It would appear that the surprise and outrage expressed by the United States over obtaining satellite images of the construction of a “secret Chinese military installation” in the UAE port of Khalifa was unwarranted. Indeed, none other than the American oracle of maritime power, Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan, who has …
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FORT LEONARD WOOD, Missouri – U.S. Army Explosive Ordnance Disposal Soldiers paved the way for U.S. Air Force ground training by removing more than 1,000 rounds from the cannon range at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri. To support the bombing and strafing training of A-10 Thunderbolt attack aircraft, EOD soldiers from …
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US Navy Maintains F / A-18 Readiness High With Maintainer Overhaul | Aviation Week Network https://aviationweek.com/themes/custom/particle/dist/app-drupal/assets/awn-logo.svg Skip to main content Sailors perform maintenance on an F / A-18E Super Hornet from Strike Fighter Sqdn. (VFA) 14 in the hangar of USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74) Jan. 22, 2016. Credit: …
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American democracy in ruins. Illustration: Liu Rui / GT The US plan to host a “Leaders’ Summit for Democracy” is another attempt to reduce the global community to a simplistic “democracy versus autocracy” dichotomy; a narcissistic facade doomed to failure because it only evokes rupture, division and even confrontation. As …
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Bill LaPlante, who left the Pentagon in 2015, has spent the past six years working on technologies the military needs. President Biden said on Tuesday that he would appoint the former Air Force weapons chief to become the Pentagon’s main arms buyer. Politics first reported his appointment. Autonomy, machine learning …
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1/4 Show legend + Hide caption – Col. James Dunwoody poses with Master Sgt. Shaunte Hypolite, who received the Meritorious Service Medal, the culmination of his military career. Sixteen soldiers and civilian employees of the Department of the Army and their families were honored during the ceremony at Cache Creek …
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The US Navy said it was investigating reports Sunday evening of a “chemical smell” in the drinking water of some military homes in the area of Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam. A military wife told Hawaiian Public Radio that the water smelled of diesel. The Navy said on Sunday that there …
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A one-of-a-kind clash between the U.S. EEOC and a California civil rights agency over allegations of sexual harassment and prejudice against Activision Blizzard Inc. is likely to confuse other employers and block efforts to overhaul the game maker’s “frat bro” culture, legal observers have said. The California Department of Fair …
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Gotham’s far-left public lawyer Jumaane Williams, who is running for the state’s next governor, has been pushing to cut funding for the NYPD and the Department of Defense. Yet he travels through town with an NYPD security element and lives on a US military base where he has free 24-hour …
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Australia’s sovereign wealth fund, the Future Fund, has invested in a Chinese state-controlled arms maker that sold fighter jets to the Burmese military, accused of crimes against humanity. An Indian-controlled arms company is also among the companies the fund has invested in that are linked to the Burmese military, according …
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