by Reposted by Military Truth | Aug 19, 2021 | Research, The War on Terror Encapsulated, Why Can't the World's Best Military Win Its Wars?
Billions spent on Afghan army ultimately benefited Taliban By ROBERT BURNS, August 17, ’21, https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-army-taliban-995b069a9008690582cb34f4cacd8515 WASHINGTON (AP) — Built and trained at a two-decade cost of $83 billion, Afghan security...
by Reposted by Military Truth | Aug 18, 2021 | Of Immediate Interest, Research, The War on Terror Encapsulated
Why the US-Trained Afghan National Army Have Been Defeated with Ease by the Taliban 15 Aug 2021 https://www.military.com/daily-news/2021/08/15/why-us-trained-afghan-national-army-have-been-defeated-ease-taliban.html (Interjection: AGAIN… the story repeats...
by Reposted by Military Truth | Aug 18, 2021 | Of Immediate Interest, The War on Terror Encapsulated
There is one president I blame for Afghanistan. And it isn’t Trump. Christopher Reeves , Daily Kos Staff , Monday August 16, 2021 · 11:05 AM PDT https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/8/16/2046197/-There-is-one-president-I-blame-for-Afghanistan-And-it-isn-t-Trump...
by Reposted by Military Truth | Aug 18, 2021 | DoD Dishonesty, Of Immediate Interest, Research
Army Gives Colonel Facing Kidnapping and Assault Charges After Police Standoff an Honorable Discharge By Steve Beynon https://www.military.com/daily-news/2021/08/13/army-gives-colonel-facing-kidnapping-and-assault-charges-after-police-standoff-honorable-discharge.html...
by Reposted by Military Truth | Aug 16, 2021 | Of Immediate Interest, Research, The War on Terror Encapsulated, Why Can't the World's Best Military Win Its Wars?
Deceptions and Lies in America’s Wars… Vietnam and Afghanistan similarities. (INTERJECTION – In his below 24-page synopsis of his new book, “The Afghanistan Papers,” Craig Whitlock lays bare a cover-up of the Afghanistan war, VERY similar to the lies I...
by Reposted by Military Truth | Aug 6, 2021 | American Imperialism & Aggression, Of Immediate Interest
Reinventing the US Military for Real National Defense By William Astore, TomDispatch, August 2, 2021 https://consortiumnews.com/2021/08/02/reinventing-the- us-military-for-real-national-defense/ Save Collectively, Americans need to imagine a world in which they are no...
by Reposted by Military Truth | Aug 6, 2021 | Learning to Kill
Question to Quora: Do drill instructors really yell at you like in Full Metal Jacket? Answered by Scott Timmons, Former Marine Corps Corporal (1997–2001) May 17, 2019 (bold/italicized comments by Don Chapin, ret’d USAF) The Drill Instructor in Full Metal Jacket was R....
by Reposted by Military Truth | Aug 6, 2021 | Whistleblowers
Another Whistleblower Miscarriage of Justice Chris Hedges, The Price of Conscience — Hale Sentenced to 45 Months July 27, 2021 Drone warfare whistleblower Daniel Hale was sentenced to 45 months in prison on Tuesday for telling the American people the truth. By Chris...
by Reposted by Military Truth | Jul 16, 2021 | Defense Spending, Department of Defense Cost Control, Of Immediate Interest
GAO Warns of Ballooning F-35 Sustainment Costs, Need Plan to Cut Billions Two U.S. Air Force F-35A Lightning IIs, assigned to the 4th Fighter Squadron from Hill Air Force Base, Utah, conduct flight training operations over the Utah Test and Training Range on Feb 14,...
by Reposted by Military Truth | Jul 13, 2021 | Of Immediate Interest, Weapons of Mass Destruction
Sloppy maintenance culture, multiple errors caused F-22 to overheat, investigation finds (INTERJECTION: This incident is SO FAMILIAR –ref. “A Near Miss – And How Many More Unreported?” concerning a similar maintenance error, but in nuclear maintenance, that...
by Reposted by Military Truth | Jul 13, 2021 | Editorials, Military Environmental Damage, Veterans: Casualties of War
An Example Of Military Toxic Exposure Generally, the military is slow to recognize other-than-weapon hazards and slower yet to acknowledge them, for example agent orange, Iraqi burn pits, and Gulf War Syndrome, yet military toxic exposure has ruined environments and...
by Reposted by Military Truth | Jun 18, 2021 | Defense Spending, Of Immediate Interest
US Army has hidden or downplayed loss of firearms for years By KRISTIN M. HALL, JAMES LAPORTA and JUSTIN PRITCHARD June 16, 2021, 1150 hrs https://apnews.com/article/al-state-wire-business-gun-politics- army-government-and-politics-9b85eb5aa443564f5a2bbedd1530dbfe The...
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