Author: Michael

Epirus is slated to provide a new drone zapper to the Marine Corps before the end of the year, the company announced Monday.
The high-power microwave weapon prototype, known as Leonidas Expeditionary, is being developed under a $5.5 million contract as part of the Defense Department’s Expeditionary Directed Energy Counter-Swarm (ExDECS) initiative.
The Office of Naval Research, Marine Corps Warfighting Lab and Joint Counter-small Unmanned Aircraft Systems Office (JCO) are also involved in the effort, according to a press release.
The U.S.

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More Marines are staying in the Corps past their first contract than at any other time in the last 14 years.
The Marine Corps is nearing the end of Fiscal Year 2024 with the highest number of first-term Marines who have reenlisted since 2010, Corps officials announced on Monday.
The increase in retention reflects a change in the Marine Corps’ strategy from “recruit and replace” to one that aims to “invest and retain” the most capable Marines, a Corps news release says.
Traditionally, about three-quarters of Marines who enlist do not stay in the Corps beyond their first contract.

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‘No dice, Mr President. No dice on Ukraine and no dice on Gaza. We’re in charge now.’

In a 30-minute interview with Judge Napolitano on September 18, Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, former chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell and critic of America’s wars, described a recent event in which Pentagon chief Gen. Lloyd Austin told President Biden that, in Wilkerson’s words, “the Pentagon has taken over, essentially, diplomacy as well as any action, militarily speaking, with regard to both theaters of war,” meaning Ukraine and Israel.

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