The US Space Force's Remote Modular Terminal (RMT) jams enemy satellites. It works by flooding the airwaves with competing signals to drown them out. The RMT is the US's newest tool in the space race against Russia and China. READ MORE:
When the NYPD moved in on the New York University pro-Hamas occupiers Monday night, professors formed a human chain to block the cops — neatly revealing a huge part of the problem in US academia.
The government should do more business with McKinsey & Co. — one of the world’s largest consulting firms — says a Pentagon presentation: “Leverage [the] consulting firm’s expertise and objectivity – outsourcing is a positive action.” While this might sound like a talking point from lobbyists, it actually came from an active-duty naval commander who spent almost a full year working at McKinsey & Co. with you, the taxpayer, footing the bill. It’s no secret that major defense companies spend...
The US is considering increasing its small military presence in Ukraine by sending up to 60 additional military advisers, POLITICO reported on Saturday, the same day the House approved $61 billion in spending for the proxy war. Four unnamed US officials told POLITICO that the additional troops would “support logistics and oversight efforts for the … Continue reading "US Considering Sending Military Advisers to Ukraine"
Conditions have been getting so bad for the approximately 1,100 U.S. military personnel stationed in Niger right now that one member of the Air Force decided to write Congress.In a letter reported by the Washington Post Wednesday night, a whistleblower complained to Congress that the U.S. Embassy in Niger, particularly Ambassador Kathleen FitzGibbon and Air Force Col. Nora J. Nelson-Richter, the defense attaché posted there, was putting troops at risk by ignoring the military junta's March...
WASHINGTON, April 29 (Reuters) – The U.S. military’s cost estimate to build a pier off Gaza to deliver humanitarian aid has risen to $320 million, a U.S. defense official and a source familiar with
Driven by their common perception that North Korea and China posed growing threats to their nations’ security, U.S. President Joe Biden, South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol, and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida agreed at last August’s summit at Camp David to elevate trilateral military ties to an unprecedented level. They have been demonstrating this commitment everyday since, some say to the detriment of stabilizing relations with Pyongyang and Beijing.In recent years, North Korea has...
US To Convert Pacific Oil Rigs Into Military Bases Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com, The US Navy will convert surplus oil rigs in the western Pacific into mobile military bases as part of the US military buildup aimed at China, The Defense Post reported on Tuesday. The naval engineering firm Gibbs & Cox developed the concept, known as the Mobile Defense/Depot Platform (MODEP), and presented it earlier this month at the Sea Air Space Expo. The idea is to convert oil rigs...
The US government has given up on Niger. The government formally announced this weekend that it had agreed to withdraw
Congressional Armenian Caucus founding Co-Chair Frank Pallone (D-NJ) calls for US military aid to Armenia to protect itself. Addressing the Congressional Commemoration of the Armenian Genocide on Wednesday, Pallonne also noted that “there has to be a lot more humanitarian assistance for Artsakh, and a way has to be put forward, and the US back …
Chinese foreign ministry says the expanded annual exercise Balikatan destabilizes the region.
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