On Monday, the head of US Central Command (CENTCOM), Gen. Michael Erik Kurilla, met with Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi in Tel Aviv as the two militaries are preparing to defend Israel from an expected Iranian reprisal.
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The F35 Follies: Britannia Rules a Little
My recommendation to the British MoD: don't buy anymore of these flying failure factories. U.K. planned to buy138 F-35s, bought 48, delivered 35, aims at 75 by 2025. Judging from the delays and failures universally in the program, achieving a delivery of all...
News Roundup 8/5/2024
Venezuela US Rejects Venezuelan Election Results, Declares Opposition Candidate the Winner AWC Ukraine Poll Shows Germans Oppose New US Missile Deployment AWC Zelensky Says Ukraine and the ‘Whole World’ Wants Russia at Peace Summit AWC Ukraine Orders Evacuations From...
America’s Syrian Gulag
At the beginning of last month the U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs, Ethan Goldrich, granted an interview to Rudaw, which is something like PBS for Iraqi Kurdistan. He emphasized that the United States has no plan to end its occupation...
Israeli Killing of Hamas Political Chief Expected To Derail Ceasefire Talks
Netanyahu had been working to sabotage the talks in the weeks leading up to his trip to Washington The Israeli assassination of Hamas’s political chief, Ismail Haniyeh, in the Iranian capital of Tehran is expected to derail negotiations for a hostage and Gaza...
Israel’s Imperial Techno-Optimism
On Saturday, a rocket struck a soccer field in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. At least twelve people were killed, mostly teenagers and children. Israel blamed the Lebanese paramilitary group Hezbollah for the attack. Hezbollah denied the charge and claimed...
News Roundup 7/31/2024
China US Announces $500 Million in New Military Aid for Philippines Amid China Tensions AWC Israel State Department Won’t Call Israeli Rape of Palestinian Prisoners a War Crime AWC Israeli Strike Hits Greek Orthodox Church in Gaza AWC Palestinians Return to Rubble in...
Is the Medal of Honor Now Subject to Woke Revisionism?
Note: We just returned from a short vacation visiting new grandchildren hence the brief interregnum of posting. The Medal of Honor is the highest citation for combat action in the US military. It's premature to say exactly what direction this is going because the DoD...
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