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As the United States marks Presidents Day ahead of its 250th anniversary, Americans are invited to reflect on the individuals who carried the weight of the presidency during moments of national peril. Standing tall among them is Abraham Lincoln, a leader remembered not only for preserving the Union and ending slavery, but also for evolving under fire into an active wartime commander.
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In May 1862, the second year of the Civil War, Lincoln did something few presidents have before or since.
Lithuania will allocate $265m in military aid to Ukraine in 2026, Defence Minister Robertas Kaunas has said.
Sitting at a beachside bar, Jeff Evans looked out into the waters of the South China Sea and wondered if his dad and uncle had ever shared a beer at the same bar.
“The rumor mill in the family was that they had got together once or twice,” Evans said. “And I would only like to hope that they’re like me, and I love the beach.”
Perhaps, he thought, his uncle David Lynn Evans had taken leave from his base outside Ho Chi Minh City and traveled to Nha Trang, where his brother, Norman Francis Evans — Jeff’s father — was stationed.
Finland has secured early funding as part of the ReArm Europe programme to boost defence capability in areas such as dual-use technologies.
Munich was warmer than Washington this weekend, both in weather and in sentiment. Neither development was widely forecast. The sense of crisis in transatlantic relations was plain, especially on the European side, and the world descended on the Bayerischer Hof hotel to sort it all out. At the Munich Security Conference there was beer to drink, brats to eat, statements to make, and bilateral meetings to hold. February’s foreign policy freneticism kicked off in earnest.And frenetic it was.
The U.S. Air Force Global Strike Command has announced that it is prepared to restore nuclear weapons capability for the entire operational B-52H Stratofortress bomber fleet, after limitations imposed by the New START arms control treaty with Russia expired without a follow-on agreement in place.
The blueprint for returning America to be the dominant Maritime nation has been released. It will be Down to the Sea in Ships (again)
“A nation secures its borders, makes things, makes things that makes things, and has a maritime fleet in proportion to the size of its economy.
Otherwise you are a nation of coffee shops. No nation grew to greatness based on coffee shops. Greece was once a mighty nation, and became a nation of coffee shops.
Similarly, no nation ever regulated itself to greatness.
The U.S. Air Force has conduced an unprecedented operation to redeploy a micro nuclear reactor from March Air Reserve Base in Southern California using C-17 transports, with the destination being Hill Air Force Base in Utah. Three C-17s will bring the components of the Ward250 reactor, which is split between eight modules, to Utah, marking the first time the aircraft are used to redeploy reactors.