Sometime in 2011, the U.S. Air Force apparently sent its RQ-170 Sentinel stealth spy drone back to Guam, some two years after the radar-evading robot first visited the Pacific outpost.

That’s one conclusion we can draw from a heavily-redacted Air Force official history we obtained through the Freedom of Information Act.

The Sentinel’s Guam deployment makes sense, because Guam is also an important staging base for the Air Force’s high-tech B-2 stealth bombers.

The B-2s are the only planes that can carry America’s 15-ton Massive Ordnance Penetrator bomb—a munition that the U.S. keeps on hand just in case it needs to crack open deeply-buried bunkers, like the kind North Korea builds to conceal its forces.

Not coincidentally, in 2012 the Air Force paired up a B-2 and an RQ-170 for an important test in New Mexico. The B-2 dropped a Massive Ordnance Penetrator and the RQ-170 swooped in to assess the results.

In other words, the two stealth planes—the bomber and the spy drone—could now comprise a bunker-busting team, able to sneak into countries like North Korea and destroy their most heavily-protected sites.

That wasn’t War Is Boring’s only mid-November revelation. Again taking advantage of the Freedom of Information Act, Joe Trevithick reported on a secretive U.S. Army unit that hid out in West Berlin during the Cold War, preparing to spy on Soviet forces in the event they overran the city during a full-scale war.

“The troops were supposed to get an impressive array of gear including sniper rifles, rocket launchers, demolition kits and radios,” Trevithick wrote. But the 39th Special Operations Detachment’s main asset was its civilian clothes and vehicles, which gave it a chance of blending in.

“Just how well that sort of thing would have worked during an actual shooting war is open for debate,” Trevithick commented.

Flash forward to the current day. U.S. law enforcement maintains secret databases of Americans that cops suspect of possible ties to terrorism. The authorities can use the databases to deny suspects basic rights, according to Hina Shamsi and Matthew Harwood.

But the cops can write a “suspicious activity report” for the flimsiest of reasons. Being young, male and Muslim is one sure way to get yourself listed in some of the tens of thousands of SARs in the system.

“At a fundamental level, suspicious activity reporting, as well as the digital and physical infrastructure of networked computer servers and fusion centers built around it, depends on what the government defines as suspicious,” Harwood and Shamsi wrote.

“As it happens, this turns out to include innocuous, First Amendment-protected behavior.”

The war in Ukraine entered a dangerous new phase in the second week of November. “The conflict is starting look like a conventional war—with both sides digging in along a fixed front line,” Robert Beckhusen wrote. “Neither side appears strong enough to uproot the other. That is, unless separatists go on the offensive … with serious Russian help.”

And that help is on the way. “Dozens of tanks, artillery pieces and supply trucks have crossed the border from Russia to reinforce separatist units,” Beckhusen pointed out.

Kiev’s forces are struggling to maintain their positions. A shortage of medics, doctors, ambulances and field hospitals dooms many injured soldiers. “One of the most serious problems is that many wounded soldiers don’t receive medical care until far too much time has passed,” Beckhusen reported.

“A soldier can wait an average of 20 minutes to one hour before receiving any first aid at all. The average time before a Ukrainian soldier reaches a field hospital is a shocking 12 to 18 hours.”

Thirteen soldiers are under investigation for carrying out a summary execution in Mexico in June, Beckhusen reported.

“On Nov. 10, Gen. Salvador Cienfuegos Zepeda—Mexico’s defense secretary — gave a speech in Nuevo León about the killings. He said the soldiers deserved a fair trial and that the military will cooperate with the country’s National Human Rights Commission during the investigation.”

Cienfuegos then made statements that moved unnervingly into politics. “Rumor, intrigue and disloyalty erode foundations, defile convictions, hinder the potential of the country and weaken institutions,” Cienfuegos said. “Therefore I call upon all of society, government and the armed forces to close ranks in the national interest.”

“When Mexican generals talk like this—watch out,” Beckhusen warned.