Month: December 2017

Here’s another headline from Air Force Times, which (at first glance) appears troubling: “Half of Predators fielded have been lost.” In recent testimony before Congress, the Air Force Chief of…

…just keep trying. That appears to be the mantra for North Korea’s long-range ballistic missile program, according to senior U.S. intelligence officials. Testifying before Congress yesterday, the head of the…

Next month, Israel will conduct its first-ever drill simulating a nuclear and chemical missile attack against its cities, according to the Army’s Homefront Corps. The planned exercise comes in the…

The Commander of Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, Major General George Weightman, was fired yesterday, after the Army said it had lost confidence in his ability to lead,…

I suppose there were a few snickers when the Council on Foreign Relations recently announced that actress Angelina Jolie had been invited to join that august group. True, Ms. Jolie’s…

A hat tip to Noah Shachtman, formerly of Defensetech.org, who’s now running the Danger Room national security blog over at Wired.com. One of his contributors, David Axe, came across this…

Predictably, Congress has jumped into the middle of the growing scandal at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington. At least two Congressional committees will launch hearings into the matter…

Our thoughts and prayers are with the good people of Enterprise, Alabama; Americus, Georgia, and other areas hard-hit by yesterday’s tornadoes and severe thunderstorms. As someone who spent most of…

Update/11:12 a.m. PST. Brian Ross of ABC is reporting that General Asghari, along with his family, fled to a “European country,” and he is cooperating with the U.S. I’m still…

China has announced that its military budget will increase by almost 18% this year, continuing a string of double-digit increases that began more than a decade ago. Officially, Beijing’s military…