The Defense Department remains the world’s single largest consumer of oil, and as a result, one of the world’s top greenhouse gas emitters. Source: https://www.livescience.com/65698-defense-department-climate-change.html
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Guantánamo Bay as Nursing Home: Military Envisions Hospice Care as Terrorism Suspects Age
With no sign that the prison will close, the Pentagon has begun planning for detainees to grow old and die at Guantánamo Bay. Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/27/us/politics/guantanamo-bay-aging-terrorism-suspects-medical-care.html?partner=rss&emc=rss…
Roswell and the Congressman: A Strange Saga
In the spring of 1993, New Mexico Congressman Steven Schiff began to make inquiries with the Defense Department in an attempt to determine the truth surrounding certain aspects of the Roswell controversy of July 1947. In an 11 March 1993 letter to the then Secretary of Defense, Les Aspin, Schiff wrote the following: “Last fall… Read more » Source: https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2019/04/roswell-and-the-congressman-a-strange-saga/…
Turkey Must Choose Between the U.S. and Russia
If Turkey accepts delivery of a Russian S-400 missile system, it will be sanctioned as required by American law. Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/09/opinion/turkey-united-states-f35conflict.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Trump Designates Iran’s Revolutionary Guards a Foreign Terrorist Group
The designation is the first one by the United States against part of a foreign government. The Pentagon and C.I.A. oppose the move, citing risks to Americans. Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/08/world/middleeast/trump-iran-revolutionary-guard-corps.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Four Americans Killed in Afghan Blast, Despite U.S.-Brokered Peace Talks
Three American service members and one contractor were killed after a bomb near Bagram Air Base, the Defense Department said. Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/08/world/asia/four-americans-killed-afghanistan.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Trump Designates Iran’s Revolutionary Guard a Foreign Terrorist Group
Top Pentagon and C.I.A. officials oppose the designation for the unit, which has carried out military operations across the Middle East. Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/08/world/middleeast/iran-us-terror-designation.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Ex-National Security Officials Sue to Limit Censorship of Their Books
Millions of former officials must submit their writings to a prepublication review system, which they argue is unconstitutional. Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/02/us/politics/prepublication-censorship-system.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Russia’s Military Mission Creep Advances to a New Front: Africa
In an influence campaign that is worrying the Pentagon, Russia’s weapons sales, military training programs and security agreements are growing across Africa. Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/31/world/africa/russia-military-africa.html?partner=rss&emc=rss