Military-Political Articles

Is U.S. ready for second black leader?

Is America ready to make history by electing the first black president to replace a black president? That is the question latest polls increasingly raise these days that show Herman Cain jetting to the front of the GOP pack. Not since the nomination of Clarence...

Retiree Benefits for the Military Could Face Cuts

As Washington looks to squeeze savings from once-sacrosanct entitlements like Social Security and Medicare, another big social welfare system is growing as rapidly, but with far less scrutiny: the health and pension benefits of military retirees. Military pensions and...

Lehman rocks Navy with complaints about political correctness

The Navy’s former top civilian has rocked the service in a military journal article by accusing officials of sinking the storied naval air branch into a sea of political correctness. Former Navy Secretary John Lehman, himself a former carrier-based aviator, wrote...

China’s Rise Isn’t Our Demise

I FIRST visited China in 1979, a few months after our countries normalized relations. China was just beginning to remake its economy, and I was in the first Senate delegation to witness this evolution. Traveling through the country last month, I could see how much...

List of Ribbons

[photoxhibit=1] JCOM-MEDAL  | JCOM-RIBBON | NMCCOM-MEDAL  | NMCCOM-RIBBON | JSAM-MEDAL  | JSAM-RIBBON  | NAM-MEDAL  |  NAM-RIBBON  |...

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