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Greenbrier Appoints New Lead Director ~ Adm. Thomas Fargo assumes role from Duane McDougall, who continues as Independent Director ~~ Furthers commitment to board refreshment and board leadership by independent directors News provided by Share this article Share this article LAKE OSWEGO, Ore., Jan. 25, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The Greenbrier Companies, Inc. (NYSE: GBX) ("Greenbrier"), announced today the appointment of four-star Admiral Thomas B. Fargo, USN (ret.) to the companys Lead Director po...

For 1st Black Pentagon chief, racism challenge is personal AP 24th January, 2021 07:56:52 Newly confirmed Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin will have to contend not only with a world of security threats and a massive military bureaucracy, but also with a challenge that hits closer to home: rooting out racism and extremism in the ranks. Austin took office Friday as the first Black defense chief, in the wake of the deadly insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, where retired and current military members w...

Same old, same old: New US government likely to sing old tunes on Afghanistan and Pakistan Arun Sreenivasan © Shubhangi Mishra Same old, same old: New US government likely to sing old tunes on Afghanistan and Pakistan At the high noon of the jihad in Afghanistan, as the Soviet Union prepared to pull its battered armies back home, the author of that long war sat down to script its coda. “The Soviets were unable to resist pressure to quit Afghanistan, but they will now seek o...

His most immediate agenda includes an increasingly muscular China, an aggressive Russia, the protracted conflict in Afghanistan and a vague and looming threat of Iran.

Washington: Newly confirmed US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin will have to contend not only with a world of security threats and a massive military bureaucracy, but also with a challenge that hits closer to home: rooting out racism and extremism in the ranks. Austin took office Friday as the first Black defence chief, in the wake of the deadly insurrection at the US Capitol, where retired and current military members were among the rioters touting far-right conspiracies. The retired four-star A...

Danielle Pletka (Senior Fellow, American Enterprise Institute) Danielle Pletka (photo credit: AEI, courtesy) The Trump presidency represented a watershed for the Middle East, a completely unexpected transformation. Pre-Trump, the region remained largely static, with accepted wisdom guiding both Democratic and Republic presidents to a series of similar policies. In retrospect, that willingness to accept the conventional, academic platitudes about how to best manage Middle East policy was foolish...

Austin retired in 2016 after serving as the first Black general to head U.S. Central Command.

The Associated Press WASHINGTON — Newly confirmed Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin will have to contend not only with a world of security threats and a massive military bureaucracy, but also with a challenge that hits closer to home: rooting out racism and extremism in the ranks. Austin took office Friday as the first Black defense chief, in the wake of the deadly insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, where retired and current military members were among the rioters touting far-right conspiracies. ...

WASHINGTON - Newly confirmed Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin will have to contend not only with a world of security threats and a massive military bureaucrac

US Coast Guard commissions Fast Response Cutter USCGC Charles Moulthrope WPC 1141 US Coast Guard commissions Fast Response Cutter USCGC Charles Moulthrope WPC 1141 Friday, 22 January 2021 18:46 According to information published by the United States Department of Defense (DoD) on January 21, 2021, the USCGC (United States Coast Guard Cutter) Charles Moulthrope (WPC 1141), Patrol Forces Southwest Asias first Sentinel-class cutter, was commissioned into service at Coast Guard Base ...