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By Tamara Gregor The Duncan Banner Dec 26, 2020 1 of 3 Sgt. Emma Sue Hurley, a 2018 Duncan High School graduate, recently received the Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal. Special to The Banner Sgt. Emma Sue Hurley, a 2018 Duncan High School graduate, recently received the Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal. Special to The Banner Sgt. Emma Sue Hurley, a 2018 Duncan High School graduate, recently received the Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal. S...

When Deng Xiaoping arrived at Andrews Air Force Base outside Washington in January 1979, his country was just emerging from a long revolutionary deep freeze. No one knew much about this 5-foot-tall Chinese leader. He had suddenly reappeared on the scene after twice being cashiered by Mao, who famously described him as “a needle inside a ball of cotton.” But in 1979 he knew exactly what he wanted: better relations with the U.S. He and President Jimmy Carter appeared to be serious about resol...

By Erick Johnson General Lloyd Austin She won Chicago’s powerful Black electorate to win her first term as U.S. Senator from Illinois. Today, Senator Tammy Duckworth is standing firm against granting a waiver to allow retired Army General Lloyd Austin to be confirmed as the nation’s first Black Secretary of Defense. Her mentor, fellow Senator Dick Durbin, who once again swept Chicago’s 18 Black wards, remains silent on whether he will grant President-elect Joe Biden’s nomination a waive...

PM Barzani discussed security of Kurdistan, wider region with Commander of SOJTF-OIR    2020/12/21 20:40 Prime Minister of Kurdistan Regional Government, Masrour Barzani (Right), with Brig. Gen. Guillaume Beaurper, Commanding General of Special Operations Joint Task Force – Operation Inherent Resolve (SOJTF-OIR), Dec. 21, 2020. (Photo: KRG) ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – The Prime Minister of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), Masrour Barzani, emphasized the need for illegal ar...

Lloyd Austin, faces a challenge to be confirmed by the U.S. Senate, the NAACP and other prominent Black organizations are publicly throwing their support for his nomination. Austin, a retired four-star Army general, has already achieved a historic mark as the first Black commander of the United States Central Command (CENTCOM). He could make history yet again, with President-elect Biden’s naming Austin as a nominee for Secretary of Defense. Several Black organizations are urging Congress to ...

Kill Web: Why the U.S. Military Sees Speed as the Ultimate Weapon When it comes to networking an attacking force to expedite sensor-to-shooter time and quicken the “kill web,” information is increasingly viewed as a defining weapon of war. Information itself, when it comes to networking an attacking force to expedite sensor-to-shooter time and quicken the “kill web,” is increasingly viewed as a defining weapon of war. This premise, which relies often upon an AI-empowered ability to gath...

Does China’s rapid military modernisation, drive China’s current space programme? (Part 1) December 17, 2020, 4:41 PM IST Dr. Maj Gen (Retd) Anil Kumar Lal is a Defence Analyst who has authored many path-breaking concepts on Nuclear and Space Warfare strategies. He feels that the future Military Forces would be dictated by a new concept of Strategic detterence which would be a combined effect of Nuclear and Space detterence. He is a third generation Indian Army Officer, wh...

(1) DENVER and WASHINGTON, Dec. 17, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- David Kilcullen, CEO of risk management company Cordillera Applications Group, has predicted that United States military bases established for the Global War on Terror in Africa and Asia will be essential if the West wants to effectively counter Chinas aggressive expansionism in the next decade. In an analysis distributed this week by the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a Washington, DC-based, nonpartisan institute focusing on nati...

12 SAN ANTONIO, Texas –One of the oldest surviving World War II Veterans serving in the Battle of Salerno, Texas Army National Guard 1st Sgt. (ret.) Alfred Dietrick turned 99 years old Tuesday, December 15, 2020. Dietrick has been a fixture of the 36th Infantry Division and the Texas National Guard for over seven decades. The Texas Military Department presented him with a series of honors on his birthday to recognize the dedication and selfless service displayed by Dietrich. T...

Army suspends battalion command team in South Korea amid racism investigation December 13, 2020 Distinctive Unit Insignia for the 602nd Aviation Support Battalion, 2nd Combat Aviation Brigade. The unit is based at Camp Humphreys, South Korea. (U.S. Army) The Army has temporarily relieved a South Korea-based battalion commander and his command sergeant major pending the outcome of command and criminal investigations into “allegations of racism, bigotry and discrimination in one of our for...