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The Marine Corps and Navy are moving aggressively to redefine how they will conduct amphibious operations and reshape their fleets of amphibious warships. Perhaps...
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During Desert Shield and Desert Storm my skipper took delight in regaling ship riders with the wonders of battleships, ours in particular. This old...
On Monday, President Biden announced that U.S. troops in Iraq would be out of the combat business at the end of the year, but...
“More tooth, less tail” is a common refrain from defense leaders in search of more combat power as budgets have flatlined. No matter the...
According to an old Wall Street adage, when the winds are strong even turkeys fly. By this it is meant that when global money...
Two cheers for Great Britain! Why only two? London merits two cheers because it has accepted that “Global Britain” must play its part in...
How do you change a culture? That question courses through a new congressionally mandated report from retired marine Lt. Gen. Robert Schmidle and retired...
Some opine that Chinese Communist Party general secretary Xi Jinping bears a striking resemblance to Winnie the Pooh. Nah. He’s Scut Farkus, the bully from the...
Major doings in the Black Sea and Eastern Mediterranean these past couple of weeks. At present naval forces representing thirty-two countries are carrying out...
The facts are clear: the F-35 Lightning II remains the world’s most advanced fifth-generation multirole fighter aircraft. Along with the United States, seven additional...
A new report by the Federation of American Scientists (FAS) shows that China appears to be constructing a new nuclear missile silo field in...
U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin issued a stern warning to China regarding its aggression in the Pacific. Speaking at the International Institute for Strategic...
Russian aircraft have become increasingly brazen in their flybys over U.S. and NATO warships in the Black Sea, while in the Bering Strait it...
A senior citizen in Northern California has lost tens of thousands of dollars from scammers who claimed to be from the Social Security Administration...
It has been well-documented that waiting till age seventy to file for Social Security benefits will yield the absolute maximum payout—currently $3,895 per month....
AT&T, following a months-long process, announced earlier this year that it had agreed to spin off DirecTV into a separate company, through a deal...
A lot of people are concerned about rising inflation in the present economy, but one group that seems likely to benefit from inflation is...
Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi will soon return to Baghdad after completing his second trip to Washington as prime minister. Much has changed over...
On July 2nd, 2021, American troops abandoned Bagram Airbase, the last U.S. military base in Afghanistan, effectively ending 20 years of U.S. military influence...
It has now been over a week since the FBI announced its foiling of an Iranian plot to kidnap dissident journalist –an American citizen...
Over the past 20 years, China has almost completely displaced the United States as the primary trading partner for countries in Africa. Nairobi roads...
Officials at the World Health Organization acknowledged during a Monday press briefing that the coronavirus pandemic could be under control worldwide by next year...
A new study conducted in Italy has discovered that coronavirus antibodies persisted in detectable levels for at least nine months after the initial infection....
Social media platforms should indeed be held more accountable for allowing coronavirus misinformation to circulate on their services, according to White House’s communications director...
Despite the fact that millions of Americans are already vaccinated, surging coronavirus cases in the United States due to the new and highly contagious...
President Joe Biden is playing hide the ball with America’s Forever Wars. In his public pronouncements, he depicts his administration as diligently rolling back...
Cable television host Tucker Carlson has leveled an explosive charge at the National Security Agency: He claims the spy agency has been snooping through his e-mails...
For a long time, the Social Security Administration sent annual updates to current and future Social Security beneficiaries, to fill them in on what...
Americans drove nearly 96 percent as many miles in May 2021 as in the same month in 2019, indicating a return to normalcy. Transit ridership, however, was...
North and South Korea announced on Tuesday that they had once again begun to make use of communications channels that had been dormant for...
This week will mark the 68th anniversary of the signing of the armistice agreement that brought an end to open hostilities during the Korean...
In recent years, North Korea has continued to make significant progress in its development of increasingly capable ballistic missile systems. The DPRK is now...
One of North Korea’s most significant internal assets is its large reserve of mineral resources. North Korea sits on top of a wide range...
The Marine Corps and Navy are moving aggressively to redefine how they will conduct amphibious operations and reshape their fleets of amphibious warships. Perhaps...
The F-16 Fighting Falcon is one of the world’s most successful and combat-proven military aircraft to ever fly. F-16s in operation with militaries worldwide...
Fact: The tank destroyer had several excellent qualities — most importantly one of the most potent main guns of the Second World War. Meet...
It was very heavily armed and armored and could have made mincemeat of Nazi Germany’s armored vehicles — but had a couple of design...
Large-scale military demonstrations are a commonly used form of military signaling. These demonstrations represent a means to respond to international events, display resolve, reinforce...
