The U.S. is sending about 3,000 troops to Afghanistan to help evacuate some personnel from the U.S. embassy in Kabul as the Taliban is making rapid gains across the country. Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said the U.S. is sending three infantry battalions that are due...
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U.S. Embassy In Afghanistan Issues Security Alert – U.S. Citizens Should Leave Afghanistan Immediately
by Steven Woskow | Aug 12, 2021 | Blog
More here Will anyone be held accountable? All the generals responsible will go on to have successful careers at Raytheon, Boeing, Lockheed Martin .....
New Roundup 8/12/21
by Kyle Anzalone | Aug 12, 2021 | News Roundup
US News California is requiring all school employees to get vaccinated or get weekly covid tests. [Link] The NY Stock Exchange will require all floor traders to get vaccinated. Medical and religious exemptions are available. Anyone who receives an exemption will have...
News Roundup 8/11/21
by Kyle Anzalone | Aug 11, 2021 | News Roundup
US News DC Mayor Muriel Bowser ordered all city employees to get vaccinated or weekly covid tests. [Link] Senator Rand Paul had a second video taken down by YouTube for ‘covid misinformation’ and cannot post for a week. [Link] The NSA awarded a contract worth up to...
COI #147: American Leaders Weaponize the ‘Chinese Boogeyman’ for Political Gain
by Kyle Anzalone | Aug 11, 2021 | Conflicts of Interest
On COI #147, Dave DeCamp – News Editor at Antiwar.com – returns to the show to discuss how American pols increasingly use China as a political weapon. Secretary of State Antony Blinken recently warned that the US must pass a massive infrastructure spending bill or...
News Roundup 8/10/21
by Kyle Anzalone | Aug 10, 2021 | News Roundup
US News An Ohio judge is forcing Brandon Rutherford to get a covid vaccine as a part of his bail conditions. Rutherford pled guilty to a drug charge. [Link] Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin says he will request Biden make the covid vaccine mandatory for all troops by...
News Roundup 8/9/21
by Kyle Anzalone | Aug 9, 2021 | News Roundup
US News Legendary reporter Mark Parry passes away. [Link] The Pentagon is failing to track and provide oversight for the mercenaries it hires. [Link] Two Myanmar nationals have been arrested in New York and are charged with plotting a hit on Myanmar’s ambassador to...
News Roundup 8/6/21
by Kyle Anzalone | Aug 6, 2021 | News Roundup
US News A South Carolina police officer was fired, arrested, and charged with first-degree assault for stomping a man’s head into the ground. [Link] According to a Texas affidavit, FBI agent David Harris - who was assigned to investigate crimes against children - has...
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The Icebreaker Follies Continue to Break the Bank and Not Deliver
Aiviq The US has 1.5 icebreakers because it has had to cannibalize one of its ancient and sclerotic icebreakers to make the remaining heavy work.But for all this, the same Coast Guard bought the Aiviq for $125 million late last year. And don't expect them to get this...
NGAD is DOA: The Air Force Continues to Fail
Sandboxx does a terrific overview of the problems inherent in this. While I have beaten the drum on the inherent challenges of emerging problems in Revolutions in Military Affairs throughout the 21st century, no one at the Pentagon is paying attention as they leap...
Anti-War Blog – They Are Not People
She looks up and pleads for mercy. Then the drone operator makes the decision to kill her. We get to see the life and death of war, the intimate terror as the mostly young are killed on the battlefield. Social media accounts share the misery with pornographic delight,...
New WarNotes Podcast Episode is Live Monday 27 January 2025
Ep 010 "Fixing Fight Club: Naval Warfare in the 21st Century" In the future near-peer and peer fight, salvo competition and missiles will be the preeminent means by which one country will kinetically overwhelm the other in a fight. I discuss the way the US Navy is...
Make The French Channel Great Again
Dear France, America will officially recognize that the French Channel is consistent with the identity of the Irish Sea. PS: Thanks for helping America defeat the English bastards from 1775-1783. For those interested in how the French and Spanish made American...
War on the Border: Considerations Left of Bang
There is talk of taking the war to the cartels in Mexico and I have questions: So how successful have drug interdiction efforts by the DEA and associated agencies and bureaucracies been so far? We'll just go back to 1972 to make the history simpler. Once you eliminate...
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