As Bids to Slash Pentagon Budget Fail, US Military Spending Slammed as 'Height of Absurdity'
Brett Wilkins
brett
Sep 23, 2021
"Spending $780 billion on weapons and war while our communities starve,...
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Joe Biden left Afghanistan with thousands of Americans and US allies stranded in-country and with $83 billion in military arms to the Taliban.
The Democrats don’t care. Their fake news outlets don’t care. They’ve moved on. No...
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The Peruvian prosecutor’s office has ordered the cremation of the body of Abimael Guzmán, the leader of the brutal Shining Path insurgency who died Sept. 11 in a military jail
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Praised for 'Braving the Smears,' Tlaib Votes Against $1 Billion in Military Aid to Israel
Brett Wilkins
brett
Sep 23, 2021
One rights group thanked Tlaib "for speaking truth to power" while being...
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PRAGUE (Sputnik) - Former Czech President Vaclav Klaus has been hospitalized for the second time in the past two weeks on Thursday at the Central Military Hospital (CVH) in Prague, his spokesman, Petr Macinka, told reporters.
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Taiwan On High Alert After 24 Chinese Jets Breach Defense Zone In Two Incidents
Taiwan has once again scrambled jets after a large group of Chinese military aircraft breached its air defense zone on two separate occasions on Thursday....
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Stephen Silver
Jetpack,
A company has reached a deal to provide its JB-12 jetpacks, to “an unspecified Southeast Asian military.”
When Jetpack Aviation, the Southern California-based company that makes actual jetpacks, has been in the news in...
Kris Osborn
Navy Drones, Americas
This is how the U.S. military intends to stay in front of Chinese technological development.
The Defense Department wants high-speed, networked drones streaming video in real-time across vast distances in the...
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Stephen Silver
North Korea, Asia
Authorities have deployed military units to cooperative farms to thwart theft by shooting illegal trespassers on sight.
North Korea, in recent months, has been suffering from notable food shortages and hunger to...
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Robert Farley
MiG-21, Eurasia
Military aircraft can have notoriously short lifespans, especially during periods of technological ferment.
Here’s What You Need to Remember: The MiG-21 remains one of the iconic fighter jets of the supersonic...
Warfare History Network
Korean War,
General Douglas MacArthur directed a bold amphibious operation at Inchon during the Korean War. The landing turned the tide of battle by breaking the Pusan stalemate and liberating Seoul.
A North Korean column...
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Cameroon's military says separatist fighters have, for the first time, used anti-tank rockets smuggled from Nigeria to attack army convoys.
The military reported rebel rocket attacks on a military convoy in the western village of Bammssing in the...
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As the 20th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the gruff, highly decorated Army General Mark Milley reportedly was handpicked by then-President Donald Trump because of his “tough guy” swagger and blunt talk.
Under the U.S....
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Progressives balked at sending military aid to a country they accuse of human rights abuses, angering centrists and Jewish lawmakers who said the United States must support a crucial ally.
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The undersecretary for the Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security may be the second most important government job regarding China. He or she should implement controls to prevent China from gaining technology for its military, for...
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A Chinese PLA J-16 fighter jet in an undated photo released by Taiwan's Ministry of Defense.
Taiwan Ministry of Defense via AP
Two dozen Chinese military aircraft flew near Taiwan on Thursday, according to the island's defense...
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WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - A Wisconsin federal grand jury has indicted two Afghan males on crimes committed during their stay at a US military base after evacuation.
Trevor Filseth
Afghanistan,
If there is a logical next step for the Panjshir “resistance,” it appears to be a political rather than a military one.
Amrullah Saleh, Afghanistan’s Vice President prior to the U.S.-backed government’s fall to...
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A U.N. investigator on Myanmar has accused the country’s military junta of systematic attacks against the people of Myanmar that may amount to crimes against humanity. The report by the special rapporteur was submitted Wednesday to the U.N. Human...
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Caleb Larson
Russian Military, Russia
Russia's submarine and missile technology give Moscow the capability to threaten the United States mainland.
Here's What You Need to Know: Russia seems to be increasingly comfortable exercising bombastic...
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