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· Pentagon Playing Catch Up After Years Neglecting Nuclear Protection
Listening to a handful of government experts at a recent presentation who did have access to the classified report, its overall conclusions must be alarming
· The Cost of Illegal Immigration
The evidence indicates that illegal immigrants are almost certainly a net drain on our public fisc — but not for the reasons many activists put forth
· Misdiagnosing Extremism
The Biden administration has identified domestic violent extremism as an increasingly significant threat to national security, but what constitutes extremism, however, is far from clear
· Border Arrests Plunge 29% in June to the Lowest of Biden’s Presidency
Sharp declines registered across nationalities, including Mexicans, who have been most affected by the suspension of asylum, and Chinese people
· Donald Trump’s Violent Rhetoric: A Catalogue
No American public figure has done more to normalize political violence
· Iran Is Stoking Anti-Israel Protests in the U.S. Such Efforts Are Hardly New.
The Islamic Republic has a long history of running influence operations
Pentagon Playing Catch Up After Years Neglecting Nuclear Protection (Stew Magnuson, National Defense)
The Army Science Board in September completed work on a report, “An Independent Assessment of the Army’s Ability to Fight and Win on a Nuclear Battlefield.”
Its conclusions were not revealed to the public and are available to read only on classified networks. But listening to a handful of government experts at a recent presentation who did have access to the report, its overall conclusions must be alarming.
Craig Campbell, principal director in the Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Threat Reduction and Arms Control, said if a nuclear fight did break out overseas in regions such as Europe or the Indo-Pacific, it would be a bad day for U.S. forces.
“We may be able to operate in the United States, but we would not be able to operate in Eucom, Indo-Pacom or any other combatant commands. We would fail. That’s where we’re at,” he said at the spring meeting of the National Defense Industrial Association’s Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Division.
“We have gaps that are much broader and gaps that span the breadth of the … environment from doctrine, operations to materiel,” he said.
The Cost of Illegal Immigration (Steven A. Camarota, National Affairs)
The chaos at the border in recent years has cast into stark relief one of the central issues surrounding illegal immigration: its fiscal costs. Unfortunately, most discussions on the subject tend to be filled with misconceptions, half-truths, and even outright falsehoods. The evidence indicates that illegal immigrants are almost certainly a net drain on our public fisc — but not for the reasons many activists put forth.
Illegal immigrants are a net fiscal drain not because they are illegal per se. Nor is it because they are freeloaders or welfare cheats, or because they don’t pay any taxes. (Cont.)
