U.S. Strategic Command makes a case for modernizing nukes to prevent bloodshed

Air Force General John E. Hyten, Commander of U.S. Strategic Command, spoke at the Military Reporters and Editors annual meeting on Friday, taking the opportunity to address the importance of modernizing America’s nuclear arsenal. According to the General, the United States already possesses “about the right numbers” of nuclear warheads, but the outdated technology we’re […]

Syrian Army reportedly kills dozens in suspected chemical attack

Multiple activist groups out of Syria are claiming that dozens of people, including at least ten children, were killed in a suspected chemical attack carried out in the city of Khan Sheikhoun in Idlib, Syria on Tuesday morning. At least 200 more have been reportedly injured as a result of “poisonous gas” released via airstrike […]

Werner Stiller, East German spy and defector, dies at 69

On a snowy night in January 1979, Werner Stiller stepped into his office in Berlin, pried open a safe and grabbed the transit papers that would allow him to travel safely from the city’s communist eastern half to freedom in the west. He had already sent his wife a goodbye letter stuffed with 10,000 German […]

Baltic states think Russia is laying the groundwork for looming ‘kinetic operations’

Signs of an intensifying Moscow-led information campaign have the Lithuanian government worried that Russia is laying the groundwork for “kinetic operations” — a euphemism for combat — similar to its recent actions in Crimea and eastern Ukraine. Lithuania’s defense minister and military communications officials told The Guardian that they were “taking very seriously” Russia-organized propaganda efforts […]

We now have a better idea who’s behind ‘unmasking’ Trump officials’ contact with foreign agents — and why

Former National Security Adviser Susan Rice reportedly tried to learn the identities of officials on President Donald Trump’s transition team whose conversations with foreign officials were incidentally collected during routine intelligence-gathering operations. The intelligence reports obtained by Rice, who served under President Barack Obama from 2013 to 2017, “were summaries of monitored conversations — primarily […]

Trump hosts Egyptian president al-Sisi in effort to renew U.S.-Egypt ties

President Donald Trump welcomed the president of Egypt, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, to the White House today, drawing pointed criticism from those who say the meeting validates the Egyptian leader who rose to power following a military ouster of a democratically elected president. Before the meeting between the heads of state, protesters gathered near the Washington […]

Haley: U.S. policy in Syria no longer focused on removing Assad

The United States no longer believes removing Syrian President Bashar al-Assad should be a foreign policy priority, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said Thursday. The official policy under the Obama administration calling for Assad to step down started in the earliest stages of the Syrian Civil War as it began in 2011. […]

SECDEF Mattis addresses North Korea, Russia, and ISIS in press conference

In a joint press conference with British Defense Secretary Michael Fallon, James Mattis addressed the most pressing security concerns for the United States and its allies, specifically North Korea, Russia, and the global war on terror. First on the docket was North Korea and its burgeoning nuclear missile program that has elevated threats levied by […]

Trump presses China on North Korea ahead of Xi talks

U.S. President Donald Trump held out the possibility on Sunday of using trade as a lever to secure Chinese cooperation against North Korea and suggested Washington might deal with Pyongyang’s nuclear and missile programs on its own if need be. The comments, in an interview published on Sunday by the Financial Times, appeared designed to […]