Sometimes I like this joker and sometimes he just makes me want to choke him. I guess that’s why they call our relationship with him a marriage of convenience. Afghan President Hamid Karzai said recently that the CIA’s station chief in Kabul has assured him that regular funding the U.S. intelligence agency gives his [...]
We have made major strides in the development of fuel-efficient hybrid-electric propulsion technology and the Navy is taking advantage of this technology also by using it with several of its next-generation big-deck amphibious assault ships. The USS America (LHA-6) and the USS Tripoli (LHA-7) are part of what the Navy calls its now-in-development America-class amphibious [...]
Piracy in the Gulf of Aden seems to have been brought under control howbeit at a cost but the cost justifies the reward. If we had not spent the effort that we have the piracy would have grown to the point where it would have been beyond our control. The fight against Somali pirates [...]
The Marines haven’t really been used the way that they are organized to be used in the long struggle against the war on terror. They have adapted to their situation and handled it in a magnificent manner but they were not being used true to their intended form. Now that the war on terror [...]
Determined to kill or capture a murderous Mekong River drug lord, China’s security forces considered a tactic they’d never tried before: calling a drone strike on his remote hideaway deep in the hills of Myanmar. The attack didn’t happen — the man was later captured and brought to China for trial — but the fact [...]
It’s OK to evangelize. But it’s not OK to proselytize. That’s what the Pentagon said Thursday, attempting to clarify its position on religious speech in uniform as controversy swirled up around press reports over possible prosecutions of troops for sharing their faith. Now we are getting into a really sticky area when the government begins [...]
We always attempt to do a post on memorial day in order to remind you of the job that our military has to accomplish. Remember that as you read this there are troops overseas who are serving in conditions so filthy that you won’t be able to imagine. They are not going to be [...]
The new President of North Korea has been making waves lately with his propaganda and rhetoric. He has certainly caused a stir in the rest of the world but I am concerned that he may be going out too far on thin ice. He has raised the threat of a nuclear exchange with the [...]
Drones have certainly made a statement in Afghanistan in the war on terror and the military is beginning to capitalize on their usefulness. Their use has been expanded throughout the services and with the Department of Homeland Security and other federal and law enforcement agencies as well. The Navy is inaugurating its first squadron with unmanned [...]
The face of our global commitments have changed in the last decade or so and the modern requirements placed on the Navy have been more demanding. The Navy has to be able to deploy just about anywhere in the world at just about any time. There are so many potential and existing hot spots out there that [...]
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