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More than 80 years separate B-29s dropping the atomic bombs on Japan and the P-51 providing revolutionary long-range escorts for Allied bombers over the skies of Germany. In an age of drones and unmanned aircraft, crewed aircraft almost carry the patina of the past. Yet, the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum’s latest gallery, “Modern Military Aviation,” emphasizes that “everything in here was designed by people making choices,” Michael Hankins, curator of U.S. Air Force, Navy, and Marine Corps post-World War II Aviation, told Military Times. “I hope that people can start to see what some of those choices were,…

Warsh Believes the Economy is Really Strong. The real damage is not inflation. It is the uncertainty. Kevin Warsh and the FOMC left rates unchanged at 3.75–4%. Inflation is elevated. Core is sticky. Inflationary expectations are not the monster the Fed is pretending they are. They are not 2021–2022. They…

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The Army is preparing for the grim possibility of burying fallen soldiers on the battlefield, testing how fast it can dig temporary graves while preserving remains for eventual identification and return to families after the end of a conflict.  During an exercise in North Carolina, engineers, preventative medicine teams, chaplains…

The Arizona sun does not negotiate. By mid-morning at ParaBellum Shooting and Tactical Training Academy, the range was already pushing into the 90s, the mirage was already starting to run hard across the lanes, and the big rattlesnake sculpture that marks the firing line was catching the morning sun.Somewhere out…

On the heels of scrutiny from lawmakers earlier this year about plummeting readiness rates for the Marine Corps’ multi-capable MV-22 Osprey, the Corps is moving to adopt an AI-based diagnostic and decision-making tool for all its East Coast-based squadrons. That’s according to the maker of the tool, Virtualitics, which initially…