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This could have been good news, if Trump had followed a different path. The surprise savings could have been refunded to the Treasury, or rerouted to some other military program—say, to fund more munitions for Ukraine, which the Defense Department has halted, supposedly because of shortages in our own stockpiles, or (here’s a novel idea) to fill some of the gaps caused by the Trump budget’s drastic cuts in domestic programs. But no, the money—at least $400 million over the next few years, a Pentagon spokesperson confirmed to me—will be spent on... -
Amid rapid changes in naval warfare, a ship today could find itself suddenly facing a swarm of small, fast, uncrewed vessels ready to strike hard right at the waterline — a potentially critical hit. With this growing threat in mind, the US Navy is training warships to defend against attacks by hostile drone boats.
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National security requires the best military and legal advice possible. The nominees, once confirmed, deserve to assume office with legitimacy, not under a cloud of political suspicion. If the firings and the process to select new judge advocates general go unexamined and unanswered, the question becomes not only what happened, but why a coequal branch of government failed to find out.
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Two Chinese nationals face serious charges after they allegedly acted as agents of the People's Republic of China’s government to collect intelligence about U.S. Navy service members and bases, while also recruiting other military members to carry out tasks for the country’s main foreign intelligence service, the Ministry of State Security (MSS). The Department of Justice (DOJ) said Chinese national Yuance Chen, who resides in Happy Valley, Oregon, and Liren Lai, who traveled to Houston on a tourist visa in April 2025, were arrested on Friday. Both individuals face charges of overseeing and carrying out various clandestine intelligence tasks in the U.S. on behalf of the Ministry of State Security.
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