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While the country has been preoccupied with the COVID-19 pandemic, economic decline and the election, President Trump’s administration quietly and steadily steered America’s nuclear weapons industry to its largest expansion since the end of the Cold War, increasing spending on such arms by billions of dollars with bipartisan congressional support. Overall, the budget for making and maintaining nuclear warheads has risen more than 50% since Trump was elected in 2016, substantially outpacing ...

BEAUFORT — Since 1949, South Carolinas Marine Corps Recruit Depot at Parris Island has been the only place in the country where women would earn the title held by the few and the proud.  But, in a historic first announced this past week, 60 female recruits will begin training at Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego in 2021. The California military base has traditionally only trained men born west of the Mississippi River, while Parris Island trained men and women. “In an effort ...

By   Paul McLeary on December 18, 2020 at 3:46 PM Acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller hosts Uzbekistan’s Foreign Minister Abdulaziz Kamilov WASHINGTON: President-elect Biden’s team today flatly rejected the Pentagon’s explanation of why two weeks of transition briefings were abruptly canceled, complaining about “isolated resistance in some quarters, including from political appointees within the Department of Defense.” The flap began Friday morning, with a statement from ac...

By   Mackenzie Eaglen and John Ferrari on December 17, 2020 at 7:01 AM Soldiers test the latest, ruggedized version of the IVAS targeting goggles at Fort Picket in October. While Congress cut funding for IVAS, one of the most innovative programs in Army history, they would be wise to look at how and where this revolutionary program succeeded in spite of inefficiencies and bureaucracy. This revolutionary system is called the Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS) and it can propel DoD ...

Trump’s massive Navy buildup bets on savings that wont materialize, experts say December 11, 2020 Ships from Destroyer Squadron transit the Pacific Ocean in January. The Trump administrations buildup is paid for by mechanisms that have proven unlikely to materialize, experts told Defense News. (MC3 Nicholas Huynh/U.S. Navy) WASHINGTON — If the Trump administration had its way, it would cut legacy systems, Army end strength and troops stationed abroad to pay for a major increase in ship...

"The contradictions and the flaws in this report are so blatant that I think its a pretty weak reed to lean on...given the fact that [the Trump administration] basically were just doing Obamas shipbuilding plan up until this point," says Rep. Joe Courtney By   Paul McLeary on December 10, 2020 at 4:45 PM