Commentary The Chinese Communist Party (CCP), we’re told, is building a military to invade Taiwan by the end of the decade. In recent times, however, this building process has hit a rather sizable stumbling block that could derail its plans of “unification” with its iron-willed neighbor. The South China Morning Post’s Amber Wang recently discussed…
The Inextricable Link Between Military Life and Mental Health Issues
US Senators Warn President Biden Against Providing Australia With Nuclear Subs
Two U.S. Senators have raised major concerns over the trilateral AUKUS deal between Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States, saying that the supply of U.S. nuclear-powered submarines (SSN) to Australia could weaken America’s submarine fleet. In a letter sent to the Biden Administration on Dec. 21, 2022, Senators’ Jack Reed (D-R.I.) and James…
Chinese Company Cleared to Own 370 Acres Near US Air Base
Originally published by Gatestone Institute Commentary The Biden administration just cleared a Chinese company to own 370 acres of land within 12 miles of Grand Forks Air Force Base in Grand Forks, North Dakota. As a result, China will be able to use a proposed $700 million corn milling plant on the site to spy on military…
The Empty Place Setting at the Table
Commentary All across America, families of service members—those fortunate their family member returned home and those whose family member tragically did not—will leave a place setting at their holiday table for those who never came home. For many, it is a solemn reminder of sacrifice and loss, but for many more, the empty place setting…
America’s Civil-Military Problem
Commentary In the bustle of the Christmas season, three events likely escaped attention. The first was the U.S. Military Academy’s (West Point) decision to remove a portrait and bust of Gen. Robert E. Lee, a superintendent of West Point before the Civil War. West Point made the decision based on Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin’s…
US Military to Expand Training of Ukrainian Troops
The U.S. military will expand the training of Ukrainian troops in the ongoing Russia–Ukraine war, with a focus on joint maneuvers and combined arms operations. Air Force Brig. Gen. Patrick Ryder said at a press briefing on Dec. 15 that the Pentagon “will expand U.S.-led training for the Ukrainian Armed Forces, to include joint maneuver…
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…
LIVE NOW: How to Overcome the Military Recruitment and Retention Crisis: Hudson Institute
The U.S. military faces its most serious recruitment and retention crisis since the end of the Vietnam War. In fact, the Army ended the last fiscal year failing to meet its recruitment goal by 25 percent, falling nearly 15,000 soldiers short. If recruitment continues on this downward trajectory, the standard of U.S. military readiness could…
How to Overcome the Military Recruitment and Retention Crisis: Hudson Institute
The U.S. military faces its most serious recruitment and retention crisis since the end of the Vietnam War. In fact, the Army ended the last fiscal year failing to meet its recruitment goal by 25 percent, falling nearly 15,000 soldiers short. If recruitment continues on this downward trajectory, the standard of U.S. military readiness could…
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…
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