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USS Lincoln, Pattaya & Sex Trade: How Sex Markets Have Followed U.S. Bases From Korea to Thailand
After a record uninterrupted 286 days at sea, sailors from the USS Abraham Lincoln spent five days in Thailand’s Pattaya before beginning their onward...
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C-17 in Moscow Echoes India-Pak’s 1999 Kargil & Cuba Missile Crisis. Can It Break the Ukraine Deadlock?
When, on August 25, a US Air Force C-17 Globemaster III, carrying CIA Director John Ratcliffe, landed in Moscow for secret meetings with Russian...
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USAF F-16 ‘Viper’ Team Pulls Out of Toronto Air Show Amid U.S.–Canada Tensions, Officials Deny Snub
The US Air Force (USAF) F-16 demonstration team has pulled out of the Canadian International Air Show (CIAS) in Toronto, slated for this weekend. Officials...
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F-35 for Canada: Ottawa Cools Down on Sole-Source Contracts For U.S. Firms After Lake Ontario Renaming
US President Donald Trump’s unprecedented trade tariffs on Canada and the unilateral renaming of Lake Ontario, coupled with intimidation and mockery of Canadian leadership,...
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Countering Iran’s Shahed Drones, U.S. Army Bets on $5-a-Shot Laser Weapons — Awards $464.8M Contract for LOCUST X3
Amid the rapid proliferation of cheap drones, the US Army is increasingly turning towards laser weapons to reduce the cost of downing these threats--...
