Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has selected a history-making retired admiral and a former commandant of the Marine Corps, among others, to join a commission that will recommend a way forward on renaming bases named for Confederate officers and other military landmarks honoring the Confederacy. Austin’s four nominees to the commission, announced by the Pentagon on …

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President Biden has ordered a review of the future of the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba that currently houses about 40 prisoners including 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Reuters reported. Closing the controversial prison, the site of interrogations that critics claimed amounted to torture, was both a campaign promise made by then-candidate …

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Russia is prepared to sever all ties with the European Union if the bloc proceeds with threatened economic sanctions, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Friday in Moscow. In strikingly blunt remarks, the veteran foreign minister said in a radio interview that Moscow is “ready” if EU leaders impose new travel bans and asset freezes to …

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The man tapped to lead the Pentagon’s new task force focusing on the threat posed by an increasingly bellicose China said he isn’t creating another layer of government bureaucracy. Ely Ratner told Pentagon reporters that the Department of Defense‘s 15-member China Task Force has no more than four months to wrap up its analysis and …

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Marine Corps experiments show lightweight vehicles mounted with long-range weapons can take out enemy tanks at a distance 15 to 20 times greater than a Marine tank could, a top general said this week. The anti-tank mission was one of the examples cited by Lt. Gen. Eric Smith, deputy commandant for combat development and integration, …

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