One of President Joe Biden’s leading allies in his decadeslong attempt to reduce nuclear weapons has lost a battle with the Pentagon’s hawks.
The ouster of Leonor Tomero, who questioned the status quo on nuclear weapons, signals the Biden...
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Over the past week, a generous flow of contracts from the Pentagon is likely to have kept major defense contractors buoyant. Moreover, an impressive long-term outlook for the commercial aerospace market released by the aircraft giant, Boeing, must...
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WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - Pentagon Spokesperson John Kirby said during a press briefing on Wednesday that they are aware of reports of poor conditions and lack of supplies at US Army base Fort McCoy, which is one of several locations temporarily...
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Sen. Bernie Sanders said Monday that a new congressional watchdog report showing the Pentagon failing in efforts to combat department-wide fraud and waste revealed an "absolutely unacceptable" situation that merits true accountability.
Budget...
Nearly 50 Groups Demand Passage of Amendments to Cut Pentagon Budget
Andrea Germanos
andrea
Sep 22, 2021
"Pouring billions more into the military, far beyond even the level requested by President...
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The US Space Force unveiled its new dress uniform design Tuesday, aiming to make a future-forward mark for the Pentagon's newest uniformed service.
The prototype for the new uniform for the Space Force's Guardians, as they have been officially...
( Tomdispatch.com) – The costs and consequences of America’s twenty-first-century wars have by now been well-documented — a staggering $8 trillion in expenditures and more than 380,000 civilian deaths, as calculated by Brown...
Kyle Mizokami
B-1 Lancer, Americas
The B-1B may have lost its cluster-munitions capability, but it still has plenty of other weapons at its disposal.
Here's What You Need to Know: Even now, the Pentagon’s Third Offset strategy may provide yet...
The US military performed a drone strike on 29 August, which, as the Pentagon initially claimed, targeted high-profile Daesh*-Khorasan terrorists. The airstrike, authorized personally by US President Joe Biden, killed 10 civilians, including seven...
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Sanders Denounces a Pentagon Budget System Found 'Inherently Susceptible to Fraud'
Andrea Germanos
andrea
Sep 20, 2021
"They don't seem to want to get serious about spending taxpayer dollars wisely and...
The vice chairman
of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Hyten, recently made a rather insightful observation:
“Do you think any taxpayer in this country would believe that for $700 billion
a year, we can’t have a great defense? We should be able...
Over the past several weeks, Fox News national security correspondent Jennifer Griffin, along with her colleagues in the Pentagon press corps, have been busy, from covering the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan to the allegations surrounding Joint...
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Pentagon Admits Drone Strike Killed Afghan Civilians as Victims' Families Demand ProbeWomen and Girls Increasingly Left Out of Education, Public Life in Afghanistan After Taliban TakeoverBiden Admin Starts Deporting Haitian Asylum Seekers...
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Measured by floor area, the largest office building in the world is the Pentagon, headquarters of the U.S. Department of Defense.
Below is my column in the Hill on allegations concerning Gen. Mark Milley in the final days of the Trump Administration. Milley is expected to answer questions in full this month before Congress. However, if true, the statements made to...
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - Russia may be the source of bigger security challenges for the United States and Europe in the short term than China, US Under Secretary of Defence for Policy Colin Kahl said.
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New York Post: “President Biden left the White House before noon Friday for a long weekend at his beach house and kept out of sight as the FDA rejected his push for COVID-19 vaccine booster shots, the Pentagon admitted it killed Afghan civilians...
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"That was not a 'mistake,'" said journalist Anand Giridharadas. "War crimes are not oopsies."
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Joe Biden came under fire last month for vacationing at the Camp David presidential retreat instead of being at the White House as the Taliban* reached the gates of Kabul and subsequently took over the Afghan capital. It took the US president over a...
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Stephen Silver
Hypersonic Weapons Defense, Americas
Hypersonic missiles are widely seen as a weapon of the future.
Here is what you need to remember: The Pentagon revealed last year that such weapons were at least under consideration.
Hypersonic...