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A Hollywood treatment of real-life events, "The Brink of War" gets off to an inauspicious start. The Cold War was "at its most critical point" in October 1986, reads the opening prologue ...

The United States Should Encourage Both Domestic and Space-Based Semiconductor Manufacturing In the vast expanse of low Earth orbit, a new era of manufacturing is dawning. The semiconductors which ...

VFW Has Forgotten the Meaning of Selfless Service by Opposing TCAVA In America's military, selfless service is a core value. It's why we put the safety, well-being, and even lives of others ahead ...

Military protection has never existed simply to keep soldiers alive or platforms intact. Its enduring purpose has always been to preserve freedom of action: the ability of a force to manoeuvre,

When China's supreme leader Deng Xiaoping in December 1978 announced the 'reform and opening' of China's economy, many expected that this would be accompanied by a gradual shift from ...

As the United States pulls back from Europe, it is leaving NATO countries like Romania, on the Alliance's eastern periphery, vulnerable to Russian aggression. Turning to Brussels, unfortunately ...

On October 13, 2024, Colt Gray called his mother from his prison cell. Just a month earlier, the fourteen-year-old had killed four and wounded another nine at Apalachee High School in Barrow County,

What's in a name? For nineteen planned U.S. nuclear-powered submarines (SSNs), the U.S. Navy's August 3 decision to reclassify them as guided missile submarines (SSGNs) is more than a ...

My youngest brother spent his career as a Green Beret weapons sergeant, and men like him get the movies, the recruiting posters, and the glory they have earned. The soldiers nobody makes ...

The U.S. Space Force Space Warfighting framework formally declares a shift in U.S. policy toward treating space as a complex and contested warfighting domain. The change in defensive posture comes as ...