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Costliest Weapon in US History: F-35 Facing Scrutiny Again But Somehow it's Russia & China's 'Fault' © CC0 / Ronald Bradshaw Subscribe Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/us/202106031083068101-costliest-weapon-in-us-history-f-35-facing-scrutiny-again-but-somehow-its-russia--chinas-fault/ Lockheed Martin's F-35 fighter is facing pushback in Congress over the warplane's $1.7 trillion lifecycle costs, The Hartford Courant forecast on 1 June. What's behind the controversy surrounding the programme and why are some US lawmakers threatening to shut it down? The Hartfo...

City War: Would The U.S. Military Wage Attack Like Israel Does? The last time the United States embarked on an all-out clash, one in which civilian locales with purposely targeted even though the Geneva Convention forbids collective punishments for the crimes of the few, was during World War II. Over the past week, the world has watched tension boil over between Israel and Gaza, with rockets cracking the air and buildings brought to rubble. In the single deadliest attack in the reignition of fighting on Sunday, forty-two people—including sixteen women and ten children—were killed by Israe...

Ransomware shutdown of East Coast pipeline echos ‘failure of imagination’ before 9/11 attacks, warns cyberspace commission Jamie McIntyre © Provided by Washington Examiner DOD header 2020 ‘DISAPPOINTED, THOUGH UNSURPRISED’: Members of a congressionally chartered commission, charged with developing a bipartisan strategy to defend the nation against “cyberattacks of significant consequences,” say the ransomware attack that forced the shutdown of a vital U.S. pipeline over the weekend should serve as a wake-up call to both private companies and the nation as a whol...

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Space Force is suddenly the go-to armed service Abraham Mahshie © Provided by Washington Examiner U.S. Space Force got a boost when thousands of March applications for transfer arrived from the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps, but other bureaucratic slowdowns may keep it from keeping pace with adversaries, experts say. Former President Donald Trump created the newest armed service to focus exclusively on protecting the country's space assets as adversaries, including China and Russia, field platforms intended to disable and destroy U.S. satellites from Earth or space. While fol...