Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth stood on stage this week in front of thousands of U.S. military personnel, quoting Bible scripture while attacking the “woke” and the “weirdos.” His religiosity is now extending to all service members, prompting a new battle involving the government, free speech, and the Constitution. The secretary on Sept. 30 at Quantico announced a new Pentagon Office of Religious Affairs. He justified the new endeavor in religious terms, telling the gathered attendees that the military was putting on “the full armor of God.” Hegseth quoted Psalm 33:12, explaining that “the real battle is spiritual.” He told troops…
For decades, the relationship between Saudi Arabia and the U.S. has centered on an often-mentioned but rarely tested supposition: If the kingdom were attacked, America would come to its rescue. But recent events have shown that much-vaunted security umbrella to be a leaky one. Last month, Iran-aligned Yemeni rebels blitzed through Yemen’s coast and threatened to shut down Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea lifeline. But the Trump administration, reluctant to open a new front in its war with Iran, rebuffed Riyadh’s calls to come to its rescue. That has left the kingdom searching for friends beyond Washington, for allies ready to…
“A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.”The right of the people to keep and bear arms. Seems pretty straightforward, doesn’t it? The people. Not some of the people, but the people, implying all of them. However, there are a number of Americans walking around right now who, despite having been trouble-free for years, are forbidden from owning a firearm for self-defense. They didn’t lose those rights without due process, admittedly, but was a lifetime ban…
A Canadian tech company and well-known defense contractor have linked up for a multimillion-dollar deal on first-of-its-kind 3D technology that will ultimately aid the U.S. Armed Forces and military defense. On Sept. 9, Lockheed Martin Canada committed $11.7M CAD to Avalon Holographics, based in St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labradora. The company is a national leader in the design and manufacturing of holographic display technologies for defense, industrial design and medical applications through its NOVAC display. Avalon is known for its 3D holographic displays, hailed by officials as “the first of their kind in the world” that bring digital models into…
The U.S. Navy’s newest destroyer has landed in Whittier, Alaska, marking the first time such a vessel has visited the city in 80 years. The USS Ted Stevens DDG 128 is the US Navy’s newest Flight III Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer. It is named after former Republican Alaska senator and World War II veteran Ted Stevens, who died in 2010. Stevens received the Distinguished Flying Cross for his flying missions, including transport over “The Hump” in the China-Burma-India theater. “Equipped with cutting-edge systems and capabilities, USS Ted Stevens is ready to answer our Nation’s call to counter aggression and safeguard…
The U.S. Army is putting a major price tag on building an advanced missile defense system that will essentially double the capacity to strike moving targets in a military conflict. The Army and defense contractor Lockheed Martin inked a new $1.2 billion contract to start production of the Increment II Precision Strike Missile (PrSM)—a surface-to-surface precision weapon that will be more compact while still utilizing existing legacy launchers in battle. Hal Kempfer, a retired Marine intelligence officer and global defense expert, told Military.com the contract is a “future game changer.” “With PrSM, they basically double the load,” Kempfer, CEO of…
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One of the many issues with gun-free zones is that they disarm people not just on a piece of property, but on the entire path from where they leave their gun to the door itself. Even if a school, for example, could guarantee safety inside the building and anywhere on the property, which they can’t, there’s literally no way they can guarantee it for people to and from the school. So it’s a terrible shame that a Florida principal was arrested for having a gun in his privately owned vehicle recently.The school board, however, seems…
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump won’t say whether he thinks Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should be reelected when voters head to the polls later this month. The president, who sat down with Time magazine for a 75-minute interview published Thursday, sidestepped multiple questions about Netanyahu’s reelection bid. Israelis are set to vote Oct. 27, in the first national elections since the 2023 Hamas attack on Israel. The absence of an endorsement is a setback for the Likud party politician, who has billed his tight ties to Trump as a selling point for keeping him in power. “I…
One thing that has been concerning lately is the way a lot of people have been open to political violence, particularly from the Left. They’ve engaged in plenty of it, over the last handful of years, and there was little evidence that they intended the second Trump administration to be any different. Well, if that were the case, they might have started off strong, but now things have declined.Namely, support for it has gone down according to a recent study.Despite an increasingly volatile and fraught political climate in the United States, researchers have found a…
LONDON (AP) — Police on Thursday arrested a dual U.K.-Iranian national on suspicion of plotting a terror attack following a security incident at a U.S.-run military air base in England that British authorities have linked to Tehran. The 27-year-old man was arrested in London on Thursday, and police have searched two properties in the U.K. capital, Counter Terrorism Policing said in a statement. A 26-year-old British national was interviewed by police “under caution,” which means the interview was recorded and can be used in future prosecutions. On Sunday, five men, all British nationals in their 20s and from London, were…
Maryland’s juvenile justice system is already plagued with many of the same problems that exist in other states, including a lack of increased supervision and incarceration for repeat offenders. Now juvenile justice is taking another step backward in the state, with new “reforms” going into effect that could make it much harder to hold young offenders accountable for their crimes. The Youth Charging Reform Act, signed into law by Gov. Wes Moore back in May, takes effect today, and that means (among other things) that 16- and 17-year-olds charged with first degree assault and other…
Twenty-five years after HBO’s Band of Brothers introduced millions of viewers to the paratroopers of Easy Company, the National WWII Museum is giving fans a considerably more physical way to follow in their footsteps. Beginning Oct. 1, the New Orleans museum and the Crescent City Classic launched the “WWII Challenge: Easy Company,” a virtual fitness event that retraces portions of the unit’s World War II journey from training at Camp Toccoa, Georgia, through England, Normandy, the Netherlands, Bastogne and the Bavarian Alps. Participants do not have to recreate the 101st Airborne Division’s marches across Europe. Instead, they can log miles…
There are things that I don’t think you should do, even if I’ll defend your right to do them. I don’t see this as a contradiction, either. To me, it’s simply a matter of there being a difference between “should” and “can.” When you start regulating what people can do, that’s a slippery slope that doesn’t stop easily. Saying people shouldn’t do something is different. That matters because a case of people doing what they can do, but maybe not what they should do, has people at the University of Florida freaking out.Editor’s note: This…
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered military service academies to stop granting tenure to civilian professors, arguing that academic job protections undermine their war-fighting mission. The Pentagon declined to explain to Military.com who the policy affects, the evidence behind it, how the academies will recruit and retain qualified professors, and what will protect faculty from political pressure once tenure is removed and a more liberal administration is inevitably elected in the future. When reached with those questions, a Pentagon official responded: “We have nothing additional to provide beyond the statement and the memo.” The Sept. 29 memo stops new tenure…
We’ll get to the point. Making white vinegar from scratch is not easy. Unlike fruit based vinegars like apple cider vinegar or wine vinegars, white vinegar starts with ethanol. In case you’re rusty on your science that’s alcohol: alcohol as in homemade vodka or moonshine. That’s as opposed to the wines and hard ciders of all of the other fruit based vinegars. And making homemade vodka or moonshine is just the first step. You then need to introduce some aceto bacteria (Acetobacter aceti) to the alcohol to convert it to acetic acid which is the foundation of white vinegar. This…
The Department of Justice issued its own ruling that adults under 21 should be able to buy handguns. I doubt any gun store will complete such a transaction, in part because it’s likely to come back and bite them on the keister down the road if they do. Still, it was the DOJ’s finding, and while some are outraged over the perceived overreach, I don’t see it as anything of the sort. But one outcome we get is an official from Brady trying to twist history to make the case that the ban is, in…
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia’s new class of jet-powered drones rip across the night sky in Kyiv at hundreds of kilometers per hour, leaving Ukrainian air-defense units only moments to intercept them. It’s rarely enough time. With many of the drones getting through to the capital, defense manufacturers are scrambling to develop a new generation of interceptors to counter the deadly threat. They are building their own jet-propulsion systems and training artificial intelligence to help guide the chase. They need to move fast because the Russian drones are driving a new tactic, ramped up in recent weeks, to hit the…
Actually, the headline above isn’t entirely accurate. The Trace is troubled that the DOJ is defending the right to keep and bear arms, which is a right of we the people regardless of whether we’re currently exercising it. The Everytown-affiliated website and its senior reporter Jennifer Mascia have released a new story for their anti-gun readers that offers a broad overview of the DOJ’s efforts to defend the right to keep and bear arms from abuses at the state and local level, though of course that’s not the way Mascia frames the issue. Over the past…
The Navy wants its sailors reading again, but its top enlisted leader isn’t handing the fleet a one-size-fits-all syllabus. Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy John Perryman released “MCPON’s Bookshelf” on Sept. 23, a new collection of professional resources and recommended books built around everything from understanding the Navy and mastering a rating to leadership and personal development. The goal, Perryman said, is ultimately bigger than checking titles off a list. Navy Wants Sailors to Build a Reading Habit MCPON’s Bookshelf is organized into four areas: Reading for Every Sailor, Build Your Craft, Lead People, and Grow Beyond the…
