BECAUSE A STRONG NATIONAL DEFENSE
IS WORTH DEFENDING!
&
A STRONG DEFENSE
REQUIRES A STRONG NATION!
Billions of Dollars of our Best ASW Warships Prematurely Retired and Destroyed
Russia's T-90M Tank - Cost Has a Quality All Its Own
Russian Tactics Designed to Spare Key Population Centers While Destroying Ukrainian Military Power
Russian Invasion Was Provoked By United States and NATO
Talk of F-16s to Ukraine a Triumph of Symbolism over Substance
$20,000 Drones vs. $3M Anti-Air Missiles
Bakhmut Meat Grinder Has Been Major Part of Russia's Winter Offensive
The B-52's Relatively Low Cost Per Flight Hour As Compared to Other Heavy Bombers
THREAT TO NATO COUNTRIES IS DISINGENUOUS RIDICULOUS RATIONALE FOR US/NATO PROXY WAR WITH RUSSIA
Air Force Continues Attack on the A-10, its Most Capable, Cost Effective Ground Support Plane
Retrofit to F-35 Fleet to Fix Catastrophic Engine Vibration Won't Fix Unfixable F-35
The 2008 USS Enterprise Refurbishment - A Billion Dollar Example of DoD Waste Prompted by CVN-78
U.S. HIMARS VS. RUSSIA'S TORNADO-S MULTIPLE LAUNCH ROCKET SYSTEM
M1 Abrams Tanks from the United States Will Not Get to Ukraine Anytime Soon
Defend Taiwan by Deploying Whole Lot of Mines In Taiwan Strait
China's Satellite Tech Increases Threat to U.S. Carriers
For Ukraine "No" is Just a Delayed "Yes" When It Comes to Getting What it Wants From Biden Admin
Warthog Blows Away F-35 in CAS Tests Despite Air Force Trying to Stack Deck Against A-10
US Carriers Carriers Still the Best and Biggest By Far
Russia's Navy a Pale Shadow of the Soviet's 1980s/90s Navy
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