Author: Tony Grist

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The Marine Corps has launched a training program to rapidly increase the number of small unmanned aircraft system operators for commercial off-the-shelf attack drones.  The program, announced in Marine Corps administrative message 624/25, addresses a critical need for standardized training as the service integrates new systems, including the Neros Archer first-person-view attack drone and prepares for this significant investment in various drone technologies.   This initiative builds on the service’s success over the past few months scaling FPV attack drones across the Fleet Marine Force. It also aligns directly with War Department plans to field tens of thousands, and then…

President Donald Trump on Saturday announced plans for the United States to “run” Venezuela until a “safe transition can take place” after U.S. forces captured Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro at his home in Caracas overnight on Friday.  “We’re going to run the country until such time as we can do a safe, proper, and judicious transition,” Trump said during a press conference at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida on Saturday morning. Trump added that his administration is “not afraid of boots on the ground.”  “We had boots on the ground last night at a very high level,” Trump said. “Actually…

Small Wars Journal recently published an article written by Special Warfare CW4 William Bryant. It lays the ground work for an Army SOF initiative to create an IWAR branch within the Army, presumably under their control. My comments below were originally published in Vol 5, Issue 51 of Soldier Systems Weekly. It has been slightly expanded by mentioning the intersection of IW and IW (explained below). You can read CW4 Bryant’s article at smallwarsjournal.com/2025/12/16/transforming-and-modernizing. I’m glad someone finally published something public about this. My critique of the concept casts no aspersions on CW4 Bryant’s paper. I really enjoyed it and…

Gathering meaningful data is not easy. Shooting groups is not easy. Put those things together and you are bound to run into issues. Having some experience doing this in a professional setting, I tend to stay away from it here. My previous groups with the CC9 were one time affairs, with no attempt to gather meaningful amounts of data. They were a snapshot into what the gun, ammo and I might be doing at a given moment. This is really no different, though I had some real surprises. I shot a group of each ammo both supported and unsupported. My…

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Our Nation’s warfighters encounter many known and unknown hazards on the modern battlefield including chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) threats. Hand-held detection and identification capabilities enhance situational awareness and enable early warning and mitigation, but they can also be time intensive and physiologically burdensome. Additionally, some environments pose too great a risk or are simply inaccessible to warfighters. This is where the use of critical integrated layered CBRN defense assets like autonomous systems comes in. In CBRN defense, an autonomous system refers to a capability that can independently detect, identify, and/or mitigate CBRN threats by leveraging sensors, robotics, artificial…