Author: Tom Roeder tom.roeder@gazette.com
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Historic Mars helicopter mission, supported by Colorado companies, earns praise after successful flight
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The first flight of an aircraft on Mars was praised Monday morning by the Colorado Springs-based Space Foundation. The Ingenuity Mars Helicopter, a drone managed by NASA crews on Earth that completed its mission thanks to work from a pair of Colorado companies, took off…
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Analysis: With threats on the horizon, Biden getting closer with allies
A few months ago, America was readying to pull troops out of Germany and was at odds with Pacific allies, including Japan and South Korea, over payments to subsidize the basing of American troops overseas. But with tensions with Russia and China growing and a new administration running things, building tighter relationships is the top…
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Analysis: Readiness report offers troubling assessment as military spending shrinks | Tom Roeder
America is ready to fight on the ground, but a report from the Government Accountability Office this month offers a worrying assessment of the military’s preparedness everywhere else. The report found that “mission readiness” dropped from 2017 to 2019 for air, sea, cyber and space forces. Why that readiness went down isn’t clear in the…
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Colorado Springs mayor, others urge Pentagon to reverse Space Command decision
Local leaders including Colorado Springs Mayor John Suthers inked a letter to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, urging him to keep U.S. Space Command in Colorado Springs, overturning a January Trump administration decision to uproot it and send its 1,400 troops to Alabama. Decrying the Alabama move as too costly and motivated by politics, Suthers was…
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Bipartisan group of senators questions pulling Space Command from Colorado Springs
Colorado’s U.S. senators were joined by colleagues from New Mexico, Nebraska and California in a letter to Pentagon investigators that questions the Trump administration’s decision to uproot U.S. Space Command in Colorado Springs. The letter to Defense Department Acting Inspector General Sean O’Donnell questions whether the process was thorough and fair. A top question for Colorado Democratic…
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Analysis: Biden could face test if battle erupts for Taiwan | Tom Roeder
The White House and the Pentagon have unveiled an early look at the Biden administration’s national security policy and two items top the list: growing alliances and countering China. The first reverses course from the Trump administration, which backed away from many partnerships with its “America First” policy. Instead, President Joe Biden wants to make…
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Lamborn calls for probe of Space Command move
Alleging improprieties on a Trump administration decision to strip U.S. Space Command away from Colorado Springs and move its troops to Alabama, U.S. Rep. Doug Lamborn on Tuesday asked the Government Accountability Office to open an investigation. Lamborn, of Colorado Springs, cited political pressure exerted on Air Force leaders to locate the command in Huntsville,…
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Democrats add heft to effort to keep Space Command in Colorado Springs
With U.S. Space Command in the balance, a lawmaker perennially voted as the most conservative member of Congress is turning left for help. U.S. Rep. Doug Lamborn isn’t switching parties, but the decision in the final days of the Trump administration to move the command and its 1,400 troops to Alabama has been compounded by…
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Colorado delegation urges Biden to halt U.S. Space Command move to Alabama
Colorado’s federal lawmakers on Tuesday launched a letter to President Joe Biden asking him to stop the move of U.S. Space Command pending a probe into the Trump administration’s decision to relocate it to Alabama from Colorado. “We write to request you conduct a thorough review of the Trump administration’s last-minute decision to move U.S.…
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Biden administration at crossroads in Iraq, Afghanistan | Tom Roeder
Seventy-five years ago this month, the guns were silent in Europe and the Pacific after America’s victory in World War II, and leaders turned to the next task: winning the peace. That was different from what America had done a generation earlier in the wake of World War I, when the nation pulled back into…