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Russia Announces ‘Successful’ Test of Hypersonic Zircon Missile, Launched from Warship

Posted by Leslie Eastman on November 30, 2021 26 Comments

Russia also starts full-scale production Zircon hypersonic missiles systems....

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Gen. Mark Milley Finally Concerned with China’s Hypersonic Missile Capability

Posted by Leslie Eastman on October 28, 2021 36 Comments

Better late than never....

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Sudan Military Takes Over, Arrests Prime Minister and Most Cabinet Members

Posted by Mary Chastain on October 25, 2021 11 Comments

“If the transition is interrupted, if one side or the other in this partnership tries to prevail, then the U.S. support for all of these issues, including debt relief, will be in question."...

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Wife Involved in Submarine Spy Case is Anti-Trump, Progressive, and ‘Very Liberal’

Posted by Mary Chastain on October 13, 2021 24 Comments

If the couple was MAGA you know the media would have this story plastered on the front pages and make it the lede....

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Navy Engineer, Wife Face Charges for Allegedly Trying to Share Nuclear Submarine Technology Secrets

Posted by Mary Chastain on October 11, 2021 22 Comments

"The information [Jonathan] Toebbe turned over included details of the design, operations and performance of Virginia-class nuclear submarine reactors...

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Report: Hundreds of Unprocessed Afghan Evacuees Leaving U.S. Military Bases and Fanning Out Across the Country

Posted by Fuzzy Slippers on October 02, 2021 27 Comments

Reuters: "The number of 'independent departures,' which top 700 and could be higher, has not been previously reported."...

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Panama Warns Up to 60,000 Migrants, Mostly Haitians, Rushing to U.S.-Mexico Border

Posted by Mary Chastain on September 30, 2021 13 Comments

"We all have a role to play in this issue, and the regional approach is the correct approach. It is impossible for Panama to solve it on its own."...

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Russian Ransomware Gang Hits Major Iowa Agriculture Cooperative

Posted by Leslie Eastman on September 23, 2021 5 Comments

Perhaps if the cyberattack impacted the nation's ice cream supply, Biden would care?...

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North Korea Claims It Successfully Tested Long-Range Cruise Missiles

Posted by Mary Chastain on September 13, 2021 14 Comments

The missiles can travel 1,500 kilometers (932 miles), which means Rocket Man can easily target South Korea and Japan....

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South Korea’s Ruling Party Wants Faster Transfer of Military Control from U.S.

Posted by Leslie Eastman on August 19, 2021 41 Comments

CHANGE! "We need not only the importance of the ROK-U.S. alliance, but also an attitude of self-defense that our country will protect itself."...

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NSA Sullivan: Biden Hasn’t Spoken to World Leaders, Taliban has ‘a Fair Amount of’ Our Weapons

Posted by Mary Chastain on August 17, 2021 55 Comments

By the way, Sullivan refused to answer a question about getting all Americans back safe and sound....

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Hacker Group Behind Weekend Cyberattack Demands $70 Million

Posted by Mary Chastain on July 05, 2021 22 Comments

Grocery store chain Swedish Coop took the brunt. It closed over 800 stores since the cash registers went offline....

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Biden Admin’s Strategy to Combat Domestic Terrorism Calls White Supremacy, Militia Groups as Biggest Threats

Posted by Mary Chastain on June 15, 2021 76 Comments

"Today's domestic terrorists espouse a range of violent ideological motivations, including racial or ethnic bigotry and hatred as well as anti-government or anti-authority sentiment."...

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Report Warns of Shortage of Military Working Dogs

Posted by Leslie Eastman on April 04, 2021 20 Comments

A recently published report from the U.S. Navy’s Naval Post Graduate School warns that a domestic shortage of military working dogs is threatening national security.

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House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy Demands Eric Swalwell be Cut From Intel Committee

Posted by Mike LaChance on December 22, 2020 32 Comments

Despite being allegedly compromised by a spy from China, Congressman Eric Swalwell (D-CA) is still serving on the House Intelligence Committee for some reason. Do you think Russia-crazed Congress members like Adam Schiff or even Nancy Pelosi would allow this to go on if Swalwell was a Republican? What happened to all the concern about threats to our democracy?

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Pompeo: Russia Behind Widespread Hack Of U.S. Government

Posted by Leslie Eastman on December 19, 2020 39 Comments

There was a massive cyberattack on a wide array of U.S. networks recently, including systems used by the National Nuclear Security Administration and Energy Department that safeguard the nation's stockpile of nuclear weapons.

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Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service Suspected of Hacking U.S. Treasury, Commerce, Other Departments

Posted by Mary Chastain on December 14, 2020 56 Comments

Officials suspect a hacking group that works for the SVR, the Russian foreign intelligence service, breached many U.S. federal departments, including Treasury and Commerce's National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA).

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DNI Ratcliffe: China Conducting Human Tests to Develop ‘Soldiers With Biologically Enhanced Capabilities’

Posted by Leslie Eastman on December 07, 2020 8 Comments

One of my guilty pleasures, movie-wise, is a 1992 film called "Universal Soldier." The movie's plot, such as it is, involves two rival soldiers who were killed in Vietnam and brought back to life in an experiment to create superhuman warriors. Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliff wrote that China subjected members of China’s People’s Liberation Army to human experimentation to create “biologically enhanced” super soldiers.

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