Author: Michael

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A political divide deeper than the Marianas Trench affects just about every issue in today’s America. DEI is no different.
Biden Era’s DEI
DEI existed in the military even before Trump’s first term in office, but was visibly accelerated when then President Joe Biden strengthened it. DEI policymakers ignored the toxic roots of CRT/DEI. DEI infrastructure was put in place with policy and social media gatekeepers keeping people in line with the DEI architects’ vision for a new America. Data was hidden.

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The Space Force is creating a new document that will offer clarity regarding its approach and terminology related to offensive and defensive space activities, Chief of Space Operations Gen. Chance Saltzman said Wednesday.
The so-called “space warfighting” framework is expected to outline the common vocabulary and concepts used by the service in order to achieve what it calls “space superiority” — that is, the ability for the United States to operate freely in the space domain while also denying an enemy’s ability to do the same.

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Lt. Gen. Dan “Razin’ Caine, President Donald Trump’s nominee to be America’s top military officer, is about to take the next step in his confirmation process when he goes before members of the Senate Armed Services Committee to field questions about his views on critical national security issues.
His confirmation hearing, scheduled for April 1, will be Caine’s most high-profile public appearance since Trump plucked him from relative obscurity after firing Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Charles “CQ” Brown and announcing his intent to nominate Caine to replace him.

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In the history of military recruiting ads, none is more iconic than the Marine Corps’ “Rite of Passage” commercial from 1998. In it, a nameless hero swings a sword with an Eagle, Globe, and Anchor on its hilt to slay a lava monster and then morphs into his Dress Blues.
Although younger Americans may not fully appreciate the awesomeness of this commercial, its status as a legend was cemented in the HBO miniseries “Generation Kill” – based on the book of the same name by Evan Wright – in which Cpl. Josh Ray Person jokes that the ad “got so many f—king guys.

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Earlier today, news broke that four U.S. servicemen were missing in the Baltic nation of Lithuania.
NATO Chief Mark Rutte just confirmed the four servicemen were dead.
“Whilst I was speaking the news came out about four American soldiers who were killed in an incident in Lithuania,” Rutte told reporters, adding that he did not know any details, reported Reuters.

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In his 2022 article, “America Ignores Africa at its Own Peril,” Joe Bruhl made the case that the United States was ignoring Africa to its grave peril while China and Russia operated on the continent with impunity. Three years on, we asked him to reflect on his argument. Read more below. Image: U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Peter Thompson In your 2022 article, “America Ignores Africa at its Own Peril,” you characterized the U.S. posture toward Africa as “a problem to be managed,” while Russia and China operate unchecked across the continent.

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In the winter of 1917, Russian and German troops on the Eastern Front of World War I were not only fighting each other, they were also trying to stay alive amid the blistering cold, starvation and, surprisingly, large packs of wolves. 
It’s a well-known historical fact that citizens of the Russian Empire were starving by the winter of 1917. It was one of the many reasons for the downfall of Tsar Nicholas II and the rise of the Soviet Union. But German civilians and military personnel, too, were starving.

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