FPI / May 30, 2019 Geostrategy-Direct.com By Richard Fisher In a May 26 article in Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post (SCMP), veteran military issue correspondent Minnie Chan reported that China’s current conventional-powered aircraft carrier, complete with combat aircraft, cost about 50 billion Chinese Yuan, or about US$ 7.2 billion. This compares to about $14 […]
Special to WorldTribune.com, May 27, 2019 By John McNabb The following Memorial Day reflection, was originally published on May 28, 2018. When I think about this day, I think about something of a rarity in our country today — sacrifice. America today is all about “me”. The politicians and bureaucrats, celebrities, social justice warriors, identity […]
by WorldTribune Staff, May 27, 2019 Memorial Day “is a time we remember” and those “whom we remember never leave us, and we tell their stories to keep them close,” wrote James S. Robbins in a May 27 column for USA Today. “Some years ago, I wrote a column about Frankie Sanchez, an Army Specialist-4 […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk VIRGINIA BEACH ― Memorial Day holiday crowds soak up the surf and sun while sailors and marines train for war in distant countries about which they know very little. A young Marine, bored with the routine at one of the dozen or so facilities between this sprawling oceanside community […]
by WorldTribune Staff, May 23, 2019 Riders from around the USA will drive hundreds of thousands of motorcycles into Washington, D.C. starting on May 24 for the annual Memorial Day weekend Rolling Thunder tribute to veterans, a tradition since 1988. The 2019 event, however, will be the last. Former Army Sgt. Artie Muller, a 73-year-old […]
by WorldTribune Staff, May 21, 2019 “Situational awareness” is the military term for having complete understanding of the environment in which you are operating. “During a military mission, whether in peace or in war, if a pilot or soldier can’t identify an object, they have a serious problem: How should they react, without knowing if […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Yossef Bodansky, Senior Editor, Global Information System / Defense & Foreign Affairs Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, on May 14, 2019 — a week after U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo had visited Baghdad and reportedly met with a senior Iranian official — determined the course of his country’s […]
by WorldTribune Staff, May 9, 2019 The U.S. Army is going back to the iconic “Army Greens” uniform worn by the “Greatest Generation” in World War II. The current Army Blues Uniform will return to a formal dress uniform, while the Army Greens will become the everyday business-wear uniform for all soldiers, the Army announced. […]
by WorldTribune Staff, May 2, 2019 Amid the ongoing battle for control in Venezuela, the U.S. military said it is preparing for Interim President Juan Guaido to assume power while socialist dictator Nicolas Maduro, who says he remains in full control of the military, lashed out at what he called Guaido’s “coup d’etat”” Many U.S. […]
by WorldTribune Staff, April 23, 2019 Rep. Ilhan Omar said that American forces were responsible for killing “thousands” of Somalis during the 1993 battle for Mogadishu made famous by the “Black Hawk Down” incident. The Minnesota Democrat, in a 2017 tweet, painted the United States Army as the villain in the incident. Omar, a Somali […]
