Pentagon

Military recalls reserve and retired troops to fight Coronavirus spread

In response to the Coronavirus spread, a large but yet unspecified number of reserve and retired troops are being called up or, in the case of the latter, asked back to service. Last Friday, President Trump signed an executive order that directs the Department of Defense (DoD) to call up to Active Duty a large […]

Coronavirus or not, Special Forces instructors are still going

Tensions grow as leaders try to balance the strength of the force, the safety of their soldiers, and the morale of families. As COVID-19 continues to spread in the Nation, schools are continuing to close indefinitely leaving families with additional strains as many hourly workers are laid off or told to go home. Financial stresses, […]

Trump appoints Special Forces officer to head Counterterrorism Center

With questions arising over whether the administration is going to downsize or even cut the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC), the White House fired acting director Russ Travers and sent his deputy Peter Hall back to his parent organization, the National Security Agency.  President Trump on Tuesday appointed Christopher Miller to serve as his next permanent […]

National Disasters: States, federalism, and presidential powers

There is a saying in emergency management that all disasters are local. While the saying is pithy, it embodies the approach used, by emergency management officials in the United States, to manage emergencies and disasters. When an incident takes place, individuals, communities, and local governments respond to the event. When these local entities become overwhelmed, […]

Coronavirus: We’re in trouble, folks, but not in the way you think

The coronavirus has our country in some serious trouble, folks. The cause isn’t the virus itself, which can be deadly for sure, but the hysteria, which has approached near panic, in too many aspects of our lives.  There is a pandemic of fear permeating the world and it leaves one with the impression that if […]

The Pic of the Day: Marines get tested for the Coronavirus

U.S. Marines with 1st Battalion, 25th Marine Regiment, arrive at Kadena Air Base, Okinawa, Japan, on Feb. 28, 2020. Upon their return from the Republic of Korea, the Marines were screened in accordance with U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Japanese government guidelines. III MEF is taking its responsibilities to protect our Marines, Sailors, families, […]

US strikes back at Iranian proxies behind deadly rocket attack in Iraq

In response to the deadly rockets against a Coalition base in Iraq, the U.S. military conducted targeted strikes against an Iranian-backed militia believed to be behind the attack. According to the Department of Defense (DoD), the airstrikes targeted five weapon storage facilities of the Kata’ib Hezbollah (KH), a Shia paramilitary terror group. KH is believed […]

Pentagon announces measures to curtail spread of Coronavirus

If the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) is at all a touchstone for us regarding the gravity of a situation, then it is noteworthy that the Pentagon has imposed DoD-wide travel restrictions for all of the personnel and their families. It was never to say that the military should be exempt from precautions and measures […]

Female linguist arrested for exposing undercover human assets to Iran

An American woman who was working as an Arabic linguist for the Department of Defense (DoD) has been arrested for passing highly classified information to Iranian proxies. Mariam Taha Thompson, a civilian contractor, has been charged with transmitting intelligence of national-level importance to a man with known connections to Hezbollah, a Lebanese political and terrorist […]

Your Weekly News Roundup: Man threatens to blow self and car up next to Pentagon, First Coronavirus fatality in US, Babysitter shoots 10-year-old boy, Woman hides meth in vagina, Man arrested for peeing in ice machine

Man threatens to blow self and car up next to Pentagon This is a non-story. It’s a story that isn’t. It’s jackass journalism. This probably started out as: “Man has barricaded himself in his car next to the Pentagon, but he is not making any demands and nobody is paying any attention to him.” Why […]

Pentagon releases new Artificial Intelligence guidelines

The U.S. Department of Defense released a set of guidelines for how artificial intelligence (AI) should be deployed on the battlefield. These guidelines are intended to provide for the ethical use of new technologies that are increasingly defining modern warfare. Among the principles laid out was the call for personnel to “exercise appropriate levels of […]

It pays to be an autocracy: Why China can better deal with the Coronavirus

Authoritarian countries like China have an advantage in controlling the spread of outbreaks like the Coronavirus, but the West has the advantage in preventing them from even happening. Not that it shows. Images coming out of China, despite the Communist regime’s best propaganda efforts, show the police arresting people on the streets for not wearing […]