Western Commanders and Veterans Warn NATO Can’t Fight a Ukraine-Style War with Russia

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MILITARY WATCH MAGAZINE 

Editorial Staff

August-27th-2026

U.S. Marines in Arctic Warfare Gear During Exercises in Norway

A senior Norwegian commander has warned that Western societies are fundamentally unprepared for a prolonged conflict on the scale and intensity of the war in Ukraine. Brigadier Atle Molde, who commands the Norway-led Task Force Legio responsible for training Ukrainian military personnel, recently warned: “We are not prepared. No Western country’s prepared.” He described avoiding a prolonged war of attrition as one of the most important lessons Norway and other Western countries should draw from Ukraine.

“No One Has Seen Anything Like It Before”: Mystery Surrounds Ancient Stone Structure Unearthed in Scotland

Archaeologists have made a baffling Iron Age discovery near Dornoch in northern Scotland. 

Micah Hanks

August 27, 2026

An unusual stone-lined structure containing human remains was unearthed during work by Highland Archaeological Services, a commercial archaeology company, in preparation for expansion at a local quarry in the area. The structure has left experts with a 2,000-year-old mystery on their hands, as they work to understand the purpose behind the unusual feature, which they say is unlike anything previously uncovered in the country.

US immigration officials arrest British far-right commentator Milo Yiannopoulos

Yiannopoulos was arrested on Thursday and accused of overstaying after entering the US legally in May 2019 through NYC.

Friday 28 August 2026 23:04, UK

US immigration officials arrested controversial British far-right commentator Milo Yiannopoulos on Thursday, according to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Yiannopoulos was arrested at Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport and accused of overstaying after entering the US legally in May 2019 through New York City

Trump says U.S. now has majority control of over 60 billion barrels of Venezuelan oil reserves

By Joe Walsh, Ibrahim Aksoy

Updated on: August 28, 2026 / 8:28 PM EDT / 

CBS News

President Trump announced a deal Friday to grant the United States majority control of over 60 billion barrels of proven Venezuelan oil reserves — as the Trump administration angles to get oil companies to return to the country after a U.S. military operation replaced the country's leadership earlier this year.

IBM Built the Cold War’s Most Powerful Code Breaker for the NSA

Workers install Harvest (IBM 7950) at the NSA's headquarters. The two consoles configured settings on both Stretch, the system's general-purpose mainframe, and Harvest's streaming coprocessor, designed for high-speed analysis of intercepts, ciphers, and codes.

IT RAN ITS JOBS 200 TIMES AS FAST AS ANY OTHER COMPUTER ON EARTH

Peter Capek

25 AUGUST 2026

12 MIN READ

At the height of the Cold War, one very specialized computer was so secret that the world didn’t know it existed. It ran its jobs up to 200 times faster than any other computer of its time. It was the U.S. National Security Agency’s main cryptographic processor in operation from the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 through the Vietnam War and on past the 1975 Helsinki Accords. The machine stopped running only when its moving parts finally gave out.

Number of people missing after Nepal flash floods jumps significantly to nearly 2,000

Live Reporting
Edited by Kieran Kelly and Ben Hatton, with reporting from BBC Nepali, Azadeh Moshiri in Kathmandu, and Laura Bicker in Beijing

Summary

• At least 1,924 people are missing in Nepal following Wednesday's flash floods, the Nepalese disaster relief agency says
• Among them are at least 517 foreign nationals - but the situation is fast-moving and different authorities have produced different figures
• The death toll in Nepal has risen to 579, the disaster relief agency says, and at least five people have died in Tibet, with 558 reported missing there
• We are relying on reports from Chinese state media about the situation in Tibet - our China correspondent explains why
• "Please help us find her" - the brother of one of the missing Britons appeals to local officials to help locate his sister
• A collapsed glacier caused the huge flood wave, local officials tell the BBC. The surge tore through houses and roads, and destroyed a key Nepal-Tibet border crossing

Judge pauses US Postal Service plan to implement Trump’s new mail voting restrictions

By Dan Berman, Tierney Sneed
Updated 1 hr 52 min ago

A federal judge in Boston has temporarily blocked the US Postal Service from carrying out a plan, issued under an executive order from President Trump, that could limit mail voting.

Democratic states and voter advocacy groups challenging the recently released USPS rules were granted a temporary restraining order for two weeks late Thursday night.

U.S. Patriot missile stocks ‘beyond critical’ due to Iran war, officials say

World

By Emma Burrows and Ben Finley  

The Associated Press

Posted August 27, 2026

The U.S. military is experiencing a “beyond critical” shortage of advanced missile interceptors in Europe largely driven by President Donald Trump’s war with Iran, a U.S. defense official in Europe and a NATO official told The Associated Press, raising concerns about vulnerabilities in NATO countries to a potential Russian attack.

Canada reveals newly added items to list of U.S. counter-tariffs

By Spencer Van Dyk, Stephanie Ha

Updated: August 27, 2026 at 5:30p.m. EDT

Published: August 27, 2026 at 12:56p.m. EDT

OTTAWA — The federal government is replacing its counter-tariffs on seafood with 50 per cent levies on a series of other American goods, according to Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne’s office.

“This decision was made in the interest of strengthening Canada’s sectors and our tariff response — and to better match the American tariffs dollar for dollar, rate for rate,” Champagne’s press secretary John Fragos wrote in a statement to CTV News, adding the federal government has been consulting with stakeholders and provinces when it comes to counter-tariff options.

Trump Is Asimov’s Mule and I Can Prove It

Authored and Curated by Yiannis Damellos

August 27, 2026

There are moments in history when a political system changes because an institution fails, a war is lost, an economy collapses or a revolution overturns the old order. And then there are moments when something stranger happens: The system continues to exist, but the assumptions that made it intelligible begin to disappear. That is the feeling I have watching the United States in 2026.

30 Canadians missing after catastrophic Nepal-Tibet floods, Anand says

By Ariel Rabinovitch
Global NEWS
Posted August 27, 2026 5:39 am
Updated August 27, 2026 10:35 am
3 min read

The number of Canadians missing in Nepal and the Tibet region after a series of catastrophic flash floods has climbed to 30 from 25 on Wednesday, according to the latest update from the federal government.

The floods occurred in a border area of Nepal and Tibet, an autonomous region of China, killing at least 353 and leaving more than 1,300 people missing as of Thursday. Many were foreigners in the area for trekking, guided tours or a pilgrimage to a sacred Hindu site.

Trump vs. Reality: If Everything Else Fails, Rename the Furniture

Edited and Curated by Yiannis Damellos

Illustration by Adobe Firefly

August 27 2026

There are presidents who can change the world, leaders like FDR who dictated policy, commanded a World War, and transformed his country into a superpower; and then there is Donald Trump, who has apparently decided that if reality refuses to cooperate, the next sensible step is to rename the furniture.

Hecatombs in Nepal-China border: A Second Flood Looms as Rescuers Search for the Missing

Source: The Telegraph and Agencies

August 27, 2026

KATHMANDU, Nepal — Nepal is racing to find survivors of a catastrophic flash flood that has already killed hundreds of people while preparing for the possibility of another surge of water that could strike communities still buried under mud and debris.

Authorities have warned residents, travelers and even rescue teams to move away from dangerous riverbanks as newly formed lakes created by debris blockages on both sides of the Nepal-China border threaten to burst, potentially sending another wall of water downstream just as thousands of people remain missing and damaged roads, bridges and communications systems are making the first rescue effort extraordinarily difficult. Nepal’s disaster authority has warned that a lake formed when debris blocked a river is continuing to rise, while Chinese authorities said another barrier lake could receive about 3 million cubic meters of water over the next three days, creating a high risk of a breach.

A Chinese humanoid robot sets a new 100-meter sprint record at Beijing Games

WORLD NEWS
The previous robot record of 9.39 seconds had been set just three days earlier, on Saturday. For comparison, the men’s 100-meter world record is 9.58 seconds, set by Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt in 2009. (AP video/photo by Brog Wong and Wu Jia)
Updated 1:34 PM PDT, August 25, 2026

BEIJING (AP) — A Chinese humanoid robot set a new 100-meter sprint record of 8.86 seconds in Beijing on Tuesday, beating its robot competitors — and the fastest recorded human time.

Private Prison Giant Gave Trump-aligned Super PAC $1.4 Million After Landing Mega ICE Contracts

By Freddy Brewster & Luke Goldstein

Immigration

A few days ago...

GEO Group made the donation weeks after securing two five-year immigration detention-center contracts expected to generate more than $160 million annually

GEO Group contributed $1.4 million to a powerful super PAC that supports President Donald Trump and his political agenda just weeks after the private prison and immigration detention center operator scored two massive government contracts.

The Manchurian Quartermaster is Spying on US in Plain Sight

August 26, 2026

Edited and Curated by Yiannis Damellos

Illustration and Fact-check by ChatGPT

It's a cybercrime mystery reminiscent of Tron or the Matrix. A Chinese private contractor allegedly built a reusable cyber-espionage infrastructure for government and military customers, then started scanning the world for weaknesses, hiding the hackers inside ordinary internet traffic and turning cyberwarfare into something resembling an industrial supply chain.

Taiwan proposes boosting 2027 defence spending 18% to a record high

By REUTERS
August 19, 2026 
Our Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles

Summary

• Defence budget to reach T$1.1225 trillion in 2027, exceeding 3% of GDP
• Spending plan includes drones and missiles previously denied parliamentary approval
• Budget also covers veterans ​and Coast Guard, which has an auxiliary navy role

More than 50 kidnapped as violent gang attack in Haiti leaves 47 dead

WORLD

August 26, 2026
By The Associated Press

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — At least 47 people were killed and more than 50 others kidnapped when armed men attacked a once-peaceful community near Haiti's capital earlier this week, the United Nations said Tuesday.