Author: Michael

The conferenced version of the fiscal 2026 National Defense Authorization Act would require the Pentagon to brief lawmakers on operations since 2004 involving any unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) intercepts conducted by the integrated military commands that share leadership and a focus on defending North America.
This mandate marks one of three provisions associated with UAP — or the modern term for UFOs and other mysterious transmedium objects — that made it into the annual defense policy legislation.
It also comes as North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) and U.S.

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The United States Navy is the most powerful in history. For decades, it has dominated the seas, and at the heart of that domination, at least through World War II, was the battleship. But today, the U.S. Navy’s only battleships are floating museums, and its largest warships, aircraft carriers, have few guns on their decks. So what happened? How did the once-prolific warship fade into history and why hasn’t it been reinvented?
The short answer is that modern warfare killed the battleship concept.

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In December 1944, the United States was still very much in the middle of World War II. The June 6 landings in Normandy were fresh in the minds of troops on the ground and Americans back home, but setbacks throughout Europe and bloody battles in the Pacific Theater left a nation fatigued by the strains of war.
As the casualty counts increased and the war waged on, the air in America felt heavy. But for a moment in December, there was one thing taking everyone’s mind off the fighting: the Army-Navy game.
Army was ranked #1 and Navy, #2.

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In 2018, Andrew Grotto wrote, “Cyber Security Derailed? Recommendations for Smarter Investments in Infrastructure,” where he argued that as the United States modernizes its infrastructure and transportation networks, cybersecurity measures to protect them must be front and center. Seven years later, amidst a changing security landscape, we asked Andrew to revisit his argument.Image: Ben Schumin via Wikimedia CommonsIn your article, “Cyber Security Derailed? Recommendations for Smarter Investments in Infrastructure,” published in 2018, you argued that the U.S.

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Army prosecutors preferred charges against an OB-GYN doctor at a Fort Hood, Texas, hospital for recording patients, officials said.
There are 44 victims in this case, Army officials said Tuesday. The Office of Special Trial Counsel preferred four charges and 61 specifications against Maj. Blaine McGraw, 47, an OB-GYN doctor assigned to the Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center at Fort Hood.

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