The 75thRanger Regiment is the U.S. Army’s elite infantry-style, special operations unit. The Rangers specializes in direct action and counterterrorism, often capturing or killing high-value targets. Additionally, they are trained in airfield seizure, personnel recovery, special reconnaissance, and...
The Internet Research Agency, perhaps an acronymic pun on the Irish Republican Army, worked to foment what seemed a similar faith-based war by manipulating styled prejudices to “spread distrust” to online communities they had infiltrated, warning of misleading “hype and hatred . . . forcing B...
“Your 2,800-word executive order drips with cruel irony as it turns away refugees trying to escape the same Islamic terrorism and violence that you naively claim will be repelled from our shores if we only embrace your bigoted and cowardly directive,” the letter stated Meanwhile the Republic...
In Picket’s division alone all three brigade commanders, Kemper, Armistead and Garnett were killed or wounded while twenty-six of forty Field Grade officers were casualties. Forty-six percent (78 of 171) of the regiments of the Army of Northern Virginia suffered casualties at the command lev...
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” Yet in its foreword, Major General John S. Kem, Commandant of the US Army War College in Carlisle, notes that the volume’s insights “are important for Army professionals who lead Soldiers in a variety of missions across the globe”, and should be considered “by planners and ...
“We cannot, and we will not, tolerate money flowing through the international system for Hamas’ terrorist activity,” said Brian Nelson, under secretary for terrorism and illicit finance, at an anti-money laundering conference. “Treasury will bring our tools to bear against Hamas’ financing an...
The U.S. has backed a Kurdish rebel group, the Syrian Defense Forces, for years in the anti-Islamic State campaign but Turkey sees it as threat and has repeatedly warned that it could launch major military operations against it. In his meeting with Erd...
In a landslide vote of 99-1, America's Water Infrastructure Act provides funds for a variety of infrastructure projects and improvements to U.S. water sources and provides conservation, water pollution control, and more to be conducted by the Army Corps of Engineers. Some of these efforts incl...
More than 20,000 National Guard troops could be in Washington to help secure Biden’s inauguration, Washington Police Chief Robert Contee said Wednesday, and sources tell CNN that officials are considering raising the terrorism threat level. The National Mall, meanwhile, will be closed t...