National Security

It might feel like we rolled into 2019 fifteen minutes ago; but here we are, already nearing the year’s close and facing down another rapidly approaching Christmas. In families like mine all over the country, people are going about their usual holiday traditions: putting up a tree, playing Christmas music and punching strangers over good […]

Recently, there has been an alarming number of professors who have been driven out of the academic community for expressing views that from a rational perspective, are moderate at worst and beneficial at best. At Evergreen University, Brett Weinstein was effectively forced to resign by a militant minority for refusing to take part in their […]

Last week, the United States Navy released industry solicitations for their new conceptual large unmanned surface vehicles (LUSV), as they begin the hunt for the right ship builder to assemble a fleet of ten of these large drone ships. Building off the successes the Navy and DARPA have had with their autonomous Sea Hunter drone […]

Four F-35A Lightning IIs assigned to the 4th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron taxi after landing at Al Dhafra Air Base, United Arab Emirates, April 15, 2019. The F-35A Lightning II is deployed to the U.S. Air Forces Central Command area of responsibility for the first time in U.S. Air Forces history. (U.S. Air Force photo by […]

A Landing Craft, Air Cushion (LCAC) prepares to enter the well deck of the amphibious assault ship USS Wasp (LHD-1) in the Philippine Sea, April 17, 2019. Wasp, flagship of the Wasp Amphibious Ready Group, is operating in the Indo-Pacific region to enhance interoperability with partners and serve as a ready-response force for any type […]

U.S. sailors from the Aviation Intermediate Maintenance Department’s jet shop perform a jet engine test cell on an F/A-18 Super Hornet engine on the fantail aboard the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) in the Atlantic Ocean, April 14, 2019. Ike is underway conducting flight deck certification during the basic phase of the […]

A picture taken on April 16, 2019 shows the altar surrounded by charred debris inside Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris in the aftermath of a fire that devastated the historic cathedral. French investigators probing the devastating blaze on April 15 questioned workers who were renovating the monument, as hundreds of millions of euros were pledged […]

LONDON – APRIL 13: The photo above gives a general view of the scene outside the Ukrainian embassy, where police opened fire on a vehicle (shown in silver) after it crashed into the Ukrainian ambassador’s car in London, England. Police officers opened fire on the occupant of a car after he drove at them outside […]

People watch as the SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket lifts off from launch pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on April 11, 2019 in Titusville, Florida. The rocket is carrying a communications satellite built by Lockheed Martin into orbit. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)   Watch the launch below:

An F/A-18E, assigned to the “Fighting Swordsmen” of Strike Fighter Squadron 83 (VFA-83), flies over the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) in the Atlantic Ocean on April 14, 2019. “Ike” is underway conducting flight deck certification during the basic phase of the Optimized Fleet Response Plan. (U.S. Navy […]

Per NASA’s press release: The Auroral Zone Upwelling Rocket Experiment or AZURE mission was successfully conducted on April 5, 2019 from the Andøya Space Center in Norway. The first Black Brant XI sounding rocket was launched at 6:14 p.m. EDT and flew to an altitude of 200 miles, followed by the launch of the second […]

The amphibious assault ship USS Wasp (LHD 1), center, maneuvers alongside the Philippine navy landing platform dock ship BRP Tarlac (LD 601) and offshore patrol vessel BRP Ramon Alcaraz (PS 16) in support of Exercise Balikatan 2019 in the South China Sea on April 5, 2019. In its 35th iteration, Balikatan is an annual U.S.-Philippine […]