The U.S. has decided to gamble on sending lightly armed coast guard vessels to the South China Sea to counter China’s increasingly aggressive “illegal and unregulated” fishing and harassment of foreign fishing vessels. (Read story here.) In July 2020, Defense Secretary Mark Esper a[...]
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October 26th, 2020 - 7:10 pm § in China, Foreign Affairs
U.S. Coast Guard to patrol South China Sea fisheries
October 10th, 2020 - 10:45 pm § in Foreign Affairs
North Korea unveils ICBMs capable of reaching U.S.
North Korea displayed two new ICBMs during a military parade on Saturday, October 10, 2020, on the occasion of the regime’s 75th anniversary. One is land-based (above), the other submarine-launched (below). The missiles are larger and longer range than previous North Korean missiles and expert[...]
Chinese bomb U.S. Guam base!
But only in the movies. “The People’s Liberation Army Air Force released a dramatic promotion over the weekend showing … its H-6K strategic bomber… conducting a simulated attack on an unnamed military base … identical to … Andersen Air Force Base in Guam,” N[...]
China’s “ghost fleet” of militarized fishing vessels
China is militarizing part of its fishing fleet of 200,000 to 800,000 vessels. China’s conventional navy isn’t considered particularly formidable beyond coastal defense. But Beijing has an ace up its sleeve. While well known to U.S. government officials and military planners, China’[...]
The wisdom of Smedley D. Butler
by Mark Adams “It has been estimated by statisticians and economists and researchers that the war cost your Uncle Sam $52,000,000,000. Of this sum, $39,000,000,000 was expended in the actual war period. This expenditure yielded $16,000,000,000 in profits. That is how the 21,000 billionaires and mi[...]
Historians say Truman didn’t order Nagasaki bombing
Once the A-bomb was tested and worked, whether civilians or the military would control it became an issue. Thanks to Truman, it remained under civilian control. Today, the Department of Energy, not the military, is the custodian of America’s nuclear weapons. Everyone knows Truman ordered the H[...]
August 29th, 2020 - 9:37 pm § in Foreign Affairs, Russia
Russians will get in your face when they don’t like what you’re doing
“Two Russian aircraft made an ‘unsafe, unprofessional’ intercept of a US Air Force B-52 bomber on Friday over the Black Sea and in international waters,” according to the US Air Force. “The Russia pilots crossed within 100 feet of the nose of the B-52 multiple times and[...]
August 26th, 2020 - 8:31 am § in China, Christianity, Donald Trump, Economics, Environment, Foreign Affairs, Health, Israel/Palestine, Law and Courts, News Media, Politics, Racism, Religion, Russia, Schools & Colleges
The Unofficial 2020 GOP Platform
The GOP hasn’t released a platform (in case you didn’t notice), but that doesn’t mean they don’t have one. They simply don’t want you to see it. So, here’s an unofficial version from David Frum (photo), a conservative Republican and former Bush speechwriter, extra[...]
What I think of Trump
This article is purely FWIW. I’m only 1 of some 330 million people in this country, which makes me just another person with an opinion, in a country with hundreds of millions of opinions. With respect to the coming election, most people already know who they’re going to vote for, and you[...]
August 5th, 2020 - 11:32 pm § in Donald Trump, Foreign Affairs
Nuclear Taboo in the era of Trump
The Nuclear Taboo is the title of a book by Nina Tannenwald, an academic who specializes in “global security issues, efforts to control weapons of mass destruction, and human rights and the laws of war,” according to her profile here. She works at Brown University. Other people like her [...]