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Major Dog Alert — and Not The One At The White House — As Pentagon faces Supply Chain Danger
By tom On Wednesday, March 31 st, 2021 · no Comments · In And more news stories ,News stories ,WritingBy Tom Squitieri WASHINGTON – Make show, not war seems to be what dog breeders embrace – and because of that, there is a domestic shortage of military working dogs threatening national security, the U.S. Navy’s Naval Post Graduate School said. “As adversaries, both peer and near-peer, become more adept in circumventing detection systems, theRead moreIn updated response, the Pentagon expresses concern over Saudi air attack on Yemen neutral zone
By tom On Thursday, March 25 th, 2021 · no Comments · In And more news stories ,News stories ,WritingBy Tom Squitieri WASHINGTON — The Pentagon said Thursday it is concerned that Saudi Arabian military airstrikes over the weekend deliberately hit an UN-designated neutral zone in Yemen during an onslaught of attacks. “We are concerned by reports of the airstrike at the UN-declared neutral zone in Salif Port and are working to gain moreRead morePentagon tries again to battle sexual assault, as a decade of similar headlines fuel skepticism
By tom On Thursday, March 25 th, 2021 · no Comments · In And more news stories ,News stories ,WritingBy Tom Squitieri WASHINGTON — The Pentagon’s Independent Review Commission on sexual assault in the military met for the first time Wednesday, announced its 13 task force members, then worked hard to convince skeptics that what they produce will be significantly different in conclusions and results than multiple past efforts to change the military’s damagingRead moreSteady as she goes: FONOPS continue for friends and foes
By tom On Thursday, March 11 th, 2021 · no Comments · In And more news stories ,News stories ,WritingBy Tom Squitieri WASHINGTON – A delayed freedom of navigation report for the last year shows U.S. forces operationally challenged 28 different excessive maritime claims made by 19 different claimants throughout the world from October 2019 through September 2020. “As long as restrictions on navigation and overflight rights and freedoms that exceed the authority providedRead moreLike explorers of the past, SecDef Austin needs to find new routes to reach historic destinations
By tom On Sunday, February 28 th, 2021 · no Comments · In And more news stories ,News stories ,WritingBy Tom Squitieri, Talk Media News WASHINGTON — There is always a lot on the plate of a secretary of defense. More so when you take office after essentially three years of upheaval in Pentagon leadership, an infusion of a politically-charged posse into operations, and a cleaving along racial, sexual, and insurrectionist lines that threatenRead moreDespite A Plate Full of Troubles Near And Far, Austin’s First Big Battle Is An Old Nemesis: The Budget
By tom On Monday, February 15 th, 2021 · no Comments · In And more news stories ,News stories ,WritingBy Tom Squitieri, Talk Media News WASHINGTON – Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin inherited a host of worldwide hot spots when he took office that was quickly augmented by a menu of near-exploding issues within the ranks. Yet all eyes are on what he does with one long-standing Congressional swoon: the budget. Barring a riot inRead moreWake Island, Once Too Far Way To Be Important, Is Now Important Because It Is Far Away
By tom On Wednesday, February 03 rd, 2021 · no Comments · In And more news stories ,News stories ,WritingBy Tom Squitieri, Talk Media News WASHINGTON — Wake Island’s location put it out of the path of the U.S. forces plan to sweep back in the Pacific against the Japanese in World War II. Wake Island was not considered a strategic location and it was held by Japan for the duration of the war.Read moreCapitol Attack Scarier; Only By ‘Dumb Luck” That More People Not Killed
By tom On Wednesday, January 27 th, 2021 · no Comments · In And more news stories ,News stories ,WritingBy Tom Squitieri, Talk Media News WASHINGTON — The acting U.S. Capitol Police Chief Yogananda Pittman admitted Tuesday that her department knew there was a “strong potential for violence” targeting Congress on January 6, but did not take appropriate steps to prevent it. Her admission came the same day that Maj. Gen. WilliamRead moreThe Devil We Know, Honeycombed In Our Democracy, Waiting
By tom On Thursday, January 21 st, 2021 · no Comments · In And more news stories ,News stories ,WritingBy Tom Squitieri, Talk Media News WASHINGTON — Strain hard to understand the words. It is American being spoken with a new accent. It comes from the mouths of our neighbors, our law enforcement, our military, our friends. Sometimes our family. They came to Washington once, honeycombed among hundreds of others thinking they were inRead moreThe Dress Rehearsal at the Post Office Made the White House Ready For Its Post-Election Pentagon Decapitation and Use
By tom On Monday, January 11 th, 2021 · no Comments · In And more news stories ,News stories ,WritingBy Tom Squitieri, Talk Media News WASHINGTON — While those opposed to President Trump spent time worrying that he might use the Pentagon to impose martial law, the White House was playing a bait-and-switch ruse. They never planned to use the Pentagon as a pro-active force, according to interviews.The plan all along was to takeRead moreGoaded by their sharpie Caesar, they come to Washington to bury democracy, not praise it
By tom On Tuesday, January 05 th, 2021 · no Comments · In And more news stories ,News stories ,WritingBy Tom Squitieri, Talk Media News WASHINGTON — Gloomy skies will not go away. No reason for them to do so. The forecast: thunder, fury, with continual dangerous absurdity and the nation’s most perilous moment in decades. You move and feel it. An invisible shroud of dampness, rawness, as if the trash has not beenRead moreIn Votes This Week, Santa Congress Is Set to Say Trump is Naughty and Not Nice
By tom On Tuesday, December 08 th, 2020 · no Comments · In And more news stories ,News stories ,WritingBy Tom Squitieri, Talk Media News WASHINGTON —A rare bad week is looming for President Trump — but one in which he may make history. Congress has checked its list twice and decided as Trump leaves office, he is more naughty than nice — and their lists of bills to pass this week and nextRead more