During an awards program focused on the innovation and leadership of the regionâs defense employees, the Tennessee Valley Chapter of the National Defense Industrial Association recognized five members of the Army Materiel Command for their contributions in support of service members deployed in harmâs way.
NDIA presented a Management Award to AMCâs Audra Allen, a strategic planner with AMCâs Commanding Generalâs Initiatives Group while members of the AMC Commanding Generalâs Initiative Group Graphics Team â lead designer Mark Jones, and members Amy Turner and Patti Evans â received a Technology Award. AMCâs Col. Christopher Ingels, who is now retired, received a Leadership Excellence Award for his work as the executive deputy for intelligence and security. They were among 19 awards presented at an April 27 awards dinner at Huntsvilleâs Jackson Center.
They’ll talk about change, about politics, about reform, about corruption, but they will never talk about war unless they mean something happening far away. Because to admit the existence of the war waged against us is to admit that we are combatants, and if we see that we are not fighting back, then we would have to admit that we have surrendered. That we have already been defeated. The Arctic Circle Collective
Hassan al Sabbah, a brilliant Iranian polymath and tactician, founded the Nizari Ismai’li state, a state that flourished from 1090 to 1256 AD in Iran and Syria. This small state relied on a cadre of fearless professional assassins to protect itself from conquests, and to protect co-religionists living elsewhere from massacres.
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With the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union and the socialist bloc it led, the world witnessed what some termed the unipolar moment and others the end of history. No entity benefited more from the opening up of the world than the Pentagon. It immediately insinuated itself into every corner and cranny of the world, bringing every nation in Europe and the former Soviet republics in Central Asia into an alliance with NATO (the Partnership for Peace), and training military personnel from several scores of countries in their respective homelands and at sites in the U.S.
Final decision on Croatia’s fighter jet acquisition still pending
By GlobalData 29 Apr 2021 (Last Updated May 26th, 2021 14:04)
Croatia’s plan to procure fighter jets to replace its ageing fleet of MiG-21 aircraft has been plagued with delays, from dealing with the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic alongside rebuilding areas in Zagreb and Banovina devastated by earthquakes.
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Croatia’s plan to procure fighter jets to replace its ageing fleet of MiG-21 aircraft has been plagued with delays, from dealing with the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic alongside rebuilding areas in Zagreb and Banovina devastated by earthquakes. These external factors will affect the government’s financial capacity for the fighter jet acquisition project, however the Croatian government are planning for the final decision announcement in 2021. The acquisition will consist of 12 multirole fighter aircraft, 10 one-se
April 28, 2021
KANO, NIGERIA (AFP) – At least 31 Nigerian soldiers were killed when extremists ambushed a military convoy escorting weapons and overran a base in northeast Nigeria’s Borno state at the weekend, two military officers said on Monday.
The army later issued an official statement confirming there had been hours of intense battles last Sunday that also saw warplanes deployed but that its forces had suffered a lower toll of six soldiers and one officer killed.
Fighters from the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) attacked the convoy with rocket-propelled grenades last Sunday in the town of Mainok outside the regional capital Maiduguri before storming the nearby base, two military officers told