Author: Michael

The Department of Defense is still struggling to account for its finances. The department once again failed its annual audit into its expenditures and assets. This markets the seventh straight year of failures. The Department of Defense has not passed one of the mandatory audits since they were implemented in 2018.
Michael McCord, Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller) and Chief Financial Officer, announced the latest failure on Friday, Nov. 15, saying the result was “expected.

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By Bill Gertz – The Washington Times
The Army Special Operations Command at Fort Liberty, North Carolina — possibly soon to be renamed back to Fort Bragg, its previous name —  is retooling its 35,000 commandos for operations against China.
Last spring, some of the command’s 35,000 special operations forces took part in an unprecedented military deployment to Taiwan’s Kinmen island, about 3 miles from the Chinese mainland, the online military blog SOFREP reported.

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By John Gentry, USAR retFormer CIA Analyst
The damage that “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) policies are doing to American colleges and universities is increasingly well-known, thanks largely to efforts of the National Association of Scholars and Minding the Campus, but the harm done to U.S. intelligence agencies has not been assessed—until now.
My study of the operational effects of DEI policies on the U.S. intelligence community (IC) indicates major damage. These troubles are related.

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