Author: Michael

Pentagon leadership will accelerate high-volume production of technologies designed to detect, track and destroy enemy drones via “Replicator 2.0,” DefenseScoop has learned.
This development marks the first public report of the second capability focus area under the Replicator initiative — a high-profile effort that underpins the Defense Department’s multifaceted plan to deter China.
According to a memorandum signed by Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Sept.

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The U.S. troop presence in Europe was never meant to be permanent. Overseeing preparations for an Allied landing on the continent to defeat Adolf Hitler’s Germany, President Franklin D. Roosevelt explained in 1944: “the United States will be only too glad to retire all its military forces from Europe as soon as this is feasible.” Fast forward 80 years, and things turned out very differently than Roosevelt imagined. Europe still hosts around 100,000 U.S. servicemembers and, according to many observers, this number will only increase over the coming years.

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Kris Kristofferson, US Army

When I was a kid, my Dad used to play Kris Kristofferson on loop, over and over again, so his music was ingrained in my soul. I passed the love of Kristofferson and Johnny Cash on to my kids.
Johnny left us long ago, but today we lost the other half of the duo – Kris Kristofferson.
Kristofferson wrote this song about Johnny Cash finding God and getting his life together with June Carter Cash.

Kristofferson, under pressure from his family, joined the U.S. Army and was commissioned as a second lieutenant, attaining the rank of captain.

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Public Domain

I had my annual check up at the VA this week, and I was struck by some odd behavior by the staff.
I was asked three times — “Are you interested in any vaccines?”
I replied — “No death shots for me please.”
After the last four years, and over seventeen million deaths from the Covid vaccines world-wide, this behavior is simply bizarre, or likely even more nefarious.
We are way past the point of any benefit of the doubt to the Department of Defense, who are behind the administering of these ‘countermeasures’.

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