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Rick talks with TNSR author Joshua Byun about how American attempts to leave Europe during the first decade of the Cold War were thwarted by European concerns that German rearmament would trigger a Soviet attack. Image: NATO
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Hollywood depicts the CIA as planning and executing insane assassination attempts of foreign leaders — everything from poisoning a doctor’s stethoscope in “Spy Game” to weaponizing human robots in the Bourne series. But it turns out that those plotlines aren’t as crazy as you might think since the Agency has tried to poison toothpaste and tamper with SCUBA gear.
Conspiracy theorists love a good assassination attempt. Red string theory/Canva
Here are 4 of the craziest assassination attempts in U.S. history:
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Gary Sinise has had a very successful film and television career spanning over four decades. Sinise starred on the long-running TV series CSI: NY and worked on major motion pictures such as Apollo 13 and Ransom. Sinise is a big supporter of the men and women who serve our nation in uniform. He frequently tours military bases across the world entertaining troops with his cover band “The Lt. Dan Band.” Of course, the actor is most remembered for his portrayal of Lieutenant Dan Taylor in the 1994 Academy Award-winning film Forrest Gump.
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The Air Force Research Laboratory is inviting industry to participate in a weeklong series of experiments designed to explore potential software solutions for enhanced command and control.
The so-called “sprint week” is scheduled for Sept. 9-13 in Las Vegas, Nevada, and will address human-machine teaming capabilities that can help battle managers make faster and better-informed decisions when engaging with targets, according to a request for information posted to Sam.gov on Thursday.

A Pentagon program designed to cover a “vulnerable” mental health period for military members failed to reach 70% of those enrolled, a federal watchdog found. The program, named inTransition, is charged with connecting service members with mental health services as who are in periods of “transition” like leaving the military or returning home from a deployment.
But the program often waits 2 or 3 months to initiate contact with members, and made contact with less than 1-in-3, the Government Accountability Office report found this week.

The Navy is poised to issue revamped guidance to steer how its components apply “structured divestment” practices for sunsetting legacy information technology systems so that they can ultimately enable “smarter investments” in modernization capabilities, according to a new memorandum obtained by DefenseScoop.
The memo — signed by the Navy’s Acting Chief Technology Officer Justin Fanelli on Thursday, but not yet publicly released — lays out a clear pathway for officials to pinpoint, assess and eliminate redundant IT platforms.

In 2022, Bruce Hoffman and Jacob Ware wrote “The Accelerating Threat of Political Assassination,” where they explored the increased frequency of political violence and assassination in Western democracies. Following last week’s assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump, we invited them back to revisit the topic and discuss the evolution of political violence in the last two years. Read more below.

In the first quarter of FY25, QinetiQ, a defence technology company, demonstrates a solid start to the financial year.

The Trump-Vance ticket revolves around US isolationism. Global ties on defence, finance and semiconductors are at risk.

Ursula von der Leyen wants European Union member states to stop buying US and other overseas military equipment.