By nearly every measure, Chief Petty Officer William Ryan Owens was exceptional. Chief Owens, 36, who was killed by enemy fire during a raid in Yemen last week, was a team leader in the Navy’s most elite commando force, SEAL Team 6, and had earned numerous awards for heroism under fire during a dozen deployments. […]
Don’t Blame Trump for the Yemen Raid’s Outcome…
There’s more to the story, from special operators who chafed at Obama administration micromanagement to the unexpected well-prepared enemies who lay in wait. Blame for the Yemen raid going terribly wrong is now being placed squarely on the desk of the new president. Reports surfaced on Thursday night to say that President Trump had authorized […]
THE D.C. BUREAUCRACY PLANS TO DEFY TRUMP…
The signs of popular dissent from President Donald Trump’s opening volley of actions have been plain to see on the nation’s streets, at airports in the aftermath of his refugee and visa ban, and in the blizzard of outrage on social media. But there’s another level of resistance to the new president that is less […]
Pentagon, White House Defend Planning…
Rising Tensions in Kosovo Could Serve as Early Test of U.S.-Russia Relations…
Ethnic tensions are rising in Kosovo, setting the stage for an early test of U.S.-Russian relations under President Donald Trump in a Balkan country where U.S. troops keep the peace decades after a NATO air campaign ended Serb rule over the Albanian population. A 78-day U.S.-led bombing campaign in 1999 forced Serbia to give up […]
Trump, Mexican President Hold Hour-Long Phone Call, Agree Not To Discuss Payment For “The Wall”…
Setting a hard-line tone on national security, President Donald Trump on Friday suspended the nation’s refugee program for four months, aiming to keep “radical Islamic terrorists” out of the United States. Trump traveled to the Pentagon, where he joined Defense Secretary Jim Mattis for the signing of an executive action to bring sweeping changes to […]
Death of the Syrian ‘Moderate’ Fantasy by Jonathan Marshall…
The neoconservative and liberal interventionist case for arming Syria’s rebels lost its last vestige of credibility this week with the routing of Free Syrian Army (FSA) forces by Al-Qaeda-linked Islamists in northwestern Syria. Washington think-tank warriors and editorial writers have long looked to the FSA as America’s natural allies in the Syrian conflict…
Senate Confirms Trump’s Defense, Homeland Security Secretary’s…
Retired Marine Corps Gens. James Mattis and John F. Kelly were confirmed to lead the Defense and Homeland Security departments, but liberal senators blocked an effort to approve Rep. Mike Pompeo to lead the CIA…
McCain Proposes Massive $5 Trillion, 5-Year Defense Budget; Blames “Flawed Obama Defense Strategy”…
Just weeks after it was revealed that the Pentagon attempted to bury a study, that it itself had actually commissioned, which revealed staggering financial waste on Department of Defense programs, John McCain has proposed a new military budget that would exceed Obama’s proposed spending by $430 billion over 5 years and total over $5 trillion, […]
Obama Sends Special Forces to Russian Border…
Vilnius has confirmed that an American Special Forces contingent is stationed in Lithuania to bolster the training of the Baltic state’s own commandos and to serve as a deterrence against potential “Russian aggression”…
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