Aerospace & Defense Russia Sees 65% of America’s Air Defense Missiles Gone from the Iran War and Putin Might Sense Weakness US intelligence indicates Moscow now reads the Iran war as having depleted the United States, and sees that as an opening in Europe. CSIS estimates the war consumed roughly…

Aerospace & Defense A $10,000,000,000 Rare US Navy Seawolf-Class Nuclear Attack Submarine Slammed Into An Underwater Mountain in the South China Sea and Survived On October 2, 2021, one of the Navy’s three most advanced attack submarines struck an uncharted underwater mountain while running submerged. The impact wrecked the bow,…

Iran Published Aug 29, 2026, 5:00 AM EDT Iran War Causing ‘Shortfalls’ in Navy Payroll Six Months Into Conflict: Report The Navy has had to transfer money from its payroll to cover the costs of the war, according to a report. Sign in to your Military.com account A motorbike drives past…

reThinkSurvival.comImage Credit: https://unsplash.com/photos/a-close-up-of-a-padlock-on-a-door-KrPulSdUetk20 “Poor Man” Home Defense TricksAugust 21, 2026I hope you’re aware of most of these ideas, but it’s wise to have a reminded from time to time. Plus, you never know what/if you’re missing something. The video covers a wide range of ideas, including doors, windows, early warning,…

It’s been a dry summer, and our pastures – already limited in size to begin with – are pretty much eaten down. As a result, we’ve been supplementing the cows morning and evening with oat hay.We only started purchasing oat hay from a local farmer as a stopgap measure last…

Elements of the 82nd Airborne Division currently deployed to the Middle East will remain in the region into next year due to “operational requirements,” the Army announced. The extended deployment was announced by division commander Maj. Gen. Brandon R. Tegtmeier in a letter to military families, thanking them for their…

The U.S. military has cleared Iranian sea mines from the transit routes in the Strait of Hormuz, the head of U.S. Central Command said Friday. In a video address. Adm. Brad Cooper announced that a combination of forces, led by Navy divers and SEALs, has removed mines laid by Iran’s…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A 57-member search team is combing Great Smoky Mountains National Park for an Illinois man who has been missing for more than a week after his vehicle was found at a popular visitor center.Marcin Bachleda-Blaszczak was last known to be at the…

I don’t want to spoil the whole article for you, but I recently read a post at OffGridSurvival.com about how Every “Ultimate Survival Kit” List Was Written by Someone Who Never Used the Gear, and I completely agree.The survival and preparedness niche has become saturated by people who don’t actually…

I used to carry a lot. A Leatherman Wave, a pocket knife, my own version of an Altoids tin loaded with wilderness survival gear, a wallet stuffed with extras like bandages and folded duct tape, and more. I once carried wallet survival tools, assorted items on my keychain (which ended…

When I put up the recent post on making strawberry preserves, a reader asked why I canned it up in quart jars instead of pints.Short answer: Just about the only thing we use strawberry preserves for is as a filling for so-called “survival cookies.”Back in our old home, these incredibly…

I stumbled across an essay entitled “My Toaster Wants my Email Address” written by a rather cynical 23-year-old named Lily-Rose Dawson who is just over smart technology.Her growing dissatisfaction with this Brave New World culminated in an incident in which she was working as a camp counselor and had been…

Recently, Daisy Luther (“The Organic Prepper”) wrote a piece entitled “Seven Lies People with Money Problems Tell Themselves.”She distinguishes between those who are just in a rough patch (hey, it happens to everyone) and those who are perpetually in a downward financial spiral. It’s the “downward spiral” people she’s addressing.…

Summer is officially here, and if you live in the Midwest like I do, you already know it. The humidity hit before June even got going around here, and my AC has been running more than I’d like it to with our utility provider essentially forcing us to pay more…

The Air Force’s Global Strike Command ordered airmen to stop using a communications test kit at one of its intercontinental ballistic missile bases after a review found potential residue of a carcinogenic chemical in it.  On Friday, Air Force Global Strike Command, which oversees the service’s ICMBs and nuclear bombers,…

Written by  Elizabeth Rivelli Published on Aug 29, 2026, 7:11 AM EDT If you’re getting ready for a deployment, you might be wondering whether you should suspend or reduce your car insurance. In general, the best option is to reduce your coverage to comprehensive-only, which lowers your premium while maintaining coverage…

reThinkSurvival.comImage Credit: https://unsplash.com/photos/hands-planting-seedlings-in-garden-soil-q13Zq1JufksJust Pee On It…June 19, 2026Apparently, you can just urinate on your garden for fertilizer. Well, it’s not that easy, and I don’t know how true this advice is, but it’s something to consider. Sadly, if I’m getting this desperate, I may as well just give up. 🙂…

Veterans Health Care Published Aug 31, 2026, 5:00 AM EDT Man Indicted, Accused of Posing as Veteran to Defraud VA of $63K in 27 Years Perry Patalano faces three counts, including health care fraud, theft of government money, property, or records, and aggravated identity theft. Sign in to your Military.com account…

Military Daily News Published Aug 30, 2026, 8:59 PM EDT NASA’s Newest Space Telescope Launches on a Quest to Explore the Hidden Universe The telescope — named after the late Nancy Grace Roman, NASA’s first chief astronomer — will take more than three months to reach its destination. Sign in to your Military.com…

The video argues that the CDC removed a firearm “defensive gun use” statistic after pressure from gun control advocates, then later restored the same range on its website. It claims the deleted figure came from a CDC-cited research report estimating 60,000 to 2.5 million defensive gun uses per year, and…

Most preparedness plans do a good job covering water, heat, light, weather, power outages, and basic first aid. Choking often gets less attention because it feels like a sudden freak accident instead of a planning problem. In reality, the first minute of a choking emergency is shaped by decisions made…

When we lived in our last home, I spent years cultivating a beautiful German porcelain-neck variety of garlic. I routinely harvested cloves approaching eggs in size.When we moved here to our current home in December of 2020, I brought several heads to plant in our future garden. For a variety…

Recently something rather baffling happened: Don and I were at the receiving end of an act of charity.A contractor came into the house to receive the final payment for a hefty home improvement project he had just completed. We had saved for this project for two years and therefore had…

September 11, 2001 is burned into the memory of just about every American who was old enough to understand what was happening. For me, it hit differently than it might have for others. At 25, newly married, and freshly out on my own, it was the first time I truly…