Troop levels, airstrikes, COVID vaccinations — How the Pentagon continually fails at transparency

If the Pentagon is committed to transparency, as it has claimed, then it continually finds a way to suspend the rules when it comes to providing the American public with timely and accurate data. The New York Times recently reported that the actual number of U.S. troops in Afghanistan is closer to 3,500 than the …

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Israel announces upgrade of Iron Dome rocket defense system

JERUSALEM (AP) – The Israeli Defense Ministry on Tuesday announced it has completed an upgrade of the country’s Iron Dome rocket-defense system to cope with an additional array of aerial threats. The Iron Dome was developed to intercept short-range unguided rockets and has shot down some 2,500 incoming projectiles fired … View original article

Homeland Security chief defends US handling of border surge

WASHINGTON (AP) – Faced with a rising number of migrants at the southwest border and criticism from all sides, the Biden administration’s head of Homeland Security insisted Tuesday that the situation is under control as he defended a policy of allowing teens and children crossing by themselves to remain in … View original article

What it was like for Marines responding to one of the worst nuclear disasters in history

videojs.getPlayer(‘SLf2UHA0O’).ready(function() { var myPlayer = this; myPlayer.play(); myPlayer.pip({‘posX’:’right’, ‘posY’:’top’}); }); Lt. Col. Giuseppe Stavale was in a situation no parent wants to be in. It was early afternoon on March 11, 2011, and a massive earthquake, followed by a 140-foot tall tsunami, had just struck the coast of northeast Japan. The city of Tokyo, where …

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