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By Tom Squitieri Red Snow News WASHINGTON – A yearlong suspension of horse-drawn funerals at Arlington National Cemetery is expected to extend indefinitely as the Army faces old and new obstacles in improving horse care. Testifying on Capitol Hill, Army Secretary Christine Wormuth said, “It’s surprisingly complex and challenging” to solve the problems that lead

By Tom Squitieri Red Snow News WASHINGTON — Let’s call the score 439 to 0, with still some of the fourth quarter to play. On Tuesday, Sen. Tommy Tuberville, the Republican Senator from Alabama, released his months-long hold on 439 of 451 military promotions, following growing pressure and more vocal opposition from his own teammates.

By Tom Squitieri Red Snow News WASHINGTON – The board game Battleship, a favorite at the Pentagon, will learn Thursday if it makes it to the National Toy Hall of Fame. It is the third attempt for the game, where competitors each place five battleships on a grid marked with letters and numbers, then try

By Tom Squitieri Red Snow News BRUSSELS — When Lloyd Austin was a general dealing with the morass in Iraq in 2008, he was given the unenviable task of bringing order and victory to military operations in Basra and Sadr City. He managed to accomplish both over a period of four weeks, surprising many and

By Tom Squitieri Red Snow News NEVATIM AIR BASE, Israel  — Before you begin to wander about and explore this air base in southeastern Israel, they offer up a clear tutorial. If you hear the siren, you have 90 seconds to run to the shelter to avoid the incoming. This base, the hub for U.S.

By Tom Squitieri Red Snow News TEL AVIV, Israel — Four stories deep underground, the war room in the Kirya — Israel’s version of the Pentagon — is buzzing. A few hours earlier, the Israeli government gave Palestinians living in Gaza 24 hours to move south for their own safety. How they were to do

By Tom Squitieri Red Snow News WASHINGTON — As friends of Ukraine prepare for another NATO summit and another round of possible funding for Kiev, there are increasing warnings that the West is missing the larger picture of how Russian President Putin operates and how Moscow’s game plan is still afoot and pungent. “Our approach

By Tom Squitieri Red Snow News WASHINGTON — When Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin set down in Angola this week, the buzz was all about the “historic” nature of the visit — the first U.S SecDef to visit Angola – and not how he pushed history to be rewritten. Angola, along with Afghanistan and Nicaragua, were

By Tom Squitieri Red Snow News WASHINGTON — Civilian loath them and the military loves them for the same reasons : cluster bombs are incredibly deadly and efficient. And now the U.S is poised to provide cluster munitions to Ukraine — even though, according to some, that could be in violation of U.S law. They

By Tom Squitieri Red Snow News WASHINGTON — One week after the Army privately touted its steps to improve the conditions for horses working at Arlington cemetery, it decided to shut down the Army’s Caisson platoon, the ceremonial horse unit that is the centerpiece of the service to carry the bodies of fallen troops for

By Tom Squitieri Red Snow News WASHINGTON — The Pentagon is upping its flow of land mine capability to Ukraine, looking the other way to the questionable use of land mines by both Ukraine and Russia in the current conflict. Cold War style anti-tank ladies are included in the latest military assistance package, $325 million, 

By Tom Squitieri Red Snow News TALLINN, Estonia — There is no mystery to Estonians as to what Russian President Vladimir Putin’s plan is to win in Ukraine nor what he plans to do next, in the Baltics, as he waits out a battle of attrition that they say is in his favor. They know