Special operations forces deploy around the world in high-risk missions. And the troops that fall under Special Operations Command experience a high rate of serious and sometimes deadly accidents outside of combat, often in training.
A lack of oversight and a culture of complacency are the major contributors to these mishaps, the Government Accountability Office wrote in a new report, released on Thursday, Nov. 21.
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MacLean & Heinrichs, Hudson Institute Aaron MacLean and Rebeccah Heinrichs discuss the moral implications of the United States growing its nuclear arsenal on School of War.
Casey Carlisle, RealClearDefense
Say that your local school district wishes to increase its revenue (raise your property taxes). It cannot legally get away with robbing you directly.
Adam Kredo, Washington Free Beacon Iran publicly accelerated its contested nuclear work on Friday, installing advanced centrifuges to more quickly enrich the uranium needed to fuel an atomic…
Host L Todd Wood speaks with Commander Salamander on the achilles heel of the US Navy.
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By Col. Kurt Schlichter, USA ret | Town Hall
While the nomination of Pete Hegseth stunned me at first, upon further reflection its genius became clear. Donald Trump isn’t bringing Pete Hegseth, a decorated Infantry major and longtime Fox host, into the Pentagon to don the green eye shades and closely manage every element of the military behemoth like a reborn Robert McNamara.
Trump hired Hegseth to channel George Patton and apply a jump boot to the buttocks of our deadweight military along with an injection of combat arms leadership and attitude.
We’re pulling our only stocks that exist – our AP Mines in South Korea
The Land Mine Treaty is well intended, but flawed. Just like the Kellogg-Briand Pact to Outlaw War, it is Elite Street Theater that makes Globalists feel good about themselves as they slurp down smoked salmon and other fine food as they blather platitudes at international conferences on someone else’s dime. But aggressive, totalitarian nations will always escape and evade the Treaties.
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One of the most pressing national security issues facing the incoming Trump administration is the resilience of our defense industrial base.
IntEng
The SLCM-N would fulfill a critical role as a sea-based nuclear deterrent below the strategic level on the nuclear escalation ladder.
James Giordano & Bob Williams, National Defense Magazine
In the current global order, U.S. deterrence arguably remains the most important pillar of nuclear non-use.