Category: Pentagon

Communist China ‘Tempting a Crisis’ With Military Provocations: DOD Official

Communist China is baiting a catastrophic conflict in the Indo-Pacific by engaging in threatening and erratic military maneuvers designed to intimidate the United States and its allies. The regime’s military wing, the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), frequently risks the lives of its pilots and those of the United States and its allies by conducting aggressive…


Pentagon Chief: US Faces Pivotal Years in Countering China

SIMI VALLEY, Calif.—The United States is at a pivotal point with China and will need military strength to ensure that American values, not Beijing’s, set global norms in the 21st century, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Saturday. Austin’s speech at the Reagan National Defense Forum capped a week in which the Pentagon was squarely focused…


Pentagon Debuts New Stealth Bomber, the B-21 Raider, Amid Rising China Threat

WASHINGTON—America’s newest nuclear stealth bomber is making its public debut after years of secret development and as part of the Pentagon’s answer to rising concerns over a future conflict with China. The B-21 Raider is the first new American bomber aircraft in more than 30 years. Almost every aspect of the program is classified. Ahead…


Pentagon Won’t Yield on Ending COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate as Senators Threaten Budget

The Pentagon said it would continue to require that troops get COVID-19 vaccines even as Republican senators threaten to hold up the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) unless the Defense Department ends its vaccine mandate. Speaking to reporters Thursday, Pentagon spokesman Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder claimed the controversial mandate is needed for U.S. national security purposes….


Who Really Owns Big Digital Tech?

Commentary By now it should be perfectly clear that the most prominent Big Digital companies are not strictly private, for-profit companies. As I argued in “Google Archipelago,” they are also state apparatuses, or governmentalities, undertaking state functions, including censorship, propaganda, and surveillance. Katherine Boyle, “a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz where she invests in companies that…


NTD Evening News (Nov. 29): Oath Keepers Founder Convicted of Sedition; China Seeks to Displace US as Global Leader: Pentagon

A jury on Nov. 29 convicted Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes of seditious conspiracy in connection with the Jan. 6 Capitol breach. Communist China is engaged in a whole-of-nation approach to expand its military and topple the United States as leader of the international order, according to a new report released by the Pentagon. *…


Capitol Report (Nov. 28): White House Weighs In on Civil Unrest Inside China; Sec. Austin Says US National Security at Risk

The White House responds to anti-lockdown protests in China. But it notably refuses to say one thing. Former Fox News executive and author of the new book “The World We Wish” joins us to weigh in on the civil unrest unfolding all across China. The Pentagon warns lawmakers they’re threatening national security—by slow-walking a budget for…


Rubio and Roy Challenge the Woke Pentagon

Commentary The U.S. military is failing to meet what were already minimal recruiting goals. That fact should trouble every American citizen who knows the world is a dangerous place. According to the Stars and Stripes, on Nov. 18 Secretary of the Army Christine Wormuth confirmed that the Army undershot its annual recruitment goal of 60,000…


Chinese Spy Sentenced to 20 Years in the US

A Chinese spy has been sentenced to 20 years in U.S. prison. The high-ranking official was found to have targeted American aviation intel. Chinese leader Xi Jinping was caught on camera criticizing Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau face-to-face, on the sidelines of the Group of Twenty summit. China is unable to invade Taiwan, a top U.S….


Pentagon Says the US Is Aware of Reports of Missiles Striking Poland

U.S. Defense Department press secretary Pat Ryder said the Pentagon is aware of reports claiming that “two Russian missiles” hit an area inside Poland near the Ukrainian border and killed two people. Reports on Tuesday claimed two missiles hit near the Polish town of Przewodow. Polish news outlets showed a destroyed farm vehicle and an image…