President Donald Trump wants to hold his proposed military parade on Veterans Day, a date that would increase significance to the first public U.S. military procession since the Gulf War’s end. Trump directed Pentagon planners to organize a Nov. 11 parade in the nation’s capital, according to an unclassified memo National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster […]
Trump Threatens to Veto $1.3 Trillion Omnibus…
Trump Tells Pentagon to Plan for Military Parade on Veterans Day…
U.S. Finally Admits “No Evidence” Assad Used Sarin Gas…
Secretary of Defense James Mattis stated on or about February 2nd, 2018 that the United States has “no evidence” that the Syrian government used the banned nerve agent Sarin against its own people in attacks in 2013 and 2017. The most recent accusation provoked a massive Tomahawk strike ordered by President Trump that was quite […]
Mattis Fires Guantánamo War Court Overseer…
In a surprise move, Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis on Monday fired the top official overseeing the trials of the five men accused of plotting the 9/11 attacks and other alleged war criminals held at Guantánamo. It was not immediately known what caused Mattis to dismiss Harvey Rishikof, an attorney with experience in national security […]
Mattis: ‘Storm clouds gathering’ Over Korean Peninsula…
“Storm clouds are gathering” over the Korean Peninsula, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis declared Friday. And as diplomats try to resolve the nuclear standoff, he told soldiers that the U.S. military must do its part by being ready for war. Without forecasting a conflict, Mattis emphasized that diplomacy stands the best chance of preventing a war […]
New Audit Finds $21 Trillion in Unauthorized Spending by Federal Government…
Earlier this year, a Michigan University economist, working with graduate students and a former governmental official, found $21 trillion in unauthorized spending in the departments of Defense and Housing and Urban Development for the years of 1198-2015. Now, the Department of Defense has announced it will conduct the first department-wide, independent audit in its history. […]
Amid Firestorms, Trump Has Year of Solid Policy Accomplishments. Can He Keep Going? by Byron York…
Something is happening in the final days of 2017. People are noticing that Donald Trump has gotten a lot done in his tumultuous first year in the White House. Assume that tax reform passes and is signed into law. If in, say, 2014, a Republican, of either the conservative or moderate variety, predicted that in […]
Defense Secretary Jim Mattis Was the ‘target of a Taliban rocket attack’…
US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis was the intended target of a rocket attack near an Afghanistan airport on Wednesday, according to the Taliban. At least five civilians were wounded when six rockets were fired toward Kabul international airport in the Afghan capital after Mattis touched down. Mattis condemned the attack as a ‘criminal act by […]
North Korea Launches Missile, Japanese Residents Urged to Take Cover…
The unidentified projectile was heading east, according to published reports, after leaving the launchpad around 6:57 a.m. local time. The missile flew for about 20 minutes until falling into the Pacific Ocean at 7:16 a.m. about 2,000 kilometers east of Hokkaido, NHK reported citing Japanese government officials…
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