| Sun, 24 Nov 2024 A deterrent or a provocation?
A WELTER of domestic issues has covered from public view the real issues that should concern all Filipinos. Thanks to the government's obsessive preoccupation with the antics of former President Rodrigo Duterte and his daughter Vice President Sara Duterte, it has found ... | USS Hampton arrives at Portsmouth shipyard for scheduled maintenance to ensure mission-readiness
The USS Hampton arrived at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery, Maine, on Thursday for scheduled maintenance and system upgrades to remain mission-ready and meet the Navy’s needs before returning to the fleet. | “We’re excited to welcome the USS Hampton to Portsm... | Navy relieves commander of E-2 Hawkeye squadron from duties for loss of confidence
Cmdr. Charles Diehl has been relieved of his duties as commander of Airborne Command and Control Squadron VAW-115 because of a loss of confidence in his ability to lead, the Navy said in a news release Friday. | VAW-115 is an E-2 Hawkeye squadron attached to Carrier Ai... | We’ve eviscerated a vital Navy capability for savings smaller than a rounding error
Last Wednesday, on the same day we allowed UK missiles to be used against Russia, the Defence Secretary announced a round of defence cuts. It reminded me of action movies where the hero lays their weapon down to make it a fair fight before vanquishing the villain in a b... | US soldiers are brave and courageous because of this oft-overlooked element
Just after midnight in the new hours of Dec. 9, 1944, New Yorkers saw the British ship Monarch slip silently out of the harbor, carrying members of the US Army’s 125th Evacuation Hospital on their way to deploy to the front lines of Europe in World War II. Among them,... | USS Beloit is commissioned in Milwaukee
The boat tethered to the Veterans Park pier here can defend itself from missile attacks with its SeaRAM air defense system, launch rigid inflatable boats from a rear hatch and has room in its spacious onboard hangar for two helicopters. | In the event of a surface threa... | Explainer: How Yemeni military chased away US aircraft carrier from Red Sea?
By Ivan Kesic | As the Israeli genocidal war against Palestinians and Lebanese, enabled by the United States and other Western states, rages on, the Yemeni military also continues its operations in regional waters. | The past few weeks have witnessed a series of events ... | ‘We recognise it in this very primal way’: Stephen Fry, Brie Larson, Chris Ofili and more on why we can’t get enough of Greek mythology
Greek myth is not a stable thing. There is no such thing as a canonical, “original” version of a Greek myth. The stories that remain to us – the material of classical plays and poetry, and of visual culture from pottery to pediments – are already elaborations an... | Marc Champion: Putin’s nuclear threat is a magic trick, but a dangerous one
The key to all magic tricks is distraction, which is the best way to understand Russian President Vladimir Putin’s latest round of nuclear saber rattling, including — if an as yet unverified report by Ukraine’s air force proves correct — Thursday’s fir... | |
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