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Dick Van Dyke has lived a storied life and career both in and out of Hollywood, and last week, celebrated his 99th birthday! His career has spanned 9 decades beginning in 1947 with its ups and downs. He started his career on radio, TV and in nightclubs entertaining the masses. He debuted on Broadway in 1959 in the musical The Girls Against the Boys. He has been awarded six Emmys, a Grammy, a Golden Globe and a Tony Award.

The V40 mini-grenade may not look like much, but it was a mainstay for special operations soldiers fighting in the jungle and clearing enemy camps and buildings during the Vietnam War.
It’s use in tight quarters earned it the nickname as the “hooch popper.” Troops also called it a “golf ball grenade,” for its size at just 4.8-ounce, and 4 centimeters across.

For the first time in over 40 years, the Army concurrently ran its keystone Warfighter Exercise with Yama Sakura in Japan, allowing it to test distributed command and control nodes and conduct operations over noncontiguous locations.
“We were able to exercise the Corps and our subordinate divisions to conduct large-scale combat operations in the fictional locations that we had,” Lt. Gen. Matthew McFarlane, commander of I Corps, said in a call with reporters Thursday.

As the Space Force works to address adversary capabilities that threaten the United States’ military satellites in orbit, outgoing Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall warns that the service needs to develop and field technology at a faster pace.
“The place where I think we should be moving faster is counterspace. We need to protect the joint force from the targeting and sensing that China, in particular, is fielding now,” Kendall said Thursday during a webinar hosted by the Mitchell Institute.

In 2021, Colin Clarke wrote “Killing Terrorist Leaders Is No Silver Bullet,” where he argued that leadership decapitation is not always the most viable way to dismantle a terrorist group. In the wake of continued efforts to decapitate terrorist groups around the world, we invited Colin to reflect back on his article. Read more below: Image: U.S. Air Force (Photo by Tech. Sgt.

The Output hosts interview Washington Times National Security Correspondent Bill Gertz on the military advances of the Chinese Communist Party.
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Missile-equipped Boat, PLA, 1967Gary Todd, Public Domain

The Chinese People’s Liberation Army has added hundreds of new missiles and 100 more nuclear warheads as part of a military buildup designed for a war with the United States, according to a Pentagon report made public Wednesday.
For the first time, the survey of Chinese military power reveals extensive PLA preparations for sophisticated information warfare operations against the United States, including the use of deepfake online posts and cyber-enabled psychological warfare. Pentagon analysts said the goal is to influence U.S.