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On this Fourth of July, we remember the 13 warriors who lost their lives during the Afghanistan retreat.
Chinese Type 94 Submarine photographed On Surface By Taiwanese Fishing Boat Crew
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The US Army has initiated flight testing of the T901 engine as part of its efforts to modernise the UH-60 Black Hawk.
On April 11, 2004, then-Staff Sgt. Luis Barsallo’s platoon was hit by a “perfectly executed ambush on behalf of the insurgents” in Samarra, Iraq.
“We were getting shot at from 12 o’clock, 6 o’clock, 3 o’clock, and 9 o’clock – so 360 degrees,” Barsallo told Task & Purpose. “Mortar rounds were coming in, bullets were flying. We could see the insurgents running around with the RPG [rocket-propelled grenades], trying to maneuver. They had plenty of time to set something like that up. Hollywood couldn’t have made a better scene.
Don Brown, American Thinker
As summer unfolds, Americans across the land prepare to celebrate one of our most cherished holidays: Independence Day.
S.J. Paparo, Proceedings
The joint and combined force is a latticework of capabilities, but nothing compares with the mobility, mass, and fires capacity of a U.S.
Washington has committed additional funding towards the provision of Patriot and NASAMS air defence interceptors for Ukraine.
Upcoming elections could pull France to the right and the United Kingdom to the left, so the Net Assessment team discusses how this might alter policies in Paris and London. They discuss articles by Ulrike Franke and David Lammy, which sketch out the implications for French and British policy, respectively.
Forget Lexington. Forget Bunker Hill. The first battle of the American Revolution — the one that made revolution possible, although not inevitable — was James Wolfe’s posthumous triumph on the Plains of Abraham in 1759. This engagement, frequently personalized as a duel between the opposing commanders, Wolfe and Louis-Joseph de Montcalm, is best known as a clash between French and British empires that resulted in the British conquest of Canada. But it was much more than that.
The historic court martial of an Air Force two-star general in June ended in a guilty verdict for every charge except for one: sexual assault. Prosecutors and defense lawyers for Maj. Gen. Phillip Stewart presented cases to the jury that did not widely disagree on the evidence.
Instead, the verdict came down to the interpretation of what actions, words and thoughts constitute “consent” between two coworkers with very different ranks.