Tag: National Security

Hope is not a plan. Our troops are ready, but Washington must lay out clear objectives and a real strategy on Iran.

Washington is asking for $200 billion to fund a war with no clock, drones are slipping through the front door of the capital, and somewhere in the background the Army is rolling out a Mach 5 answer to a problem that’s already getting closer to home.

While Silicon Valley argues over guardrails and democratic values, the Department of War is wiring artificial intelligence straight into the kill chain, building a sleepless digital hunter that watches every pixel, maps every pattern of life, and waits patiently for the one anomaly that turns a red dot into a smoking crater.

Four dead after a Florida-registered speedboat traded fire with Cuban forces, as Freedom Shield ramps up in Korea, winter damage tops $4 billion at home, and the War Department races to field counter-drone defenses in a year already testing readiness on multiple fronts.

Whether a President may strike Iran without Congress turns not on politics but on a single legal threshold, the difference between stopping an imminent attack and launching a preventive war.

When promotions hinge on politics instead of performance, we risk eroding the trust, readiness, and integrity that our force depends on to win and to lead.

From AI deepfakes targeting officials to quiet U.S. boots returning to West Africa and a nuclear micro-reactor riding a C-17 toward the future fight, the common thread is simple: trust, presence, and power are all being contested at once. Plus…We’ve lost Robert Duvall.

One-point-five trillion dollars, and the message is as plain as a rifle crack: America is done trying to scare global predators with press releases, and we are going back to building the kind of power that makes them think twice before they move.

When accountability breaks down, the integrity of our institutions erodes, our adversaries gain opportunity, and the security of the nation itself is placed at risk.

The shutdown may be over, but the same entrenched division, weak leadership, and political gamesmanship that brought us to the brink are still eroding our national security from the inside out.

Two Navy sailors convicted of selling ship secrets to China, exposing vulnerabilities aboard USS Essex and US operations.

Tulsi Gabbard doesn’t need to be a Kremlin agent to be dangerous—she’s already a megaphone for their disinformation, wrapped in the uniform of patriotism and amplified by platforms that should know better.