Cuban Missile Crisis 2.0?
Russia is active again in Central and South America, with cash in hand looking for bases for their ships and planes. Will their military provocations spark another Cuban Missile Crisis?
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Russia is active again in Central and South America, with cash in hand looking for bases for their ships and planes. Will their military provocations spark another Cuban Missile Crisis?
The US Army announced that it would start offering up to a $50,000 bonus to new recruits to entice them in the door, while almost 3,000 might get booted for not complying with the vaccine mandate.
The U.S. will be sending $308 million in humanitarian aid to Afghanistan, but will it be able to get this aid past the Taliban which would see these resources as useful in consolidating its own hold over the country?
So I got into a brief exchange on Twitter the other day About John Wayne being a draft dodger in WWII. These claims go back for decades, leveled by biographers, some historians, and some who hate John Wayne for the image he enjoys as the expression of American manhood: Stoic, fair-minded, moral, and forthright. In […]
Former Navy SEAL and later Delta Force Chief Surgeon Bob Adams tells the story of the near loss of his six-year-old son to an infection. Bob was then a third-year medical student but he knew something wasn’t right about the treatment his son was receiving.
Russia has sent some 2,500 troops into Kazakhstan during a civil revolt. We don’t think it has anything to do with Putin wanting to take over the country. We think it’s all about the International Space Station.
The 9D5 Helo Dunker was a staple of training helicopter aircrew safety training for decades. It enjoyed a dread reputation though. Here is a first-]hand account of what that training was like for a Helicopter Rescue Swimmer while attending Aircrewman Candidate School in Pensacola.
Charms candy sounds quite… charming, but the marines believed that eating these would summon all the havoc in the world.
Capt. Amy Bauernschmidt, a native of Milwaukee, Wisconsin will be the first commanding officer of a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier.
A federal judge in Texas has just stopped the COVID vaccine mandate in its tracks when it comes to punishing service members for requesting religious waivers against taking the vaccination. The judge charges in the injunction that the Navy system used to process religious waivers is a farce with rejection already predetermined.
ANI News service is quoting Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid saying that the new Taliban Army will include a battalion of suicide bombers in its table of organization. The Taliban have said previously that they will stand up an army of some 100,000 troops as they try to consolidate their hold on Afghanistan following their occupation […]
The new year always brings the promise of new things being just on the horizon. The world is a volatile place today, with shifting economies, the continued presence of Islamist terrorism around the world, and the Great Game of competition between nations seeking diplomatic, strategic, and economic advantages around the globe. Everyone is a prognosticator […]