This photograph shows North Korea soldiers firing anti-ship rockets off the Korean coast several days ago. It’s one of several the state-run Korean Central News Agency has issued over the past week. You can’t help but think it …
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Top Colleges Admitting Fewer Kids
Gaining entry into an Ivy League school is getting tougher every year. The prestigious group of eight colleges and universities recently made their admissions decisions, and all but one decreased their already low acceptance …
After Weeks of Court Wrangling, Prosecutors Seek Death Penalty for Alleged Colorado Theater Shooter
The Colorado district attorney in charge of prosecuting James Eagan Holmes couldn’t suppress some harsh words for the accused theater shooter at a Monday hearing. “It’s my determination and my intention that in this case for …
$134 Million
— The amount the Navy plans on spending on re-enlistment bonuses this year to keep sailors with needed skills. That's up from $95 million in 2012. "We are hiring," Admiral Jonathan Greenert, the chief of naval operations, tells the independent Navy Times newspaper.
The Mystery Behind a Deadly Chemical Attack
Reports on bombings in Syria these days have become routine. But when Mohammad Sabbagh, an industrialist from Aleppo, heard about the attack near his hometown on March 19, the details stopped him cold.
Survivors and witnesses …
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The U.S. Military Needs to Listen – Not Just Talk
The Washington Post‘s opinion section thought enough of recent remarks made by the Navy’s top spokesman to make them the lead item on its front page Easter morning.
Rear Admiral John Kirby, the chief of naval information, …
Will Dollar Stores Rule the Retail World?
Last Monday, Dollar General, the nation’s largest dollar-store chain, posted better-than-expected profit, helping boost the …
Pondering a Pair of April Fools’ Days, For God and Country
April 1, 2010. Dallas, Texas, USA. I ran to the mailbox. I had seen the letter online but wanted to read the real thing, live and in person. My fingers trembled as I tore open the envelope, unfolded the single sheet of …
An Iraq War Planner Reflects on Lessons Learned
In 2002/03 as a colonel in the Army I directed the development of the plan for the ground invasion of Iraq.
Many learned people, pundits and academics have chimed in on supposed “lessons learned,” the waste, the inanity of …
Democrats Now Serve Two Masters: DNC and Organizing for Action
Can the Democratic Party — rarely a smoothly coordinated creature — function when two different outfits in two different cities are trying to run the show?
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Marine Staff Sgt. Ysa Rubio prepares to destroy old or unneeded ammo in Helmand province, March 17.
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North Korea’s Nuclear Cul-De-Sac
The mutual bluster and braggadocio persisted over the weekend on the Korean Peninsula, as North Korean leader Kim Jong Un continued to drive his state down an atomic dead end. He brayed anew at the state of war between his …
$2,595,016,400
— The amount of a contract announced by the Navy Friday to Huntington Ingalls Inc., of Newport News, Va., to refuel and overhaul the carrier USS Abraham Lincoln. The bad news is that it costs so much to refuel a nuclear-powered flattop. The good news is that you only have to do it once every 25 years.