Air defenses failed to intercept an attack drone that killed three U.S. troops in Jordan because the aircraft was mistaken for a friendly drone, officials said.

The fellows who resigned accused Ackman and Weiss of supporting genocide and called on TED to disinvite them from its conference.

The following is a transcript of Kevin Roberts’s remarks at the World Economic Forum.

By: Andrew C. McCarthy – nationalreview.com – January 15, 2024 The Defense Department reports that U.S. forces on Sunday shot down an anti-ship cruise missile fired by Iranian proxies at our destroyer, the U.S.S. Laboon, in the Red Sea. Last week, as Noah Rothman and NR’s editors have detailed, the Biden administration took meaningful — albeit belated and insufficient —...

For days Republicans have been calling for the resignation of Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin after he failed to inform President Joe Biden of a stint in the intensive care unit. He also failed to tell Biden about a prostate cancer diagnosis, which he had secret surgery to mitigate on December 22. A subsequent infection landed Austin back in the ICU...

Aggrieved atheists, annoyed agnostics and others troubled by a Nativity display, Hanukkah menorah or a poster celebrating Eid al-Fitr at a U.S. military base, might now have a harder time succeeding.

By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – January 1, 2024 After reports that some service members participated in the Jan. 6 riot, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin ordered an independent study to get “greater fidelity” on extremism in the ranks. The think tank tasked with the report, the Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA), “found no evidence that the number of violent...

Aggrieved atheists, annoyed agnostics and others troubled by a Nativity display, Hanukkah menorah or a poster celebrating Eid al-Fitr at a U.S. military base, might now have a harder time succeeding.  

The war in Ukraine and Israel’s response to the October 7 terrorist attack signal a worldwide turn away from U.S. leadership.

For Israel, more delays in invading Gaza and destroying Hamas’ ability to commit new acts of terror against the Jewish state is only one of several considerations faced by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his military leaders.