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While cruise missiles and bombs are very capable, nothing wrecks a ship like a well-placed torpedo shot from a prowling submarine.

The Arctic base's runway was expanded last year and now a large apron area is being built to support large-scale deployments.

The USS San Francisco was already cut up once after impacting a seamount. The submarine was chopped up again to make it into a floating schoolhouse.

The Taliban say the U.S. must be out by August 31st, but getting everyone out of Afghanistan via Kabul airport by then is becoming quite unrealistic.

The Taliban move to take on the "new Northern Alliance" and the U.S. activates its Civil Reserve Air Fleet to open bottlenecks in the evacuation.

The fleet can dramatically bolster the Pentagon's own air transport capabilities and that is what it will do for the evacuation of Afghanistan.

It seems like there is a new development every 20 minutes to talk discuss.

The elite unit provides multiple capabilities for this operation, but its ability to supply unrivaled surgical close air support may be most valuable.

French and British forces have also been conducting operations outside of Kabul's airport to help get people to safety.

The Air Force says its original figure for how many people were on the flight, known by the callsign Reach 871, did not include children on laps.

"Its abilities were pretty incredible" — FAA audio points to confusion during and after police helicopter's encounter with strange aircraft.

Generally, the US State Department is required by law to collect fees from private US citizens or foreign nationals it helps flee in a crisis.

The Pentagon says American combat aircraft are covering the evacuations, but have not flown shows of force maneuvers or carried out any strikes.

Evacuations in Kabul will likely be the last major mission for U.S. CH-46 "Phrogs," which served in this same role in Saigon nearly 50 years ago.

There's a lot of bad info out there about how the cyber and aerial domains of warfare will converge. Here's the reality, for better or worse.

The former First Vice President of Afghanistan has claimed the mantle of the country's legitimate leader and is rallying forces to his cause.

The ex-USS Ingraham got attacked by various weapons, including the Marines' new Naval Strike Missiles, during a huge exercise.

Afghan pilots fled the country in the face of the advancing Taliban over the weekend. Now the fate of the aircraft is up in the air.

Comparisons between the evacuations of the embassies in Saigon and Kabul are unavoidable and the CH-46 was there for both historic operations.

One of America's most capable surveillance aircraft is keeping close tabs on the Taliban as America's military presence at Kabul's airport grows.