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Sunday April 04, 2021 - 12:48:00 PM While our politicians continue their routine diatribe against the Chinese military threat, a recent report revealed the United States has nearly 20 times the number of nuclear warheads than China. It dwarfs China’s tonnage of warships at sea including 11 nuclear-powered aircraft carriers compared to China’s less sophisticated, two. It has 2,000 modern jet fighters than China’s 600. The US deploys its vast military power across some 800 overseas bases compared to China’s three. The US triples China’s military budget of $250 billion. The former British colonial power adopted a two-tier standard at the height of its power when it ruled a quarter of the world’s population. The government mandated that its Royal Navy had to be twice as large as its next two competitors to ensure dominance at sea.
Saturday March 13, 2021 - 04:45:00 PM In the aftermath of the recent war between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the Nagorno-Karabakh region, drone warfare is being touted as the latest breakthrough in military technology, a “magic bullet” that makes armored vehicles obsolete, defeats sophisticated anti-aircraft systems, and rout entrenched infantry. While there is some truth in the hype, one needs to be especially wary of military “game changers,” since there is always a seller at the end of the pitch. In his examination of the two major books on drones Christian Brose’s “The Kill Chain: Defending America in the Future of High-Tech Warfare,” and Michael Boyle’s “The Drone Age” military analyst Andrew Cockburn points out that the victims of drones are mostly civilians, not soldiers. While drones can take out military targets, they are more commonly used to assassinate people one doesn’t approve of.A case in point was former Preside
Monday February 22, 2021 - 12:13:00 PM Resuming a project begun under the Obama administration, following a review process, President Joe Biden will seek to close the Guantánamo Bay Detention facility, opened in January 2002 to hold people suspected of ties to al-Qaida and the Taliban. A total of 780 prisoners have passed through Guantánamo, and the 40 remaining include alleged Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his four co-defendants. About a quarter of the remaining prisoners are facing criminal charges in various terrorism cases, but most of the others have never been charged and are being held indefinitely. Guantánamo has cost U.S. taxpayers more than $6 billion despite finalizing only one conviction in nearly two decades.