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Donald Trump is expected to make a formal announcement early next week regarding his appointment of retired Marine General James Mattis as the Secretary of Defense for the United States of America. Mattis met with Trump in his New Jersey golf course home a few weeks ago to discuss the possibility of serving in the […]
Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, delivered his annual state of the nation address on Thursday, in which he called for international cooperation, but emphasized that the nation would “not tolerate that our interests are either neglected or infringed.” Tensions have been high between the Russian Federation and Western powers in recent months, due in large part […]
The European Union has announced a new plan to increase defense spending across the continent, in what some are calling a precursor to a larger EU Defense Union. The European Defense Action Plan calls for a dramatic increase in funding for joint military assets among member nations. The proposal includes increasing immediate expenditures from twenty-five […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee has promised to introduce comprehensive legislation to strengthen sanctions against Russia. Sen. Ben Cardin (D-MD) told a Center for Strategic and International Studies forum on transatlantic security Nov. 17 that he would press for new sanctions to punish Russia for its aggression towards Ukraine, […]
The US surveillance state is poised to grow more powerful under a Trump administration. Though President-elect Donald Trump still has nearly two months until he’s sworn in, his picks for Attorney General and Director of the Central Intelligence Agency are a sign that many surveillance reforms could be overturned or changed, such as the NSA’s collection […]
None of America’s four military services rates higher than “marginal,” according to the Heritage Foundation’s 2017 Index of Military of Strength, published Nov. 16. Sequestration funding cuts have reduced defense spending by approximately $78 billion in real dollars since 2011, leaving each branch ill-equipped, the report said. The Army scored lowest among the other branches […]
Law enforcement killed a suspected assailant who injured nine people at Ohio State University after plowing a car into a campus crowd and attempting to stab survivors with a butcher knife, news services reported Nov. 28. Law enforcement officials have reported the suspect’s name is Abdul Artan, an 18-year-old Somali refugee, and student at the […]
President-elect Donald J. Trump met on Monday with David H. Petraeus, the highly decorated but scandal-scarred former military commander, who has emerged as a new contender for secretary of state after days of bitter internal feuding over who will get the coveted post. Mr. Petraeus, a retired general and former C.I.A. director, spent an hour with Mr. Trump […]
An airplane dispatched by the Brazilian government as a part of its continued efforts to stop illegal logging and mining in the Amazon rain forest recently snapped the first ever aerial photographs of an as-yet uncontacted tribe of indigenous Yanomami people, living in total solitude deep within the jungle. The photographs depict what is called […]
Washington, D.C. – The House Armed Services Committee (HASC) is seeking more information on an innovative Special Operations Command program that seeks to engage the private sector. Dubbed “SOFWERX,” the initiative creates a forum for accelerating the acquisition of innovative capabilities to SOCOM. Within the House version of the fiscal year 2017 National Defense Authorization […]
Washington, D.C. – The Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee asked the Department of Defense on Nov. 21 not to issue any midnight regulations before the transfer of power from the Obama to Trump Administration. Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) urged Defense Secretary Ash Carter to suspend the development and implementation of any new rules […]
Every one with a television knows that a silencer is a device attached to the barrel of a firearm which reduces the amount of noise and visible muzzle flash generated by firing. These Silencers are typically constructed of a metal cylinder with internal baffles to reduce the sound by capturing and slowing the escaping gases. […]
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