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factcheckdotorg · 11 months

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#coronavirus #covid 19 #hiv #fact check #military #defense department

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deadpresidents · 2 years

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Despite being a relatively quiet, unassuming, and non-controversial figure in President Obama’s Cabinet, Ash Carter was an extremely effective and efficient Secretary of Defense. A Rhodes Scholar who earned a doctorate in theoretical physics at the University of Oxford in England, Carter was one of the most brilliant and well-qualified members of the Obama Administration and helped bring innovative ways of thinking to the Pentagon where he served at several different levels of the national security team throughout President Obama’s two terms.

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arthropooda · 1 year

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THE NEXT TIME banks need a bailout, they’ll have a new argument for why it’s necessary: national security.

In recent months, the Pentagon has moved to provide loans, guarantees, and other financial instruments to technology companies it considers crucial to national security — a step beyond the grants and contracts it normally employs. So when Silicon Valley Bank threatened to fail in March following a bank run, the defense agency advocated for government intervention to insure the investments. The Pentagon had even scrambled to prepare multiple plans to get cash to affected companies if necessary, reporting by Defense One revealed.

Their interest in Silicon Valley Bank stems from the Pentagon’s brand-new office, the Office of Strategic Capital. According to the Wall Street Journal, the secretary of defense established the OSC in December specifically to counteract the investment power of adversaries like China in U.S. technologies, and to secure separate funding for companies whose products are considered vital to national security. It enjoys special authority to use loans and guarantees not normally available to the Defense Department to attract private investment in technology.

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elmacheteillustrated · 1 year

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defensenow · 3 hours

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historyistold · 8 months

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#Defense department #USDOD #Department of Defense #USA #UFO #AARO #מחלקת ההגנה #חקר עב״מים #עב״ם #חייזרים #ארצות הברית

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historyhermann · 9 months

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Documents Shed A Light on U.S. Drone Warfare in Pakistan

A fully armed MQ-9 Reaper taxis down a runway in Afghanistan in November 2007. Reapers and Predators were the two types of drones used during U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan. On March 17th of this year, State Department spokesperson Ned Price was asked by Pakistani news media about unconfirmed reports of a U.S. drone strike in the Pakistani village of Zangara, within the South Waziristan region.…

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thepopoptic · 10 months

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Watch "Defense Department Admits 'Accounting Error' Made Us Give Ukraine $6.2 Billion Extra" on YouTube

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mindfeelscom · 1 year

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oddnews · 1 year

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New subsegment: Old News, (slightly) Odd coincidences

On 30 June 2021 the US Navy formally abandoned its electromagnetic railgun project. It was a story I'd been following since 2017, accordingly I had views and I remember it well.

The decision was not unforeseen. Here's an article from 2017, somewhat breathlessly describing the US railgun prototype as the "world's most powerful gun" and warning that it could be condemned to "an inescapable limbo":

Broadly speaking, the debate about the project—as it filtered through to social media—was whether the Defence Department would do well to invest in defensive weapons which could be deployed by ships at closer quarters than the missile minimum engagement range—if those weapons were also going to be very expensive and complex to build, arm and deploy. As I said, I had semi-illiterate views but what piqued my interest originally was not the news that the US railgun project was losing steam but the news that the Chinese navy had possibly made advances in the electromagnetic technology relevant to both railguns and catapults.

I digress. What struck me in retrospect as a somewhat startling coincidence—when my professional interest in finance and my personal interest in defense procurement collided over a 4-letter ticker (RAIL)—is that the US navy's decision finally to pull the plug on further development of a railgun IRL coincided exactly with the launch of Railgun Crypto.

And perhaps I wouldn't have remembered that today... except that the virtual Railgun is apparently becoming the ancillary weapon that its physical exemplar never managed to do.

#Harmony Bridge #hack #North Korea #Railgun #Electromagnetic weapons #US Navy #Defense Department #Pentagon #military procurement #RAIL #NFTs #Railway Wallet #top gun

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creativitytoexplore · 1 year

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Russia Says 82,000 New Draftees Arrive in Ukraine as Putin Seeks to Gain the Offensive

Russia has sent 82,000 newly conscripted men to Ukraine in just over a month, according to the country’s defense minister, as Russian President Vladimir Putin seeks to turn the tide of the war in Ukraine. Sergei Shoigu, the defense minister, said Friday that the mobilization of hundreds of thousands of men ordered by Mr. Putin on Sept. 21 was complete. Half of those sent to Ukraine were already…

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renee00124 · 1 year

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leapingmonkeys · 1 year

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jadewalker · 2 years

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defensenow · 9 days

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don-lichterman · 2 years

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Small Businesses Are Fighting to Get the Pentagon War Ready

As the Pentagon explores new avenues of outreach to small and medium-sized businesses, several key entities, such as the Department of Defense-affiliated National Security Innovation Network (NSIN), are increasing partnerships with industry innovators to accelerate an often cumbersome development process. This government-private sector integration is precisely what NSIN envisions as central to…

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#Defense Contractors #Defense Department #Joint All Domain Command And Control #Pentagon #Software Upgrades #U.S. Military

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