As the U.S. grapples with ballooning federal budgets and increasingly necessary spending cuts, the military remains ripe for austerity. In February, the Pentagon suggested cutting $50 billion per year from its budget over the next five years—a good start but nowhere near enough, considering the Trump administration is floating a defense budget of nearly $1 […]
As military parades go, the celebration in Washington, D.C. turned out to be an innocuous affair and not the triumph of fascist pageantry its loudest critics feared. Soldiers paraded in period uniforms and old and modern equipment rumbled through the streets (and roared overhead) in sufficient quantity to satisfy most history buffs. Nary a uniformed […]
President Donald Trump has described the upcoming military parade using a familiar theme: its size. It will be a “big, beautiful” event, he told NBC’s Meet the Press last month. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. The parade will, however, objectively be big, from the contents of the parade itself—25 M1 Abrams main […]
When a drone popped out of the back of a broken-down truck on the side of a Siberian highway on Sunday, bystanders didn’t know what to make of it. “Holy smokes! Technology’s come so far! Why are we even driving anymore? Better off piloting that drone,” the narrator of a viral video said. “The cops […]
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