The US has inked a $23 billion deal with Turkey for 40 F-16 warplanes. Washington promised to sell dozens of the advanced fighter jets to Ankara and upgrade scores of Turkish F-16s in exchange for Turkey approving Sweden's NATO membership. The AFP reported the deal...
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Up Against The War – Anti-War Blog
by Kym Robinson | Jun 13, 2024 | Blog
In her 1970 book, Up Against The War, Norma Sue Woodstone gives voice to those who refused conscription and campaigned against the US war in South-East Asia. Men who refused the draft were tarred by polite society as being cowards, ‘Draft Dodgers!’ A slur to be thrown...
News Roundup 6/13/2024
by Kyle Anzalone | Jun 13, 2024 | News Roundup
Assange Assange’s Extradition Appeal Hearing To Be Held Next Month AWC Ukraine US Lifts Ban on Arming and Training Ukraine’s Neo-Nazi Azov Brigade AWC Finnish Forces Conduct First NATO Deployment The Institute G7 Expected To Announce Plan To Provide Ukraine With...
Finnish Forces Conduct First NATO Deployment
by Kyle Anzalone | Jun 11, 2024 | News
For the first time since joining the alliance last year, Finland has deployed its fighter jets to another NATO nation. When Helsinki joined the bloc, it ended a decades-long policy of neutrality and doubled the length of the border between NATO and Russia. On...
Biden to Offer Saudi Arabia Treaty In Exchange for Official Ties with Israel
by Kyle Anzalone | Jun 9, 2024 | News
The White House is prepared to roll out a plan that will make Saudi Arabia a Japan-style ally in exchange for new official ties between Riyadh and Tel Aviv. While the Biden administration has invested substantial effort to get the deal inked, it is likely dead on...
News Roundup 6/7/2024
by Kyle Anzalone | Jun 7, 2024 | News Roundup
US News US Test Fires Two Unarmed Minuteman III Nuclear ICBMs AWC Ukraine In D-Day Speech, Biden Celebrates Deaths of Russian Soldiers in Ukraine AWC Korea US Bombers Drop Live Bombs in Threat to North Korea The Institute Israel US-Provided Bombs Used in Israeli...
Nothing New in Military Technology Disasters
by Bill Buppert | Jun 6, 2024 | Blog
Readers think I am highly critical of Western military foibles and bad decisions (I am) but history is replete with mismanagement and poor planning planet-wide in military technology. Like the Indian nuclear submarine disaster from leaving a hatch open on the INS...
Rescind Netanyahu’s Invitation!
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | Jun 4, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Politics
The recent decision by U.S. congressional leaders to invite Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to address the Capitol has rightly sparked outrage and dismay among those who oppose Israel's genocidal actions in Gaza. Coming as it does in the wake of the...
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The SANDF is a Military Dumpster Fire
The South African National Defense Force (SANDF) is in tatters. The SA Navy is also in the hazard. One glaring example is the MTU 1163 propulsion engine. Grimms was paid R55 million for a W6 engine overhaul, yet the engine has still not undergone a dyno test or no...
Terrestrial Speed Demon: Non-Nuclear Throw-Weight Comes of Age
Russians play chess and the West plays Naked Twister. ICBMs and IRBMs have been hyper-sonic since the 1950s. Replace the warhead with a terrestrial-launched Rod from God and you have a very effective non-nuclear option to reach anywhere in the northern hemisphere with...
Macgregor Steps Up to the Plate
COL Douglas Macgregor shows the stark choices ahead a defense establishment in the US and the west that is inexorably grinding to a halt in effectiveness and incompetence. The incoming President has three choices: 1. Allow service bureaucracies or external events to...
Mr Jarfart
Just think about this, whatever your child or your niece, nephew and some strangers kids are feeding their eyes with is likely attached to a clown or maybe a cynical conglomerate that knows social media and children fed algorithms will make them rich. Those little...
Free Trade Facts Don’t Matter to Democrats or Republicans
Both parties tend to ignore facts about the benefits of free trade because both parties oppose free trade.
The Government Had to Bankrupt Spirit Airlines to Save It
The US government is very good at destroying things on the pretense that its actions are required to save the things destroyed.
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