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The U.S. Navy has little to fear. Heres What You Need to Remember: The carrier is barely capable of doing what carriers are  supposed to do: launch fighters. When she does, she uses a bow ramp instead of steam catapults, which forces reductions in the planes’ takeoff weight and patrol time. In December 2011, the Russian navy’s aging, poorly-maintained aircraft carrier  Admiral Kuznetsov departed from its northern base on the troubled vessel’s fourth deployment to the Mediterranean Se...

Thursday, 1 April, 2021 - 10:30 Haifa Port (Getty Images) Tel Aviv - Asharq Al-Awsat The Israeli Defense Ministry said an Israeli company has signed a memorandum of understanding with a state-owned Chinese corporation for a sensitive project without the Ministrys knowledge. The Ministry said it was investigating the issue amid concern over possible US anger as Washington continues to exert pressure on the Israeli government to re...

SHARE It has been 10 years since the start of the war in Syria, but the conflict grinds on with little sign of ending. Even if the regime of Bashar Al Assad, who has often portrayed himself as a bastion of resistance against the imperialist West, manages to retake Idlib province – the last stronghold of Syrias rebels – the country is now in ruins and bogged down in economic misery. More than 300,000 people have died and 11 million have been displaced. Many other casualties remain undocument...

 "Im extremely proud of this crew of Champions for the execution of a very successful patrol," said Cmdr. Thomas Ralston, commanding officer of Porter.  "We worked hard together as a team, flexed to overcome many obstacles, and accomplished the mission.  We strengthened relationships with our partners and allies to increase interoperability, regional stability and maritime security throughout the Sixth Fleet area of responsibility.  We are excited for our return home and the opportunit...

From now on, every country or group of countries must ask itself whether it produces the technologies it needs or has guaranteed, unfettered, long-term access to them. A country that answers no is vulnerable to technological coercion that is no less severe than the military coercion of yesteryear.

Tackling disputes March 11, 2021 Amidst the ravages of the coronavirus that has killed and infected millions, the US and other global powers are busy making policies that could have serious ramifications for the peace and security of the globe. Such policies, if implemented, would raise the specter of tension between heavily armed nuclear powers and their allies. Any possible miscalculation on the part of these powers could plunge the world into a devastating conflict that might incinerate th...

The Dangerous US/NATO Strategy in Europe The NATO Dynamic Manta anti-submarine warfare exercise took place in the Ionian Sea from February 22 to March 5. Ships, submarines, and planes from the United States, Italy, France, Germany, Greece, Spain, Belgium, and Turkey participated in it. The two main units involved in this exercise were a US Los Angeles class nuclear attack submarine and the French nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle together with its battle group, and a nuclear at...

AMERICAN FREE PRESS and its predecessor, The Spotlight, are the only national newspapers that have regularly given coverage over the past quarter-century to the Israeli naval and air attack on the USS Liberty on June 8, 1967. During a December 30, 2011 interview with Phil Tourney, a Liberty survivor and co-author of the book What I Saw That Day, the Navy veteran revealed to AFP one more bombshell that few have ever been willing to discuss about the duplicitous attack. “Forty-four years af...

Antiwar.com Blog Manlio Dinucci Posted on The NATO Dynamic Manta anti-submarine warfare exercise took place in the Ionian Sea from February 22 to March 5. Ships, submarines, and planes from the United States, Italy, France, Germany, Greece, Spain, Belgium, and Turkey participated in it. The two main units involved in this exercise were a US Los Angeles class nuclear attack submarine and the French nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle together with its battle group, and a nuclear ...

[ Editor’s Note: We are going to be mixing in more of our archival articles, especially by those who have passed on, many of them great talents, and sadly we are not seeing them replaced by equal quality often enough. Alan Hart was one of those. He saw some of the Israeli-Arab wars up close and personal, including front line reporting from the Suez Canal when the British intervened. The year was 1967, when I was heading from Berkshire School to NC State, on the front end of my travels. From h...