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The Chinook touched down, conjuring a cloud of swirling sand and dust around it. U.S. Army Lieutenant Nate Bethea ran from its rear bay with his head down and immediately took cover flat against the ground as small arms fire popped from the village around him. It was July 2009, and Bethea was part of an airborne unit searching for Private Bowe Bergdahl, an American soldier who had walked off an outpost in Afghanistan and been captured by Taliban insurgents.  Bethea was leading a group of soldi...

Toggle open close The United States has entered a new era of great-power competition with China. As the country makes this shift, policymakers are forced to reevaluate some lingering assumptions that drove defense policy during the Cold War, the country’s last period of sustained great-power competition. The competition with the Soviet Union was a competition between two spheres that rarely overlapped: The United States had very little commerce with the Soviet Union, and the global economy wa...

Few bad ideas are more contagious than the assertion that low-priced goods like disposable face masks and personal protective equipment (PPE) require low wages.

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SIG Sauer Romeo2 Red-Dot Optic: Tested SIG Sauer Romeo2 Red-Dot Optic: Tested The SIG Sauer Romeo2 is a handgun sight that converts from an open-emitter to a closed-emitter red dot. (Michael Anschuetz photo) March 03, 2021 By Eric R. Poole “It’s built in America.” That’s one of the takeaways that SIG Sauer wants us to understand about the new Romeo2 red-dot optic, and that statement was emphasized during an ...

The Reality of American Manufacturing and Pandemic Resilience Contrary to conventional wisdom, there is little evidence of systemic weaknesses in the United States’ “industrial capabilities” (i.e., the ability to produce the goods that the country needs in times of war or other national emergency)—the metric that, along with access to similar capabilities abroad, the Department of Defense considers critical for national security. In fact, the U.S. manufacturing sector remains among the ...

ALG Health ALG Health rose to the challenge, determined to shift manufacturing back to the US to meet rising demand. The company made a significant investment in their state-of-the art facility in Ohio, which is making N95 masks that are "100% Made in the USA" from start to finish and approved by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH). The company recently received FDA-approval for their foldable N95 to be used as a surgical mask. Theyre scaling rapidly–and at full ...

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The new U.S. Marine Corps PT shorts. (Illustration: U.S. Marine Corps) "The Marine Corps is developing a new PT uniform with improved materials to ensure better fit, form and function," said Kelly Flynn, with Marine Corps Systems Command. "The new PT uniform is currently in source selection, so further details cannot be discussed at this time." The service updated its requirements for the new PT uniform on the governments contract solicitation site this month. The Marine Corps plans to buy 900,...

Biden’s jab that foreign company contracts went up 30% under Trump Glenn Kessler © Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images “Under the previous administration, the federal government contracts awarded directly to foreign companies went up 30 percent. That is going to change on our watch.” — President Biden, This article has been updated with additional analysis of the data and new Pinocchio rating We were immediately struck by these comments during a “Made in America” cerem...