Trump Executive Order Targets Rare Earths Minerals And China
✪ U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed an executive order declaring a national emergency in the mining industry, aimed at boosting domestic production of rare earth minerals critical for military technologies while reducing the country’s dependence on China…
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Historic Breakthrough: 155 mm Howitzer Artillery Intercepts & Destroys Incoming Cruise Missile
✪ An M109 Paladin 155 mm howitzer made history recently by shooting down a fast-moving maneuvering cruise missile with a “hypervelocity projectile” able to travel at speeds up to Mach 5, according to an Air Force announcement. Historically, armored vehicles such as tanks, howitzers or infantry carriers have not operated with an ability to destroy fast-moving, long-range cruise missiles, yet the successful demonstration breaks new ground…
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America’s Oldest World War II Veteran Receives Flyover For 111th Birthday
✪ America’s oldest World War II veteran received a military flyover for his 111th birthday on Saturday as the coronavirus changed plans for a more traditional birthday celebration…
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✪ The Pentagon has just released the 2020 China Military Power Report, one of the leading sources of reliable information on China’s military. This year’s version marks the 20th anniversary of the report and provides a unique perspective on how China’s military has changed over the first two decades of the 21st century. Here are some key changes in the report:
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Pentagon: China Now Has The World’s Largest Navy
✪ China is bent on creating a world-class military that can conduct joint operations across the globe and already boasts the world’s largest navy, according to the Pentagon’s latest annual assessment of the Chinese military. A “permanent condition of military inferiority is anathema” to China’s leadership and nowhere is that more obvious in its naval build-up, Chad Sbragia, deputy assistant secretary of defense for China, said during a Tuesday American Enterprise Institute forum…
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President Trump Announces Removal Of All Remaining U.S. Troops From Iraq
✪ President Donald Trump announced this week that he will be removing all remaining U.S. troops from Iraq in the near future. He told the Iraq Prime Minister that he would arrange for troops to leave the country but would make sure that national security interests would not be jeopardized with the withdrawal…
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Here Comes The US Army’s First Laser Battalion
✪ The Defense Department expects to stand up its first battalion of Stryker vehicles outfitted with high-powered laser weapons by some time next year, Army officials say. “Expect to have the first battalion fielded in 2021 with four battalions by 2023,” U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command chief Lt. Gen. Dan Karbler told the audience at the virtual Space Missile Defense symposium on Tuesday…
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✪ Seventy-five years ago, a U.S. Army Air Force B-29, the Enola Gay, dropped an 8,900-pound bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Decorated with crude messages for Emperor Hirohito, Little Boy whistled downward for 44 seconds before bursting 1,900 feet above the center of the city…
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✪ Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has unveiled a more aggressive defense strategy aimed at countering the rise of China, while warning that Australia faces new regional challenges on a scale not seen since World War II.
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A retired U.S. Marine walked onto a concrete median in Washington D.C. on Sunday and stood for a period of 24 hours — with the hope of bringing attention to veteran suicide. Retired U.S. Marine Staff Sgt. Tim Chambers, 45, held a salute for 22 minutes at the beginning of the first hour to symbolize the American veterans who take their own life each day. For each hour after, the salute dropped by one minute before it eventually counted down to zero.
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