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by | Jan 7, 2024

On the first of this month, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin was hospitalized at Walter Reed Medical Center, necessitating intensive care and incapacitating him from his Pentagon duties for nearly an entire week. An incapacitated Secretary of Defense would be…

by | Oct 14, 2023

As Rabbie Burns reminded us, in his barbaric Scotch brogue, “The best laid schemes o’ Mice an’ Men/Gang aft agley,/An’ lea’e us nought but grief an’ pain,/For promis’d joy!”  If he had been a wiser man — and been born…

by and | Oct 11, 2023

A Congressional Research Service report (RL30563, issued May 2, 2022) tallies the total F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter program at 2,456 aircraft. Including development costs, this works out to $2.4 trillion, the largest defense aircraft procurement ever. From the…

by | Aug 13, 2023

Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) was a fine college football coach, notable for his success at Auburn. But so far, his political record lags behind. He faces not only the abortion lobby, the Democratic establishment, and the mainstream press but also…

by | Aug 3, 2023

Whistleblower and U.S. Air Force Major David Grusch testified in a congressional hearing last week about an alleged government program to find and reverse-engineer downed UFOs. According to Grusch, whose credentials include time in Air Force Intelligence as well as…

by | Jul 11, 2023

Lately, military-age males have stayed away from the military in droves. General officers and senior civilians in the Pentagon blame a poor public education system and decades of video games for creating a generation of young men not mentally and…

by | May 29, 2023

President Biden has nominated Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Charles Brown to be the next Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, succeeding Army Gen. Mark Milley. He will probably be confirmed quickly. Brown is an F-16 driver of…

by | Apr 1, 2023

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin recently testified before Congress. He was particularly exercised over Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville’s hold on 160 top military promotions in retaliation for the department’s plan to cover travel expenses for abortions. Said Austin: “Not approving the…

by | Mar 5, 2023

In a 1940 speech, President Franklin Roosevelt labeled Detroit the “arsenal of democracy.” During World War II, Detroit alone built tens of thousands of tanks and other ground vehicles, aircraft, bombs, and guns. Much of the rest of our economy…

by | Jan 13, 2023

The U.K. and Poland have confirmed that they are planning on sending Ukraine modern tanks, a development that would be a major boon to the Ukrainian war effort. Poland intends to send German-developed Leopard tanks, while the U.K. plans to…

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