air force

Will Biden’s ‘Goldilocks’ airstrikes work?
Commentary, Nation World
DOYLE McMANUS Los Angeles Times 
Feb 06, 2024
WASHINGTON (TNS) — The recent U.S. airstrikes against Iran-backed militias were the largest President Jordan Biden has ordered since he took office, a...
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A military necessity: Clear thinking and terminology
Commentary, Local Columnists, Nation World
FORREST MARION RealClearPolitics 
Dec 03, 2023
Military history offers no shortage of examples in which imprecise thinking and terminology contributed to failure at some level; as well cases of cle...
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Send US’s floating hospitals to Gaza
Commentary, Local Columnists, Nation World
JAMES STAVRIDIS Bloomberg Opinion 
Nov 24, 2023
NEW YORK (TNS) — In my military career, I was frequently deployed on the U.S. Navy’s massive nuclear-powered aircraft carriers into combat and on more...
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Israel’s goal in Gaza is regime change
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DOYLE McMANUS Los Angeles Times 
Oct 16, 2023
WASHINGTON (TNS) — Ever since Hamas seized control of the Gaza Strip in 2007, Israel has waged an intermittent but limited military campaign to keep a...
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Dropping the bomb on Japan was right call
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RICH LOWRY 
Jul 25, 2023
The bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki aren’t depicted in the movie “Oppenheimer,” but they haunt the film — literally. The eponymous physicist and “f...
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A $358M jet to shoot down balloon?
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Feb 28, 2023
While the country was infatuated with the saga of the Chinese spy balloon, few people know the price tag of the equipment used to pop the balloon: a w...
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What are we shooting down every day?
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
Feb 13, 2023
In 1957, during the frosty years of the Cold War, Ike and Canadian Prime Minister John Diefenbaker established the North American Air Defense Command ...
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NATO still holding important weapons from Ukraine
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
TRUDY RUBIN The Philadelphia Inquirer 
Jan 19, 2023
PHILADELPHIA (TNS) — To understand why Russia’s war on Ukraine remains the key foreign issue for Americans in 2023, you should watch the video of a Uk...
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Some answer call to something greater than self-service
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
LYNN SCHMIDT Tribune News Service 
Sep 15, 2022
At a time when it seems like our society is spiraling with out-of-control selfishness, consumed with immediate gratification, self-centeredness, illib...
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We need a $1 trillion defense budget
Local Columnists, Nation World, Opinion
RICH LOWRY 
Mar 04, 2022
U.N. General Assembly resolutions feel good. Twitter hashtags are nice. Cutting off corporate services is better than the alternative. But the situati...
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Russian forces seize key Ukrainian port, pressure others
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JIM HEINTZ, YURAS KARMANAU, MSTYSLAV CHERNOV and VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press 
Mar 03, 2022
KYIV, Ukraine — Russian forces battled for control of a vital energy-producing city in Ukraine's south on Thursday and also gained ground in their bid...
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