By a single vote, the Senate shot down a proposal on Tuesday that would have reined in President Donald Trump’s ability to use military force against Iran without Congress's approval.
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Former Vice President Kamala Harris spent part of Pride Month visiting a place that has long served as both a sanctuary and stage for LGBTQ+ Americans.
On Saturday evening, Harris and her husband, Doug Emhoff, made an unannounced visit to The Abbey, the landmark West Hollywood gay bar that has occupied a singular place in American LGBTQ+ life for decades. Harris moved through the crowd,…
On August 16, 1942, the Navy blimp L-8 lifted off from Treasure Island, San Francisco, on a routine antisubmarine patrol with Lieutenant Ernest DeWitt Cody, 27, and Ensign Charles Adams, 35 — Adams's first flight as a commissioned officer. At 7:38 a.m., — Read the rest
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Carney has pledged to remake the military. The obstacles may be bigger than the budget
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Research led by the University of Alicante (UA) has enabled a reassessment of one of the most remarkable assemblages of weaponry ever discovered in Spanish waters of 43 helmets. Using new and improved methods, archaeologists are re-visiting sites and artefacts. Recently military equipment thought to be Roman, and found in 1990 at the Piedras de […]
On 14 June 1877, Henry Ossian Flipper was the first African American to graduate from the United States Military Academy at West Point, earning a commission as a second lieutenant in the United States Army. Henry was born into slavery on March 21 1856 in Thomasville Georgia, owned by slave trader Ephraim G. Ponder. Henry’s family were extraordinary. One of his younger brother’s, […]
John Malcolm Thorpe Fleming Churchill — nicknamed "Fighting Jack" and "Mad Jack" — fought through the entire Second World War armed with a Scottish broadsword, a longbow, and a set of bagpipes. He graduated from Sandhurst in 1926, left the army a decade later to work as a newspaper editor and film extra, then re-enlisted when Germany invaded Poland in 1939. — Read the rest
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The legal battle over President Donald Trump's transgender military ban is entering a new phase that could determine whether the challenge proceeds on behalf of a handful of plaintiffs or thousands of transgender service members nationwide.
Attorneys representing transgender troops asked a federal judge on Friday to certify a nationwide class in __Talbott v. United States__ , a challenge to…
Poland’s rise was driven mainly by stronger ties with its neighbours.
Pokemon Go players' optional location scans reportedly helped train Niantic Spatial's visual positioning system, which uses camera imagery and 3D maps to navigate when GPS is unavailable or jammed. According to DroneXL, that technology is now being paired with Vantor's drone navigation software for military and intelligence use, raising questions about whether gamers understood that footage…
Longtime Slashdot reader MattSparkes shares a report from NewScientist, captioned: "For years we've had unconfirmed reports, rumors, hints... now we know." From the report: Fully autonomous drones with no human oversight have killed soldiers on the battlefield for the first time. This is according to a senior figure in the Ukrainian defense industry, marking a watershed moment in warfare. The…
This year's NDAA treats American interests as identical to those of a foreign nation.
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This is interesting:
The U.S. military has likely been quietly broadcasting codes for its global encryption network using public GPS for nearly 20 years, turning each satellite into a hidden “numbers station,” according to Steven Murdoch…
That means every device that uses GPS has been receiving hidden government information for years, and nobody outside the military knew it until now.
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Altera’s wideband Agilex 9 Direct RF-Series AGRW039 SoC FPGA is designed for high-performance Radio Frequency (RF) systems in aerospace, defense, and advanced communications systems. It is the fourth device in Altera’s Agilex 9 Direct RF-Series, and compared to the previous generation AGRW027, the new AGRW039 delivers about 45% more logic resources, 45% more DSP resources, and 43% more block RAM.…
Commercial truck startup Harbinger is partnering with the robotics experts at American Rheinmetall to develop an uncrewed military ground vehicle based on the company’s medium duty hybrid and electric truck chassis.
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When the U.S. Army approached Hershey's in 1937 for an emergency ration bar that should taste like a boiled potato, Colonel Paul Logan handed over four requirements. It had to weigh four ounces, pack a lot of calories, survive temperatures up to 120°F — and taste only "a little better than a boiled potato." — Read the rest
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His proposed new budget shrinks the VA’s ability to meet veterans’ needs.
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（CNN） ロシアはウクライナによるドローン（無人機）攻撃があり、レニングラード州上空で2日夜に撃墜した約60機を含め、数百機を撃ち落としたと明らかにした。ロシアの主要経済会合「サンクトペテルブルク国際経済フォーラム」が開幕する中での攻撃となった。 サンクトペテルブルクのベグロフ市長は、ウクライナ軍によ...
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s police said demonstrators blocked major intersections and attacked a soldier who disembarked from a bus near a protest. Police struggled to control the crowds with water cannons and horses.
A Senate hearing on gender-affirming care for minors on Wednesday became a fight over who gets to make decisions for transgender children, whether politicians should override doctors and parents, and whether the Trump administration’s escalating campaign against gender-affirming care is rooted in concern for children or hostility toward transgender people.
The hearing, convened by Republican…
The announcement follows President Donald Trump's pledge to send additional American troops to Poland.
Europe is rapidly rewriting its security architecture. Faced with Russian aggression, mounting doubts about long-term American commitment and growing pressure to shoulder more of its own defense burden, European states […]
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fjo3 shares a report from Defense One: A small but growing number of European officials and analysts are saying what four years ago was unthinkable: Ukraine isn't just surviving its grueling war with Russia, it is in some ways thriving and may even be on a path to victory. This isn't yet captured in headlines -- for example, about last weekend's barrage of Russian drones and missiles around…
Mississippi will reimburse healthcare premiums for National Guard members’ Tricare Reserve Select insurance plans under a new law.
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The US military has used the province as a staging ground since the Second World War
The post How America’s “Friendly Invasion” of Newfoundland and Labrador Could Turn Sour first appeared on The Walrus.
The world’s largest advertising conglomerate has proposed merging with the company that has built detailed profiles on every American.
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In "Chaos in the Green Zone," author Tom Mowle, describes being plucked from his faculty job at the Air Force Academy and arriving overseas to witness the absurdity of U.S. intervention in the second Iraq war.
Former Air Force Academy instructor turned military strategist Tom Mowle had written about the second Iraq war for an academic audience. Crafting a narrative account was different.
We are in the geospatial era of warfare in which information derived from satellites is as strategically critical as territorial control. The progressive dissolution of the distinction between the civil […]
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South Korean businessman Chung Yong-jin, chairman of an investment group that owns a majority stake in Starbucks Korea, bowed three times to apologize for an ad that appeared to mock the victims of a violent 1980 military crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators. What do you think?
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