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Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Mark Milley asks, ‘Where are the black generals?’ Jamie McIntyre © Provided by Washington Examiner DOD header 2020 ‘WE MUST GET BETTER’: Before the nation’s top military officer swore in 21 new second lieutenants to the Army at a commissioning ceremony at Howard University, one of the nation’s premier Historically Black Colleges and Universities in Washington, D.C., he paused to reflect on the U.S. military’s egalitarian ethos, as well as its failure to become a “truly inclusive” force. “Our force is almost 20% African American...

U.S. Department of Defense Moderator) Director, East-West Center in Washington Members of Okinawa Governor Denny Tamaki's advisory group, the Bankoku Shinryō Council on U.S. Military Base Issues, discussed the findings and recommendations contained in their March 2021 report.  After initial remarks by Governor Tamaki (English translation here), members of the Council addressed the following issues (PowerPoints available here): (1) the need to reconsider the Futenma Replacement Facility project at Henoko and eliminate the dangers from Futenma Air Station, (2) implications of US-China strate...

Pointing to. what are you going to be? >> we'll be not going the jail and avoiding trial the way you had gates, manafort and collins. about what happened last night. >> bill: is that the kind of candidate you need in three months to win? >> it varies every place. lamb made his decision. it varies from district to district. i'm an assembly member myself. notion of me telling someone what to do in their district. what happened with danny o'connor? let's talk about healthcare, jobs and going on as relates to all the different opportunities people want to fight for. the reason why it was competiti...

Beyond that? how does he get -- the speech tonight people will cheer, the speech at the nra, people cheered. they're going to cheer at those speeches, those people are for him and will always be, the problem is he did win in the upper midwest, pennsylvania, michigan, not just republicans. >> we didn't interview many of those who voted for president obama the last two elections and then flipped and zeroed for president trump. let me throw a couple numbers out there. we saw the "the washington pos"" the people who voted for donald trump said they would vote for him again, the issues of immigrati...