Op-Ed: Are you prepared for the stress of life? If you’re swamped with debt, probably not

A recent Gallup poll revealed that Americans are among the most stressed people in the world. One of the largest factors? Personal finances related to income. This is true for military families, seemingly successful business owners, students, and masses of ordinary citizens. According to Gallup, “Income…plays a role with worry and stress, with the lowest […]

This company is making a big splash in space defense and exploration, but that’s just the tip of the iceberg

L3 Technologies is an aerospace and defence company. It specialises on Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) programs, and communications, network, and electronic systems. The company’s main customers are the United States military, domestic security agencies — such as the FBI, Transportation Security Administration (TSA), Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) […]

This company has developed technology in which the Pentagon is investing nearly half a billion dollars

Textron Systems is a leading company in the aerospace, defense, homeland security, and infrastructure protection industries. It specializes in the design, development, and manufacture of unmanned systems (aerial, land, and water); armored vehicles; geospatial information management and analysis systems; marine craft; electronic warfare and cyber warfare systems; and intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance systems. Despite this […]

Why do the Pentagon’s reasons for buying new F-15s keep shifting?

Even among fans of Boeing’s F-15EX initiative, you won’t find anyone who will contend that the F-15 is a superior aircraft to Lockheed Martin’s Joint Strike Fighter. On paper, a new F-15 does offer a number of advantages over the stealth F-35—higher top speed, lower operating costs, larger payload capacity, and greater operational range—but in […]

Massive petrochemical fire in Houston threatens major shipping channel

A massive inferno at a petrochemical plant outside of Houston, Texas, is still raging. The fire started Sunday morning at the Intercontinental Terminals Company facility in Deer Park and has destroyed eight of the company’s large chemical storage tanks. Although early estimates predicted the fire would be extinguished by Wednesday, issues with firefighting equipment have […]

How one planning decision is responsible for so many of the F-35’s woes

It can be tough to find stories about the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter that don’t go out of their way to paint the platform as either an incredibly overpriced boondoggle or the best thing to happen to military air power since the invention of nose-mounted radar. From an editorial standpoint, these “absolute good” and “absolute […]

How the rich and famous scammed colleges to get Johnny or Jane into Yale

By now, you’ve heard about the wealthy parents bribing people in positions of power in order to get their children accepted into prestigious universities. The list of those accused includes actresses, businessmen, lawyers, physicians, and other “high society types.” According to a report from the New York Times, these parents spent hundreds of thousands of […]

New defense budget includes unexpectedly large pay raise for troops

Starting from January 2020, military personnel are set to receive a 3.1% pay raise, according to President Donald Trump’s fiscal year 2020 defense budget. If the proposal goes through Congress, it would mark the largest increase in pay in a decade. The last largest increase was 3.4% in 2009. Depending on rank and years of […]