Unmanned and nuclear
By Adam B. Lowther
In the wake of the August 2007 incident in which six air-launched cruise missiles armed with nuclear warheads were mistakenly flown from Minot Air Force Base, N.D., to Barksdale Air Force Base, La., and the August 2006 incident — acknowledged in March 2008 — that saw top-secret nuclear...
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DARTS & LAURELS
Flight frightTo the White House for authorizing the Air Force One photo op over Manhattan. For allowing something so indescribably stupid, White House Military Office director Louis Caldera was right to...
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Learning exercises, eh? To paraphrase a famous anti-war poem by a real warrior (Wilfrid Owen): ‘If you had to go door-to-door/& Inform the families of the deaths of fathers, sons,...
Learning exercises, eh? To paraphrase a famous anti-war poem by a real warrior (Wilfrid Owen): ‘If you had to go door-to-door/& Inform the families of the deaths of fathers, sons,...
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Col. Raymond Jones
After World War I, the French built the Maginot Line, a series of defensive fortifications to guard against invasion by Germany or Italy. The French spent a lot of money building the Maginot Line, based upon their linear thinking of the battlefield and experience with World War I trench warfare....
Col. Raymond Jones
After World War I, the French built the Maginot Line, a series of defensive fortifications to guard against invasion by Germany or Italy. The French spent a lot of money building the Maginot Line, based upon their linear thinking of the battlefield and experience with World War I trench warfare....
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Maj. Eugene H. Kim
Suicide and access to mental health care in the military have drawn significant media attention over the last several years, resulting in increased focus on these issues by the public and Army leadership. Army suicide rates have crept up over the last seven years in the context of protracted...
Maj. Eugene H. Kim
Suicide and access to mental health care in the military have drawn significant media attention over the last several years, resulting in increased focus on these issues by the public and Army leadership. Army suicide rates have crept up over the last seven years in the context of protracted...
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