Pete Barnum can’t talk much these days. Surgery for squamous cell carcinoma—the kind linked to toxic exposure, the kind the PACT Act was written for—has left his speech severely impaired. But even when the VA calls to discuss his claim, they ask to speak with him.
His wife Keri answers anyway. She has been answering for months: scheduling appointments, tracking medications, escalating denials, spending ten or more hours some weeks on hold.
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Secretary of War Pete Hegseth today announced that the War Department will conditionally continue to provide support to Scouting America — formerly the Boy Scouts of America — following the youth organization’s commitment to pull all diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives from its program.
Oscar Berry, RealClearDefense
Operation Epic Fury is achieving its military objectives.
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An American anti-drone system proven to work against
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John Ripley vs. 20,000 communists.
Alison Bath, Stars and Stripes
Ford, along with the destroyer USS Bainbridge, transited the Suez Canal on Thursday
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I read Matthew Woessner’s piece “In Defense of War Colleges” in RealClearDefense with the same disappointment I feel watching senior leaders defend a broken system instead of fixing it.
As a Naval War College graduate, a 32-year combat veteran who rose from enlisted EOD tech to wing commander, and someone who’s seen the downstream effects of what these institutions are producing, let me be blunt:
The war colleges aren’t “remaining focused on educating military leaders to fight and win the nation’s wars.
The Republic of China Ministry of National Defence’s unprecedented investments in arms procurements from the United States have drawn growing scrutiny from lawmakers domestically, with criticisms increasingly encompassing not only the extreme delays to deliveries which have hampered military modernisation efforts, but also the cost effectiveness and viability of much of the equipment on order.
Following the release of satellite images indicating that the AN/TPY-2 X-band mobile radar system from the U.S. Army THAAD anti-ballistic missile system had been destroyed in an Iranian drone strike,an anonymous individual on March 7 posted photos providing confirmation, showing the radar destroyed. The radar system was stationed at Muwafak Salti Air Base in Jordan. The destruction of the radar is expected to significantly reduce the utility of THAAD systems to provide defence against Iranian missile attacks.