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A social-media account using the name describes itself as a “former ” and applies battlefield counterinsurgency framing to domestic events, but the reporting provided here contains no independent veri...
breaking out in in the immediate term remains unlikely, but current events have raised credible warnings that federal–state confrontation, violent clashes, and localized instability could escalate if ...
U.S. authorities executed a federal seizure warrant to take control of a crude oil tanker believed to have been used to move sanctioned oil between Venezuela and Iran; Attorney General Pam Bondi said ...
Pete Hegseth was commissioned as an infantry officer in the Army National Guard after graduating Princeton in 2003 and served in multiple deployments; reporting and official biographies indicate he ro...
The Pentagon has opened a formal review of allegations that Sen. Mark Kelly’s participation in a video telling troops they “can refuse illegal orders” may have interfered with “the loyalty, morale, or...
The Jan. 30 continuing resolution (CR) provides stop‑gap for nine of the 12 regular appropriations bills, extending most federal programs through January 30, 2026 while three bills were enacted as ful...
The Speaker of the House does not have legal authority to activate the National Guard; only federal officials — the President, the Secretary of Defense and, in some accounts, the Secretary of the Army...
The , folded into the FY2013 National Defense Authorization Act, changed one narrow but symbolically charged rule: it removed the long-standing legal bar that had effectively prevented certain U.S. go...
Official public reporting and own accounts describe her UH‑60 Black Hawk being struck by an insurgent rocket‑propelled grenade on , resulting in catastrophic injuries and an emergency medevac, but the...
War Plan Red was a U.S. interwar contingency plan that mapped a comprehensive campaign to neutralize Canada as a potential British staging ground by seizing ports, rail hubs and industrial regions acr...
during domestic protests is bounded by the Fourth Amendment’s “objective reasonableness” standard and detailed department policies that permit lethal force only when an agent reasonably believes there...
Canada signed a deal in January 2023 to acquire 88 F‑35A aircraft with an announced acquisition price of CAD 19 billion (reported as $19 billion in Canadian government materials) and life‑cycle costs ...
The President can federalize National Guard units under federal law, particularly statutes governing Title 10 activations and 10 U.S.C. § 12406, but that authority is legally constrained, politically ...
The historical record shows widely divergent estimates for casualties from a hypothetical U.S. invasion of Japan in 1945, ranging from figures the U.S. Joint Chiefs projected for the Kyushu landings t...
A small set of private firms have surfaced in reporting as training contractors since 2024, most prominently and , and available documents and reporting indicate these firms’ leadership and advertised...
U.S. authorities executed a federal seizure warrant to take control of the tanker Skipper off Venezuela’s coast, citing its long-standing use in transporting sanctioned Venezuelan and Iranian oil; off...
Available reporting and biographical materials state that Pete Hegseth received combat-related awards including two Bronze Star Medals and the Combat Infantryman Badge; several profiles and an officia...
On Jan. 6, 2021 the formal chain of authority to request National Guard support for the Capitol ran through the Capitol Police Board — composed of the House and Senate sergeants at arms and the Archit...
is unique: unlike state National Guards, it traditionally reports to and can be ordered into service by the federal government, though has been given single approval authority for urgent D.C. deployme...
Public documents and secondary reporting set the 2026 common-funded ceilings and explain how bills are split, but none of the provided sources supplies a complete, published per‑country 2026 NSIP paym...