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CDM/AFP recently reported on President Trump’s threats to invoke the Insurrection Act to quell violent protests in Minnesota over ICE raids. We have also reported that Treasury Secretary Bessent is working on ‘following the money’ behind the demonstrations.
Today, word comes the Pentagon has put troops on alert for possible deployment in that scenario.
Some 1,500 active duty Army paratroopers have been put on alert for a potential deployment to Minnesota, according to two defense officials, reported ABC News.

For more than three quarters of a century, reports of strange objects in the sky have unsettled pilots, challenged scientists, and tested the credibility of governments.
What began in the late 1940s as scattered sightings of so-called flying saucers has evolved into a modern national security issue discussed openly in Congress under the term Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena, or UAP. Two men, separated by generations but united by military service and a refusal to accept official dismissals, played defining roles in that transformation. Maj. Donald E.

The Japanese government Board of Audit has revealed that military equipment worth approximately 1.1 trillion yen ($6.9 billion) purchased from the United States under the Foreign Military Sales program more than five years ago has yet to be delivered delivered to the Japan Self-Defense Forces. Among contracts signed since Fiscal Year 2018, 118 procurement cases remained incomplete far beyond their original delivery schedules, primarily due to issues with manufacturers in the United States.

The United States Army has confirmed that it failed to meet its end-of-2025 deployment target for the Long-Range Hypersonic Weapon (LRHW) program, otherwise known as theDark Eagle, despite the unit assigned to operate the system already being trained and ready. This follows prior delays in 2023 and 2024, making this the third major recent deadline to have been missedby the program. The missile that has been under development since 2018, and has already received more than $12 billion in funding. It is intended to provide the U.S.

The lawsuit accuses the U.S. military of enforcing a “two-part strategy” to deny virtually all religious accommodation requests from service members and recruits. CHD alleges the military’s policy for granting religious exemptions to recruits is “ambiguous.” For acting service members, the process for obtaining a religious exemption from vaccines is a “sham” and “largely theater.”

by Michael Nevradakis, Ph.D.
The U.S.

Dean Dudley

The Secretary of War has made it a priority to remove all DEI and Marxist ideology from the American military. It seems there is more work to do at West Point, otherwise known as the United States Military Academy.
West Point Associate Professor in Social Sciences Dean Dudley reportedly stated on social media that Supreme Court Justice Alito’s question about how courts should define men and women was: “disingenuous and meant for rhetorical show only.”
This professor is still teaching cadets? This is embarrassing.

.@SecWar did you see this? https://t.

The Chinese People’s Liberation Army Navy Southern Theatre Command has deployed a naval task force built around the Type 075 class amphibious assault ship Hainan, which includes the Type 903A class supply ship Luomahu and the Type 055 class destroyer Yan’an, alongside a supporting the Type 054A class ocean-going frigate Yueyang. The task force has conducted multi-subject maritime training, with the Type 055 and Type 075 being among the most high profile new types of warship in the Navy’s inventory providing a wide range of advanced capabilities for far seas operations.

The USS Gerald R. Ford has a plumbing problem. 
The Navy’s largest aircraft carrier, which heavily took part in the Jan. 3 airstrikes on Venezuela which led to the capture of Nicolas Maduro, keeps seeing its toilets break down. It’s an apparently ongoing problem that has plagued the ship for months, according to documents obtained by NPR. 
Even though the Ford is the newest and most advanced carrier the Navy has, its toilets continue to fail on a regular basis, impacting more than 4,000 sailors.

American forces killed an al-Qaeda-affiliated terrorist leader in Syria connected to the Dec. 13 ambush that killed two Iowa National Guard soldiers and their civilian interpreter. 
U.S. Central Command said that it killed Bilal Hasan al-Jasim in a strike in northwest Syria on Friday, Jan. 16. The strike was in direct response to shooting in Palmyra last month, where an ISIS gunman killed Sgt. William Nathaniel Howard and Sgt. Edgar Brian Torres-Tovar, as well as their American translator Ayad Mansoor Sakat, during a diplomatic meeting between American and Syrian officials.

“Top Gun” is an iconic movie, no doubt about it.
The action flick, which came out in 1986, was a blockbuster hit and has stayed popular ever since. The movie’s lexicon has permeated into our everyday language over the years. We tell others to “Cover me, Goose,” “You can be my wingman anytime,” or “Take me to bed or lose me forever.