Saturday, May 17, 2025

Tag: Navy

The real evil empire may surprise you

Serving in (or thinking about) the U.S. military for 40 years.

Gunboat diplomacy and the ghost of Captain Mahan

Is the U.S. and China and the U.S. spawning a new great power naval rivalry?

Senior navy officials accused of interfering in sexual assault investigation

The disclosure came the same day that the Department of Defense reported an increase last year in allegations of sexual assault at the US Naval and Army academies.

Chief of Navy Intelligence Barred From Accessing Classified Information For Years

While investigating a foreign defense contractor caught bribing U.S. Navy senior officers, the Justice Department informed the Navy that Vice Adm. Ted “Twig” Branch along with hundreds of Navy personnel were suspected of accepting lavish gifts in exchange for classified materials.

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Trump-Musk Social Security fraud hunt yields chaos, not criminals

An internal document reveals that the Trump administration’s crackdown on supposed fraud in Social Security phone claims has identified just two questionable cases out of more than 110,000—prompting bipartisan outrage and warnings of a politically motivated attack on the program.

Governor Hochul to make New York center of nuclear revival in US

Governor Kathy Hochul has also become involved in promoting nuclear power nationally.

The rise of AI warfare: How autonomous weapons and cognitive warfare are reshaping global...

The future of warfare may be decided by AI, but will humans have a role to play?

Harm reduction, not border cops, credited for historic drop in US overdose deaths

Experts say grassroots public health efforts—not federal drug crackdowns—are driving the largest decline in overdose deaths ever recorded, despite ongoing political attacks on harm reduction.

The MAGA Movement is Jonestown writ large

The reversion to primitivism bears a striking resemblance to the rise of the MAGA movement.