No more tanks, less infantry battalions, some aviation: The new Marine Corps

“We are not a second land army, nor do we aspire to be anything other than the world’s premier naval expeditionary force.“ General David Berger’s “Commandant’s Planning Guidance” (CPG) may be one of the most ambitious such documents in Marine Corps history.  It envisions sweeping changes in Marine Corps structure and doctrine, carrying it both […]

Coronavirus & the 2021 defense budget

With the coronavirus on a rampage around the world, how could this impact our national security in the future? What is the real cost of COVID-19, and how can we afford next year’s budget? The president has proposed a $45.8 billion government-wide funding package that will provide DoD with $8.3 billion to assist in dealing […]

The Lithium Conundrum: Technological advance vs environment

Lithium is a critical component in the effort to transition to a more sustainable global economy as it is used in the lithium batteries of electric vehicles. Lithium produces the simplest pair (energy density, weight) so it is very efficient. A cobalt Li-ion battery stores twice the maximum amount of energy as a nickel-based battery […]

To mask or not to mask, that is the question

With new information about how the virus is spread, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC)  recommended on Friday that everyone now should cover our faces in public, whether with a mask or otherwise. Yet, public health officials had thus been uncompromising in their stance that healthy people should not wear masks as a way to […]

A Delta Force operator on how to shield your home and family from the Coronavirus

Some of my experience in this field includes live nerve agent decontamination training with the Delta Force and years of platform instruction and field training for First Responders in Nuclear, Chemical, and Biological Crisis Response. It is strongly suggested that if the below procedures are followed when entering and exiting your private residence you will […]

22 a Day: Is there a suicide pandemic within the ranks?

Two cadets, among 1,000 seniors isolated at the Air Force Academy, committed suicide within days from each other amid the COVID-19 pandemic. This has rattled the service from the senior leadership to its trainees. Unlike other branches, the Air Force has kept cadets on campus. The cadets have been socially distancing in single rooms, away […]

Lebanon: The next Middle East powder keg waiting to explode

Lebanon isn’t in the news much these days but has the potential to blow up into a major conflict.  The country is facing a couple of big problems right now Firstly, Lebanon is going through one of the deepest economic crises in the world today — a crisis that puts it in the precipice of […]

Are governments using the Coronavirus Pandemic to spy on citizens?

It was reported early this week that government efforts to track and monitor the coronavirus are stoking fears of global surveillance, at a time when the pandemic is in full gear and public health systems struggle to provide quality care to the increasing numbers of patients or suspected cases. Surveillance? Now? In an effort to […]

Doom and gloom? COVID-19 and the US economy

Many Americans feared that when WWII came to a close the U.S. economy would slide back into the rut of the Great Depression. However, everyone’s fears were met with just the opposite outcome. American consumers were in a frenzy buying new homes and automobiles, while the aviation and banking industries were booming. The GDP more […]

Top 5 small unit leadership tips from a Navy SEAL officer

Editor’s note: This article was written by Frumentarius, a former Navy SEAL officer, CIA case officer, and currently a Lieutenant in a career fire department in the Midwest. It was originally published on Sandboxx.com. Make sure to follow them on Facebook. Whether you are a light infantry platoonhttps://www.sandboxx.us/blog/ leader in the U.S. Army, a senior enlisted […]

The History of U.S. Psychological Operations: World War 2

In part two, we discussed America’s entry in the “Great War” and the need for propaganda on both the enemy and domestic home front. The Great War was perhaps the first use of what we define as Psychological Operations in a modern sense. But with the Armistice taking effect on November 11, 1918, both the […]