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By Tom Squitieri Red Snow News WASHINGTON — The Pentagon is reviewing its landmine use policy, two years after the Trump administration lifted the geographic restrictions on where the weapons could be used. Just like it said it was doing last year. The Trump reversal in January 2020 lifted a ban on the U.S. military’s

By Tom Squitieri Red Snow News WASHINGTON – The last frenzy days of the current chapter of America’s longest war are set to end after a few more sunsets over the Hindu Kush. Much will be left behind, beyond weapons, dashed dreams, and thousands whose lives now are in jeopardy. The rubble of relevancy and

By Tom Squitieri WASHINGTON – Three babies have been born on US military aircraft flying them out of Afghanistan, Gen. Stephen Lyons, head of U.S, Transportation Command, told Pentagon reporters Monday. What nationality those babies will be remains to be determined. In Germany, where one of the Afghan woman’s baby was born, citizenship is not

By Tom Squitieri, Talk Media News WASHINGTON — It is now like all other leaders’ compounds in nations where democracy is shivering. Row after row after rows of fences and barriers to separate the feet of the people from the edifice peeking out in the dim bath of hidden lighting. No longer is the White

By Tom Squitieri, Talk Media News WASHINGTON — China’s military announced it would no longer recognize the unofficial air and sea median line in the Taiwan Strait that marks the border of Taiwan, an escalation and threat that dramatically increases the risk for accidental or planned confrontation. The announcement came as 19 Chinese warplanes entered

By Tom Squitieri, Talk Media News WASHINGTON— With COVID-19 as justification, the Chinese government is increasing its efforts to meld facial recognition and contact tracing into a potential powerful new tool to reign in the personal privacy of its citizens. Some at the Pentagon and elsewhere in the U.S. government have taken notice and are