Author: Jamie McIntyre
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Trump tells Davos his push for peace in Ukraine ‘underway,’ cites oil prices as key leverage
TRUMP: UKRAINE PEACE PUSH ‘UNDERWAY’: Appearing via video link at the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland, yesterday, President Donald Trump called the war in Ukraine “an absolute killing field” and said his efforts to end the conflict by brokering a ceasefire have already started. “Our efforts to secure a peace settlement between Russia…
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10,000 troops headed to seal the southern border, as Trump shuts down asylum process
TRUMP ‘EXPECTS IMMEDIATE RESULTS’ AT THE BORDER: Robert Salesses may only be acting secretary of defense for a short time, but he’s acting with dispatch to carry out President Donald Trump’s executive order that “suspends the physical entry of aliens engaged in an invasion of the United States through the southern border.” After a Monday…
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White House: Proliferation of ‘legal and lawful drones’ just the new normal in age of unmanned aircraft
‘IT’S A BRAND-NEW ECOSYSTEM’: In a teleconference with reporters and an appearance on Fox News, John Kirby, White House national security communications adviser, is telling skeptical Americans — including lawmakers and even President-elect Donald Trump — that what they see in the sky is simply an anodyne sign of the times. “We’re in a new…
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In Time’s Person of the Year interview, Trump details plans to use the military to deport migrants and U.S. aid to Ukraine to negotiate end of war
TRUMP: ‘WHATEVER IT TAKES TO GET THEM OUT. I DON’T CARE’: In a wide-ranging interview conducted in conjunction with Time magazine naming Donald Trump its Person of the Year for a second time, the president-elect doubled down on his pledge to conduct the largest mass deportation in American history and use the U.S. military to…
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US mounts furious diplomatic effort to head off wider war in Middle East
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save ‘WE ARE ENGAGED IN INTENSE DIPLOMACY’: Another tense night passed in Israel without Iran’s threatened major attack materializing, but no one is breathing a sigh of relief. “It is a critical moment. We are engaged…
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US shot down nearly half of the drones Iran launched in Israel attack
US PLAYED MAJOR ROLE: In the unprecedented direct attack, Iran launched approximately 170 drones, 30 cruise missiles, and 120 ballistic missiles targeting Israel over the weekend, and nearly all were destroyed before they could cause any damage. Of the slow-flying drones, 80 were picked off by F-15E Strike Eagles from two squadrons that had been…
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Does the US need another new branch of the armed forces for cyber warriors?
America is falling behind in its ability to carry out and defend against cyberattacks. And one reason, according to a new report, is that the U.S. military is recruiting too many jocks and not enough nerds. “They’re going for the kids that are physically fit, mentally able, and that means they’re sitting outside the basketball…
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Former top generals decry fatal mistakes in Biden’s disastrous 2021 Afghanistan withdrawal order
When President Joe Biden took office in January 2021, one of the most pressing decisions facing him was what to do about his predecessor’s plan to pull all U.S. troops out of Afghanistan. As different as Biden was from former President Donald Trump, they both shared an intense desire to bring an end to the…
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Ukraine’s homegrown drone industry is revolutionizing warfare in startling ways
Everyone knew drones would change the nature of modern warfare, they just didn’t foresee exactly how. The war in Ukraine has changed that. After two years of fighting, the ground war has settled into a stalemate with many of the hallmarks of World War I trench warfare — a raging artillery duel in which both…
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Can Ukraine regain the momentum in its third year of war with Russia?
Retired Army Lt. Gen. Ben Hodges is among the many former U.S. military commanders who fault President Joe Biden’s administration for giving Ukraine only enough military support to keep it from losing, but not enough to win. Hodges, now retired and living in Germany, where he was once based, is a former commanding general of…