Tag: National Security

Air Force general warns troops of war with China by 2025, disagreeing with Pentagon assessment

Courage, Strength, and Optimism

Air Force general warns troops of war with China by 2025, disagreeing with Pentagon assessment

Mike Brest · January 28, 2023 10:41 am

Courage, Strength, and Optimism

The West is losing weapons production race to Russia, NATO ally says

Joel Gehrke · January 28, 2023 5:00 am

Unvaccinated National Guard members excited ‘about the opportunity to come back’

Unvaccinated National Guard members excited ‘about the opportunity to come back’

Mike Brest · January 24, 2023 12:45 pm

China conducts live-fire military exercises in the Taiwan Strait amid heightened tensions over increased American support for Taiwan.

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Don’t let Taiwan become a casualty of the Ukraine war

Austin Dahmer · January 21, 2023 6:00 am

U.S. Marines assigned to Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force-Crisis Response-Central Command (SPMAFTF-CR-CC) 19.2, prepare to deploy from Kuwait in support of a crisis response mission, Dec. 31, 2019.

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The enemy is us, again?

Elaine McCusker · January 19, 2023 1:48 pm

In this March 7, 2017 photo, the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Stratton steams through the eastern Pacific Ocean. The Stratton is one of the first US Coast Guard's national security cutters, the largest and most technologically advanced of the Coast Guard's new class of cutters.

Coast Guard monitoring suspected Russian intelligence vessel off Hawaiian coast

Mike Brest · January 19, 2023 12:23 pm

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre deflected questions for a third consecutive day about the ongoing investigation into President Joe Biden's handling of classified materials Friday but did say that Biden did not receive an advance warning on the appointment of a special counsel in the matter.

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The Biden classified documents fiasco: Questions that need answers

Cully Stimson, John G. Malcolm · January 18, 2023 3:20 pm

White House reaffirms commitment to freeing Americans detained in Iran

White House reaffirms commitment to freeing Americans detained in Iran

Mike Brest · January 17, 2023 3:39 pm

Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class Skyler Holt gives Personnel Specialist 1st Class Brian Raphael, a Defense Travel System Coordinator for selection board travel at Naval Personnel Command, a coronavirus vaccination.

Pentagon backtracks on back pay for service members discharged over COVID-19 vaccine

Mike Brest · January 17, 2023 2:57 pm

U.S. Army Capt. Kristen Griest, left, of Orange, Conn., stands in formation during an Army Ranger School graduation ceremony on at Fort Benning, Ga.

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Here we go again — take defense off the table

Emily Coletta, Giselle Donnelly · January 17, 2023 1:13 pm

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No visitor records for Biden’s Wilmington home? That strains credulity

Tom Rogan · January 16, 2023 3:22 pm

U.S. Marine Corps Lt. Gen. Brian D. Beaudreault gets the COVID-19 vaccine on Camp Lejeune, N.C., Jan. 20. 2021.

Pentagon ‘exploring’ back pay for members discharged over COVID-19 vaccine mandate

Mike Brest · January 13, 2023 2:33 pm