As thousands of citizens fled East Germany in the early 1960s, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev became irate.
Berlin became a particular source of irritation. Khrushchev detested how the German capital was divided into four zones after World War II that the United States, Britain, France, and the Soviet Union oversaw.
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Cold War tensions became white-hot after the Soviets shot down a U-2 spy plane in 1960.
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Jules W. Hurst III, performing the duties of the undersecretary of war comptroller and chief financial officer, and Space Force Lt. Gen. Steven P. Whitney, Joint Staff director of force structure, resources and assessment, brief the media on the War Department’s fiscal year 2027 budget request at the Pentagon, April 21, 2026.
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The Pentagon’s proposed $1.5 trillion budget for next fiscal year includes funding to fix longstanding problems with barracks, defense officials recently told reporters.
The budget calls for spending $57 billion on U.S. military bases and other facilities, a large portion of which would go toward addressing “critical updates” identified by the Pentagon’s barracks task force established by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, a senior military official told reporters on Friday.
Denmark has signed the first export contract for the European SAMP/T NG long-range air and missile defence system.
President Lyndon B. Johnson introduced Ed Yeilding to the SR-71 Blackbird. Thus began a wonderful, long-lasting relationship.
When LBJ announced the development of a “super plane” capable of traveling at more than 2,000 mph, Yeilding was still in high school and living in Alabama. He couldn’t turn away from the news conference.
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Yeilding was so intrigued that he made a vow to himself that day.
Soldiers in the 1st Cavalry Division will soon get their hands on the latest versions of the Army’s Abrams tank and the first prototypes of the infantry combat vehicle.
Soldiers with the division’s 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team at Fort Hood, Texas, will begin training with prototypes of the new XM30 Mechanized Infantry Combat Vehicle and M1E3 Abrams tank this fall.
Jack Buckby, NSJ
The Air Force planned to buy 100 B-21 Raiders. The head of U.S.
Michael Scanlon, Air Force Times
“In consultation with [Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth], we will EXTEND the A-10 ‘Warthog’ platform to 2030,” Meink wrote
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Collaborative Combat Aircraft will “bridge” the Marines to a family of new capabilities that could include a new stealth fighter based on F/A-XX.
Carter Johnston, Naval News
An urgent requirement for JDAM LR comes amid the depletion of various long-range strike capabilities currently fielded by the U.S. Air Force and U.S.