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New Army-funded tech creates realistic terrain, avatars in simulations
The same institute created Oscar-winning facial scanning tech for major Hollywood films like "Blade Runner 2049" and "Avatar."
By Todd South
Defense budget playoff season: PODCAST
Defense Nerds podcast for May 20, 2019: FY20NDAA, defense appropriations, Elizabeth Warren's Pentagon reform plans, bad Game of Thrones lessons.
Elizabeth Warren targets military-industrial complex in new plan
Elizabeth Warren railed at the military-industrial complex, and Patrick Shanahan as a symptom of it.
By Joe Gould
Commander out at California Air National Guard after boot urination scandal
The head of the California Air National Guard, Maj. Gen. Clay Garrison, was relieved of command following multiple investigations.
Trump embraces politics of defense spending in battleground Ohio
U.S. President Trump toured and delivered remarks at the nation’s last remaining tank-manufacturing facility.
By Joe Gould
From Major League Baseball to paying the ultimate sacrifice: Marine was larger than life
O'Neill would only play one game in the big leagues before eventually sacrificing all on Iwo Jima.
By J.D. Simkins
Trump gets briefing on Coast Guard lieutenant accused of having hit list
The president called it a "very sad thing."
By Michael Kunzelman, The Associated Press
Presidents’ Day pause: How ‘Uncle Sam’s Web-feet’ helped swing an election for Abe Lincoln
The U.S. Navy's triumph at Mobile Bay, combined with victorious Federal ground campaigns in Maryland, Virginia, Tennessee and Georgia, helped reelect Abraham Lincoln and doomed the Confederacy to defeat.
By Gerald D. Swick, Civil War Times Magazine
Rep. Walter Jones, a military advocate who later opposed Iraq War, dies at age 76
The longtime North Carolina congressman was a vocal advocate for military families and a fierce opponent of the war in Iraq.
Rep. Walter Jones, a voice for troops in Congress and war skeptic, enters hospice care
Jones led a years-long effort to defend the Marines of Task Force Violent after they were falsely accused of killing innocent bystanders and committing war crimes in Afghanistan in 2007.
Trump to use federal funds to prop up US bomb makers
The president has approved direct federal investment for suppliers of American bomb parts and chemicals, part of $250 million to address supply chain vulnerabilities this year.
By Joe Gould