James “Spider” Marks, RealClearDefense
Author: Michael
Diplomat
Washington needs to enact the concept of “strategic sequencing” to avoid fighting a two-front war against nuclear-armed rivals.
Kheel, Military
Service members would see the largest military pay raise in more than 20 years under the budget proposal unveiled…
DefScoop
The Biden administration proposes increasing the DOD’s total discretionary budget authority to $842 billion, a 3.2% boost from the 2023 enacted level.
Al-Monitor
With the 2,100-ton vessel added to its fleet along with nearly 100 missile-launching boats, Iran appears to be flexing its muscles at sea.
Long before the Cold War pitted democracy and communism against each other on a global scale, fascism and communism were locked in a deathmatch ideological struggle in Europe. As economies were decimated by the aftermath of World War I, civil wars broke out, fascist governments rose in Germany, Italy, and elsewhere as people fled their homes for safer countries.
In the middle of this unrest, sisters Freddie and Truus Oversteegen were growing up in what is today Haarlem in the Netherlands.
The Boeing B-52 Stratofortress Bomber is a modern marvel of engineering. It’s so good, the United States Air Force has kept it around for more than 70 years. In that time, the airframes have undergone several revisions and upgrades and have outlasted other airplane types, the Strategic Air Command for which it was built, and even the Cold War itself.
Its superior performance and low operating costs were the primary reason it was never superseded, even by aircraft that were designed to replace the B-52.
It really was like a dark, violent start to a movie. Iraqi units watched dust storms roll in during the 2003 invasion by America and thought they finally had a break from the relentless attacks. Night had offered no protection, but surely the Americans could not reach them in such thick dust storms.
Iraqi units drove into the thick walls of dust and inched their way along highways, seeking to reinforce or resupply beleaguered units. For five days, America had run roughshod over them. Now, finally, with dust so thick it turned rain to mud, they were safe.
This Marine has very little in common with the Charlie Brown from the Sunday funny pages. Cpl. Charles Brown was a New York-born Marine who enlisted in British-held Hong Kong. He would see action aboard the USS Colorado when the United States sent its Navy to Korea in 1871.
Korea at that time was an extremely isolated country (even more so than North Korea is today), but the United States wanted to know what happened to a merchant ship that had visited the country in 1866.
Napoleon once said that leaders are “dealers in hope.” While such a label might seem to fit Ukrainian President Vlodymyr Zelensky, it fits more awkwardly on Russian President Vladimir Putin. How has the leadership of these two men shaped the onset and current progress of the Russian invasion of Ukraine? Would the invasion have happened […]
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