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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 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 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 ...
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...
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...
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 Department of War ceased to exist as a standalone cabinet department in the immediate post‑World War II reorganizations: the National Security Act of 1947 abolished the War Department and created ...
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...
States and the federal government have adapted election administration in wartime mainly by expanding absentee and military voting, preserving scheduled elections rather than postponing them, and maki...
The Bronze Star Medal was created by President Franklin D. Roosevelt via Executive Order 9419 in February 1944 and remains governed by subsequent executive orders and federal statute that vest award a...
The D.C. mayor cannot unilaterally deploy the D.C. National Guard; authority over the D.C. Guard rests with federal officials (President, Secretary of Defense/Army) and deployment of out‑of‑state Guar...
Claims that Speaker Nancy Pelosi “declined” or “refused” National Guard assistance before or during the Jan. 6, 2021 attack are widely disputed in reporting and fact‑checks: independent fact‑checkers ...
Multiple U.S. and international government agencies have studied geoengineering concepts (solar radiation modification, marine cloud brightening, ocean alkalinity) through reports, modeling and limite...
Several primary-source collections shed direct light on the USS Liberty attack: declassified CIA memoranda and reports, NSA transcript and audio releases of intercepted Israeli communications, Navy/Do...
Pete Hegseth served as an infantry officer in the U.S. Army National Guard with assignments in the Minnesota and New Jersey Army National Guard and deployments to Guantanamo Bay, Iraq (with the 3rd Br...
Multiple U.S. and international outlets report that two men who survived an initial U.S. missile strike on a Caribbean boat on Sept. 2 were later killed in a follow‑up strike after Defense Secretary P...