunging the girls and their coaches into darkness as smoke and heat filled the sports hall. The force of the blast slammed the doors shut.

"We couldn't see anything," the girls’ volleyball coach, Rahimeh Shehabi, told Middle East Eye. "We could only hear the screams of the children."

As the missiles struck the school and sports hall, a football game was underway outside.

Eleven-year-old Mahdiar was playing with his friends, including 12-year-olds Ilya Khatami and Abdulmosavar Rahmani, when explosive shrapnel tore through the area.

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The fourth missile hit here," Ilya's father, Mohammad Khatami, gesturing towards the collapsed corner of the gym, told MEE. "The force of the blast struck Ilya in the back of the head."

For Khatami, returning to the scene was emotionally difficult, though he took some solace in knowing that his son died while rushing to help those trapped inside. His coach was also killed.

Maryam and Ziaeddin were meant to spend the most memorable night of their lives surrounded by their loved ones. They had no idea that their wedding would become the darkest moment of their lives and one of the most painful nights of the war for Iranians.

On the evening of Tuesday 1 September, around 350 people gathered in Kuhestak, in Sirik county, on the east coast of Iran’s Hormozgan province, for the wedding of Maryam Mallahi and Ziaeddin Khoshrish.

In keeping with local tradition, the celebration was held in two houses: the men gathered at a relative’s home, while the women waited at the bride’s family home. Coloured lights had been put up, the guests wore traditional clothing, and everyone was waiting for the bride and groom to arrive.

At around 9pm, as the United States launched a new wave of attacks across southern Iran, a series of explosions was heard in Kuhestak.

Initial reports indicated that a telecommunications tower and facilities near the pier had been hit. The tower stood less than 200 metres from the wedding venue. Moments later, a projectile struck the house where the women and children had gathered, tearing through its roof.

Yet formal suspension is not the only way to thwart habeas corpus. The Trump administration’s efforts to detain and deport students, scholars, and others for their advocacy and participation in protests surrounding Israel’s war in Gaza show how habeas can be undermined without ever formally suspending the writ. With potential Supreme Court review over several of these cases looming—a certiorari petition in one of the lead cases is due in the Supreme Court on Sept. 21—it is important to consider what the Suspension Clause protects and why it remains so essential.

Following the US bombing of a wedding party in Iran earlier this week that killed at least five people—including two children—and left dozens more wounded, Trump administration officials repeated the mantra that the US military “never targets civilians.”

In the days since the strike in the small southern town of Kuhestak, an analysis by Reuters found that the bombing was likely a direct hit by a US munition.

also see this article on the targeted murder of civilians in boat strikes in the Carribean.

https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-boat-strikes-aren-t-part-of-a-war.-they-re-murder

The Protect Economic and Academic Freedom Act, introduced by Reps. Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.) and Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.), would bar colleges that receive federal funds from engaging in what it defines as a “nonexpressive commercial boycott” of Israel, including “refusals to deal” or terminating business relationships in order to limit commercial ties without a “valid business reason.” The law would require these institutions to submit annual certification that they were giving students and faculty access to academic programs in Israel on the same terms as programs in other countries.

Private equity investors also bought thousands of healthcare facilities in the US in recent years, including non-profit hospice care, rural hospitals and small-town dentists’ offices.

But this wave of buyouts is running smack into a wall of persistently high interest rates, rising buyout prices and pressure over moribund returns.

Private equity funds are sitting on a “record number of unsold companies, many of which they’ve been unable to sell … or at least unable to sell at the prices that they’re looking for”, said Jim Baker, the executive director of the Private Equity Stakeholder Project, an industry watchdog.

The current catastrophic bullshitting tool of choice for the Finance industry is Private Equity.

Also see https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/04/private-equity-boom-hospital-job-layoff

It’s unclear whether we have a total crisis on our hands, in part due to shady reporting standards at pension funds, but it is clear that we have a real problem in private credit regardless. The issue is downstream of the problem in private equity where holding periods are up, and by extension, the net asset value (NAV) of funds held over seven years (sometimes referred to as “zombie funds”) has doubled since 2021. They can’t sell the asset, so they build continuation vehicles to recapitalize and hide the struggle that’s going on. But the real risk of this slowdown weighs on retirees, current and future.