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President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team said in a Tuesday conference call with reporters that retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn’s son is “no longer involved” in the Trump transition effort. Trump transition spokesman Jason Miller said Flynn’s son, Michael Flynn Jr., was helping his father with administrative and scheduling duties. The elder Flynn is Trump’s incoming national […]
ESSEN, Germany — To loud applause, Chancellor Angela Merkel told her party members on Tuesday that Germany should ban full-face veils “wherever legally possible” and that it would not tolerate any application of Shariah law over German justice. Accepting her party’s nomination as its candidate for another four-year term, the chancellor used the moment to […]
The Pentagon has buried an internal study that exposed $125 billion in administrative waste in its business operations amid fears Congress would use the findings as an excuse to slash the defense budget, according to interviews and confidential memos obtained by The Washington Post. Pentagon leaders had requested the study to help make their enormous back-office […]
There has been a lot in the news lately about military tensions between Russia and the Western world, and although both NATO and Russian leaders claim that they do not want another cold war to start, concerns about Russian aggression persist. Last week, leaders in the European Union announced a unified defense fund that could […]
It has been said that a lie travels around the world before the truth can get its pants on. Sadly, that adage has never been more apparent than during this election cycle. Mercifully over, it produced two deeply flawed Presidential candidates whose respective relationships with the truth were casual at best. In a normal world, […]
Washington, D.C. – A provision within the 2017 National Defense Authorization could advance Special Operations Command’s steady march towards independence from the geographical combatant commands. The House of Representatives on Dec. 2 overwhelmingly approved by a vote of 375-34 the $619 billion measure, which contains a provision to reorganize SOCOM and provide its assistant secretary […]
The Secretary of Defense (SECDEF) is the principal defense policy advisor to the President. Under the direction of the President, the Secretary exercises authority, direction, and control over the Department of Defense. The Secretary of Defense is not a Joint Chiefs of Staff on steroids. It’s a policy implementation role, final authority, and principal liaison to the […]
Washington D.C. — House leaders introduced the final conference report for the Fiscal Year 2017 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) Nov. 30 authorizing up to $100 million to special operations forces to combat terrorism. The inclusion follows reports that President Barack Obama is expanding the authority of Special Operations Command (SOCOM) to hunt terrorist cells […]
Washington, D.C. – House members pass a provision within the recently-introduced Fiscal Year 2017 National Defense Authorization that would make permanent joint training exercises led by special operations forces. This provision within the NDAA was pushed by House Democrats. The NDAA and the House Armed Services Committee continues to be a bi-partisan and professional environment despite […]
A presidential commission on Friday made 16 urgent recommendations to improve the nation’s cybersecurity, including creating a nutritional-type label to help consumers shop wisely and appointing a new international ambassador on the subject — weeks before President-elect Donald Trump takes office. The release of the 100-page report follows the worst hacking of U.S. government systems […]
Hampshire College in Massachusetts made headlines after the recent presidential election for choosing not to fly the American flag on campus any longer. Today, the flag is once again flying high above the Hampshire campus in Amherst, and the school’s president, Jonathan Lash, claims the decision to remove the flag was not politically fueled. Where […]
Washington, D.C. – House leaders introduced the final conference report for the 2017 National Defense Authorization Act Nov. 30 containing a provision to reorganize Special Operations Command and provide its assistant secretary with increased powers to oversee its activities. Under its report for the fiscal year 2017 NDAA, the Senate Armed Services Committee empowers the […]
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