Author: Michael

More than a decade before American troops fought their way ashore in Normandy and Okinawa, the U.S. military noted that “the success of a modern fighting force is directly and immediately dependent on the ability of the Nation’s resources to satisfy promptly its requirement in munitions.”Eighty years later, the Defense Department has not lived up to that maxim. With arms transfers to Ukraine and military operations in the Red Sea exposing the deficiencies of U.S.

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Welcome to this week’s Pentagon Rundown. Given the pace of the news cycle, we broke from our regular Friday publishing cadence to get this out today.
The ongoing conflict between Israel and Iran has once again revealed the longstanding tension between the Office of the President of the United States and Congress over which branch of the government ultimately wields the power to wage war — a fight that’s become tilted in the executive branch’s favor in recent decades due to political inertia stemming from the Global War on Terrorism era. 
On Tuesday, Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.

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When the U.S. Army announced on June 10 that it was changing the names of seven bases back to their earlier designations, it skipped over one major milestone: Fort Lee in Virginia will now be the first base to be named after a Buffalo Soldier.
The bases reverted back to their names, which had previously honored Confederate leaders, although with new, non-Confederate namesakes. In the case of Fort Lee, rather than Robert E. Lee, a Confederate general, it’s now named for Pvt. Fitz Lee, a Buffalo Soldier.

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