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The Pentagon has announced that as many as 8,500 troops have been put on standby to be deployed in Europe as a counter to the threat of the Russian military buildup on Ukraine’s eastern border.
The film showed how a country can win militarily, but still lose the battle for ‘hearts and minds’.
A top White House aide to President George W. Bush recounts what 9/11 was like for White House staffers.
Afghanistan has been a gravy train for private security companies, but their local employees now find themselves in a dangerous no-man’s-land.
Plus, what’s happening in Chad, three months after rebels killed the president, Idriss Déby.
A new nine-page report, requested by Congress, doesn’t say what the 144 UFO sightings from 2004 to 2021 are, but does say that the government wants to learn more.
The recent Pentagon report has more questions than answers when it comes to UFOs. Here’s why that’s not surprising.
Some UFO sightings appear to demonstrate ‘advanced technology’. The Pentagon has confirmed some threaten flight safety, and potentially national security.
The Pentagon has spent more than $800 billion on military operations in Iraq. But that doesn’t include money needed to care for veterans, rebuild the country or pay interest on war debt.
The US defense community is coming to understand that AI will significantly transform, if not completely reinvent, the world’s military power balance.
Just like with Cold War-era red-baiting, there’s an apparent effort to discredit and undermine critics of the US government.
After footage from America’s first ‘living room war’ shocked the public, the government would clamp down on media coverage of future military conflicts.
Whether it be African-Americans, Catholics or transgender people, the armed forces have played a vital role in shaping US social policy toward the country’s minorities.
The most expensive defense program in world history has yielded a multi-role fighter plane that is an inelegant jack-of-all-trades, but master of none.
Trump’s first budget proposal would boost defense spending by US$52 billion, but his desired military buildup is premised on misleading claims and lacks a strategic vision.
Does the president’s specified goal of 350 ships meet the needs of the nation in the 21st century? The answer is not yet clear.
Portugal used radio propaganda in its colonies in the 1960s against local liberation movements. Decades later there are still lessons to be learned for occupying armies from their failed strategies.
Trump and Cruz certainly think so. Clinton promises to maintain the “strongest military the world has ever known.” An OSU professor examines the issue through three different lens.
The ACLU describes the release of photos of DoD detainees as an important victory for the cause of transparency, but are they?
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