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13 Jul 2015, 11:45 am
Ministry of Defence released footage of a recent British drone strike against an ISIS convoy in Iraq. [read post]
20 Nov 2014, 10:46 am
In Foreign Policy, James Stavridis, a retired 4-star Navy Admiral, asserts that Putin hates the US-EU Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, which is exactly why the two blocs need to get it done. [read post]
26 Sep 2014, 11:51 am
Parliament authorized British airstrikes in Iraq against ISIS by a vote of 524-43. [read post]
23 Sep 2014, 12:03 pm
Today, Pentagon Press Secretary Admiral John Kirby told reporters that “last night’s strikes were only the beginning. [read post]
16 Jul 2014, 9:45 am
Navy nurse refused to force-feed Abu Wa’el Dhiab, a Guantanamo prisoner on a hunger strike. [read post]
31 Jan 2014, 7:49 am
As Ritika relayed yesterday, Navy Vice Admiral Michael S. [read post]
28 Nov 2013, 4:24 am
Americans vacillate over national security and government power. [read post]
16 Jul 2013, 2:42 am
George Washington during the Revolutionary War Ellis also attributes much of Washington’s success in saving the army to the disinclination of the British military commanders [the brothers Admiral Sir Richard Howe (navy) and General William Howe (army)] to destroy the Continental army. [read post]
18 Nov 2012, 12:17 pm
A sufficiently incompetent captain who made it to admiral would end up as an admiral of the yellow, an admiral without a fleet, effectively retired on half pay. [read post]
4 Jul 2012, 9:30 pm
” Still, in examining an American admiral, he decided to pull “punch after punch,” rather than reveal him to be “asinine and silly beyond belief,” because he “did not want an American high ranking officer disgraced before this court of British, Russian, Chinese etc. personnel. [read post]
3 Apr 2012, 1:00 pm
The chief prosecutor for military commission, Brig. [read post]
28 Mar 2012, 9:30 am
Attorney General William Bradford wrote an opinion letter in 1794, addressing an enquiry from the British government about whether there might be remedies in the U.S. national courts as against private Americans who had participated in a “cutting-out” expedition by the French fleet against the British colony of Sierra Leone and the nearby privately owned and operated slaving enterprise at Bance Island. [read post]
13 Feb 2012, 8:29 am
The leader of the Special Operations Command, Admiral William H. [read post]
10 Jan 2012, 3:30 pm
In brief, I recognize that despite their long historical vintage—beginning with the trial in 1780 of British spy Major André in Tappan, New York, a mere 40-minute drive from here up Route 9A and the Palisades Parkway—military commissions are controversial in many American legal circles, including this one. [read post]
14 Nov 2011, 4:00 am
”5 Willful Blindness Willful blindness is sometimes also referred to as “Nelsonian knowledge“, after flag office Horatio Nelson, who fought for the British Royal Navy in the late 1700s and early 1800s. [read post]
18 Jul 2011, 7:20 am
Grog comes to us from the Royal Navy, introduced by British Vice Admiral Edward Vernon in 1740. [read post]
22 Jun 2011, 6:00 pm
My command, Joint Task Force 435, was a 3-star command, meaning we were led by a three-star Navy admiral just under General Petraeus. [read post]
30 May 2011, 8:04 am
The author has just set up the mismatch between the British Navy – larger than all the other navies in the world combined – and the fledgling American Navy. [read post]
22 Mar 2011, 5:51 pm
It would amount to nothing more than the supreme command and direction of the military and naval forces, as first General and admiral of the Confederacy; while that of the British king extends to the DECLARING of war and to the RAISING and REGULATING of fleets and armies, all which, by the Constitution under consideration, would appertain to the legislature. [read post]
29 Sep 2010, 3:09 pm
But the British clearly got a lot more than they bargained for. [read post]
