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What to Do About Cuba?
4 Questions The story, in brief Is the United States preparing for military action against Cuba? The story says the likelihood of armed conflict with Cuba seems slight, and there is nothing at the level of overt hostilities. Although some media reports pointed to contingency planning, the Pentagon routinely plans for possible operations. President Trump said he does not think the military will be needed and expects the United States and Cuba to make a deal.
Technology Theft: How American Tech Keeps Showing Up In China – OpEd
3 hours ago Last month, we reported that iOS 26.5 beta 1 hinted at new App Store subscription options. Today, Apple has made that official, with developers now able to set up and test monthly subscriptions with a 12-month commitment ahead of the public rollout. Here are the details. Feature to be released …
Is The US On The Cusp Of Attacking Iran? – OpEd | Flipboard
8 hours ago WASHINGTON (AP) — A U.S. Navy fighter jet shot down an Iranian drone that was approaching the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln in the Arabian Sea, U.S. Central Command said Tuesday, threatening to ramp up tensions as the Trump administration warns of possible military action to get Iran to the …
Where Is the Ukraine Peace Plan Now?
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Is There a Way Out of the Ukraine Mess for Putin
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Commemoration of Military Victories
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Space Force Must Speed Up Work Fielding Capabilities
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Trump Tours Asia, Building Business Deals at Every Stop
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Happy Birthday to the US Navy
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Hegseth Showed the Warrior Spirit He Wants opened the confirmation for Peter B. Hegseth to be secretary of defense and saluted the audience’s applause as a “very appropriate expression Read Full Article »
Is Georgia the Next Ukraine?
Political unrest among NATO member wannabes is a problem. When the pro-Russia Georgian Dream party became the dominant political force in Georgia, the country’s citizens were unhappy. Recently, that dissatisfaction with a party that has grown more oppressive and less democratic brought thousands to protest in the streets of major cities. Tensions came to a head when the pro-Moscow political ruling faction decided to pull out of negotiations for European Union membership.
Our Readers Write: Vote ‘Yes’ on Ramona Unified’s school bond
Ramona school bond naysayer Jay Dyer apparently thinks that the effect of denying school bonds can only make things better, what I call negative cause and effect. The cause is the denial of school bonds because the school system is deficient in some way. The effect is the school system continues to be deficient in some way, due to insufficient funds, a downward cycle. How many times can we repeat this downward cycle and not realize that denying school bonds is not a path to improvement?
Russian, Chinese Bombers Intercepted Near Alaska
When Russia and China fly a formation of bombers into the US Air Defense Identification Zone, America takes notice. On July 25, that’s exactly what happened off the Alaskan coast, and NORAD scrambled its fighters to shadow the intruders. Russian planes close to Alaska aren’t rare, but joint formations with the Chinese that penetrate that space certainly are.
Ep. 1942 - Did Joe Biden Just Save Hamas?
Ep. 1942 - Did Joe Biden Just Save Hamas? Video Credit: Rumble - Published 8 hours ago Ep. 1942 - Did Joe Biden Just Save Hamas? The White House caves to its pro-Hamas base; Israel appears to cave to the Biden administration, but will it be enough?; and Donald Trump has a big fundraising weekend. You Might Like Related news from verified sources Related videos from verified sources 2 Israeli Officers Are Dismissed , Over Drone Strikes on Aid Workers in Gaza.
$2 Billion in the Dumpster: Can America Afford the US Army?
The US Army, often complaining about being on the short end of the funding stick, just canceled one of its cutting-edge programs after spending $2 billion. The Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft (FARA) was to have been a crucial part of a new family of vertical lift aircraft. After twenty years of fits and starts finding a replacement for an armed helicopter for the forward scouting mission, FARA was to be that program.
US Responds With Middle East Air Strikes After a Week of Dithering
The US began a series of air strikes from several platforms against targets in Syria and Iraq Friday afternoon. Early reports from the Pentagon reveal that the attacks on Iran-proxy forces would be “tiered” and continue over several days. The American response follows 166 attacks on US military outposts and bases and the deaths of three US soldiers.
State Department Pushes US Social Agenda on Foreign Partners
The Biden administration has failed to persuade America its social justice agenda has made the country better. Not to worry, the US State Department has other nations in its sights for sowing seeds of division. Throughout the US, citizens have taken great exception to the full court press the radical LGBTQI+ advocates have attempted to foist on the American public.
Christmas Goes to War: Famous Battlefield Yuletides
War is no respecter of peoples’ aspirations, values, or the days they commemorate. Take Christmas, for example. As we approach the celebration of the birth of Jesus, US service members are deployed away from family and home. Many are in hostile areas under frequent attack. In the battle moment, the violence of conflict gobbles up time. It focuses the combatants on the instant, not a child’s birthday missed, an overlooked anniversary, or an important holiday left unnoticed.
Fire Water Pump Design Improves Performance on Offshore Oil Platform
A major energy producer decided to add new infrastructure to one of its existing offshore oil and gas fields in the Gulf of Mexico. The company hired an engineering firm to support the design and construction of the expansion. The new deep-water platform is located in about 3,000 feet of water, is specially designed to safely withstand hurricane force conditions and adds an increased capacity of 100,000 barrels per day.
Guest Commentary: Red flag warning for Ramona Unified
I think it is time for an intervention at the Ramona school board as they could be on the verge of putting the district in legal jeopardy with the state. By a simple majority the board could fail to trial new texts and/or put in place additional sources of information for the students that are questionable in my mind.
The Impact of Wood Use on North American Forests
Can specifying wood for buildings contribute to forest sustainability? Learning Objectives: Evaluate the use of wood as a construction material in the context of long-term forest sustainability as well as attributes such as low embodied energy and light carbon footprint. Discuss forest sustainability measures such as biodiversity, soil and water quality, and harvest vs. net growth.
Culture Archives - The Maine Mag
Here’s our roundup for this weekend in Maine: Continue reading → Here’s our round up for this weekend in Maine: Continue reading → Here’s our roundup for this weekend in Maine. Continue reading → Issue: November 2021 | Photography: Cody James Barry For this issue, we asked readers to write letters about their holiday traditions.
Senior Military Leaders: The Threats and What the US Should Do
Go to Article By Dave Patterson The real threat posed by China’s rapidly expanding technology and the U.S. strategy to meet that challenge were topics discussed […]
Senior Military Leaders: The Threats and What the US Should Do
Please respect our republishing guidelines - Click Here The real threat posed by China’s rapidly expanding technology and the U.S. strategy to meet that challenge were topics discussed very candidly recently by military leaders in positions to know. The number two ranking military officer in the Defense Department, General John Hyten, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, discussed where the U.S. stands after the July 27 launch of a Chinese hypersonic missile. That’s the challenge.
Russian Threat to Eastern Europe: Biden Admin Late to the Party
Please respect our republishing guidelines - Click Here Secretary of State Antony Blinken appears late to the party in realizing Russia likely has designs on reoccupying Ukraine as well as other eastern European states that are now U.S. allies and friends. This despite the fact that the Kremlin’s persistent aggressive acts on the borders of its neighbors have been going on for some time. Ukraine has been the focus of concern for NATO and the European Union.
Russian Threat to Eastern Europe: Biden Admin Late to the Party
Go to Article By Dave Patterson Secretary of State Antony Blinken appears late to the party in realizing Russia likely has designs on reoccupying Ukraine as […]
Another Afghanistan Hearing, but Little Clarity in What Went Wrong
Please respect our republishing guidelines - Click Here Gen. Mark Milley (Photo by Patrick Semansky-Pool/Getty Images) It’s uncommon in the collegial arena of executive branch relations for a public blame-fest to break out. But that’s what Fox News suggested happened at the House Armed Services Committee (HASC) hearing.
Another Afghanistan Hearing, but Little Clarity in What Went Wrong
Go to Article By Dave Patterson It’s uncommon in the collegial arena of executive branch relations for a public blame-fest to break out. But that’s what Fox […]
Will the Biden-Putin Encounter in Geneva Be a Significant Summit?
Please respect our republishing guidelines - Click Here Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin The conference between President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin in a picturesque 18th-century villa in Geneva has been labeled a “summit.” Whether that is an accurate depiction remains to be seen. Will the Biden-Putin talks rise to the significant level of summit? To answer that question requires looking back in history to assess three such memorable meetings.
Netanyahu Out, Bennett In - Where Is the US-Israeli Partnership?
Please respect our republishing guidelines - Click Here Twelve years of leadership by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu ended on June 13. Politically controversial at home, the former prime minister (PM) unfailingly backed the United States and opposed Hamas terrorists in Gaza as well as Israel’s other enemy neighbors.
Biden-Putin Summit: Cage Match or Mismatch?
Please respect our republishing guidelines - Click Here In the upcoming U.S.-Russian summit, there is much for Presidents Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin to discuss that might bring some clarity to the two nations’ competing world views. It’s unlikely to mirror the meetings between President Reagan and Soviet leaders where Reagan displayed tough determined cordiality; Biden does not have the stature on the world stage to pull that off.
China, Not Climate Change, Now Officially Top Threat - Or Is It?
Please respect our republishing guidelines - Click Here After years of Joe Biden and others on the left claiming that climate change is the most serious threat faced by the U.S. and the world, it may come as a surprise – though a welcome one, to some – that Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin considers China “the nation’s number one pacing challenge.” Does this mean the president and his administration have changed their minds? Not quite.
Congress Confronts China With Massive Industrial Policy Bill
Please respect our republishing guidelines - Click Here Meeting China head-on in the high-tech electronic chip development market was a critical initiative for Donald Trump’s administration and specifically the Department of Defense.
SpaceX and Space Force: A Match Made in the Heavens?
Please respect our republishing guidelines - Click Here Moving cargo to anywhere on the globe, providing just-in-time strategic offloads of military gear and supplies, is not a reality yet. But visionary Air Force Research Laboratory researchers and the U.S. Transportation Command planners are thinking about it.
D-Day Stories You May Not Know
Please respect our republishing guidelines - Click Here On this, the 77th anniversary of the D-Day landings in Normandy, France on June 6, 1944, there is value in learning more about the incredible invasion of Europe by allied forces than what can be gleaned from Hollywood accounts. Three stories stand out that get little recognition. Brigadier General Theodore Roosevelt The U.S. Army awarded four Medals of Honor for actions that day during the Normandy invasion.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Report Disappoints, as Expected
Please respect our republishing guidelines - Click Here After a nail-biting few months, the essential findings of the much-anticipated (by some) report from the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) or Unidentified Flying Objects (UFO) is now unofficially out there. Consistent with Liberty Nation reporting on the subject, the conclusions are as expected; not much there.
Woke Won’t Win Wars
Please respect our republishing guidelines - Click Here The Department of Defense (DoD) is doubling down on force-feeding the U.S. “woke” philosophical notions as if the divisive “theories” were ground truth. Liberty Nation explained the insinuation of the woke, Marxist thinking of Critical Race Theory (CRT) into the training of the U.S. Armed Forces.
Is China Surrounding the United States?
Please respect our republishing guidelines - Click Here It’s no secret that China’s hegemonic aspirations are driving its acquisition of land bases around the globe. Liberty Nation has been reporting on China’s encroachment into the Arctic, the South China Sea, and Africa. The Chinese port complex in Djibouti is a significant investment, located within rifle-shot of the U.S. base at Camp Lemonnier and a troubling concern to General Stephen Townsend, commander, U.S. Africa Command.
UAP: It's 'U' for Unidentified, Not 'A' for Alien
Please respect our republishing guidelines - Click Here Pentagon “blow-the-lid-off” reports have a habit of not living up to the hype. Do not be surprised if that is the case with the much-anticipated Pentagon report on unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) to be released in June 2021. The report is, after all, being written by the humorless bureaucrats at the Department of Defense.
Memorial Day: How It All Began
Please respect our republishing guidelines - Click Here Miniature American flags placed in front of markers for those who served and many who fell for freedom wave in gentle breezes. Home-town civic bands play on bandstands in town squares. John Philip Sousa fills the air with the United States “National March,” the “Stars and Stripes Forever” with piccolos, absolutely piccolos.
Biden’s Defense Budget: No Surprise, It’s Flat
Please respect our republishing guidelines - Click Here On April 9, 2021, the Biden White House released to Congress and the public a summary of its proposed Fiscal Year (FY) 2022 Discretionary Budget Request. At that time, Liberty Nation provided readers an analysis of the summary document with a comparison of the discretionary funding allocations.
Iran Deal Revival Effort Is Working Out Well - for Iran
Please respect our republishing guidelines - Click Here With President Joe Biden hotly pursuing a “not if, when” policy on the United States again becoming part of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), also known as the Iran nuclear deal, the window of opportunity appears to be closing.
Space Force Launches Protection From Missile Attacks
Please respect our republishing guidelines - Click Here Fulfilling its critical mission to protect Americans on the battlefield and in the homeland, on May 18, the U.S. Space Force launched a Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS GEO-5) satellite. In a previous article on the U.S. space program, Liberty Nation has described America’s competition in the realms outside the earth’s atmosphere.
Liz Cheney: Right on Defense
Please respect our republishing guidelines - Click Here Representative Liz Cheney (R-WY) has received her fair share of coverage lately after her bruising removal from the leadership of the Republican Party. But she still serves on the powerful House Armed Services Committee (HASC) and is a member of the Subcommittee on Strategic Forces. These are crucial in determining the future of U.S. capability to deter Russia and China from attacking the homeland with nuclear weapons.
Is Karl Marx Laughing in His Grave at US Military?
Please respect our republishing guidelines - Click Here Critical race theory (CRT) is a Marxist-based notion that divides and engenders hate within the ranks of those subjected to its canons.
Israel Hits Hamas - Democrats Dither
Please respect our republishing guidelines - Click Here The Israeli government has had enough of the Iran-backed terrorist organization Hamas indiscriminately rocketing its neighborhoods, schools, and citizens and is striking back hard. The trouble has been brewing for some time, as Liberty Nation has reported. In the midst of turmoil between Iran-Hamas terrorists and Israel, Democrats in Washington seem conflicted about whose side to take.
U.S. Forces and Allies Are Leaving Afghanistan - So Now What?
Please respect our republishing guidelines - Click Here As U.S. and allied forces withdraw from Afghanistan, various security alternatives are being considered to keep Afghanistan from returning to a Taliban enterprise.
China, Russia Closing Nuclear Capability Gap With the U.S.
Please respect our republishing guidelines - Click Here The combat commander charged with defending the U.S. against a nuclear attack provides the sobering assessment that for the first time in its history, “the U.S. faces two nuclear-capable strategic peer competitors at the same time, Russia and China.” A recent Liberty Nation report pulled back the curtain on the threat the U.S. faces from these global competitors.
Iran: The New Home of Al-Qaeda?
Please respect our republishing guidelines - Click Here The latest from the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), according to Fox News, is that “al-Qaeda leaders are being harbored inside Iran.” This revelation comes as no surprise to Liberty Nation. The malevolent machinations of the Tehran regime have been front and center in LN reports for the last few months.
America Faces Growing Space Threats
Please respect our republishing guidelines - Click Here The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) has published its “Space Threat Assessment 2021.” The report is a detailed look at the many ways in which space is a potential battleground. With each successive year, the CSIS’ annual assessment paints a more troubling mural of expanding numbers and complexity of space-based threats represented by near-peer national security competitors and others.
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