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[Link] U.S. Police Have So Much Extra Gear They're Sending It to Ukraine

Read: 13/3/2022 www.vice.com

Police departments around the U.S. are donating tactical gear to Ukraine, whose annual defense budget is smaller than the NYPD’s.  

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[Link] 'America's Army,' the Pentagon’s Video Game, Shuts Down After 20 Years

Read: 8/2/2022 www.vice.com

America’s Army: Proving Grounds, a game used as a recruitment tool by the United States government, is shutting down its servers on March 5, 2022 after existing in various iterations for 20 years. After that date, the game will be delisted on Steam and removed from the PSN store.

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[Link] Ex-defense secretary sues over withheld material from Trump era memoir

Read: 29/11/2021 www.theguardian.com

The former US defense secretary Mark Esper claims in a lawsuit against the defense department that material is being improperly withheld from him as he seeks to publish an “unvarnished and candid memoir” of his time in Donald Trump’s cabinet.

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[Link] The Pentagon Forms New Department to Watch and Study UFOs

Read: 25/11/2021 www.vice.com

The Pentagon announced the formation of the Airborne Object Identification and Management Synchronization Group (AOIMSG), a successor to the U.S. Navy’s Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force. The group study Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon (UAP), the U.S. military’s name for UFOs.

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[Link] US confirms 2019 airstrike hit crowd of Syrian women and children

Read: 15/11/2021 www.theguardian.com

The US military has confirmed for the first time a 2019 air strike in Syria that killed up to 80 people, mostly women and children, but claimed the strike was justified as it killed Islamic State fighters who were attacking coalition forces.

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[Link] China has won AI battle with U.S., Pentagon's ex-software chief says

Read: 12/10/2021 www.reuters.com

LONDON, Oct 11 (Reuters) - China has won the artificial intelligence battle with the United States and is heading towards global dominance because of its technological advances, the Pentagon's former software chief told the Financial Times.

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[Link] Pentagon burn survivors are thankful for life, though pain endures

Read: 23/9/2021 www.washingtonpost.com

Four severe burn survivors of the Pentagon attack, interviewed by The Washington Post for this story, have each charted a distinct course, holding up against seizing pain, physical limitations and debilitating trauma. They have anguished. They have celebrated. They have marked 20 years.

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[Link] Taliban to give Al-Qaeda covert, not overt support: analysts

Read: 6/9/2021 www.france24.com

The Taliban will offer support to Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan more discreetly than during their first period in power when they openly embraced the terror network, analysts say.

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[Link] Pentagon Wrongly Admitted Killing 21 Civilians in Iraq and Syria

Read: 7/8/2021 theintercept.com

The Defense Department has been forced to withdraw a key part of an official report to Congress, after wrongly claiming responsibility for killing 21 civilians in Iraq and Syria who were actually slain by close U.S. allies.

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