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Germany’s armed forces are currently studying the possibility of acquiring nuclear bombers capable of using the new American B61-12 atomic bombs.
Meanwhile, the Pentagon itself plans to deploy these new atomic bombs in the...
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Andrew Walter Marshall, a former strategist at the RAND Corporation who served as head of the Pentagon’s Office of Net Assessment from its founding in 1973 until his retirement in 2015, died last month at the age of 97. Despite his aversion to...
Lee CampThe Pentagon sucks up 55% of all the discretionary tax money we pay to our government. (Photo: Shutterstock)
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Thomas G. Mahnken
Security, Americas
Can the Pentagon innovate enough to meet the challenge?
The 2018 National Defense Strategy (NDS) and the Congressionally mandated 2018 NDS Commission refocused U.S. defense planning on the need to compete with,...
Congress is preparing to order the Pentagon to review the records of scores of decorated soldiers who served in World War I to determine if they were denied the nation’s highest battlefield honor because of their race or religion.The bipartisan...
According to CNN’s Pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr, North Korea tested a new series of missiles and Kim Jong Un directed the test Wednesday. “The Pentagon is looking into these reports from North Korean state news service,”...
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The deaths of four US troops in Niger in 2017 sparked a major political scandal in Washington due to the little information most Americans were provided regarding US military operations on the continent.
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The US Army’s chief laid out a weapons wishlist to reporters Tuesday, noting the service sought to cancel dozens of programs it says are “not as relevant” to current US strategy and requesting new ones better catered to the Pentagon’s...
Authored by Mac Slavo via SHTFplan.com,
The Department of Defense is the world’s worst bookkeeper. The books are so atrocious that they are wrong about everything and it’s impossible to detect just how bad the fraud and corruption that runs...
Leaders battle over future of South American nation as Pentagon "explores options," CNN reports.
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On Monday, the Russian Foreign Ministry slammed US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's recent allegations related to Moscow’s “intervention in Venezuela” as unacceptable. China, in turn, berated Pompeo for his claims that Beijing’s friendship...
Related topics: Venezuela, Russia, China, Cuba, Mike Pompeo, Moscow, Beijing
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) -The US Department of State has approved a half a billion dollar possible sale of F-16 pilot training, spare parts and supply equipment to the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in the United States (TECRO), the...
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Established in 1935, Pentagon Federal Credit Union has come a long way since its humble beginnings. PenFed is currently one of the nation’s most accessible financial institutions with 1.7 million members worldwide and in all 50 states. The credit...
Harun Maruf contributed to this report.
PENTAGON — The U.S. military confirmed Monday that it carried out an airstrike that killed the deputy leader of Islamic State militants in Somalia.
U.S. Africa Command said Sunday's airstrike near...
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Task and Purpose
Security,
The USS Abraham Lincoln is objectively not the most nimble vehicle in the Pentagon’s arsenal.
Amazing stuff.
The USS Abraham Lincoln is objectively not the most nimble vehicle in the Pentagon’s arsenal.
At 1,092...
On Friday, the banning of transgender troops from the military went into effect, as ordered by President Donald Trump and the Pentagon. For those who are transgender and currently in the military, they will not be affected, but future recruits will...
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British police this week arrested WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange at the Ecuadorian embassy in London in response to a US extradition request on charges that he helped hack Pentagon computers in 2010.
The arrest marked the end of an era and the...
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"The next major conflict may be won or lost in space," Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan said at the Space Symposium in Colorado Springs, Colorado, Tuesday. "We must confront reality. Weapons are currently deployed by our competitors that...
James Goodale, the vice president and general counsel of the New York Times during the Pentagon Papers scandal, is warning that the light charges against Julian Assange is part of an extradition scheme that could ultimately criminalize the...
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Op-Ed | Alan Dershowitz via The Hill
Alan Dershowitz: Is Julian Assange another Pentagon Papers case?
Before WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange gained asylum in the Ecuadorian embassy in London in 2012, he and his British legal team asked me to fly...
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