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The Nation, check out our latest issue. Subscribe to Support Progressive Journalism The Nation is reader supported: Chip in $10 or more to help us continue to write about the issues that matter. Sign up for our Wine Club today. Did you know you can support The Nation by drinking wine? The future isn’t what it used to be. As a teenager in the 1970s, I watched a lot of TV science fiction shows, notably UFO, that imagined a near future of major moon bases and alien attacks on Earth. Mo...

Antiwar.com Original The Cold War, Rebooted and Rebranded Why 2021 Looks So Much Like 1981 – And Why That Should Scare Usby William J. Astore and Tom Engelhardt Posted on Originally posted at TomDispatch. When it comes to future conflicts or present-day war games, they have all the advantages and we have none! Or as Eric Edelman, a former undersecretary of defense for policy, told CNN recently, “Russia and China are playing a home game, we are playing an away game.” And mind ...

April 08, 2021 U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Alaxey Germanovich, a strategic studies and defense analysis student at Norwich, receives Air Force Cross for lifesaving bravery in Afghanistan Alaxey Germanovich, a Special Tactics combat controller, joined the U.S. Air Force for its action and challenges — few other jobs would let him see the world, train as he’d trained, do what he’d do. In April 2017, attached to 7th Special Forces Group, he deployed for the first time, heading to Nang...

NationofChange Why 2021 looks so much like 1981 — and why that should scare us... UFO, that imagined a near future of major moon bases and alien attacks on Earth. Movies of that era like Stanley Kubrick’s  2001: A Space Odyssey envisioned colossal spaceships and space stations featuring international crews on mind-blowing missions to Jupiter and beyond. Who’d have thought that, 20 years after Kubrick’s alternate reality of  2001, we humans would effectively be marooned on...

The Yarborough Knife, a Tribute to the Man Who Shaped the Green Berets Share This: USASOC William Yarborough may not be a name that many Americans recognize but when it comes to Army Green Berets and paratroopers, Yarborough is a legend. He joined the fledgling Army paratroopers shortly before World War II began and designed the army parachute wings still used today.  Yarborough designed the Army jump boots, the paratroopers’ uniform, and various aerial delivery containers that were used by ...

The letter represents a more pointed rebuke of Biden’s commitment to reenter the deal that former President Trump “The current sanctions in place provide your Administration with an enormous amount of leverage over the Iranian regime, and they should be used as a tool to address all aspects of Iran’s destabilizing behavior,” the senators wrote.  The Trump administration put in place an estimated 1,500 sanctions following its exit from the deal, reimposing sanctions targeting Iran’s n...

US Army awards FLRAA demo and risk reduction contracts Primary tabs 1st April 2021 US Army contracts have been awarded to the two companies competing in the Future Long Range Assault Aircraft (FLRAA) competition for Competitive Demonstration and Risk Reduction (CD&RR) Phase 2. The awards from US Army Contracting Command on March 30 comprised US$292.65m for Bell Textron and US$284.39m for Sikorsky. Bell is offering the V-280 Valor, while Sikorsky – in a joint bid with Boeing – is proposing ...

“The next enemy we fight won’t be wearing flip-flops!” the Army captain bellowed at my fellow Infantry lieutenants and me as we engaged targets with our M4A1 carbines at a small-arms range on Fort Benning, Georgia. As I trained among the Army’s next crop of Infantry platoon leaders, the message from the cadre at the Infantry Basic Officer Leadership Course was clear: after two decades of war in the Middle East, the focus of America’s military must shift to defeating a professionally-t...

By BRIAN FERGUSON | STARS AND STRIPES Published: April 5, 2021 Two Gold Star mothers experienced a slice of their sons’ best moments, courtesy of Special Operations Command’s elite parachute demonstration team. Ellen Comfort and Sandee Rouse, whose sons served in the 75th Ranger Regiment, skydived from 13,500 feet last month with the Para-Commandos at Skydive City in Zephyrhills, Fla., the Army said Friday. The tandem jumps allow families of fallen service members to connect more closely...

Government Executive Get the latest on need-to-know topics for federal employees delivered to your inbox. email They’ve become a major military player—and maybe a substitute for strategic thinking. Within the span of a few decades, the United States has utterly transformed its military, or at least the military that is actively fighting. This has taken place with little fanfare and little public scrutiny. But without any conscious plan, I have seen some of the evolution firsth...