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Marine Corps Pilot Celebrates 100th Birthday Marine Corps Pilot Celebrates 100th Birthday This Saturday, Planes of Fame Air Museum (POF) will host the 100 th birthday party of former Marine Corps aviator and World War II combat veteran Major John Tashjian.  The public is invited to join in the festivities! Museum doors open at 10:00am.  The party will run from 10:30am until 12:30pm. At noon the museum’s Corsair will take to the sky for a twenty-minute aerial demonstration. The event will b...

USS Houston (CL 81), in a hard turn with her underside exposed, felt the torpedo explosion across the ship. Commander William Behrens recalled “that all propulsive power and steering control was immediately lost. The ship took a list to starboard of 16 degrees. All main electrical power was immediately lost.” The tactical situation was still perilous, and with Houston “rolling sluggishly in the trough of the sea… her main deck [dipping] under at frequent intervals,” Behrens ordered ...

Why the US’s counterterrorism strategy in the Sahel keeps failing 16 Feb 2021 The US alone is not responsible for the negligence and corruption of partners in the Sahel, or for the coups and war crimes US-trained forces have committed. But the US has been training foreign militaries for more than 50 years now, and the pattern of calamity – in the Sahel and beyond – suggests a reevaluation of US security aid is urgently needed. (Photo by Fred Marie/Art In All Of Us/Corbis via Getty Images...

Toggle open close It is in America’s interest to develop a coherent and coordinated strategy for the Atlantic region. While the geopolitical conditions of the Atlantic region may differ from those of the Indo-Pacific, a strategy is needed to mitigate the pernicious activities of the Chinese Communist Party. The aim of a U.S. Atlantic strategy is to make the Atlantic region resilient against malicious Chinese and Russian influence by expanding regional cooperation, and helping to make U.S. par...