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The first US missiles that struck boats in the Caribbean in early September were described by Washington as a “counter-narcotics operation,” a sterile phrase meant to dull the violence of incinerating human beings in an instant. Then came the second s…
L/Cpl George Hooley, 28, reportedly died in accident away from frontline while observing test with Ukrainian soldiersThe British soldier who died in Ukraine on Tuesday has been named as L/Cpl George Hooley, 28, of the Parachute regiment.Keir Starmer to…
Ministry says Briton, who has not publicly been named, was injured while observing a test, away from the frontlineA member of the UK armed forces was killed in an accident in Ukraine on Tuesday morning, believed to be the first time a serving member of…
When I interviewed Sanho Tree, I wanted to discuss a recent CNN report. Apparently, in 2016, when Pete Hegseth was still a Fox anchor, he said military personnel should refuse to obey unlawful orders.I wanted to talk to Tree, a fellow at the Institute…
DEEP DIVE — On a Wednesday in November, with Chinese President Xi Jinping looking on, the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) commissioned the 80,000-ton Fujian, the country’s third aircraft carrier and largest to date, in a ceremony that also featur…
Don’t be fooled. The only people undermining the American military’s chain of command are the president and his secretary of defense.How?Specifically, by blaming the admiral who was in charge of the boat bombing in the Caribbean in September. More gen…
The latest South Park episode nailed it: When “Secretary of War” Pete Hegseth gets wind of a small Colorado town’s annual holiday race, he declares it an “Antifa uprising” and calls out the troops to crush it. While armed forces assemble their AK-47s,…
Mark Twain allegedly quipped, “God created war so Americans would learn geography.” Whether or not he actually said that, might it not be a good test, that the world’s most mighty military power be prevented from waging war if a majority of Americans …
WASHINGTON — Democratic veterans on Capitol Hill say there’s a dangerous throughline to Pete Hegseth’s dueling scandals, over the use of an unsecured messaging app and boat bombings in the Caribbean and Pacific: The Pentagon chief is endangering US tr…
Kenyan parliament says UK army training unit ‘dismissed most complaints as false, without publishing its findings’A report by the Kenyan parliament into the conduct of troops stationed at a British military base close to the town of Nanyuki in Kenya ha…