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Limited cell phone usage to be allowed for recruits in Navy boot camp
Allowing recruits to use their cellphones during basic training comes as the Navy eyes ways to lower attrition rates and increase interest in joining up.
By Diana Stancy
Navy ‘cautiously optimistic’ it will reach recruiting goals this year, despite COVID-19 challenges
“I am cautiously optimistic, but this is conditions-based."
By Diana Stancy
The role of special operations forces in a ‘Great Power Conflict’
Failure to protect special operations forces programs in the budget would be a return to the disastrous consequences of Operation Eagle Claw 40 years ago.
By Thomas Trask, Mark Clark and Stuart Bradin
Russia slams US arguments for low-yield nukes
The U.S. State Department argued in a paper released last week that fitting the low-yield nuclear warheads to submarine-launched ballistic missiles would help counter potential new threats from Russia and China.
First COVID-19 case confirmed at Navy’s Recruit Training Command
The new case comes despite last week’s move to lock down all staff and recruits at the Navy training center for up to 90 days — with staff forced to remain — to halt the pandemic’s spread.
By Jon Simkins
Esper’s dark vision for US-China conflict makes war more likely
If Defense Secretary Mark Esper’s grim vision becomes reality, American troops may soon be fighting China, embarking on a new and far larger conflict that would make Afghanistan look like child’s play.
By Bonnie Kristian
Op-ed: FDR’s Fireside Chat is a model for calm amid coronavirus pandemic
The author thinks Trump's address to the nation about COVID-19 flopped.
By Michael J. Socolow, University of Maine
The price of valor
“Show me a hero, and I’ll show you a tragedy,” Scott Fitzgerald once wrote. A case in point is Audie Murphy, the most highly decorated man in American military history.
By Roger J. Spiller, Military History Quarterly
Best pics of the week: Feb. 9, 2020
Flight ops over Fuji, F-35s at Red Flag, anti-tank training in Poland and more of this week's best photos from around the military.
Pentagon adds to list of bases that can house passengers quarantined for coronavirus
The facilities would be a "tertiary" choice for housing quarantined passengers after Department of Health and Human Services sites fill
By Patricia Kime