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6 <category>Foreign Affairs</category> | |
7 <category>International Relations</category> | |
8 <category>Foreign Policy</category> | |
9 <image> <url>https://nationalinterest.org/sites/default/files/The-Natio… | |
10 <title>The National Interest</title> | |
11 <link>https://nationalinterest.org/</link> | |
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15 <copyright>Copyright 1991-2021 The National interest</copyright> | |
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18 <pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2021 04:11:01 -0400</pubDate> | |
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20 <item> <title>Information Operations are Critical to Defending Western … | |
21 <link>http://nationalinterest.org/node/190714</link> | |
22 <description>The truth is that dictators are beating the West when it c… | |
23 <author>Joel Zamel</author> | |
24 <category>Information Warfare</category> | |
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26 <pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2021 04:11 EDT</pubDate> | |
27 <source url="https://nationalinterest.org/rssfeed">The National Interes… | |
28 <content:encoded><p><b>Joel Zamel</b></p> | |
29 <p><em><category>Information Warfare, World</catego… | |
30 <a href="https://nationalinterest.org/206770"><a href… | |
31 <h3>The truth is that dictators are beating the West when it comes… | |
32 <title>Information Operations are Critical to Defending Western Ci… | |
33 <p>What are tyrants most afraid of? To answer that question, one m… | |
34 <p>What dictators fear most isn’t foreign militaries. What they … | |
35 <p>Yet many Western nations fail to understand this elementary tru… | |
36 <p>Though these tactics don’t line the pockets of the military-i… | |
37 <p>The truth is that dictators are beating the West when it comes … | |
38 <p>Put simply, terrorists and extremist regimes are running rings … | |
39 <p>In a Congressional testimony of tech CEOs, Congressman Jamie Ra… | |
40 <blockquote><p><i>...can you just address the prolifer… | |
41 </blockquote> | |
42 <p>Zuckerberg answered as unflappably as ever: </p> | |
43 <blockquote><p><i>Congressman, absolutely. We work har… | |
44 </blockquote> | |
45 <p>Consider for a moment what percentage of these fake accounts ar… | |
46 <p>Thanks to these bad actors, it is hard to believe anything anym… | |
47 <p>What is the solution to this civilizational challenge? It is to… | |
48 <p>Behind the scenes, an army of decentralized cyber defenders mus… | |
49 <p>These cyber activists often remain in the shadows, conducting a… | |
50 <p>Sadly, in this post-truth era, too many people throw around the… | |
51 <p>So too it is today in the war between tyrants and terrorists an… | |
52 <p><em>Joel Zamel is the founder of Wikistrat, the world’s… | |
53 <p><em>Image: A supporter holds a copy of Apple Daily newsp… | |
54 | |
55 <a href="https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/information-oper… | |
56 </item> | |
57 <item> <title>85 Years Ago, General George Patton Declared War on a Vol… | |
58 <link>http://nationalinterest.org/node/190757</link> | |
59 <description>Disaster seemed imminent: day by day, a glowing river of m… | |
60 <author>Sebastien Roblin</author> | |
61 <category>History</category> | |
62 <guid isPermaLink="false">http://nationalinterest.org/node/190757</guid> | |
63 <pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2021 03:33 EDT</pubDate> | |
64 <source url="https://nationalinterest.org/rssfeed">The National Interes… | |
65 <content:encoded><p><b>Sebastien Roblin</b></p> | |
66 <p><em><category>History, Americas</category><… | |
67 <a href="https://nationalinterest.org/206805"><a href… | |
68 <h3>Disaster seemed imminent: day by day, a glowing river of molte… | |
69 <title>85 Years Ago, General George Patton Declared War on a Volca… | |
70 <p><strong>Here's What You Need to Remember: </stro… | |
71 <p>Disaster seemed imminent: day by day, a glowing river of molten… | |
72 <p>The over 13,000-foot tall behemoth had erupted on Hawaii island… | |
73 <p>At first, Jaggar considered dispatching mule teams laden with e… | |
74 <p>Then his colleague Guido Giacometti proposed a faster solution:… | |
75 <p>On December 23, Jaggar contacted the G-2 intelligence staff off… | |
76 <p>At the time these units flew large, fabric-covered Keystone B-3… | |
77 <p>Jaggar briefed the pilots on the geological theory behind the r… | |
78 <p>The following morning the aviators were visited by a native Haw… | |
79 <p>“Why don’t they leave Pele alone?” Keliihoomlu later told… | |
80 <p>Pele, also known as She Who Devours the Earth, remains a<a h… | |
81 <p>Another citizen quoted in the paper said: “Pele should not be… | |
82 <p>Nonetheless, the Army pilots carried out their mission in two w… | |
83 <p>The first wave—two LB-6s and three B-3As—each carried two 3… | |
84 <p>You can see the eruption and the unusual bombing raid in archiv… | |
85 <p>Most of the bombs exploded ineffectually to either side of the … | |
86 <p>Six days after the raid on December 2, the lava stream abruptly… | |
87 <p>“The experiment could not have been more successful; the resu… | |
88 <p><em>This channel was broken up by the bombing and fresh s… | |
89 <p>But Stearns, who witnessed the bombing up close concluded the o… | |
90 <p>“The tube walls look 25 to 50 feet high and deep in the flow … | |
91 <p>Most<a href="https://www.usgs.gov/center-news/volcano-w… | |
92 <p>Nonetheless, seven years later on May 1 or 2, 1942, the wartime… | |
93 <p>Then from 1975–1976, the Air Force engaged in multiple tests … | |
94 <p>However, the idea of using bombers or other technologies to div… | |
95 <p>Indeed,<a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=n2ii6… | |
96 <p>Despite having possibly incurred the wrath of a goddess, the 23… | |
97 <p><em>Sébastien Roblin holds a Master’s Degree in Confli… | |
98 <p><i>Image: Reuters</i></p> | |
99 | |
100 <a href="https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/85-years-ago-g… | |
101 </item> | |
102 <item> <title>Shipwrecked: Three Countries Chased This Nazi Uboat to th… | |
103 <link>http://nationalinterest.org/node/190753</link> | |
104 <description>U-966 was a Type VIIC U-boat, the most prolific type to s… | |
105 <author>Sebastien Roblin</author> | |
106 <category>Submarines</category> | |
107 <guid isPermaLink="false">http://nationalinterest.org/node/190753</guid> | |
108 <pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2021 03:00 EDT</pubDate> | |
109 <source url="https://nationalinterest.org/rssfeed">The National Interes… | |
110 <content:encoded><p><b>Sebastien Roblin</b></p> | |
111 <p><em><category>Submarines, Europe</category>&l… | |
112 <a href="https://nationalinterest.org/206801"><a href… | |
113 <h3>U-966 was a Type VIIC U-boat, the most prolific type to serve… | |
114 <title>Shipwrecked: Three Countries Chased This Nazi Uboat to the … | |
115 <p><strong>Here's What You Need to Remember: </stro… | |
116 <p>In June 2018, Spanish media reported that divers Anxi González… | |
117 <p>Roca <a href="https://elpais.com/elpais/2018/07/09/ine… | |
118 <p>However, the dramatic story of how five Allied bombers from thr… | |
119 <p>Using a combination of U.S. Navy, Royal Air Force and Czech aft… | |
120 <p><b>Rookie crew, doomed mission</b></p> | |
121 <p><i>U-966</i> was a Type VIIC U-boat, the most prol… | |
122 <p>Dubbed “Old Man,” Wolf was in fact only 25 years old, but h… | |
123 <p>Thereafter, the crew named their submarine <i>Gut Holz&l… | |
124 <p>Wolf knew the odds of survival were long, having already served… | |
125 <p>By 1943 the Allies were deploying adequate escort ships with ef… | |
126 <p>After months of training in the Baltic, the 960-ton submarine t… | |
127 <p>On Oct. 5, <i>U-966</i> departed Trondheim headed… | |
128 <p>Under the cover of a sea storm, <i>U-966 </i>mana… | |
129 <p>Wolf crash dived <i>U-966</i> 150 meters below th… | |
130 <p dir="ltr"><b id="docs-internal-guid-2d4cde6a-… | |
131 <p dir="ltr"><b id="docs-internal-guid-2d4cde6a-… | |
132 <p dir="ltr"><b id="docs-internal-guid-2d4cde6a-… | |
133 <p>After going three days without communication from <i>U-9… | |
134 <p>However, the Type VIIC was relatively short-range submarine —… | |
135 <p>Realizingly he was flailing around blindly, Wolf decided to ret… | |
136 <p><b>Wellington in the moonlight</b></p> | |
137 <p>The Type VIIC used two diesel engines to generate electricity. … | |
138 <p>Submerged, it couldn’t exceed eight miles per hour, and even … | |
139 <p>On Oct. 10, 1943 <i>U-966</i> was doing precisely… | |
140 <p>The pilot, Warrant Officer Ian Gunn, soon spotted the submarine… | |
141 <p>The eyes of the watchman were still adjusting to the dark and h… | |
142 <p>“It was as if an invisible hand grabbed and shook the boat,�… | |
143 <p><i>U-966 </i>had a twin-barrel 20-millimeter autom… | |
144 <p>Three minutes later, the bomber banked around for another straf… | |
145 <p>In fact, Wolf had ordered a crash dive to 150 meters. But <… | |
146 <p>A Type VIIC submarine’s crushing depth at which its hull begi… | |
147 <p>Gunn’s attack had inflicted grievous damage, however. One of … | |
148 <p><b>Attack of the Liberators</b></p> | |
149 <p>Gunn’s sighting caused hulking four-engine Liberator bombers … | |
150 <p>The U.S. Navy and RAF Coastal Command operated a B-24D variant … | |
151 <p>These far-flying Liberators were able to hunt in the “mid-Atl… | |
152 <p>Wolf kept <i>U-966</i> submerged for as long as p… | |
153 <p>Barely a half hour later at 8:59 A.M., the PB4Y-1 flown by Lt. … | |
154 <p>This time, helmsman Hein Maslock spotted the attacker approachi… | |
155 <p>Unable to drop the charges, Harmon’s B-24 instead made two st… | |
156 <p><i>U-966 </i>was next picked up at 11:40 A.M. just… | |
157 <p>Ten minutes later, Wright unleashed a pattern of five Mark 24 d… | |
158 <p>Wright harried U-966 for an entire hour until 1:05 P.M., when h… | |
159 <p>At some point, one of the depth charges actually struck <i&… | |
160 <p>Wolf aggressively maneuvered the submarine to frustrate the bom… | |
161 <p>Wright finally began flying home at 1:30 P.M. The badly-damaged… | |
162 <p><i>U-966 </i>had closed the distance to just a few… | |
163 <p>Luckily, he had a back-up armament — braces of four RP-3 armo… | |
164 <p>While Parrish’s B-24 provided covering fire, Zanta’s Libera… | |
165 <p>Zanta made several more strafing runs then headed for home at 3… | |
166 <p><b>Tragedy at Estaca de Bares</b></p> | |
167 <p>Wolf’s crippled U-boat was on its last legs after nine hours … | |
168 <p>In fact, Wolf had spotted the Spanish coast guard vessel <i… | |
169 <p>Unfortunately, the turbulent waters swept away the inflatable l… | |
170 <p>Only a handful made it to shore. Most of the rest, battling aga… | |
171 <p>There was a tragic final act to the day’s violent events. The… | |
172 <p>At that moment, a flight of three Ju-88R-2s from II/ZG.1 based … | |
173 <p>Franklin sent out one final radio message before his flying boa… | |
174 <p>Finally, five local Spanish fishing boats — <i>Virgen … | |
175 <p>All were housed in local hotels, save for three heavily wounded… | |
176 <p>Many sources claim in error that a smaller American-built Catal… | |
177 <p>The fishermen recovered the bodies of six of the Sunderland’s… | |
178 <p>The Spanish authorities were in an awkward position. Though Gen… | |
179 <p>Spanish judges determined that the crew counted as combatants, … | |
180 <p>That December, after a BBC radio broadcast mentioned just 30 of… | |
181 <p>In reality, he was smuggled back to Germany with false papers b… | |
182 <p>Shipwrecking in Spain was probably the best thing that could ha… | |
183 <p>By contrast, at least four of the repatriated German submariner… | |
184 <p>U-966’s conning tower could be seen protruding from the water… | |
185 <p>When the submarine commander passed away in 1978, his ashes wer… | |
186 <p>Historian Juan Carlos Salgado <a href="http://www.u-hi… | |
187 <p>Fewer than two months after the battle on Dec. 28, 1943, Parish… | |
188 <p>Six weeks later on Feb. 14, 1944, Wright shot down a Ju-88 in a… | |
189 <p>A month later on the evening of March 12, Zanta departed on a m… | |
190 <p>Harmon survived the war. His airplane passed to another crew, w… | |
191 <p><em>This first appeared in WarIsBoring <a href="h… | |
192 <p>This first appeared in 2018 and is being reposted due to reade… | |
193 <p><em>This history drew from the following sources: <a … | |
194 <p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consolidated_B-2… | |
195 | |
196 <a href="https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/shipwrecked-th… | |
197 </item> | |
198 <item> <title>Bad News: British Military Plans are Bigger Than London�… | |
199 <link>http://nationalinterest.org/node/190848</link> | |
200 <description>In recent years, the words “Britain” and “defense bu… | |
201 <author>Michael Peck</author> | |
202 <category>United Kingdom</category> | |
203 <guid isPermaLink="false">http://nationalinterest.org/node/190848</guid> | |
204 <pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2021 02:44 EDT</pubDate> | |
205 <source url="https://nationalinterest.org/rssfeed">The National Interes… | |
206 <content:encoded><p><b>Michael Peck</b></p> | |
207 <p><em><category>United Kingdom, Europe</category&g… | |
208 <a href="https://nationalinterest.org/206899"><a href… | |
209 <h3>In recent years, the words “Britain” and “defense budget… | |
210 <title>Bad News: British Military Plans are Bigger Than London’s… | |
211 <p><strong>Here's What You Need To Remember: </stro… | |
212 <p>In recent years, the words “Britain” and “defense budget�… | |
213 <p>The current 2019 to 2029 equipment plan, despite a £181 billio… | |
214 <p>The NAO’s most likely estimate is that the equipment plan wil… | |
215 <p>NAO cited several cases where funding gaps would jeopardize mil… | |
216 <p>While some research money is available to find new minesweeping… | |
217 <p>The Ministry of Defense doesn’t even have a firm grasp of wha… | |
218 <p>“The Department will make these decisions as part of its Comb… | |
219 <p>Budget pressures have created other problems, such as 20 decomm… | |
220 <p>In the end, Britain is caught in a bind. The British armed forc… | |
221 <p><em>Michael Peck is a contributing writer for the Nationa… | |
222 <p><em>Image: Reuters. </em></p> | |
223 | |
224 <a href="https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/bad-news-briti… | |
225 </item> | |
226 <item> <title>Civil Wars Destroy Countries, But They Can Also Build The… | |
227 <link>http://nationalinterest.org/node/190962</link> | |
228 <description>There are many types of civil wars.</description> | |
229 <author>Kyle Mizokami</author> | |
230 <category>Civil War</category> | |
231 <guid isPermaLink="false">http://nationalinterest.org/node/190962</guid> | |
232 <pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2021 02:33 EDT</pubDate> | |
233 <source url="https://nationalinterest.org/rssfeed">The National Interes… | |
234 <content:encoded><p><b>Kyle Mizokami</b></p> | |
235 <p><em><category>Civil War, Asia</category></… | |
236 <a href="https://nationalinterest.org/207001"><a href… | |
237 <h3>There are many types of civil wars.</h3> | |
238 <title>Civil Wars Destroy Countries, But They Can Also Build Them&… | |
239 <p><strong>Here's What You Need to Remember: </stro… | |
240 <p>There are many types of civil wars. Sometimes, such as the Amer… | |
241 <p>In other circumstances, outside interests may attempt to partit… | |
242 <p>When a country is threatened with dissolution or partition it s… | |
243 <p><strong>Chinese Civil War</strong></p> | |
244 <p>The Chinese Civil War, fought between Chinese nationalists and … | |
245 <p>More than eight million people were killed during the war, most… | |
246 <p>The initial phase of the civil war was mostly an insurgency by … | |
247 <p>The communist forces’ big break came in the aftermath of Worl… | |
248 <p><strong>Korean War</strong></p> | |
249 <p>The Korean War is generally known in the United States as a mil… | |
250 <p>At the end of World War II, Korea had been partitioned into two… | |
251 <p>It was also exceptionally deadly by modern standards, with seve… | |
252 <p>Military losses in the war are thought to be 70,000 by the Repu… | |
253 <p>Nearly one million South Koreans died during the war, or just u… | |
254 <p><strong>Vietnam Civil War (Vietnam War, 2nd Indochina War… | |
255 <p>The 1954 partition of Vietnam into two nations made an attempt … | |
256 <p>Until 1968 the war was fought by South Vietnam, the United Stat… | |
257 <p>Military dead amounted to 1.5 million on all sides: 300,000 Sou… | |
258 <p>Up to 2.5 million civilians died in the Vietnam Civil War, if o… | |
259 <p><strong>Congo Civil War</strong></p> | |
260 <p>The Congo Civil War<a href="http://www.globalsecurity.o… | |
261 <p>One of the most lethal wars of the last one hundred years, the … | |
262 <p><strong>Nigerian Civil War</strong></p> | |
263 <p>The four year long Nigerian Civil war broke out on July 6, 1967… | |
264 <p>The bulk of the international community supported Nigeria, and … | |
265 <p>Only about 30,000 Biafrans<a href="http://news.bbc.co.u… | |
266 <p><em>Kyle Mizokami is a writer based in San Francisco who … | |
267 <p><em><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietna… | |
268 | |
269 <a href="https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/civil-wars-des… | |
270 </item> | |
271 <item> <title>Glock 17 are Kel-Tec’s KMR-30 Very Different But Which … | |
272 <link>http://nationalinterest.org/node/190957</link> | |
273 <description>Both the Kel-Tec and the Glock have generously sized magaz… | |
274 <author>Kyle Mizokami</author> | |
275 <category>Guns</category> | |
276 <guid isPermaLink="false">http://nationalinterest.org/node/190957</guid> | |
277 <pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2021 02:33 EDT</pubDate> | |
278 <source url="https://nationalinterest.org/rssfeed">The National Interes… | |
279 <content:encoded><p><b>Kyle Mizokami</b></p> | |
280 <p><em><category>Guns, </category></em><… | |
281 <a href="https://nationalinterest.org/206996"><a href… | |
282 <h3>Both the Kel-Tec and the Glock have generously sized magazines… | |
283 <title>Glock 17 are Kel-Tec’s KMR-30 Very Different But Which Ta… | |
284 <p dir="ltr"><strong>Here's What You Need To … | |
285 <p dir="ltr">The modern pistol, a handgun fed by a grip-… | |
286 <p dir="ltr">The invention of the pistol box magazine pr… | |
287 <p dir="ltr">The box magazine promised to change things.… | |
288 <p dir="ltr"><b id="docs-internal-guid-856a0a76-… | |
289 <p dir="ltr"><b id="docs-internal-guid-856a0a76-… | |
290 <p dir="ltr"><b>Recommended: <a href="htt… | |
291 <p dir="ltr">The use of polymers in handguns started in … | |
292 <p dir="ltr">Glock built a high-capacity handgun, but on… | |
293 <p dir="ltr">Another handgun, the <a href="http… | |
294 <p dir="ltr">Although durable the Kel-Tec was not design… | |
295 <p dir="ltr">How did Kel-Tec achieve M16-size ammunition… | |
296 <p dir="ltr">Both the Kel-Tec and the Glock have generou… | |
297 <p dir="ltr"><em>Kyle Mizokami is a defense and na… | |
298 <p dir="ltr"><em>This article first appeared in 20… | |
299 | |
300 <a href="https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/glock-17-are-k… | |
301 </item> | |
302 <item> <title>AIP Submarine for the US Navy? </title> | |
303 <link>http://nationalinterest.org/node/190930</link> | |
304 <description>Perhaps the U.S. Navy should not invest in conventional su… | |
305 <author>Robert Farley</author> | |
306 <category>military</category> | |
307 <guid isPermaLink="false">http://nationalinterest.org/node/190930</guid> | |
308 <pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2021 02:11 EDT</pubDate> | |
309 <source url="https://nationalinterest.org/rssfeed">The National Interes… | |
310 <content:encoded><p><b>Robert Farley</b></p> | |
311 <p><em><category>military, Americas</category>&l… | |
312 <a href="https://nationalinterest.org/49287"><a href=… | |
313 <h3>Perhaps the U.S. Navy should not invest in conventional submar… | |
314 <title>AIP Submarine for the US Navy? </title> | |
315 <p>Here’s What You Need to Remember: Over the past decade, air… | |
316 <p><strong>Invention</strong></p> | |
317 <p>Several navies <a href="http://www.public.navy.mil/sub… | |
318 <p>In the mid-2000s, converging technological developments enabled… | |
319 <p><strong>Engineering</strong></p> | |
320 <p>AIP systems allow conventional submarines to recharge their bat… | |
321 <p><em>Closed Cycle Steam Turbines</em></p> | |
322 <p>Used on French-built submarines, closed cycle steam turbines mi… | |
323 <p><em>Stirling Cycle</em></p> | |
324 <p>A Stirling cycle engine uses diesel to heat a fluid permanently… | |
325 <p><em>Fuel Cell</em></p> | |
326 <p>Fuel-cell technology is probably the state of the art in AIP. A… | |
327 <p><strong>Procurement Trends</strong></p> | |
328 <p>The great thing about AIP is that the technologies involved can… | |
329 <p>However, most navies are more interested in new construction. G… | |
330 <p><strong>Combat Implications</strong></p> | |
331 <p>SSPs can exceed the performance of SSNs under certain condition… | |
332 <p><strong>What This Means for the United States</strong&… | |
333 <p>Should the United States build SSPs? The United States has not … | |
334 <p>However, the U.S. Navy is nearly unique for its global focus; i… | |
335 <p>Before investing in AIP boats, the U.S. Navy should also take c… | |
336 <p>All in all, there is no question that AIP-equipped boats pose a… | |
337 <p><a href="https://twitter.com/drfarls?ref_src=twsrc%5Ego… | |
338 <p><i><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/usnavy/… | |
339 | |
340 <a href="https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/aip-submarine-… | |
341 </item> | |
342 <item> <title>If You Have to Chose a Revolver or a Semi-auto for Home D… | |
343 <link>http://nationalinterest.org/node/190965</link> | |
344 <description>Both types have bring their own advantages and disadvantag… | |
345 <author>Kyle Mizokami</author> | |
346 <category>Firearmes</category> | |
347 <guid isPermaLink="false">http://nationalinterest.org/node/190965</guid> | |
348 <pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2021 01:50 EDT</pubDate> | |
349 <source url="https://nationalinterest.org/rssfeed">The National Interes… | |
350 <content:encoded><p><b>Kyle Mizokami</b></p> | |
351 <p><em><category>Firearmes, United States</category… | |
352 <a href="https://nationalinterest.org/181399"><a href… | |
353 <h3>Both types have bring their own advantages and disadvantages t… | |
354 <title>If You Have to Chose a Revolver or a Semi-auto for Home Def… | |
355 <p><strong>Here's What You Need To Remember: </stron… | |
356 <p>One of the most important roles a handgun can play is in home d… | |
357 <p><a href="https://www.atf.gov/firearms/firearms-guides-i… | |
358 <p>One advantage of the revolver in home defense is that it is eas… | |
359 <p>There are disadvantages to a revolver in a home-defense situati… | |
360 <p>Semiautomatic handguns, or <a href="https://www.atf.go… | |
361 <p>Pistols have several advantages in a home-defense situation. Pi… | |
362 <p>Pistols also have their own disadvantages. Unless stored “coc… | |
363 <p>If a homeowner has little training but still needs a handgun to… | |
364 <p>A more experienced handgun owner would do well with a <a hr… | |
365 <p>A handgun is a dangerous weapon designed to kill people. That s… | |
366 <p><em>Kyle Mizokami is a defense and national-security writ… | |
367 <p><em>This article first appeared in 2017.</em></p… | |
368 <p><em>Image: Reuters.</em></p> | |
369 | |
370 <a href="https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/if-you-have-ch… | |
371 </item> | |
372 <item> <title>Terrible and Ineffective: Ivan IV's Failed Strategy … | |
373 <link>http://nationalinterest.org/node/190716</link> | |
374 <description>His territorial ambitions would remain a fundamental eleme… | |
375 <author>Warfare History Network</author> | |
376 <category>History</category> | |
377 <guid isPermaLink="false">http://nationalinterest.org/node/190716</guid> | |
378 <pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2021 01:43 EDT</pubDate> | |
379 <source url="https://nationalinterest.org/rssfeed">The National Interes… | |
380 <content:encoded><p><b>Warfare History Network</b><… | |
381 <p><em><category>History, Eurasia</category><… | |
382 <a href="https://nationalinterest.org/206772"><a href… | |
383 <h3>His territorial ambitions would remain a fundamental element o… | |
384 <title>Terrible and Ineffective: Ivan IV's Failed Strategy St… | |
385 <p><strong>Key Point: </strong>Ivan IV Vasilyevich, f… | |
386 <p>Less well known are the numerous and bloody wars he fought to e… | |
387 <p><strong>Expanding Russia to the Sea</strong></p&… | |
388 <p>Generations of Muscovite rulers had dreamed of expanding their … | |
389 <p>Muscovites could be forgiven for feeling paranoid about their l… | |
390 <p><strong>The Crumbling Livonia</strong></p> | |
391 <p>A patchwork of commercial cities spread out through modern-day … | |
392 <p>In 1558, the order held some 60 castles, while independent citi… | |
393 <p><strong>“Here is a Little Thing That Will Grow Great”… | |
394 <p>An invasion required an air of legitimacy. For that Ivan turned… | |
395 <p>Despite the best efforts of the Baltic powers, the Muscovite ar… | |
396 <p><strong>Ivan the Terrible’s Invasion of Livonia</str… | |
397 <p>The 40,000-strong Muscovite army entered Livonian territory nea… | |
398 <p>The Muscovite army immediately commenced bombarding Narva upon … | |
399 <p>With Narva safely in his hands, Ivan next turned to gobbling up… | |
400 <p><strong>A Six-Month Truce</strong></p> | |
401 <p>The Livonian Order and remaining independent cities frantically… | |
402 <p>It was not a moment too soon. The Muscovites, having crossed th… | |
403 <p><strong>Breaking the Truce</strong></p> | |
404 <p>The Livonian Order had been reeling, but the truce unexpectedly… | |
405 <p>Emboldened, Kettler treacherously violated the truce one month … | |
406 <p><strong>Battles at Ermes and Fellin</strong></p&… | |
407 <p>Although many of Muscovy’s best soldiers had since been trans… | |
408 <p>Three weeks later Fellin surrendered. Its impressive collection… | |
409 <p><strong>Opportunism in the Northern Seven Years’ War<… | |
410 <p>The victories at Ermes and Fellin, although spectacular, proved… | |
411 <p>Meanwhile, Sigismund arrived to absorb what was left of Livonia… | |
412 <p>Tensions still stirred beneath the surface between Denmark, Swe… | |
413 <p><strong>Cruelty at Polotsk</strong></p> | |
414 <p>The czar chose Lithuania as his next target, accusing it of con… | |
415 <p>The siege of Polotsk was a brilliant demonstration of the growi… | |
416 <p>On February 15, a fire erupted in the center of Polotsk, althou… | |
417 <p><strong>Ivan’s Madness</strong></p> | |
418 <p>The capture of Polotsk proved to be the pinnacle of the Lithuan… | |
419 <p>Meanwhile, events in Lithuania were going from bad to worse. In… | |
420 <p>Several years of relative quiet followed on the Livonian front … | |
421 <p>Even more drastic changes were occurring on the southern coast … | |
422 <p><strong>The Threats Along Ivan’s Borders</strong>… | |
423 <p>Ivan was quick to recognize the new Baltic dynamics. He condemn… | |
424 <p>In the meantime, unabated political turmoil and an increasing T… | |
425 <p>In what proved to be a critical miscalculation, Ivan also provi… | |
426 <p>The czar could offer Magnus nothing more than his best wishes. … | |
427 <p><strong>Invading Livonia Anew</strong></p> | |
428 <p>The czar’s triumphant return to Livonia began on Christmas Da… | |
429 <p>It was not until 1575 that the Muscovites took Pernau, and a re… | |
430 <p><strong>The Pinnacle of Ivan’s Power</strong><… | |
431 <p>In July 1577, Ivan led a reinvigorated Muscovite army of 30,000… | |
432 <p>Perhaps made delusional by the ease with which he conquered, Ma… | |
433 <p>Ivan’s 1577 campaign was magnificently successful, the only s… | |
434 <p><strong>Stefan Bathory’s Offensive Against Muscovy</… | |
435 <p>Following a period of confusion, the newly united nation settle… | |
436 <p>Before Bathory’s new army even took the offensive, the tide w… | |
437 <p>Bathory formally declared war on June 26, 1579, adding a person… | |
438 <p><strong>The Polish March on Pskov</strong></p> | |
439 <p>The Muscovites were completely unprepared. Reflecting Ivan’s … | |
440 <p>The relentless Polish advance rapidly erased more than 20 years… | |
441 <p>While separate detachments raided Starodub, Tver, and Novgorod,… | |
442 <p><strong>“Sire, We Shall Dine With You Tonight in Pskov!… | |
443 <p>The Poles commenced their bombardment on September 7. “Sire, … | |
444 <p>Ivan too was feeling an increased sense of urgency. News from t… | |
445 <p>On October 28, Bathory launched an all-out assault on Pskov. A … | |
446 <p><strong>Ivan Left Empty Handed</strong></p> | |
447 <p>The two sides met to discuss terms with the papal meditators at… | |
448 <p>For his part, Ivan was desperate for peace. After decades of wa… | |
449 <p>Peace with Sweden came the following summer, and Ivan made no a… | |
450 <p>Twenty-five years and countless lives later, Ivan’s invasion … | |
451 <p><em>This article <a href="https://warfarehistoryn… | |
452 <p><em><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/F… | |
453 | |
454 <a href="https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/terrible-and-i… | |
455 </item> | |
456 <item> <title>In 1987, North Korea Celebrated the Olympics With a Bang<… | |
457 <link>http://nationalinterest.org/node/190736</link> | |
458 <description>As the aircraft is soaring above the Andaman Sea, the bomb… | |
459 <author>Sebastien Roblin</author> | |
460 <category>North Korea</category> | |
461 <guid isPermaLink="false">http://nationalinterest.org/node/190736</guid> | |
462 <pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2021 01:23 EDT</pubDate> | |
463 <source url="https://nationalinterest.org/rssfeed">The National Interes… | |
464 <content:encoded><p><b>Sebastien Roblin</b></p> | |
465 <p><em><category>North Korea, Asia</category><… | |
466 <a href="https://nationalinterest.org/206784"><a href… | |
467 <h3>As the aircraft is soaring above the Andaman Sea, the bomb det… | |
468 <title>In 1987, North Korea Celebrated the Olympics With a Bang<… | |
469 <p><strong>Here's What You Need To Remember: </stro… | |
470 <p>Near midnight on November 28, 1987, a young woman and an older … | |
471 <p>Most of the 104 passengers are South Korean construction and oi… | |
472 <p><strong>What a <a href="http://nationalinterest.… | |
473 <p>Flight 858 is heading back to a country on the brink of a drama… | |
474 <p><strong>What a <a href="http://nationalinterest.… | |
475 <p>1987 is also the year film <em>The Living Daylights <… | |
476 <p><strong>What a <a href="http://nationalinterest.… | |
477 <p>For six years she had lived under a new name and been instructe… | |
478 <p>Kim Hyon Hui and her co-agent Kim Seung-il—a veteran spy w… | |
479 <p>But the two agents do not plan to commit suicide, disembarking … | |
480 <p>The North Korean agents make their way to Bahrain. Weeks earlie… | |
481 <p>While the security guards confer outside the interrogation room… | |
482 <p>As security agents return, Seung-il chomps down the cigarette… | |
483 <p>Hyon-hui also bites down on her cigarette and passes out. But … | |
484 <p>While Kim recovers over several days, a Bahraini and Japanese a… | |
485 <p>This incident, and the fact that poisoned cigarettes had been f… | |
486 <p>The South Korean interrogators begin to repeatedly press her in… | |
487 <p>The following day she confesses the truth. She and her colleagu… | |
488 <p>Pyongyang is outraged, <em>outraged </em>to be ac… | |
489 <p>The Soviet Union echoes the denial, though Beijing, perhaps mor… | |
490 <p>Kim is tried and sentenced to death in March, though she is the… | |
491 <p>In 1990, the film<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch… | |
492 <p>Kim also expresses concern for the fate of Taguchi, her Japanes… | |
493 <p>Kim Hyon-Hui’s story parallels that of many other North Korea… | |
494 <p>Of course, North Korea is not the only state to destroy an airl… | |
495 <p>However, the bombing of Flight 858 more closely resembles the L… | |
496 <p><em>Sébastien Roblin holds a master’s degree in confli… | |
497 <p><em>Image: Reuters.</em></p> | |
498 | |
499 <a href="https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/1987-north-kor… | |
500 </item> | |
501 <item> <title>With This Technology, Airplanes Could Launch Satellites..… | |
502 <link>http://nationalinterest.org/node/190672</link> | |
503 <description>ICBMs—intercontinental ballistic missiles as they are kn… | |
504 <author>Caleb Larson</author> | |
505 <category>ICBMs</category> | |
506 <guid isPermaLink="false">http://nationalinterest.org/node/190672</guid> | |
507 <pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2021 00:22 EDT</pubDate> | |
508 <source url="https://nationalinterest.org/rssfeed">The National Interes… | |
509 <content:encoded><p><b>Caleb Larson</b></p> | |
510 <p><em><category>ICBMs, Americas</category></… | |
511 <a href="https://nationalinterest.org/206737"><a href… | |
512 <h3>ICBMs—intercontinental ballistic missiles as they are known�… | |
513 <title>With This Technology, Airplanes Could Launch Satellites... … | |
514 <p><strong>Here's What You Need to Know</strong>:… | |
515 <p>ICBMs are typically launched from underground silos, submarines… | |
516 <p><strong>Planes, Trains, and Automobiles</strong><… | |
517 <p>ICBMs—intercontinental ballistic missiles as they are known�… | |
518 <p>In the 1960s, ICBM fuel shifted from liquid to solid fuel. Soli… | |
519 <p>Mobile ICBM launchers are another option that has enjoyed much … | |
520 <p>Countries like China and <a data-auth="NotApplicable&q… | |
521 <p>During the 1980s, the U.S. Air Force developed a rail-mobile IC… | |
522 <p>Perhaps the <a data-auth="NotApplicable" href=&qu… | |
523 <p><strong>Air-based Vertical Launch System</strong>&l… | |
524 <p>One of the stranger delivery system ideas was a so-called air-b… | |
525 <p>Explanatory diagrams in the patent show missiles in the center … | |
526 <p>In addition to launching ICBMs, the patent also explains that t… | |
527 <p>Will we see an air-based vertical launch system anytime soon? W… | |
528 <p><em>Caleb Larson holds a Master of Public Policy degree f… | |
529 <p><em><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/usairf… | |
530 | |
531 <a href="https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/technology-air… | |
532 </item> | |
533 <item> <title>Why Japan Skipped Over Glock In Favor of the Heckler and … | |
534 <link>http://nationalinterest.org/node/190982</link> | |
535 <description>Japan's choice marks the first time the SFP9 has been… | |
536 <author>Richard Douglas</author> | |
537 <category>Guns</category> | |
538 <guid isPermaLink="false">http://nationalinterest.org/node/190982</guid> | |
539 <pubDate>Sun, 01 Aug 2021 23:33 EDT</pubDate> | |
540 <source url="https://nationalinterest.org/rssfeed">The National Interes… | |
541 <content:encoded><p><b>Richard Douglas</b></p> | |
542 <p><em><category>Guns, </category></em><… | |
543 <a href="https://nationalinterest.org/207018"><a href… | |
544 <h3>Japan's choice marks the first time the SFP9 has been ado… | |
545 <title>Why Japan Skipped Over Glock In Favor of the Heckler and Ko… | |
546 <p><strong>Here's What You Need to Remember:</strong… | |
547 <p>On the 6th of December 2019, the Japanese Ministry of Defense (… | |
548 <p>From the Japanese MoD’s Fiscal Year 2018 budget, we know that… | |
549 <p>Accuracy is the most important characteristic in Japanese pisto… | |
550 <p>If such emphasis is placed on accuracy, the SFP9 has the edge o… | |
551 <p>The SFP9 also has a more customizable grip, with exchangeable s… | |
552 <p>Anecdotally, the Glock 17 is harder to shoot accurately than th… | |
553 <p>The SFP9 also doesn’t require pulling the trigger to disassem… | |
554 <p>Finally, the SFP9’s adoption could have benefited from the ex… | |
555 <p>Regardless, the adoption of the SFP9 by the JSDF is a major mil… | |
556 <p><em>Charlie Gao studied Political and Computer Science at… | |
557 <p><i>Image: Wikimedia Commons</i></p> | |
558 | |
559 <a href="https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/why-japan-skip… | |
560 </item> | |
561 <item> <title>Ruger's SR22 Pistol: What Can't This Gun Do?</t… | |
562 <link>http://nationalinterest.org/node/190995</link> | |
563 <description>The Ruger SR22 can do a little bit of everything.</descrip… | |
564 <author>Kyle Mizokami</author> | |
565 <category>Guns</category> | |
566 <guid isPermaLink="false">http://nationalinterest.org/node/190995</guid> | |
567 <pubDate>Sun, 01 Aug 2021 23:11 EDT</pubDate> | |
568 <source url="https://nationalinterest.org/rssfeed">The National Interes… | |
569 <content:encoded><p><b>Kyle Mizokami</b></p> | |
570 <p><em><category>Guns, </category></em><… | |
571 <a href="https://nationalinterest.org/207032"><a href… | |
572 <h3>The Ruger SR22 can do a little bit of everything.</h3> | |
573 <title>Ruger's SR22 Pistol: What Can't This Gun Do?</… | |
574 <p><strong>Here's What You Need to Remember:</strong… | |
575 <p>The field of rimfire pistols is a crowded one, with a large var… | |
576 <p>Ruger is no stranger to the rimfire market, having produced the… | |
577 <p>The SR22 is both a single and double-action pistol, with a roun… | |
578 <p>One of the major advantages of the SR22 is a focus on ergonomic… | |
579 <p>The SR22’s stainless steel barrel is available in both thread… | |
580 <p>The SR22 also has a number of safety features to enhance overal… | |
581 <p>Users aim the SR22 using the built-in three dot sighting system… | |
582 <p>The SR22 comes with two ten-round magazines and accepts all man… | |
583 <p>The SR22 is a well-balanced rimfire pistol that can do a little… | |
584 <p><em>Kyle Mizokami is a writer based in San Francisco who … | |
585 <p><i>Image: YouTube</i></p> | |
586 | |
587 <a href="https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/rugers-sr22-pi… | |
588 </item> | |
589 <item> <title>Supply Chains Must Adjust to Great Power Competition</tit… | |
590 <link>http://nationalinterest.org/node/190651</link> | |
591 <description>Supply chains constructed during a brief period of suppose… | |
592 <author>William R. Hawkins</author> | |
593 <category>Supply Chains</category> | |
594 <guid isPermaLink="false">http://nationalinterest.org/node/190651</guid> | |
595 <pubDate>Sun, 01 Aug 2021 22:00 EDT</pubDate> | |
596 <source url="https://nationalinterest.org/rssfeed">The National Interes… | |
597 <content:encoded><p><b>William R. Hawkins</b></p&g… | |
598 <p><em><category>Supply Chains, </category></… | |
599 <a href="https://nationalinterest.org/206718"><a href… | |
600 <h3>Supply chains constructed during a brief period of supposed in… | |
601 <title>Supply Chains Must Adjust to Great Power Competition</ti… | |
602 <p>The Biden administration has <a href="https://www.white… | |
603 <p>Business interests that have invested in these international su… | |
604 <p>Of course, the question of whether the world is contentious has… | |
605 <p>Writing in 1821, John Stuart Mill claimed, “There is, in the … | |
606 <p>The post-Cold War period seemed like the post-Napoleonic period… | |
607 <p>Though simplistic, classical theory is still pushed by some lib… | |
608 <p>After World War I, even the free-trading British embraced the I… | |
609 <p>A country with the sheer size of the United States, with a high… | |
610 <p>This leaves those special interests who have unwisely offshored… | |
611 <blockquote><p style="margin-left:.5in;"><em>… | |
612 </blockquote> | |
613 <p>Another <em>Global Times </em><a href="http… | |
614 <p>Too many major corporations have become mere assemblers of part… | |
615 <p>Supply chains constructed during a brief period of supposed int… | |
616 <p><em>William R. Hawkins is a former economics professor wh… | |
617 <p><em>Image: Reuters.</em></p> | |
618 | |
619 <a href="https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/supply-chains-mu… | |
620 </item> | |
621 <item> <title>Conquering Cuba: Would America Pay Any Cost to Expel Comm… | |
622 <link>http://nationalinterest.org/node/190767</link> | |
623 <description>Beneath the velvet we-come-in-peace language was the iron … | |
624 <author>Michael Peck</author> | |
625 <category>Cuban Missile Crisis</category> | |
626 <guid isPermaLink="false">http://nationalinterest.org/node/190767</guid> | |
627 <pubDate>Sun, 01 Aug 2021 21:33 EDT</pubDate> | |
628 <source url="https://nationalinterest.org/rssfeed">The National Interes… | |
629 <content:encoded><p><b>Michael Peck</b></p> | |
630 <p><em><category>Cuban Missile Crisis, Americas</ca… | |
631 <a href="https://nationalinterest.org/206814"><a href… | |
632 <h3>Beneath the velvet we-come-in-peace language was the iron word… | |
633 <title>Conquering Cuba: Would America Pay Any Cost to Expel Commun… | |
634 <p><strong>Here's What You Need To Remember: </stron… | |
635 <p>Attention, people of Cuba: Obey the orders of the U.S. Army, or… | |
636 <p>This is what the Cubans would have been told, had the United St… | |
637 <p>“Resistance to the United States armed forces will be forcefu… | |
638 <p>Proclamation No. 1 of the U.S. military occupation would have r… | |
639 <p><em>“To the people of Cuba,</em></p> | |
640 <p><em>“Whereas the aggressive and illegal acts of the Cas… | |
641 <p>Beneath the velvet we-come-in-peace language was the iron words… | |
642 <p><strong>Recommended</strong>: <a href="htt… | |
643 <p>Cuban schools and courts would be closed until further notice. … | |
644 <p>“When the aggressive Castro regime has been completely destro… | |
645 <p><strong>Recommended</strong>: <a href="htt… | |
646 <p>Words like “friendship” and “democratic” might have sou… | |
647 <p><strong>Recommended: </strong><a href="htt… | |
648 <p>On the other hand, the U.S. proclamation was refreshingly direc… | |
649 <p>Of course, before an invading army can issue an occupation proc… | |
650 <p>As it turns out, the U.S. badly underestimated the difficulty o… | |
651 <p>More ominously, it wasn’t until 1992 that the United States l… | |
652 <p>Just as ominously, Soviet officials later admitted that they ha… | |
653 <p>There is no doubt that the United States could have conquered C… | |
654 <p><em>Michael Peck is a contributing writer for the </em… | |
655 <p><em><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_… | |
656 <p><strong>Recommended</strong>: </p> | |
657 <p><a href="http://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/nort… | |
658 <p><a href="http://nationalinterest.org/feature/what-if-am… | |
659 <p><a href="http://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/the-… | |
660 | |
661 <a href="https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/conquering-cub… | |
662 </item> | |
663 <item> <title>Why India and Australia Like Japan’s Deadly Soryu-Class… | |
664 <link>http://nationalinterest.org/node/190664</link> | |
665 <description>The Sōryū-class was the first Japanese submarine class… | |
666 <author>Caleb Larson</author> | |
667 <category>Submarines</category> | |
668 <guid isPermaLink="false">http://nationalinterest.org/node/190664</guid> | |
669 <pubDate>Sun, 01 Aug 2021 21:00 EDT</pubDate> | |
670 <source url="https://nationalinterest.org/rssfeed">The National Interes… | |
671 <content:encoded><p><b>Caleb Larson</b></p> | |
672 <p><em><category>Submarines, Asia</category><… | |
673 <a href="https://nationalinterest.org/206729"><a href… | |
674 <h3>The Sōryū-class was the first Japanese submarine class bui… | |
675 <title>Why India and Australia Like Japan’s Deadly Soryu-Class S… | |
676 <p><strong>Here's What You Need to Know</strong>:… | |
677 <p>The <a href="https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/ja… | |
678 <p>Lithium-ion batteries also usually recharge faster than lead-ac… | |
679 <p>The Sōryū-class is also the first class of Japanese submarine… | |
680 <p>The Stirling engines used by the Sōryū-class were adapted fro… | |
681 <p>Though the class does not have vertical missile launch tubes, t… | |
682 <p><strong>Future Export</strong></p> | |
683 <p>Until very recently, Japan adhered to a self-imposed weapons ex… | |
684 <p>Both India and Australia have expressed interest in acquiring J… | |
685 <p><em>Caleb Larson is a Defense Writer with The National In… | |
686 <p><em>This article first appeared in July 2020.</em>&… | |
687 <p><em><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/F… | |
688 | |
689 <a href="https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/why-india-and-… | |
690 </item> | |
691 <item> <title>In 1983, North Korea Tried to Destroy South Korea from th… | |
692 <link>http://nationalinterest.org/node/190734</link> | |
693 <description>It is 10 AM October 9, 1983. South Korea’s President Chu… | |
694 <author>Sebastien Roblin</author> | |
695 <category>North Korea</category> | |
696 <guid isPermaLink="false">http://nationalinterest.org/node/190734</guid> | |
697 <pubDate>Sun, 01 Aug 2021 20:33 EDT</pubDate> | |
698 <source url="https://nationalinterest.org/rssfeed">The National Interes… | |
699 <content:encoded><p><b>Sebastien Roblin</b></p> | |
700 <p><em><category>North Korea, Asia</category><… | |
701 <a href="https://nationalinterest.org/206781"><a href… | |
702 <h3>It is 10 AM October 9, 1983. South Korea’s President Chun Do… | |
703 <title>In 1983, North Korea Tried to Destroy South Korea from the … | |
704 <p><strong>Here's What You Need To Remember: </stro… | |
705 <p>Seoul raises the alert status of its forces…and does nothing.… | |
706 <p>It is 10 AM October 9, 1983. South Korea’s President Chun Doo… | |
707 <p>It is no secret his military government is struggling. The Repu… | |
708 <p>There is a tragedy to contend with as well; the month prior, a … | |
709 <p>Now President Chun is traveling abroad on the advice of the for… | |
710 <p><strong>What a <a href="http://nationalinterest.… | |
711 <p>The senior members of Chun Doo Hwan’s cabinet are all assembl… | |
712 <p>Suddenly, at 10:25 a car with South Korean flags pulls up. A bu… | |
713 <p>Suddenly all hell breaks loose.</p> | |
714 <p>A thunderous blast rips through from the roof of the mausoleum,… | |
715 <p><strong>What a <a href="http://nationalinterest.… | |
716 <p>Foreign Minister Lee Beom-Seok is dead. So is Deputy Prime Mini… | |
717 <p>But President Chun is not to be found in the wreckage. His car … | |
718 <p>The president’s limousine peels around upon receiving the new… | |
719 <p>Three days later, three North Korean special forces officers ar… | |
720 <p><strong>What a <a href="http://nationalinterest.… | |
721 <p>Prior to the attack, they had slipped into Rangoon via a freigh… | |
722 <p>Now, if they can make it to a waiting speedboat on the Rangoon … | |
723 <p>But their spymasters have betrayed them. There is no escape boa… | |
724 <p>Zin is cornered by a mob at Lake Pazundaung. The local Burmese,… | |
725 <p>There is a tradition amongst North Korean agents: if<a href=… | |
726 <p>A suspicious local tips of the police after Cpts. Kim Jin-su an… | |
727 <p>After hospitalization, Kim and Kang are brought before a Burmes… | |
728 <p>Kang exposes the full machinery of the plot. They had been disp… | |
729 <p>The aftermath of the assassination attempt should sound familia… | |
730 <p>Socialist Burma, which earlier had been close to Kim Il-sung, s… | |
731 <p>Beijing is outraged, as always, by this latest bit of mischief,… | |
732 <p>Seoul raises the alert status of its forces…and does nothing.… | |
733 <p>Kang languishes in Insein prison for a quarter-century, becomin… | |
734 <p>The Aung San Mausoleum is rebuilt but then closed to the public… | |
735 <p>Democracy activists would also continue to bedevil President Ch… | |
736 <p>As for North Korea…it remains the same regime unconcerned wit… | |
737 <p><em>Sébastien Roblin holds a master’s degree in confli… | |
738 <p><em>Image: Reuters.</em></p> | |
739 | |
740 <a href="https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/1983-north-kor… | |
741 </item> | |
742 <item> <title>Fact: Many Americans Do Not Understand How Social Securit… | |
743 <link>http://nationalinterest.org/node/190809</link> | |
744 <description>“It’s indisputable that Americans across all generatio… | |
745 <author>Ethen Kim Lieser</author> | |
746 <category>Social Security</category> | |
747 <guid isPermaLink="false">http://nationalinterest.org/node/190809</guid> | |
748 <pubDate>Sun, 01 Aug 2021 20:11 EDT</pubDate> | |
749 <source url="https://nationalinterest.org/rssfeed">The National Interes… | |
750 <content:encoded><p><b>Ethen Kim Lieser</b></p> | |
751 <p><em><category>Social Security, </category><… | |
752 <a href="https://nationalinterest.org/206859"><a href… | |
753 <h3>“It’s indisputable that Americans across all generations n… | |
754 <title>Fact: Many Americans Do Not Understand How Social Security … | |
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771 <a href="https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/fact-many-amer… | |
772 </item> | |
773 <item> <title>By Conquering Singapore, Japan Sent Britain’s Asia Empi… | |
774 <link>http://nationalinterest.org/node/190775</link> | |
775 <description>In the darkest days of World War II, when disaster after d… | |
776 <author>Michael Peck</author> | |
777 <category>World War II History</category> | |
778 <guid isPermaLink="false">http://nationalinterest.org/node/190775</guid> | |
779 <pubDate>Sun, 01 Aug 2021 20:00 EDT</pubDate> | |
780 <source url="https://nationalinterest.org/rssfeed">The National Interes… | |
781 <content:encoded><p><b>Michael Peck</b></p> | |
782 <p><em><category>World War II History, Asia Pacific<… | |
783 <a href="https://nationalinterest.org/206822"><a href… | |
784 <h3>In the darkest days of World War II, when disaster after disas… | |
785 <title>By Conquering Singapore, Japan Sent Britain’s Asia Empire… | |
786 <p><strong>Here's What You Need To Remember: </stro… | |
787 <p>In the darkest days of World War II, when disaster after disast… | |
788 <p>But when the news arrived that the fortress of Singapore had su… | |
789 <p>“He felt it was a disgrace,” <a href="http://www.wi… | |
790 <p>Seventy-five years later, it is difficult to conceive of just h… | |
791 <p>Singapore had long been a strategic prize, perched as it was on… | |
792 <p>Terrain was an ally, or so the British thought. With the Malay … | |
793 <p>“Curiously enough, throughout all these years of bickering an… | |
794 <p>Or, as Churchill recalled, the possibility that the fortress wo… | |
795 <p>Perhaps given enough money, troops and aircraft, the strategy m… | |
796 <p>However, the fatal flaw in the British plan turned out to be a … | |
797 <p>However, as frequently happens with military disasters, frantic… | |
798 <p>The battleships <em>Prince of Wales </em>and <em… | |
799 <p>The Japanese landed in southern Thailand and northern Malaya on… | |
800 <p>What ensued was as much farce as tragedy. Convinced that tanks … | |
801 <p>Finally, on January 31, the Japanese reached the Straits of Joh… | |
802 <p>That didn’t daunt <a href="http://www.britain-at-war.… | |
803 <p>The British were too disorganized and dispirited to perceive th… | |
804 <p>On February 15, Lt. Gen. Arthur Percival, the British commander… | |
805 <p>Yamashita went on to defend the Philippines against a U.S. inva… | |
806 <p>What were the lessons of Singapore? Like a Biblical prophet, th… | |
807 <p>Perhaps the biggest consequence of the fall of Singapore was th… | |
808 <p>Three-quarters of a century later, the legacy of the fall of Si… | |
809 <p><em>Michael Peck is a contributing writer for the Nationa… | |
810 <p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Singap… | |
811 | |
812 <a href="https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/conquering-sin… | |
813 </item> | |
814 <item> <title>Showdown at Bataan: How U.S. Forces Lost the Philippines<… | |
815 <link>http://nationalinterest.org/node/190765</link> | |
816 <description>The fall of Corregidor forces us to ask a tough question: … | |
817 <author>Michael Peck</author> | |
818 <category>World War II History</category> | |
819 <guid isPermaLink="false">http://nationalinterest.org/node/190765</guid> | |
820 <pubDate>Sun, 01 Aug 2021 19:44 EDT</pubDate> | |
821 <source url="https://nationalinterest.org/rssfeed">The National Interes… | |
822 <content:encoded><p><b>Michael Peck</b></p> | |
823 <p><em><category>World War II History, Asia Pacific<… | |
824 <a href="https://nationalinterest.org/206812"><a href… | |
825 <h3>The fall of Corregidor forces us to ask a tough question: what… | |
826 <title>Showdown at Bataan: How U.S. Forces Lost the Philippines<… | |
827 <p><strong>Here's What You Need To Remember: </stro… | |
828 <p>“Tell Joe, wherever he is, to give ’em hell for us,” said… | |
829 <p>And then there was silence.</p> | |
830 <p>On the morning of May 6, 1942, U.S. Army Sgt. Irving Strobing�… | |
831 <p>From Corregidor’s tunnels emerged eleven thousand starving, w… | |
832 <p>The fall of Corregidor forces us to ask a tough question: what … | |
833 <p>The answer is pretty much everything. The problems began with a… | |
834 <p>None of which was Philippines commander Gen. Douglas MacArthur�… | |
835 <p>News of Pearl Harbor awakened MacArthur at 3 a.m. December 8. T… | |
836 <p>Later on December, Japanese troops landed on northern Luzon, un… | |
837 <p>Outflanked and outmaneuvered, MacArthur ordered Plan Orange, a … | |
838 <p>Nonetheless, the Bataan troops fought bravely and inflicted hea… | |
839 <p>And MacArthur? The Bataan troops composed a <a href="h… | |
840 <p><em>Dugout Doug MacArthur lies ashaking on the Rock</e… | |
841 <p><em>Safe from all the bombers and from any sudden shock&l… | |
842 <p><em>Dugout Doug is eating of the best food on Bataan</… | |
843 <p><em>And his troops go starving on.</em></p> | |
844 <p><em>Dugout Doug’s not timid, he’s just cautious, not … | |
845 <p><em>He’s protecting carefully the stars that Franklin m… | |
846 <p><em>Four-star generals are rare as good food on Bataan<… | |
847 <p><em>And his troops go starving on.</em></p> | |
848 <p><em>Dugout Doug is ready in his Kris Craft for the flee&l… | |
849 <p><em>Over bounding billows and the wildly raging sea</e… | |
850 <p><em>For the Japs are pounding on the gates of Old Bataan&… | |
851 <p><em>And his troops go starving on . . .</em></… | |
852 <p>But MacArthur was busy with other things. He was awarded $500,0… | |
853 <p>“I will return,” MacArthur vowed. And he did—on October 2… | |
854 <p><em>Michael Peck is a contributing writer for the </e… | |
855 <p><em><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bataan… | |
856 | |
857 <a href="https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/showdown-bataa… | |
858 </item> | |
859 <item> <title>Project Iceworm: America's Secret Tunnels Beneath Gr… | |
860 <link>http://nationalinterest.org/node/190929</link> | |
861 <description>One of the strangest military projects to come out of the … | |
862 <author>Alex Hollings</author> | |
863 <category>History</category> | |
864 <guid isPermaLink="false">http://nationalinterest.org/node/190929</guid> | |
865 <pubDate>Sun, 01 Aug 2021 19:33 EDT</pubDate> | |
866 <source url="https://nationalinterest.org/rssfeed">The National Interes… | |
867 <content:encoded><p><b>Alex Hollings</b></p> | |
868 <p><em><category>History, Greenland</category>&l… | |
869 <a href="https://nationalinterest.org/206971"><a href… | |
870 <h3>One of the strangest military projects to come out of the Cold… | |
871 <title>Project Iceworm: America's Secret Tunnels Beneath Gree… | |
872 <p>In pursuit of nuclear deterrence, the United States has occasio… | |
873 <p>Throughout the Cold War, the United States and Soviet Union wer… | |
874 <p>While the Soviet Union invested in <a href="https://ww… | |
875 <p><strong>Nuclear ulterior motives</strong></p> | |
876 <p>While the Russian military has been working exhaustively in rec… | |
877 <p>It was with that concept in mind that the United States establi… | |
878 <p>The real intent behind this new initiative was to establish a m… | |
879 <p><strong>Camp Century – An installation and a cover stor… | |
880 <p>Located less than a thousand miles from the North Pole, the amb… | |
881 <p>Starting in 1959, the U.S. Army Engineer Corps began excavating… | |
882 <p>Beneath the arched steel roof and layer of ice and snow, the U.… | |
883 <p>The facility was powered by the globe’s first ever semi-mobil… | |
884 <p>Working space beneath the ice quickly grew, and by the end of 1… | |
885 <p>At its peak, Camp Century housed over 200 Soldiers, hidden from… | |
886 <p><strong>Project Iceworm</strong></p> | |
887 <p>All of that manpower and tech wasn’t just about testing the f… | |
888 <p>The long term plan called for 2,500 miles of subsurface tunnels… | |
889 <p>Many of these tunnels would house railroad tracks which could b… | |
890 <p>If fully realized, Project Iceworm’s tunnel complex would eve… | |
891 <p><strong>Having the ice pulled out from beneath your feet&… | |
892 <p>While the strategic value of a massive, subterranean missile co… | |
893 <p>By 1962, the ceiling in the room housing Camp Century’s nucle… | |
894 <p>In 1963, the nuclear reactor was replaced by diesel generators … | |
895 <p>Project Iceworm had been cloaked in secrecy since its onset, an… | |
896 <p>Of course, “for good” is a long time, and as we’ve come t… | |
897 <p>“It’s just a matter of time,” says <a href="http… | |
898 <p><em>Alex Hollings is a writer, dad, and Marine veteran wh… | |
899 <p><em>This article is republished from </em><a hr… | |
900 <p><em>Image: Reuters</em></p> | |
901 | |
902 <a href="https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/project-icewor… | |
903 </item> | |
904 <item> <title>Border Crisis Is No Accident. It’s Biden Making Good on… | |
905 <link>http://nationalinterest.org/node/190921</link> | |
906 <description>At a time when Biden’s administration has returned to re… | |
907 <author>Tim Murtaugh</author> | |
908 <category>Politics</category> | |
909 <guid isPermaLink="false">http://nationalinterest.org/node/190921</guid> | |
910 <pubDate>Sun, 01 Aug 2021 19:11 EDT</pubDate> | |
911 <source url="https://nationalinterest.org/rssfeed">The National Interes… | |
912 <content:encoded><p><b>Tim Murtaugh</b></p> | |
913 <p><em><category>Politics, Americas</category>&l… | |
914 <a href="https://nationalinterest.org/206964"><a href… | |
915 <h3>At a time when Biden’s administration has returned to recomm… | |
916 <title>Border Crisis Is No Accident. It’s Biden Making Good on C… | |
917 <p>If you wanted to make up something to depict President Joe Bide… | |
918 <p>Such a situation might easily be dismissed by skeptics as too m… | |
919 <p>“It’s not believable,” some might say.</p> | |
920 <p>But it’s actually true, according to <a href="https:… | |
921 <p>Axios this week revealed that “about 50,000 migrants who cros… | |
922 <p>The report indicates that it is “unprecedented” for border … | |
923 <p>Instead, they have been provided with lists of Immigration and … | |
924 <p>Axios reports that it is the Biden administration’s “hope�… | |
925 <p>That wishful strategy has been an abject failure so far, as jus… | |
926 <p>Biden’s reckless policy has turned “catch and release” in… | |
927 <p>The revelation comes amid repeated record-setting in the number… | |
928 <p>More than <a href="https://www.axios.com/border-arrest… | |
929 <p>Further, the 178,000 arrests made in June alone marked a 20-yea… | |
930 <p>All of this puts the lie to Biden’s claims that the surge at … | |
931 <p>Just as ludicrous was White House press secretary Jen Psaki’s… | |
932 <p>The fact is that Biden campaigned for president promising an ar… | |
933 <p>Since becoming president, he also <a href="https://www… | |
934 <p>If a surge of this nature occurs every year, or is <a href=… | |
935 <p>The answer was probably most clearly expressed by one migrant,�… | |
936 <p>Translated: “Thanks to President Biden for the opportunity to… | |
937 <p>The news about unaccompanied minors arriving at the border is n… | |
938 <p>True, the number of children stopped at the border in June repr… | |
939 <p>Additionally, at a time when Biden’s administration has retur… | |
940 <p>Fox News reported earlier this month that 30% of illegal immigr… | |
941 <p><a href="https://www.dailysignal.com/2021/07/29/biden-b… | |
942 <p>And though they are sometimes forced to cover the raw numbers, … | |
943 <p>So, the observation holds true: If you were going to envision i… | |
944 <p>But you don’t have to imagine it, because it’s reality, and… | |
945 <p><i>Tim Murtaugh is a visiting fellow at The Heritage Foun… | |
946 <p><em>This article is republished from <a href="ht… | |
947 <p><em>Image: Reuters</em></p> | |
948 | |
949 <a href="https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/border-crisis-… | |
950 </item> | |
951 <item> <title>South Africa’s Insurrection Is Greater Than Jacob Zuma<… | |
952 <link>http://nationalinterest.org/node/190786</link> | |
953 <description>The economic conundrum for South Africa is that those who … | |
954 <author>Ian Jennings</author> | |
955 <category>South Africa</category> | |
956 <guid isPermaLink="false">http://nationalinterest.org/node/190786</guid> | |
957 <pubDate>Sun, 01 Aug 2021 19:04 EDT</pubDate> | |
958 <source url="https://nationalinterest.org/rssfeed">The National Interes… | |
959 <content:encoded><p><b>Ian Jennings</b></p> | |
960 <p><em><category>South Africa, </category></e… | |
961 <a href="https://nationalinterest.org/206833"><a href… | |
962 <h3>The economic conundrum for South Africa is that those who are … | |
963 <title>South Africa’s Insurrection Is Greater Than Jacob Zuma<… | |
964 <p>The past three weeks in South Africa have been lawless, even by… | |
965 <p>A number of turbulent streams flowed into the river of <a hr… | |
966 <p>The catalyst is an internal conflict within the African Nationa… | |
967 <p>But the cracks in the edifice became apparent when Mbeki was &l… | |
968 <p>Contrary to outside perception, South Africa is not seriously d… | |
969 <p>This is not to say that there were no prominent Zulu leaders in… | |
970 <p>The apartheid government, unsurprisingly, offered temptations t… | |
971 <p>Jacob Zuma, had, both before and while president, taken the tro… | |
972 <p>The remaining strength of the ANC’s inclusive legacy has, how… | |
973 <p>The line between patronage and corruption is a fine one, and a … | |
974 <p>The evidence is plain to see—parastatal organizations such as… | |
975 <p>The patience of the legal system ran out in late June when the … | |
976 <p>And then, surprisingly, Zuma blinked first. On the night of Jul… | |
977 <p>In response to the arrest, a combination of massive <a href=… | |
978 <p>Three weeks later almost four hundred people had died, economic… | |
979 <p>So, what are we to make of all of this?</p> | |
980 <p>First, South Africa is an extraordinarily unequal country. A ti… | |
981 <p>But this particular explosion hasn’t happened yet. It is sign… | |
982 <p>The economic conundrum for South Africa is, as is true anywher… | |
983 <p>It’s not all bleak. Social media is replete with clips of int… | |
984 <p><em>Ian Jennings grew up in South Africa, studied in Germ… | |
985 <p><em>Image: Reuters</em></p> | |
986 | |
987 <a href="https://nationalinterest.org/feature/south-africa%E2%80… | |
988 </item> | |
989 <item> <title>Sideswiped: Why China Set Out to Shame the State Departme… | |
990 <link>http://nationalinterest.org/node/190830</link> | |
991 <description>The Chinese rhetorically and predictably overplayed their … | |
992 <author>Paul Heer</author> | |
993 <category>China</category> | |
994 <guid isPermaLink="false">http://nationalinterest.org/node/190830</guid> | |
995 <pubDate>Sun, 01 Aug 2021 19:04 EDT</pubDate> | |
996 <source url="https://nationalinterest.org/rssfeed">The National Interes… | |
997 <content:encoded><p><b>Paul Heer</b></p> | |
998 <p><em><category>China, Asia</category></em&g… | |
999 <a href="https://nationalinterest.org/206879"><a href… | |
1000 <h3>The Chinese rhetorically and predictably overplayed their hand… | |
1001 <title>Sideswiped: Why China Set Out to Shame the State Department… | |
1002 <p lang="EN-US" paraeid="{5d06767f-9fad-435e-8b97-83e5… | |
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1013 | |
1014 <a href="https://nationalinterest.org/feature/sideswiped-why-chi… | |
1015 </item> | |
1016 <item> <title>Can the Private Sector Save Belarus?</title> | |
1017 <link>http://nationalinterest.org/node/190843</link> | |
1018 <description>In recent years many politicians on the left have repeate… | |
1019 <author>Vladislav Inozemtsev, Yaroslav Romanchuk, Vitali Shkliarov</aut… | |
1020 <category>Belarus</category> | |
1021 <guid isPermaLink="false">http://nationalinterest.org/node/190843</guid> | |
1022 <pubDate>Sun, 01 Aug 2021 19:04 EDT</pubDate> | |
1023 <source url="https://nationalinterest.org/rssfeed">The National Interes… | |
1024 <content:encoded><p><b>Vladislav Inozemtsev, Yaroslav Roman… | |
1025 <p><em><category>Belarus, </category></em>… | |
1026 <a href="https://nationalinterest.org/206894"><a href… | |
1027 <h3>In recent years many politicians on the left have repeatedly … | |
1028 <title>Can the Private Sector Save Belarus?</title> | |
1029 <p>Soon after Belarusian dictator Alyaksandr Lukashenka forced th… | |
1030 <p>This move was welcomed by many in the international community … | |
1031 <p>Moreover, if the situation in Minsk appears to favor democratiz… | |
1032 <p>Finally and most importantly, the EU’s proposed assistance pr… | |
1033 <p>But the European Union may be overlooking a different option, o… | |
1034 <p>To illustrate this argument, imagine a scenario in which a larg… | |
1035 <p>If one “owns” a state, there is naturally no risk on part o… | |
1036 <p>Of course, it might be not a single company, or not the leader … | |
1037 <p>In recent years many politicians on the left have repeatedly a… | |
1038 <p><em>Vladislav Inozemtsev writes on global economy and mod… | |
1039 <p><em>Yaroslav Romanchuk is a Belarusian economist and pol… | |
1040 <p><em>Dr. Vitali Shkliarov is an expert in U.S.-Russian rel… | |
1041 <p><em>Image: Reuters</em></p> | |
1042 | |
1043 <a href="https://nationalinterest.org/feature/can-private-sector… | |
1044 </item> | |
1045 <item> <title>Russia Wins a Substantial Victory on Nord Stream 2</title> | |
1046 <link>http://nationalinterest.org/node/190849</link> | |
1047 <description>For Russia, the benefits of a completed Nord Stream 2 are … | |
1048 <author>John Ruehl</author> | |
1049 <category>Nord Stream 2</category> | |
1050 <guid isPermaLink="false">http://nationalinterest.org/node/190849</guid> | |
1051 <pubDate>Sun, 01 Aug 2021 19:03 EDT</pubDate> | |
1052 <source url="https://nationalinterest.org/rssfeed">The National Interes… | |
1053 <content:encoded><p><b>John Ruehl</b></p> | |
1054 <p><em><category>Nord Stream 2, Europe</category>… | |
1055 <a href="https://nationalinterest.org/206900"><a href… | |
1056 <h3>For Russia, the benefits of a completed Nord Stream 2 are plen… | |
1057 <title>Russia Wins a Substantial Victory on Nord Stream 2</titl… | |
1058 <p>Russian president Vladimir Putin will no doubt feel extremely s… | |
1059 <p>With barely sixty miles of the 764-mile <a href="https:… | |
1060 <p>The project ensures Europe remains heavily dependent on <a h… | |
1061 <p>But the Biden administration calculated that continuing to expr… | |
1062 <p>It also states that should Russia use energy as a weapon or mil… | |
1063 <p>Germany is Russia’s most lucrative gas market, and the new pi… | |
1064 <p>The Bush administration voiced its opposition to the initial No… | |
1065 <p>An increase in Russian gas would also make U.S. liquid natural … | |
1066 <p>But although the European Union (EU) and NATO imposed sanctions… | |
1067 <p>President Donald Trump did <a href="https://www.bbc.com… | |
1068 <p>President Joe Biden recently <a href="https://www.nytim… | |
1069 <p>Last week’s agreement still reflects the growing realization … | |
1070 <p>Nord Stream and Nord Stream 2 have also increased tensions betw… | |
1071 <p>For future cutoffs, Ukraine risks not only a loss of transit fe… | |
1072 <p>Former German chancellor Gerard Schroeder, who signed off on th… | |
1073 <p>For Russia, the benefits of a completed Nord Stream 2 are plent… | |
1074 <p>And as an added bonus, the project has also expanded Russia’s… | |
1075 <p>The United States and Russia are holding more high-level talks … | |
1076 <p><i>John Ruehl is a contributing editor at Strategic Polic… | |
1077 <p><i>Image: Reuters.</i></p> | |
1078 | |
1079 <a href="https://nationalinterest.org/feature/russia-wins-substa… | |
1080 </item> | |
1081 <item> <title>A Huge 50-Round Magazine Makes the Kel-Tec CP33 Unlike An… | |
1082 <link>http://nationalinterest.org/node/190870</link> | |
1083 <description>The star of the show is undoubtedly Kel-Tec’s recently-p… | |
1084 <author>Mark Episkopos</author> | |
1085 <category>Guns</category> | |
1086 <guid isPermaLink="false">http://nationalinterest.org/node/190870</guid> | |
1087 <pubDate>Sun, 01 Aug 2021 19:00 EDT</pubDate> | |
1088 <source url="https://nationalinterest.org/rssfeed">The National Interes… | |
1089 <content:encoded><p><b>Mark Episkopos</b></p> | |
1090 <p><em><category>Guns, </category></em><… | |
1091 <a href="https://nationalinterest.org/206920"><a href… | |
1092 <h3>The star of the show is undoubtedly Kel-Tec’s recently-paten… | |
1093 <title>A Huge 50-Round Magazine Makes the Kel-Tec CP33 Unlike Any … | |
1094 <p><strong>Here's What You Need To Remember: </stro… | |
1095 <p>From “<a href="https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz… | |
1096 <p>It’s immediately apparent from the pistol’s unorthodox desi… | |
1097 <p>But the star of the show is undoubtedly Kel-Tec’s recently-pa… | |
1098 <p>The CP33 handles with the ease normally expected of .22 LR pist… | |
1099 <p>At an overall length of 10.6 inches and loaded weight of just u… | |
1100 <p><article> | |
1101 <p><em>Mark Episkopos is a frequent contributor to The Nati… | |
1102 <p><em><a href="https://i.redd.it/m0902cwy5gn21.jpg&… | |
1103 <p></article></p> | |
1104 | |
1105 <a href="https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/huge-50-round-… | |
1106 </item> | |
1107 <item> <title>Have DirecTV? Don't Fall for this Social Security Nu… | |
1108 <link>http://nationalinterest.org/node/190860</link> | |
1109 <description>Social engineers try to trick you into taking a certain ac… | |
1110 <author>Stephen Silver</author> | |
1111 <category>Social Security, Scam</category> | |
1112 <guid isPermaLink="false">http://nationalinterest.org/node/190860</guid> | |
1113 <pubDate>Sun, 01 Aug 2021 18:39 EDT</pubDate> | |
1114 <source url="https://nationalinterest.org/rssfeed">The National Interes… | |
1115 <content:encoded><p><b>Stephen Silver</b></p> | |
1116 <p><em><category>Social Security, Scam, Americas</c… | |
1117 <a href="https://nationalinterest.org/206910"><a href… | |
1118 <h3>Social engineers try to trick you into taking a certain action… | |
1119 <title>Have DirecTV? Don't Fall for this Social Security Numb… | |
1120 <p>A prosecutor in Maryland is warning of a Social Security scam, … | |
1121 <p><a href="https://southernmarylandchronicle.com/2021/07/… | |
1122 <p>“Some customers have received official-looking materials in t… | |
1123 <p>Those who receive such calls are advised to “report postal fr… | |
1124 <p>AT&T’s<a href="https://www.att.com/support/articl… | |
1125 <p>“Social engineers try to trick you into taking a certain acti… | |
1126 <p>AT&T currently owns DirecTV and has since 2016. However, th… | |
1127 <p>There are now indications that<a href="https://www.19fo… | |
1128 <p>“The company expects the DIRECTV/TPG transaction to close in … | |
1129 <p>Another recent report found that after the deal closes, the str… | |
1130 <p>“After starting off as DirecTV Now and then transitioning to … | |
1131 <p><em> Stephen Silver, a technology writer for The Nationa… | |
1132 <p><em>Image: Reuters.</em></p> | |
1133 | |
1134 <a href="https://nationalinterest.org/blog/techland/have-directv… | |
1135 </item> | |
1136 <item> <title>Crazy Fact: The U.S. Conducted 1,032 Nuclear Weapons Tes… | |
1137 <link>http://nationalinterest.org/node/190937</link> | |
1138 <description>Between 1945 and 1992, the United States conducted 1,032 … | |
1139 <author>Kyle Mizokami</author> | |
1140 <category>Nuclear Weapons</category> | |
1141 <guid isPermaLink="false">http://nationalinterest.org/node/190937</guid> | |
1142 <pubDate>Sun, 01 Aug 2021 18:34 EDT</pubDate> | |
1143 <source url="https://nationalinterest.org/rssfeed">The National Interes… | |
1144 <content:encoded><p><b>Kyle Mizokami</b></p> | |
1145 <p><em><category>Nuclear Weapons, Americas</categor… | |
1146 <a href="https://nationalinterest.org/206978"><a href… | |
1147 <h3>Between 1945 and 1992, the United States conducted 1,032 nucl… | |
1148 <title>Crazy Fact: The U.S. Conducted 1,032 Nuclear Weapons Tests… | |
1149 <p><strong>Here's What You Need to Know</strong>:… | |
1150 <p>Nuclear weapons have a mysterious quality. Their power is measu… | |
1151 <p>The majority of U.S. nuclear tests occurred in the middle of th… | |
1152 <p>The bulk of the remaining nuclear tests took place in Pacific, … | |
1153 <p>The first test of a thermonuclear, or fusion, bomb took place o… | |
1154 <p>One of the strangest atmospheric tests occurred in 1962 at the … | |
1155 <p>Also in 1962, as part of a series of high-altitude nuclear expe… | |
1156 <p>Nuclear tests weren’t just restricted to the Pacific Ocean an… | |
1157 <p>In 1967, as part of a misguided attempt to use nuclear weapons … | |
1158 <p>A handful of nuclear tests were conducted in Alaska, or more sp… | |
1159 <p>During the early years of nuclear testing it was anticipated th… | |
1160 <p>U.S. nuclear testing ceased in 1992. In 2002, <a href="… | |
1161 <p><em>Kyle Mizokami is a defense and national-security writ… | |
1162 <p><em>This article first appeared several years ago.</em… | |
1163 <p><em><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/C… | |
1164 | |
1165 <a href="https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/crazy-fact-us%… | |
1166 </item> | |
1167 <item> <title>In 1981, a Soviet Spy Ship Sent Sweden on a Submarine Hun… | |
1168 <link>http://nationalinterest.org/node/190735</link> | |
1169 <description>Sweden was theoretically neutral during the Cold War, but … | |
1170 <author>Sebastien Roblin</author> | |
1171 <category>Russia</category> | |
1172 <guid isPermaLink="false">http://nationalinterest.org/node/190735</guid> | |
1173 <pubDate>Sun, 01 Aug 2021 18:33 EDT</pubDate> | |
1174 <source url="https://nationalinterest.org/rssfeed">The National Interes… | |
1175 <content:encoded><p><b>Sebastien Roblin</b></p> | |
1176 <p><em><category>Russia, Europe</category></e… | |
1177 <a href="https://nationalinterest.org/206782"><a href… | |
1178 <h3>Sweden was theoretically neutral during the Cold War, but Stoc… | |
1179 <title>In 1981, a Soviet Spy Ship Sent Sweden on a Submarine Hunt&… | |
1180 <p dir="ltr"><strong>Here's What You Need To … | |
1181 <p dir="ltr">On the morning of October 28, 1981, two Swe… | |
1182 <p dir="ltr">Sturkmen sailed back to Karlskrona and noti… | |
1183 <p dir="ltr">The patrol boat Smyge reached the grounded … | |
1184 <p dir="ltr"><b>Recommended: <a href="http… | |
1185 <p dir="ltr"><b>Recommended: <a href="http… | |
1186 <p dir="ltr"><b>Recommended: <a href="http… | |
1187 <p dir="ltr">The boat in question was S-363, a Soviet Wh… | |
1188 <p dir="ltr">Sweden’s long Baltic coastline faced Leni… | |
1189 <p dir="ltr">Sweden was theoretically neutral during the… | |
1190 <p dir="ltr">In fact, the evening before, on October 27,… | |
1191 <p dir="ltr">As news of S-363’s grounding spread, jour… | |
1192 <p dir="ltr">Swedish radars then detected a task force o… | |
1193 <p dir="ltr">While the submarine Neptune did its best to… | |
1194 <p dir="ltr">Meanwhile, Swedish ships conducted gamma-ra… | |
1195 <p dir="ltr">After days of protracted negotiations, Capt… | |
1196 <p dir="ltr">Meanwhile a storm broke out, obscuring Swed… | |
1197 <p dir="ltr">Finally, after a ten-day standoff, Moscow p… | |
1198 <p dir="ltr">Political officer Besedin later <a href=… | |
1199 <p dir="ltr">"Our officers were ordered to blow up … | |
1200 <p dir="ltr">"Onboard, in the torpedo tubes, there … | |
1201 <p dir="ltr">Karl Andersson has questioned Besedin’s a… | |
1202 <p dir="ltr">Besedin also insisted that a navigational e… | |
1203 <p dir="ltr">The episode precipitated a decade of intens… | |
1204 <p dir="ltr">The submarine hunt aroused domestic controv… | |
1205 <p dir="ltr">The submarine infiltrations appeared to cea… | |
1206 <p dir="ltr"><em>Sébastien Roblin holds a Master�… | |
1207 <p dir="ltr"><em><a href="https://en.wikip… | |
1208 | |
1209 <a href="https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/1981-soviet-sp… | |
1210 </item> | |
1211 <item> <title>Samsung’s QD-OLED TV Seen Arriving in Early 2022</title> | |
1212 <link>http://nationalinterest.org/node/190681</link> | |
1213 <description>Samsung has been looking at making TVs that feature a new… | |
1214 <author>Stephen Silver</author> | |
1215 <category>Consumer Electronics</category> | |
1216 <guid isPermaLink="false">http://nationalinterest.org/node/190681</guid> | |
1217 <pubDate>Sun, 01 Aug 2021 18:11 EDT</pubDate> | |
1218 <source url="https://nationalinterest.org/rssfeed">The National Interes… | |
1219 <content:encoded><p><b>Stephen Silver</b></p> | |
1220 <p><em><category>Consumer Electronics, </category&g… | |
1221 <a href="https://nationalinterest.org/206748"><a href… | |
1222 <h3>Samsung has been looking at making TVs that feature a new ver… | |
1223 <title>Samsung’s QD-OLED TV Seen Arriving in Early 2022</titl… | |
1224 <p>It’s been known for quite some time that Samsung is looking a… | |
1225 <p>Now, a new report says that Samsung is on track to do just that… | |
1226 <p>According to a <a href="https://www.kedglobal.com/newsV… | |
1227 <p>The QD-OLED TVs, according to the report, will offer fifty-five… | |
1228 <p>“Samsung is strengthening its premium strategy. Next year, it… | |
1229 <p>The report also said that the QD-OLED TVs will “place between… | |
1230 <p>Korean Economic Daily also described the tech as “a hybrid de… | |
1231 <p>The <a href="https://nationalinterest.org/blog/techland… | |
1232 <p>“It is important to maintain the top spot of the global displ… | |
1233 <p>There was another report, <a href="https://nationalinte… | |
1234 <p>“There is no change in the idea that our QLED TVs have better… | |
1235 <p>There is an assumption that the technology, if it’s ready, w… | |
1236 <p><i>Stephen Silver, a technology writer for The National I… | |
1237 <p><em>Image: Reuters</em></p> | |
1238 | |
1239 <a href="https://nationalinterest.org/blog/techland/samsung%E2%8… | |
1240 </item> | |
1241 <item> <title>Size of the Fight: The HMS Electra Was Britain's Bol… | |
1242 <link>http://nationalinterest.org/node/190717</link> | |
1243 <description>Charging out of the smoke and into broad daylight, Electr… | |
1244 <author>Warfare History Network</author> | |
1245 <category>History</category> | |
1246 <guid isPermaLink="false">http://nationalinterest.org/node/190717</guid> | |
1247 <pubDate>Sun, 01 Aug 2021 18:00 EDT</pubDate> | |
1248 <source url="https://nationalinterest.org/rssfeed">The National Interes… | |
1249 <content:encoded><p><b>Warfare History Network</b><… | |
1250 <p><em><category>History, World</category></e… | |
1251 <a href="https://nationalinterest.org/206773"><a href… | |
1252 <h3>Charging out of the smoke and into broad daylight, Electra f… | |
1253 <title>Size of the Fight: The HMS Electra Was Britain's Bolde… | |
1254 <p><strong>Key Point: </strong>War clouds gathered ra… | |
1255 <p>Meanwhile, in Liverpool passengers boarded the liner SS <em… | |
1256 <p>However, through the periscope of <em>U-30</em>, … | |
1257 <p>Among the five ships that responded to <em>Athenia</e… | |
1258 <p><strong>Obsolete Before She Launched</strong></p… | |
1259 <p>For <em>Electra</em>, it was the first but not the… | |
1260 <p>Like so many modern weapons, <em>Electra</em> was… | |
1261 <p>When World War II started, Great Britain would have 113 modern … | |
1262 <p><em>Electra</em> was designed for fleet protection… | |
1263 <p>The German invasion of Norway in the spring of 1940 took <e… | |
1264 <p>When the battlecruiser HMS <em>Warspite</em> made… | |
1265 <p>While still in Norwegian waters, <em>Electra</em>�… | |
1266 <p><strong>The Hunt for the Bismark</strong></p> | |
1267 <p>In May 1941, <em>Electra</em> and three other des… | |
1268 <p>All concerned thought the venerable <em>Hood</em>�… | |
1269 <p>The battlecruiser, battleship, and four destroyers steamed west… | |
1270 <p>Seas were heavy and the weather foul as the British searched th… | |
1271 <p><em>Hood</em> and <em>Prince of Wales</e… | |
1272 <p>Soon <em>Electra</em> received a radio message fr… | |
1273 <p>When he heard it, Gunnery Officer T.J. Cain rounded on the sign… | |
1274 <p><strong>A Fruitless Search for Survivors from HMS Hood<… | |
1275 <p>Gossip travels fast aboard ship. Even before the official annou… | |
1276 <p>Intermittent sleet and rain on the cold and mournful morning re… | |
1277 <p>“Good Lord,” exclaimed one sailor, “she’s gone with all… | |
1278 <p><em>Electra</em> pushed slowly through the mass of… | |
1279 <p><em>Electra</em> continued her search for hours bu… | |
1280 <p><em>Electra</em> accompanied <em>Prince of … | |
1281 <p><strong>First Escort to Russia</strong></p> | |
1282 <p>In July 1941, the destroyer was ordered to escort the first con… | |
1283 <p>The North Atlantic had been cold but was nothing compared to th… | |
1284 <p>So was <em>Electra</em>’s stay in the Russian po… | |
1285 <p>At long last, the Russians were able to scratch together a conv… | |
1286 <p><strong>After an Overhaul, Off to the Pacific</strong&… | |
1287 <p><em>Electra</em> was due for an overhaul, and for … | |
1288 <p>When at last the destroyer was ready to sail in late October, s… | |
1289 <p>As the little flotilla neared Ceylon in the Indian Ocean the cr… | |
1290 <p>In Ceylon, they met up with the battlecruiser <em>Repuls… | |
1291 <p><strong>Force Z Gets Surprised by the Japanese</strong… | |
1292 <p>Steaming in concert with <em>Prince of Wales</em>�… | |
1293 <p>Some sailors aboard were soon to notice that the combination of… | |
1294 <p>The little flotilla arrived in Singapore on December 2, 1941. T… | |
1295 <p>Within a week, there was no time for any such considerations. S… | |
1296 <p>It was a common mistake at this time for Westerners to hold Jap… | |
1297 <p>Admiral Phillips’ plan was to sail well out to sea and wait f… | |
1298 <p>After checking on another false rumor of Japanese landings, the… | |
1299 <p>Now the Royal Navy would learn the cruel truth about its new ad… | |
1300 <p>When the first planes were spotted, Commander May instinctively… | |
1301 <p><strong>Once Again, Electra is Called on to Pick Up Survi… | |
1302 <p>Despite frantic maneuvering by all of the British ships, the Ja… | |
1303 <p>Once more, as with <em>Athenia</em> and <em&g… | |
1304 <p>As many as 1,000 <em>Repulse</em> crewmen were cr… | |
1305 <p>The next few weeks saw non-stop activity. <em>Electra<… | |
1306 <p><strong>Electra’s Final Engagement: The Battle of the J… | |
1307 <p>The destroyer was in Java when news came that Singapore had fal… | |
1308 <p><em>Electra</em> found herself on the eastern end … | |
1309 <p>The little fleet put to sea on February 27, 1942, when their co… | |
1310 <p>May knew his duty. He must protect the cruiser with his own lif… | |
1311 <p>May gave orders to abandon ship as the shells kept slamming hom… | |
1312 <p>As <em>Electra</em> turned over and went down by … | |
1313 <p>Dropped off in Surabaya, <em>Electra</em>’s surv… | |
1314 <p><em>Author Glenn Barnett is a frequent contributor to<… | |
1315 <p><em>This article <a href="https://warfarehistoryn… | |
1316 <p><em><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/F… | |
1317 | |
1318 <a href="https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/size-fight-hms… | |
1319 </item> | |
1320 <item> <title>Hole in the Water: Why the Zumwalt Stealth Ship was a Was… | |
1321 <link>http://nationalinterest.org/node/190745</link> | |
1322 <description>The cost of the current upgrades is reportedly $90 million… | |
1323 <author>Sebastien Roblin</author> | |
1324 <category>Zumwalt</category> | |
1325 <guid isPermaLink="false">http://nationalinterest.org/node/190745</guid> | |
1326 <pubDate>Sun, 01 Aug 2021 17:45 EDT</pubDate> | |
1327 <source url="https://nationalinterest.org/rssfeed">The National Interes… | |
1328 <content:encoded><p><b>Sebastien Roblin</b></p> | |
1329 <p><em><category>Zumwalt, Americas</category><… | |
1330 <a href="https://nationalinterest.org/206793"><a href… | |
1331 <h3>The cost of the current upgrades is reportedly $90 million—a… | |
1332 <title>Hole in the Water: Why the Zumwalt Stealth Ship was a Waste… | |
1333 <p><strong>Here's What You Need To Remember: </stro… | |
1334 <p>In January 2019, the Navy will commission its second <a href… | |
1335 <p>Traditionally, warships are tailored to perform specific missio… | |
1336 <p>In the post-Cold War 1990s, the U.S Navy lacked peer competitor… | |
1337 <p>In the 2000s, development proceeded for a DDG-1000 destroyer in… | |
1338 <p><a href="https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/navys-s… | |
1339 <p>In addition to rapid-firing 6” guns, the <em>Zumwalt<… | |
1340 <p>The destroyer’s crew of one-hundred-and-fifty—plus a twenty… | |
1341 <p>Indeed, by 2008, the Navy was no longer highly concerned with b… | |
1342 <p>Worse, the Zumwalt’s Advanced Gun System didn’t even work t… | |
1343 <p><strong>Downsizing and Downgrades: </strong> �… | |
1344 <p>Despite the well-known difficulties of developing next-generati… | |
1345 <p>Already by 2008, the Navy sought to ditch building more than tw… | |
1346 <p>Each Zumwalt now costs $4.5 billion—in <em>addition <… | |
1347 <p>Nearly decade after she was laid down, a 2018 Government Accoun… | |
1348 <p>The need to curb runaway costs led to<a href="http://ww… | |
1349 <p>However, the <em>Zumwalt</em> currently only has Ev… | |
1350 <p>Even the destroyer’s radar cross-section has been degraded to… | |
1351 <p><strong>Ship-Hunting Stealth Destroyers?: </strong>… | |
1352 <p>What were merely three DDG-1000s good for, despite their nifty … | |
1353 <p>Even the destroyer’s stealthy hull did not offer a clear adva… | |
1354 <p>The <em>Zumwalt</em> needed a new mission—even if… | |
1355 <p>The destroyers will be modified to fire new Maritime Tomahawk B… | |
1356 <p>This surface warfare role may best leverage the <em>Zumwa… | |
1357 <p>The Navy is also working on networking sensors between its subm… | |
1358 <p>The cost of the current upgrades is reportedly $90 million—a … | |
1359 <p><em>Sébastien Roblin holds a master’s degree in confli… | |
1360 <p><em><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/C… | |
1361 | |
1362 <a href="https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/hole-water-why… | |
1363 </item> | |
1364 <item> <title>Yikes: How North Korean Weapons Have Spread around the Wo… | |
1365 <link>http://nationalinterest.org/node/190878</link> | |
1366 <description>According to a 2019 UN report, North Korea has developed … | |
1367 <author>Mark Episkopos</author> | |
1368 <category>North Korea</category> | |
1369 <guid isPermaLink="false">http://nationalinterest.org/node/190878</guid> | |
1370 <pubDate>Sun, 01 Aug 2021 17:11 EDT</pubDate> | |
1371 <source url="https://nationalinterest.org/rssfeed">The National Interes… | |
1372 <content:encoded><p><b>Mark Episkopos</b></p> | |
1373 <p><em><category>North Korea, Global</category>&… | |
1374 <a href="https://nationalinterest.org/198461"><a href… | |
1375 <h3>According to a 2019 UN report, North Korea has developed a so… | |
1376 <title>Yikes: How North Korean Weapons Have Spread around the Worl… | |
1377 <p><strong>Here's What You Need To Remember:</strong… | |
1378 <p><a href="https://nationalinterest.org/tag/north-korea&q… | |
1379 <p>In the early 1980s, Premier Kim Il-Sung’s DPRK found a lucrat… | |
1380 <p>In the following decade, DPRK branched out into the missile and… | |
1381 <p>The growing cascade of UN and EU-imposed sanctions in the wake … | |
1382 <p>According to a <a href="https://www.undocs.org/S/2019/… | |
1383 <p>North Korea also heads a robust maritime smuggling ring. In wha… | |
1384 <p>North Korea’s continued success in growing and expanding its … | |
1385 <p><article> | |
1386 <p><em>Mark Episkopos is a frequent contributor to The Nati… | |
1387 <p><em>This piece first appeared last year and is being repr… | |
1388 <p><em>Image: Reuters.</em></p> | |
1389 <p></article></p> | |
1390 | |
1391 <a href="https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/yikes-how-nort… | |
1392 </item> | |
1393 <item> <title>After $30 Billion Spent, These 5 Military Weapons Were Sc… | |
1394 <link>http://nationalinterest.org/node/190754</link> | |
1395 <author>Sebastien Roblin</author> | |
1396 <category>U.S. Military</category> | |
1397 <guid isPermaLink="false">http://nationalinterest.org/node/190754</guid> | |
1398 <pubDate>Sun, 01 Aug 2021 17:00 EDT</pubDate> | |
1399 <source url="https://nationalinterest.org/rssfeed">The National Interes… | |
1400 <content:encoded><p><b>Sebastien Roblin</b></p> | |
1401 <p><em><category>U.S. Military, </category></… | |
1402 <a href="https://nationalinterest.org/206802"><a href… | |
1403 <h3></h3> | |
1404 <title>After $30 Billion Spent, These 5 Military Weapons Were Scra… | |
1405 <p><strong>Here's What You Need to Remember: </stro… | |
1406 <p dir="ltr"><b id="docs-internal-guid-c8018d49-… | |
1407 <p dir="ltr"><b id="docs-internal-guid-c8018d49-… | |
1408 <p dir="ltr"><b id="docs-internal-guid-c8018d49-… | |
1409 <p dir="ltr"><b id="docs-internal-guid-c8018d49-… | |
1410 <p><b id="docs-internal-guid-c8018d49-7fff-c6cf-bf55-d1e85… | |
1411 <p>The United States spent $610 billion in 2018 on defense, roughl… | |
1412 <p>In part, this is because the Army scaled back hi-tech equipment… | |
1413 <p><strong>Brilliant Anti-Tank Munition</strong></p… | |
1414 <p>Even in the waning years of the Cold War, the Pentagon remained… | |
1415 <p>The ATACMS would release thirteen BATs that would float down by… | |
1416 <p>Of course, the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 and the … | |
1417 <p>At least the BATS was later adapted into miniature GBU-44/B Vip… | |
1418 <p><strong>The RAH-66 Comanche Stealth-Chopper</strong>… | |
1419 <p>Another Cold War concept was procurement of an agile and stealt… | |
1420 <p>Boeing and Sikorsky produced two lithe, Cobra-like prototypes w… | |
1421 <p>But a comparatively slow, ground-skimming “stealth” helicop… | |
1422 <p>Moreover, the Comanche was far too expensive, with development … | |
1423 <p>As unit costs skyrocketed, the Comanche was finally axed in 200… | |
1424 <p><strong>The Crusader Self-Propelled Howitzer</strong&g… | |
1425 <p>The Army’s primary field artillery system, the turreted M109 … | |
1426 <p>While M109s and their ammunition have had their range and preci… | |
1427 <p>But the forty-three-ton armored howitzer, which also depended o… | |
1428 <p><strong>The Future Combat System (FCS)</strong><… | |
1429 <p>The Crusader’s demise was hastened because a different progra… | |
1430 <p>Many legendary military systems like the M113 armored personnel… | |
1431 <p>However, trying to develop a common chassis designed from the o… | |
1432 <p>Eight years and a staggering $18.1-billion later, the FCS remai… | |
1433 <p><strong>The Ground Combat Vehicle</strong></p> | |
1434 <p>The Army tried to pick up the pieces from the FCS in a more foc… | |
1435 <p>The GCV’s beastly weight finally led Congress to cancel the G… | |
1436 <p>Many of the Army’s canceled programs were legacies of a diffe… | |
1437 <p>Another thread uniting these failed programs is an attempt to i… | |
1438 <p>The Army is now on its third attempt at a Bradley and M113 repl… | |
1439 <p>To be fair, reusable technologies did emerge from the canceled … | |
1440 <p><em>Sébastien Roblin holds a master’s degree in confli… | |
1441 <p><em><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/soldie… | |
1442 | |
1443 <a href="https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/after-30-billi… | |
1444 </item> | |
1445 <item> <title>Is the FN 509 Compact MRD the Best Home Defense Handgun?<… | |
1446 <link>http://nationalinterest.org/node/190863</link> | |
1447 <description>The FN 509 Compact MRD checks every box for a defensive pi… | |
1448 <author>Richard Douglas</author> | |
1449 <category>Handguns</category> | |
1450 <guid isPermaLink="false">http://nationalinterest.org/node/190863</guid> | |
1451 <pubDate>Sun, 01 Aug 2021 16:45 EDT</pubDate> | |
1452 <source url="https://nationalinterest.org/rssfeed">The National Interes… | |
1453 <content:encoded><p><b>Richard Douglas</b></p> | |
1454 <p><em><category>Handguns, Americas</category>&l… | |
1455 <a href="https://nationalinterest.org/206912"><a href… | |
1456 <h3>The FN 509 Compact MRD checks every box for a defensive pistol… | |
1457 <title>Is the FN 509 Compact MRD the Best Home Defense Handgun?<… | |
1458 <p>The FN 509 Compact MRD is a tiny, accurate, and very reliable h… | |
1459 <p>The Compact MRD comes with FN’s signature Low-Profile Optics … | |
1460 <p>The MRD is made with a polymer frame and is available in your c… | |
1461 <p>There are also two magazines included with the pistol, a twelve… | |
1462 <p>One upgrade that FN made to this pistol is the trigger. It’s … | |
1463 <p>With a 3.7-inch barrel, the MRD is 6.8 inches long overall. It�… | |
1464 <p>Overall, the FN 509 Compact MRD checks every box for<a href=… | |
1465 <p><em>Richard Douglas writes on firearms, defense, and secu… | |
1466 <p><em><a href="https://i.redd.it/dkxxq9wm7dd61.jpg&… | |
1467 | |
1468 <a href="https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/fn-509-compact-m… | |
1469 </item> | |
1470 <item> <title>U.S. Should Get Tougher on China’s Attacks of the Falun… | |
1471 <link>http://nationalinterest.org/node/190854</link> | |
1472 <description>Let’s hope that increasing numbers of Americans will sup… | |
1473 <author>Anders Corr</author> | |
1474 <category>China</category> | |
1475 <guid isPermaLink="false">http://nationalinterest.org/node/190854</guid> | |
1476 <pubDate>Sun, 01 Aug 2021 16:33 EDT</pubDate> | |
1477 <source url="https://nationalinterest.org/rssfeed">The National Interes… | |
1478 <content:encoded><p><b>Anders Corr</b></p> | |
1479 <p><em><category>China, Asia</category></em&g… | |
1480 <a href="https://nationalinterest.org/203321"><a href… | |
1481 <h3>Let’s hope that increasing numbers of Americans will support… | |
1482 <title>U.S. Should Get Tougher on China’s Attacks of the Falun G… | |
1483 <p>Between July 16 and July 20, <a href="https://www.youtu… | |
1484 <p>Numerous U.S. government sources have acknowledged global repor… | |
1485 <p>Falun Gong is a movement spirituality rooted in Buddhist and Da… | |
1486 <p>Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa, promotes the three princi… | |
1487 <p>The Falun Gong movement is a particular threat to the growing p… | |
1488 <p>Falun Gong practitioners have at times leaked critical informat… | |
1489 <p>There were as many as <a href="https://faluninfo.net/ke… | |
1490 <p>Increasingly adverse attention from the CCP forced the founder … | |
1491 <p>The Party felt threatened. It declared the movement a “hereti… | |
1492 <p>The persecution of Falun Gong that followed was implemented by … | |
1493 <p>Academic research has estimated the total number of liver and k… | |
1494 <p>The China Tribunal further found that, “Forced organ harvesti… | |
1495 <p>According to a 2015 Freedom House <a href="https://free… | |
1496 <p>Freedom House in 2017 independently verified <a href="h… | |
1497 <p>A critical part of the anti-Falun Gong campaign is the use of s… | |
1498 <blockquote><p style="margin-left:.5in;"><em>… | |
1499 </blockquote> | |
1500 <p>The widespread and devastating effects of state media dehumaniz… | |
1501 <p>Increasingly, Americans are waking up to the genocide being per… | |
1502 <p>This year, the Democratic Representatives who showed support, a… | |
1503 <p>Senator Menendez, who is the chairman of the Senate Foreign Rel… | |
1504 <p>Senator Rubio made a similarly pitch-perfect <a href="h… | |
1505 <p>A May 12 U.S. State Department <a href="https://www.sta… | |
1506 <p>The State Department cited media reports that “authorities br… | |
1507 <p>At the <a href="https://www.state.gov/secretary-antony-… | |
1508 <p>The 2021 United States Commission on International Religious Fr… | |
1509 <p>We might not expect many academics or major corporations to cha… | |
1510 <p><em>Anders Corr has a bachelor's/master's in po… | |
1511 <p><em>Image: Reuters.</em></p> | |
1512 | |
1513 <a href="https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/us-should-get-to… | |
1514 </item> | |
1515 <item> <title>When Spain Erupted into Civil War, Europe’s Powers Dove… | |
1516 <link>http://nationalinterest.org/node/190804</link> | |
1517 <description>A Mediterranean nation beset by military coup and civil wa… | |
1518 <author>Michael Peck</author> | |
1519 <category>Spanish Civil War</category> | |
1520 <guid isPermaLink="false">http://nationalinterest.org/node/190804</guid> | |
1521 <pubDate>Sun, 01 Aug 2021 16:22 EDT</pubDate> | |
1522 <source url="https://nationalinterest.org/rssfeed">The National Interes… | |
1523 <content:encoded><p><b>Michael Peck</b></p> | |
1524 <p><em><category>Spanish Civil War, Europe</categor… | |
1525 <a href="https://nationalinterest.org/206853"><a href… | |
1526 <h3>A Mediterranean nation beset by military coup and civil war. A… | |
1527 <title>When Spain Erupted into Civil War, Europe’s Powers Dove R… | |
1528 <p><strong>Here's What You Need to Remember: </stro… | |
1529 <p>A Mediterranean nation beset by military coup and civil war. A … | |
1530 <p>Today’s Syria or Turkey? No, it’s sunny Spain, now a peacef… | |
1531 <p>The Spanish Civil War began in July 1936 when Francisco Franco … | |
1532 <p>In some ways, the Spanish Civil War belongs to a different era.… | |
1533 <p>The Nationalist rebels were supported by Nazi Germany and Fasci… | |
1534 <p>Though the Spanish Civil War is viewed as a proving ground for … | |
1535 <p>With typical fascist unity, Franco did not reciprocate Hitler�… | |
1536 <p>For the Republicans, the world turned its back. Some British of… | |
1537 <p>Soviet officers also had the opportunity to learn modern combat… | |
1538 <p>At times the war veered into the farcical, as when Italian subm… | |
1539 <p>Perhaps the most enduring legacy of the Spanish Civil War is it… | |
1540 <p>But who the bell really tolled for was the Western democracies.… | |
1541 <p>The Spanish Civil War still leaves us with a question: What pri… | |
1542 <p>Is Franco the sort of ruler we want for the Middle East today?&… | |
1543 <p><em>Michael Peck is a contributing writer for the Nationa… | |
1544 <p><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish… | |
1545 | |
1546 <a href="https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/when-spain-eru… | |
1547 </item> | |
1548 <item> <title>Why the Glock 20 Is a Reliable Hunting and Survival Sidea… | |
1549 <link>http://nationalinterest.org/node/190871</link> | |
1550 <description>Built with Glock’s Gen4 guidelines, the Glock 20 is easi… | |
1551 <author>Mark Episkopos</author> | |
1552 <category>Gun</category> | |
1553 <guid isPermaLink="false">http://nationalinterest.org/node/190871</guid> | |
1554 <pubDate>Sun, 01 Aug 2021 16:11 EDT</pubDate> | |
1555 <source url="https://nationalinterest.org/rssfeed">The National Interes… | |
1556 <content:encoded><p><b>Mark Episkopos</b></p> | |
1557 <p><em><category>Gun, </category></em><… | |
1558 <a href="https://nationalinterest.org/206921"><a href… | |
1559 <h3>Built with Glock’s Gen4 guidelines, the Glock 20 is easily d… | |
1560 <title>Why the Glock 20 Is a Reliable Hunting and Survival Sidearm… | |
1561 <p><strong>Here's What You Need to Remember: </stron… | |
1562 <p>In a catalog saturated with popular 9mm offerings, the 10mm Glo… | |
1563 <p>Glock made its initial splash in the U.S. handgun market with t… | |
1564 <p>Seeking to maintain their foothold in the U.S. market, Glock ru… | |
1565 <p>Built with Glock’s Gen4 guidelines, the Glock 20 is easily di… | |
1566 <p>But what the Glock 20 sacrifices in size, it makes up for with … | |
1567 <p>Excessive recoil has always been the Achilles' heel of 10m… | |
1568 <p>Where does all this leave the Glock 20 today, just under 30 yea… | |
1569 <p><article> | |
1570 <p><em>Mark Episkopos is a frequent contributor to The Nati… | |
1571 <p><em>Image: Reuters</em></p> | |
1572 <p></article></p> | |
1573 | |
1574 <a href="https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/why-glock-20-r… | |
1575 </item> | |
1576 <item> <title>Nord Stream and Beyond: Rescuing Ukraine While Repairing … | |
1577 <link>http://nationalinterest.org/node/190838</link> | |
1578 <description>The deal recently struck between President Biden and Chanc… | |
1579 <author>Robert David English</author> | |
1580 <category>EU-Russia Relations</category> | |
1581 <guid isPermaLink="false">http://nationalinterest.org/node/190838</guid> | |
1582 <pubDate>Sun, 01 Aug 2021 16:00 EDT</pubDate> | |
1583 <source url="https://nationalinterest.org/rssfeed">The National Interes… | |
1584 <content:encoded><p><b>Robert David English</b></p… | |
1585 <p><em><category>EU-Russia Relations, </category>… | |
1586 <a href="https://nationalinterest.org/206890"><a href… | |
1587 <h3>The deal recently struck between President Biden and Chancello… | |
1588 <title>Nord Stream and Beyond: Rescuing Ukraine While Repairing Ru… | |
1589 <p>With the end of a belligerent “America First” Trump preside… | |
1590 <p><b>United States: </b>With economic aid and securi… | |
1591 <p><strong>Germany:</strong> That’s a lot of leftov… | |
1592 <p><b>United States: </b>Have you forgotten about the… | |
1593 <p><strong>Germany: </strong>No doubt Russia uses tra… | |
1594 <p><b>United States:</b> That’s not how we remember… | |
1595 <p><strong>Germany:</strong> Your memory is selective… | |
1596 <p><b>United States:</b> Nord Stream 2 won’t benefi… | |
1597 <p><strong>Germany: </strong>Of course it’s going t… | |
1598 <p><b>United States:</b> But isn’t it worth paying … | |
1599 <p><strong>Germany:</strong> Reliable until when? Un… | |
1600 <p><b>United States:</b><strong> </strong>… | |
1601 <p><strong>Germany: </strong>Not only do you American… | |
1602 <p><b>United States:</b> What’s your point here?<… | |
1603 <p><strong>Germany:</strong> Just as <a href="… | |
1604 <p><b>United States:</b> It was George Bush who invad… | |
1605 <p><strong>Germany: </strong>But Biden supported thes… | |
1606 <p><b>United States: </b>Whatever our mistakes in dis… | |
1607 <p><strong>Germany: </strong>Hard as it is for you to… | |
1608 <p><b>United States:</b> President Biden has now put … | |
1609 <p><strong>Germany:</strong> And not just we Germans,… | |
1610 <p><em>Robert David English is an Associate Professor of In… | |
1611 <p><em>Image: Reuters</em></p> | |
1612 | |
1613 <a href="https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/nord-stream-and-… | |
1614 </item> | |
1615 <item> <title>Social Security's Online Portal: How To Max Out Your… | |
1616 <link>http://nationalinterest.org/node/190856</link> | |
1617 <description>By having an active account with SSA, an individual can al… | |
1618 <author>Ethen Kim Lieser</author> | |
1619 <category>Social Security</category> | |
1620 <guid isPermaLink="false">http://nationalinterest.org/node/190856</guid> | |
1621 <pubDate>Sun, 01 Aug 2021 15:33 EDT</pubDate> | |
1622 <source url="https://nationalinterest.org/rssfeed">The National Interes… | |
1623 <content:encoded><p><b>Ethen Kim Lieser</b></p> | |
1624 <p><em><category>Social Security, </category><… | |
1625 <a href="https://nationalinterest.org/206836"><a href… | |
1626 <h3>By having an active account with SSA, an individual can also g… | |
1627 <title>Social Security's Online Portal: How To Max Out Your B… | |
1628 <p>Perhaps many retirees aren’t aware, but the Social Security A… | |
1629 <p>For those who haven’t set up an account yet, it would be wise… | |
1630 <p>By having an active account with SSA, an individual can also ga… | |
1631 <p><strong>Retirement Estimator Tool</strong></p> | |
1632 <p>Be aware that there is another way to check on how much Social … | |
1633 <p>The agency adds: “We can’t give you your actual benefit amo… | |
1634 <p><strong>Confirm Earnings Record</strong></p> | |
1635 <p>Furthermore, an individual can use the SSA account to double-ch… | |
1636 <p>“The amount of the Social Security benefit you or your family… | |
1637 <p>The agency added that “if earnings (are) missing from your re… | |
1638 <p><em>Ethen Kim Lieser is a Minneapolis-based Science and T… | |
1639 <p><em>Image: Reuters</em></p> | |
1640 | |
1641 <a href="https://nationalinterest.org/blog/politics/social-secur… | |
1642 </item> | |
1643 <item> <title>Heat Stroke Is a Danger, But Cardiovascular Stress Causes… | |
1644 <link>http://nationalinterest.org/node/190776</link> | |
1645 <description>Excess mortality during a heat wave is only marginally exp… | |
1646 <author>Anthony Bain</author> | |
1647 <category>Health</category> | |
1648 <guid isPermaLink="false">http://nationalinterest.org/node/190776</guid> | |
1649 <pubDate>Sun, 01 Aug 2021 15:29 EDT</pubDate> | |
1650 <source url="https://nationalinterest.org/rssfeed">The National Interes… | |
1651 <content:encoded><p><b>Anthony Bain</b></p> | |
1652 <p><em><category>Health, </category></em>&… | |
1653 <a href="https://nationalinterest.org/206823"><a href… | |
1654 <h3>Excess mortality during a heat wave is only marginally explain… | |
1655 <title>Heat Stroke Is a Danger, But Cardiovascular Stress Causes M… | |
1656 <p>Every summer we invariably deal with at least one heat wave. Wi… | |
1657 <p>Canada is not immune, as evidenced by the recent heat wave acro… | |
1658 <p>While the sharp rise in mortality rate during a heat wave is ap… | |
1659 <p><strong>Heat stroke</strong></p> | |
1660 <p>Heat stroke, perhaps the most obvious consequence of a heat wav… | |
1661 <p><a href="http://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMra1810762">… | |
1662 <p>In classic heat stroke, it is poor heat-dissipating mechanisms … | |
1663 <p>While heat stroke during a heat wave is certainly a risk, it al… | |
1664 <p><strong>Cardiovascular burden of heat</strong></… | |
1665 <p>When core and skin temperature rise, thermosensors across the b… | |
1666 <ol> | |
1667 <li>It increases the skin blood flow allowing an increased sweat r… | |
1668 <li>It increases the skin temperature to enable more heat transfer… | |
1669 </ol> | |
1670 <p>This process of increasing blood flow to the skin to regulate b… | |
1671 <p>That is where the major problem lies: A large fraction of the p… | |
1672 <p><strong>Populations at risk</strong></p> | |
1673 <p>Invariably those who cannot escape the heat, namely outdoor wor… | |
1674 <ul> | |
1675 <li><strong>The elderly</strong>: Advanced aging is as… | |
1676 <li><strong>Disease</strong>: Pre-existing conditions … | |
1677 </ul> | |
1678 <p><strong>Reducing the risk</strong></p> | |
1679 <p>The primary prevention of heat illness is through immediate beh… | |
1680 <p>However, assuring that the cardiovascular system is ready to ta… | |
1681 <p>Supervised heat therapy is emerging as a therapeutic tool for c… | |
1682 <p>In the end, exercise, a healthy diet, and perhaps also heat the… | |
1683 <p>Indeed, excess mortality during a heat wave is only marginally … | |
1684 <p><em><a href="https://theconversation.com/profiles… | |
1685 <p><em>This article is republished from <a href="ht… | |
1686 <p><em>Image: Reuters</em></p> | |
1687 | |
1688 <a href="https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/heat-stroke-da… | |
1689 </item> | |
1690 <item> <title>Long COVID: Symptoms Experienced During Infection May Pre… | |
1691 <link>http://nationalinterest.org/node/190779</link> | |
1692 <description>What the huge variability of long COVID suggests is that i… | |
1693 <author>Olalekan Lee Aiyegbusi, Shamil Haroon</author> | |
1694 <category>Coronavirus</category> | |
1695 <guid isPermaLink="false">http://nationalinterest.org/node/190779</guid> | |
1696 <pubDate>Sun, 01 Aug 2021 15:00 EDT</pubDate> | |
1697 <source url="https://nationalinterest.org/rssfeed">The National Interes… | |
1698 <content:encoded><p><b>Olalekan Lee Aiyegbusi, Shamil Haroo… | |
1699 <p><em><category>Coronavirus, </category></em… | |
1700 <a href="https://nationalinterest.org/202349"><a href… | |
1701 <h3>What the huge variability of long COVID suggests is that it ac… | |
1702 <title>Long COVID: Symptoms Experienced During Infection May Predi… | |
1703 <p>Earlier in the pandemic, it appeared that the majority of peopl… | |
1704 <p>Emerging evidence suggests that these patients experience a ran… | |
1705 <p>But understanding long COVID is difficult. Its reported symptom… | |
1706 <p>We and other researchers from the <a href="https://www… | |
1707 <p><b>Symptoms of long COVID</b></p> | |
1708 <p><a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/… | |
1709 <p>Other common symptoms include <a href="https://www.hea… | |
1710 <p>Most long COVID patients complain of symptoms experienced durin… | |
1711 <p>One of the studies we included in our review described two main… | |
1712 <p>The mid-term and long-term effects and impacts of long COVID ar… | |
1713 <p>One <a href="https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet… | |
1714 <p><b>What increases the likelihood of long COVID?</b>… | |
1715 <p>We found that a range of factors are associated with developing… | |
1716 <p>In addition, being older, female and hospitalised at symptom on… | |
1717 <p>Experiencing certain symptoms during the acute phase of infecti… | |
1718 <p>What the huge variability of long COVID suggests is that it act… | |
1719 <p>The impacts that patients report – on their lives, work and m… | |
1720 <p><a href="https://theconversation.com/profiles/olalekan-… | |
1721 <p><a href="https://theconversation.com/profiles/shamil-ha… | |
1722 <p><em>This article is republished from <a href="ht… | |
1723 <p><em>Image: Reuters</em></p> | |
1724 | |
1725 <a href="https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/long-covid-sym… | |
1726 </item> | |
1727 <item> <title>Would Germany Be Communist If North Korea Won the Korean … | |
1728 <link>http://nationalinterest.org/node/190844</link> | |
1729 <description>Korea was “the wrong war, at the wrong place, at the wro… | |
1730 <author>Michael Peck</author> | |
1731 <category>North Korea</category> | |
1732 <guid isPermaLink="false">http://nationalinterest.org/node/190844</guid> | |
1733 <pubDate>Sun, 01 Aug 2021 14:22 EDT</pubDate> | |
1734 <source url="https://nationalinterest.org/rssfeed">The National Interes… | |
1735 <content:encoded><p><b>Michael Peck</b></p> | |
1736 <p><em><category>North Korea, World</category>&l… | |
1737 <a href="https://nationalinterest.org/206895"><a href… | |
1738 <h3>Korea was “the wrong war, at the wrong place, at the wrong t… | |
1739 <title>Would Germany Be Communist If North Korea Won the Korean Wa… | |
1740 <p><strong>Here's What You Need to Remember: </stro… | |
1741 <p dir="ltr"><b id="docs-internal-guid-305676c1-… | |
1742 <p dir="ltr"><b id="docs-internal-guid-305676c1-… | |
1743 <p dir="ltr"><b id="docs-internal-guid-305676c1-… | |
1744 <p dir="ltr"><b id="docs-internal-guid-305676c1-… | |
1745 <p><b id="docs-internal-guid-305676c1-7fff-b6e4-91f0-b038f… | |
1746 <p>Would the <a href="http://nationalinterest.org/commenta… | |
1747 <p>The problem with counterfactual history is that it’s often po… | |
1748 <p>Then in September came the U.S. Marine landing at Inchon, and t… | |
1749 <p>Without a UN mandate, the Truman administration might have balk… | |
1750 <p>In fact, the United States didn’t care that much about South … | |
1751 <p>Thus, there were numerous reasons why the United States could h… | |
1752 <p>Then there is the question of China. There were really two Kore… | |
1753 <p>In that case, we again end up with the two Koreas unified under… | |
1754 <p>A less paranoid North Korea might also have been more open to C… | |
1755 <p>The question of Communist victory in Korea inevitably leads to … | |
1756 <p>Defeat in Korea would have focused American eyes on Japan. With… | |
1757 <p>Certainly, a North Korean victory would have stoked American fe… | |
1758 <p>Nor can we know whether the United States would have felt compe… | |
1759 <p>Indeed, North Korea triumphant might have led the U.S. to adopt… | |
1760 <p>Korea was “the wrong war, at the wrong place, at the wrong ti… | |
1761 <p><em>Michael Peck is a contributing writer for the Nationa… | |
1762 <p><em>This article first appeared earlier and is being repo… | |
1763 <p><em><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/K… | |
1764 | |
1765 <a href="https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/would-germany-… | |
1766 </item> | |
1767 <item> <title>Can You Survive Off of Social Security Alone? </title> | |
1768 <link>http://nationalinterest.org/node/190803</link> | |
1769 <description>Social Security payments are not intended today as a subst… | |
1770 <author>Trevor Filseth</author> | |
1771 <category>Social Security</category> | |
1772 <guid isPermaLink="false">http://nationalinterest.org/node/190803</guid> | |
1773 <pubDate>Sun, 01 Aug 2021 14:00 EDT</pubDate> | |
1774 <source url="https://nationalinterest.org/rssfeed">The National Interes… | |
1775 <content:encoded><p><b>Trevor Filseth</b></p> | |
1776 <p><em><category>Social Security, </category><… | |
1777 <a href="https://nationalinterest.org/206852"><a href… | |
1778 <h3>Social Security payments are not intended today as a substitut… | |
1779 <title>Can You Survive Off of Social Security Alone? </title> | |
1780 <p><strong>Key Point: </strong>Social Security benefi… | |
1781 <p>This operative word in this sentence is “help”; Social Secu… | |
1782 <p>The answer seems to be yes—although, as with life in general,… | |
1783 <p>One of the most important ways to survive on Social Security is… | |
1784 <p>Conversely, to make the Social Security payments go further, it… | |
1785 <p>Lastly, it is crucial to pay off various debts—credit card de… | |
1786 <p><em>Trevor Filseth is a current and foreign affairs write… | |
1787 <p><em>Image: Reuters</em></p> | |
1788 | |
1789 <a href="https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/can-you-surviv… | |
1790 </item> | |
1791 <item> <title>What Is a Breakthrough COVID Infection? 6 Questions Answe… | |
1792 <link>http://nationalinterest.org/node/190780</link> | |
1793 <description>Vaccines don’t ward off every single infection but they … | |
1794 <author>Sanjay Mishra</author> | |
1795 <category>Coronavirus</category> | |
1796 <guid isPermaLink="false">http://nationalinterest.org/node/190780</guid> | |
1797 <pubDate>Sun, 01 Aug 2021 13:44 EDT</pubDate> | |
1798 <source url="https://nationalinterest.org/rssfeed">The National Interes… | |
1799 <content:encoded><p><b>Sanjay Mishra</b></p> | |
1800 <p><em><category>Coronavirus, </category></em… | |
1801 <a href="https://nationalinterest.org/206827"><a href… | |
1802 <h3>Vaccines don’t ward off every single infection but they do m… | |
1803 <title>What Is a Breakthrough COVID Infection? 6 Questions Answere… | |
1804 <p>If you’ve been fully vaccinated against COVID-19, maybe you f… | |
1805 <p>Members of the <a href="https://nymag.com/intelligence… | |
1806 <p>As scary as the term may sound, the bottom line is that the exi… | |
1807 <p><strong>What is ‘breakthrough infection?’</strong&… | |
1808 <p>No vaccine is 100% effective. Dr. Jonas Salk’s polio vaccine … | |
1809 <p>Comparably, clinical trials found the mRNA vaccines from <a… | |
1810 <p>A quick reminder: A vaccine efficacy of 95% does not mean that … | |
1811 <p>When people get infected after vaccination, scientists call the… | |
1812 <p><strong>How common is COVID-19 infection in the fully vac… | |
1813 <p>Breakthrough infections are <a href="https://www.gavi.… | |
1814 <p>For instance, <a href="https://www.rockefellerfoundati… | |
1815 <p>Beginning May 1, 2021, the CDC stopped monitoring vaccine break… | |
1816 <p>One study between Dec. 15, 2020, and March 31, 2021, that inclu… | |
1817 <p><strong>How serious is a COVID-19 breakthrough infection?… | |
1818 <p>The CDC <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/covid-19… | |
1819 <p>Note that a breakthrough infection doesn’t necessarily mean t… | |
1820 <p>In <a href="https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciab543"&… | |
1821 <p><strong>What makes a breakthrough infection more likely?&… | |
1822 <p>Nationwide, on average more than 5% of COVID-19 tests are comin… | |
1823 <p>The likelihood is greater in situations of close contact, such … | |
1824 <p>For reasons that are unclear, <a href="https://www.cdc… | |
1825 <p>Vaccines trigger a <a href="https://doi.org/10.1038/s4… | |
1826 <p><a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cmi.2021.06.036"… | |
1827 <p><strong>How do variants like delta change things?</str… | |
1828 <p>Researchers developed today’s vaccines to ward off earlier st… | |
1829 <p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/gover… | |
1830 <p>About <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.u… | |
1831 <p>Israel, with high vaccination rates, has reported that full vac… | |
1832 <p><strong>So how well are vaccines holding up?</strong&g… | |
1833 <p>As of the end of July 2021, <a href="https://covid.cdc… | |
1834 <p>Scientists’ models suggest that vaccination may have <a h… | |
1835 <p>Across the U.S., only 150 out of more than 18,000 deaths due to… | |
1836 <p>The U.S. is becoming “<a href="https://www.cnn.com/vi… | |
1837 <p><em><a href="https://theconversation.com/profiles… | |
1838 <p><em>This article is republished from <a href="ht… | |
1839 <p><em>Image: Reuters</em></p> | |
1840 | |
1841 <a href="https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/what-breakthro… | |
1842 </item> | |
1843 <item> <title>Collecting a Dead Relative's Social Security Can Lan… | |
1844 <link>http://nationalinterest.org/node/190798</link> | |
1845 <description>A Nevada man, while he did report to SSA that his father h… | |
1846 <author>Stephen Silver</author> | |
1847 <category>Social Security Fraud</category> | |
1848 <guid isPermaLink="false">http://nationalinterest.org/node/190798</guid> | |
1849 <pubDate>Sun, 01 Aug 2021 13:22 EDT</pubDate> | |
1850 <source url="https://nationalinterest.org/rssfeed">The National Interes… | |
1851 <content:encoded><p><b>Stephen Silver</b></p> | |
1852 <p><em><category>Social Security Fraud, </category&… | |
1853 <a href="https://nationalinterest.org/206846"><a href… | |
1854 <h3>A Nevada man, while he did report to SSA that his father had d… | |
1855 <title>Collecting a Dead Relative's Social Security Can Land … | |
1856 <p><strong>Key Point: </strong>Another day, another f… | |
1857 <p>According to a Department of Justice <a href="https://w… | |
1858 <p>The man, while he did report to SSA that his father had died, h… | |
1859 <p>The defendant, the announcement said, “maintained control of … | |
1860 <p>The man faces a maximum penalty of ten years in prison and a $… | |
1861 <p>The Social Security Administration, Office of the Inspector Gen… | |
1862 <p>This is one of several recent reports of individuals being arre… | |
1863 <p>In Boston, a forty-six-year-old Massachusetts man was <a hre… | |
1864 <p>And in another case, also in the Boston area, a thirty-five-yea… | |
1865 <p>The man, according to a Justice Department press release, has a… | |
1866 <p>These all follow reports in May of <a href="https://nat… | |
1867 <p>Also in the spring, a Chicago man pled guilty to the charge tha… | |
1868 <p><i>Stephen Silver, a technology writer for The National I… | |
1869 <p><i><a href="https://www.reutersconnect.com/all?id… | |
1870 | |
1871 <a href="https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/collecting-dea… | |
1872 </item> | |
1873 <item> <title>The Air Force Held the Line in South Vietnam, But Could N… | |
1874 <link>http://nationalinterest.org/node/190777</link> | |
1875 <description>The South Vietnamese were simply outmatched.</description> | |
1876 <author>Michael Peck</author> | |
1877 <category>Vietnam War</category> | |
1878 <guid isPermaLink="false">http://nationalinterest.org/node/190777</guid> | |
1879 <pubDate>Sun, 01 Aug 2021 13:11 EDT</pubDate> | |
1880 <source url="https://nationalinterest.org/rssfeed">The National Interes… | |
1881 <content:encoded><p><b>Michael Peck</b></p> | |
1882 <p><em><category>Vietnam War, Asia</category><… | |
1883 <a href="https://nationalinterest.org/206824"><a href… | |
1884 <h3>The South Vietnamese were simply outmatched.</h3> | |
1885 <title>The Air Force Held the Line in South Vietnam, But Could Not… | |
1886 <p><strong>Here's What You Need To Remember: </stron… | |
1887 <p>Had it not been for the U.S. Air Force and Navy, the Vietnam Wa… | |
1888 <p>It was forty-five years ago, on March 30, 1972, that fourteen N… | |
1889 <p><strong>Recommended: <a href="http://www.national… | |
1890 <p><strong>Recommended: <a href="http://nationalinte… | |
1891 <p><strong>Recommended: <a href="http://nationalinte… | |
1892 <p>Unlike Tet, the South Vietnamese army, or ARVN, would not have … | |
1893 <p>Unfortunately, the ARVN was not up to the task. Facing their be… | |
1894 <p>Nonetheless, the South Vietnamese were simply outmatched. The k… | |
1895 <p>Then salvation came from the skies. Airpower had always been a … | |
1896 <p>Bad early spring weather initially limited air support. But the… | |
1897 <p>“Massive amounts of airpower were sent to support An Loc’s … | |
1898 <p>Through April and May, An Loc remained under siege sustained by… | |
1899 <p>Meanwhile, North Vietnam was feeling the wrath of American airp… | |
1900 <p>Operation Linebacker also provided a glimpse of the high-tech w… | |
1901 <p>However, the losses ran both ways. Some 134 American aircraft w… | |
1902 <p>Ironically, the Communists had forsaken their best defense agai… | |
1903 <p>At the cost of an estimated hundred thousand casualties, Hanoi … | |
1904 <p>Yet as with the whole Indochina conflict, there would be no hap… | |
1905 <p>In 1975, North Vietnam launched another mechanized offensive. S… | |
1906 <p><em>Michael Peck is a contributing writer for the </em… | |
1907 <p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_aircraft… | |
1908 | |
1909 <a href="https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/air-force-held… | |
1910 </item> | |
1911 <item> <title>Death at Dunkirk: One Battle Almost Cost Britain 200,000 … | |
1912 <link>http://nationalinterest.org/node/190774</link> | |
1913 <description>It was a doomed and military foolhardy move, but it signal… | |
1914 <author>Michael Peck</author> | |
1915 <category>World War II History</category> | |
1916 <guid isPermaLink="false">http://nationalinterest.org/node/190774</guid> | |
1917 <pubDate>Sun, 01 Aug 2021 12:44 EDT</pubDate> | |
1918 <source url="https://nationalinterest.org/rssfeed">The National Interes… | |
1919 <content:encoded><p><b>Michael Peck</b></p> | |
1920 <p><em><category>World War II History, Europe</cate… | |
1921 <a href="https://nationalinterest.org/206821"><a href… | |
1922 <h3>It was a doomed and military foolhardy move, but it signaled t… | |
1923 <title>Death at Dunkirk: One Battle Almost Cost Britain 200,000 Me… | |
1924 <p><strong>Here's What You Need To Remember: </stro… | |
1925 <p>Thankfully, this didn't happen. During nine fateful days, … | |
1926 <p>But what if Britain had been defeated at Dunkirk? As history go… | |
1927 <p>The alternate scenario almost writes itself. Instead of halting… | |
1928 <p>Dunkirk would not have succeeded without the bravery of the Fre… | |
1929 <p>For whatever reason, let us assume the British Expeditionary Fo… | |
1930 <p>Regardless of whether the BEF was evacuated or not, it wasn… | |
1931 <p>Nor would the loss of 200,000 soldiers have been fatal. Catastr… | |
1932 <p>Yet this is more than a question of manpower. In real life, los… | |
1933 <p>Ultimately, the most crucial consequence of surrender at Dunkir… | |
1934 <p>Despite being alone, Britain took the offensive. Despite the po… | |
1935 <p>None of this might have happened but for the miracle of Dunkirk… | |
1936 <p><em>Michael Peck is a contributing writer for the</em&… | |
1937 <p><em><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/C… | |
1938 | |
1939 <a href="https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/death-dunkirk-… | |
1940 </item> | |
1941 <item> <title>Worst of the Worst: These 5 Guns Are Clearly the Losers o… | |
1942 <link>http://nationalinterest.org/node/190997</link> | |
1943 <description>Not all guns are built the same or have anywhere near the … | |
1944 <author>Kyle Mizokami</author> | |
1945 <category>Guns</category> | |
1946 <guid isPermaLink="false">http://nationalinterest.org/node/190997</guid> | |
1947 <pubDate>Sun, 01 Aug 2021 12:33 EDT</pubDate> | |
1948 <source url="https://nationalinterest.org/rssfeed">The National Interes… | |
1949 <content:encoded><p><b>Kyle Mizokami</b></p> | |
1950 <p><em><category>Guns, </category></em><… | |
1951 <a href="https://nationalinterest.org/207034"><a href… | |
1952 <h3>Not all guns are built the same or have anywhere near the same… | |
1953 <title>Worst of the Worst: These 5 Guns Are Clearly the Losers of … | |
1954 <p dir="ltr"><strong>Here's What You Need to … | |
1955 <p dir="ltr">Handheld firearms have existed in one form … | |
1956 <p dir="ltr"><strong>Nambu:</strong></p&g… | |
1957 <p dir="ltr">The Nambu is one of the worst pistols ever … | |
1958 <p dir="ltr"><strong>Beretta Model 1923:</stron… | |
1959 <p dir="ltr">Beretta built many successful handguns for … | |
1960 <p dir="ltr"><strong>Type 68 Handgun:</strong&g… | |
1961 <p dir="ltr">The Type 68 was a North Korean handgun base… | |
1962 <p dir="ltr"><strong>Colt 2000:</strong><… | |
1963 <p dir="ltr">In the early 1980s, the nine-millimeter Glo… | |
1964 <p dir="ltr"><strong>Deer Gun:</strong></… | |
1965 <p dir="ltr">The CIA originally conceived a single shot,… | |
1966 <p dir="ltr"><em>Kyle Mizokami is a writer based i… | |
1967 <p dir="ltr"><em>Image: YouTube</em></p&g… | |
1968 | |
1969 <a href="https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/worst-worst-th… | |
1970 </item> | |
1971 <item> <title>Why COVID Cases Are Now Falling in the UK – And What Co… | |
1972 <link>http://nationalinterest.org/node/190778</link> | |
1973 <description>We may not see another sustained surge in infections.</des… | |
1974 <author>Paul Hunter</author> | |
1975 <category>Coronavirus</category> | |
1976 <guid isPermaLink="false">http://nationalinterest.org/node/190778</guid> | |
1977 <pubDate>Sun, 01 Aug 2021 12:11 EDT</pubDate> | |
1978 <source url="https://nationalinterest.org/rssfeed">The National Interes… | |
1979 <content:encoded><p><b>Paul Hunter</b></p> | |
1980 <p><em><category>Coronavirus, United Kingdom</categ… | |
1981 <a href="https://nationalinterest.org/206825"><a href… | |
1982 <h3>We may not see another sustained surge in infections.</h3&g… | |
1983 <title>Why COVID Cases Are Now Falling in the UK – And What Coul… | |
1984 <p>After two months of soaring COVID-19 cases in the UK, numbers h… | |
1985 <p>We should note that whether this decline will continue is as ye… | |
1986 <p>But why might cases appear to be falling again so soon after re… | |
1987 <p>SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, <a href="h… | |
1988 <p>With these coronaviruses, immunity following an infection is me… | |
1989 <p>Even immunisation will probably not give lifelong protection ag… | |
1990 <p>This lack of long-term protection against infection means that … | |
1991 <p>So is this what we’re now witnessing? Possibly. One of the ba… | |
1992 <p>With this model, cases increase rapidly at the start of an epid… | |
1993 <p>The real world, though, is rather more complex than a SIR model… | |
1994 <p>In a SEIRS model, the rise and fall of case numbers and the poi… | |
1995 <p>As in the SIR model, the rate of epidemic growth slows to a pea… | |
1996 <p>For example, if beta increases because contact between people i… | |
1997 <p><b>Beta’s coming home</b></p> | |
1998 <p>The changes we’ve seen over the past couple of months are lik… | |
1999 <p>Cases started surging dramatically towards the end of June soon… | |
2000 <p>The difference in these graphs is therefore potentially explain… | |
2001 <p><em>Paul Hunter is a Professor of Medicine, University of… | |
2002 <p><section> | |
2003 <p><em>This article is republished from <a href="ht… | |
2004 <p><em>Image: Reuters</em></p> | |
2005 <p></section></p> | |
2006 | |
2007 <a href="https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/why-covid-case… | |
2008 </item> | |
2009 <item> <title>Killing Tehran: How Israel Tried Everything to Stop Iran�… | |
2010 <link>http://nationalinterest.org/node/190740</link> | |
2011 <description>The Mossad assassination campaign did not continue after 2… | |
2012 <author>Sebastien Roblin</author> | |
2013 <category>Iran</category> | |
2014 <guid isPermaLink="false">http://nationalinterest.org/node/190740</guid> | |
2015 <pubDate>Sun, 01 Aug 2021 11:38 EDT</pubDate> | |
2016 <source url="https://nationalinterest.org/rssfeed">The National Interes… | |
2017 <content:encoded><p><b>Sebastien Roblin</b></p> | |
2018 <p><em><category>Iran, </category></em><… | |
2019 <a href="https://nationalinterest.org/206788"><a href… | |
2020 <h3>The Mossad assassination campaign did not continue after 2012,… | |
2021 <title>Killing Tehran: How Israel Tried Everything to Stop Iran’… | |
2022 <p><strong>Here's What You Need To Remember: </stro… | |
2023 <p>Approaching eight o’clock on the morning of January 12, 2010 … | |
2024 <p>As the professor’s open his car door, the person who had been… | |
2025 <p>Initially, some speculated that Iranian hardliners sanctioned t… | |
2026 <p>Nine months later, on the morning of November 29, a quantum phy… | |
2027 <p>At nearly the same time, another motorbike assassin rammed the … | |
2028 <p>Eight months later on July 23, 2011, Darioush Rezaeinejad and h… | |
2029 <p>Darioush’s wife would also state in a later<a href="h… | |
2030 <p>Six months later on January 11, 2012—nearly the anniversary o… | |
2031 <p>Iranian counter-intelligence operatives in the Ministry Of Inte… | |
2032 <p>In May 2012, Fashi was hung—and Tehran announced it had captu… | |
2033 <p>Iranian security forces are infamous for using torture, sexual … | |
2034 <p>In 2014, a journalist revealed that Washington had<a href=&q… | |
2035 <p>Of course, both public Iranian and anonymous Israeli accounts m… | |
2036 <p>There are also a few ambiguous cases to consider. Earlier on Ja… | |
2037 <p>In 2018, an<a href="https://www.politico.com/magazine/s… | |
2038 <p>Bergman alleges that the campaign was effective in terrorizing … | |
2039 <p>The Mossad campaign did, however, cause the Iranian Revolutiona… | |
2040 <p>The Mossad assassination campaign did not continue after 2012, … | |
2041 <p>However, it’s hard to deny that the campaign used tactics tha… | |
2042 <p><em>Sébastien Roblin holds a master’s degree in confli… | |
2043 <p>Image: Reuters</em></p> | |
2044 | |
2045 <a href="https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/killing-tehran… | |
2046 </item> | |
2047 <item> <title>India’s Vaccine Rollout Has Been Truly a Lost Opportuni… | |
2048 <link>http://nationalinterest.org/node/190910</link> | |
2049 <description>India’s prioritization strategy was limited to age, and … | |
2050 <author>Rajib Dasgupta</author> | |
2051 <category>Coronavirus</category> | |
2052 <guid isPermaLink="false">http://nationalinterest.org/node/190910</guid> | |
2053 <pubDate>Sun, 01 Aug 2021 11:35 EDT</pubDate> | |
2054 <source url="https://nationalinterest.org/rssfeed">The National Interes… | |
2055 <content:encoded><p><b>Rajib Dasgupta</b></p> | |
2056 <p><em><category>Coronavirus, India</category>&l… | |
2057 <a href="https://nationalinterest.org/206955"><a href… | |
2058 <h3>India’s prioritization strategy was limited to age, and to f… | |
2059 <title>India’s Vaccine Rollout Has Been Truly a Lost Opportunity… | |
2060 <p>Some 6 months after India began what is said to be the largest … | |
2061 <p>A recent instance from a remote area in one of India’s hill s… | |
2062 <p>Residents lost out because the area had no internet connectivit… | |
2063 <p>This access issue is just one of many ways India’s prioritisa… | |
2064 <p><strong>Who gets the shot first: what did experts agree o… | |
2065 <p>The World Health Organization (WHO) had foreseen vaccine shorta… | |
2066 <p>The WHO’s Strategic Advisory Group of Experts on Immunization… | |
2067 <p>They underscored that countries ensure access to priority popul… | |
2068 <p><strong>How did India prioritise vaccines?</strong>… | |
2069 <p>The <a href="https://www.mohfw.gov.in/pdf/RevisedVacci… | |
2070 <p>On March 1, the <a href="https://www.orfonline.org/res… | |
2071 <p>From <a href="https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/those-ab… | |
2072 <p>Now, despite all adults being eligible, <a href="https… | |
2073 <p>With the threat of a third wave fuelled by variants, relaxing o… | |
2074 <p><strong>How <em>should</em> India prioritis… | |
2075 <p>India’s prioritisation strategy was limited to age, and to fr… | |
2076 <p>The Values Framework points to a range of vulnerabilities and p… | |
2077 <p>Levels of COVID-19 among <a href="https://www.humanrig… | |
2078 <p>Then there are those who are at high risk of transmitting infec… | |
2079 <p>Workers in non-essential but economically critical sectors, par… | |
2080 <p>While only health workers were included in the category of esse… | |
2081 <p>Finally, to ensure equity, the needs of those who, at no fault … | |
2082 <p>This would include those living in extreme poverty, low-income�… | |
2083 <p>At least one Indian state — Chhattisgarh — tried to reach o… | |
2084 <p><strong>What’s the fallout?</strong></p> | |
2085 <p><a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/india/indias-vac… | |
2086 <p>By late May, <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/in… | |
2087 <p>During the same period, <a href="https://www.reuters.c… | |
2088 <p>Equity groups need to be given priority access to vaccinations … | |
2089 <p><em><a href="https://theconversation.com/profiles… | |
2090 <p><em>This article is republished from <a href="ht… | |
2091 <p><em>Image: Reuters</em></p> | |
2092 | |
2093 <a href="https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/india%E2%80%99… | |
2094 </item> | |
2095 <item> <title>Male Fertility Is Declining – Studies Show that Environ… | |
2096 <link>http://nationalinterest.org/node/190912</link> | |
2097 <description>For decades, sperm counts and sperm health have been decli… | |
2098 <author>Ryan P. Smith</author> | |
2099 <category>Health</category> | |
2100 <guid isPermaLink="false">http://nationalinterest.org/node/190912</guid> | |
2101 <pubDate>Sun, 01 Aug 2021 11:34 EDT</pubDate> | |
2102 <source url="https://nationalinterest.org/rssfeed">The National Interes… | |
2103 <content:encoded><p><b>Ryan P. Smith</b></p> | |
2104 <p><em><category>Health, </category></em>&… | |
2105 <a href="https://nationalinterest.org/143547"><a href… | |
2106 <h3>For decades, sperm counts and sperm health have been declining… | |
2107 <title>Male Fertility Is Declining – Studies Show that Environme… | |
2108 <p>In the U.S., nearly 1 in 8 couples <a href="https://ww… | |
2109 <p>Upon getting this news, couple after couple asks me questions t… | |
2110 <p>What my patients are really asking me is a big question in male… | |
2111 <p><strong>Male fertility decline</strong></p> | |
2112 <p>Infertility is defined as a couple’s inability to get pregnan… | |
2113 <p>For men, the cornerstone of the fertility evaluation is semen a… | |
2114 <p>A wide range of factors – from <a href="https://doi.… | |
2115 <p>In 1992, a study found a global <a href="https://doi.o… | |
2116 <p>These studies, though important, focused on sperm concentration… | |
2117 <p>The science is consistent: Men today produce fewer sperm than i… | |
2118 <p><strong>Environmental toxicity and reproduction</stron… | |
2119 <p>Scientists have known for years that, at least in <a href=&… | |
2120 <p>As the downward trend in male fertility emerged, I and other re… | |
2121 <p>A lot of this research focuses on <a href="https://www… | |
2122 <p>Plasticizers are found in most plastics – like water bottles … | |
2123 <p>Air pollution surrounds cities, subjecting residents to particu… | |
2124 <p>Endocrine-disrupting compounds and the infertility problems the… | |
2125 <p><strong>The effects of unregulated chemicals</strong&g… | |
2126 <p>A lot of chemicals are in use today, and tracking them all is i… | |
2127 <p>Current U.S. national toxicology regulations follow the princip… | |
2128 <p>A trade group, the American Chemistry Council, says on its webs… | |
2129 <p>But the reality of the current regulatory system in the U.S. is… | |
2130 <p>Dr. Niels Skakkebaek, the lead researcher on one of the <a … | |
2131 <p><em><a href="https://theconversation.com/profiles… | |
2132 <p><em>This article is republished from <a href="ht… | |
2133 <p><em>Image: Reuters</em></p> | |
2134 | |
2135 <a href="https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/male-fertility… | |
2136 </item> | |
2137 <item> <title>There's a Reason the World's Best Militaries Lo… | |
2138 <link>http://nationalinterest.org/node/191002</link> | |
2139 <description>The global arms trade has produced many excellent handguns… | |
2140 <author>Kyle Mizokami</author> | |
2141 <guid isPermaLink="false">http://nationalinterest.org/node/191002</guid> | |
2142 <pubDate>Sun, 01 Aug 2021 11:24 EDT</pubDate> | |
2143 <source url="https://nationalinterest.org/rssfeed">The National Interes… | |
2144 <content:encoded><p><b>Kyle Mizokami</b></p> | |
2145 <p><em><category>, </category></em></p&… | |
2146 <a href="https://nationalinterest.org/207039"><a href… | |
2147 <h3>The global arms trade has produced many excellent handguns, bu… | |
2148 <title>There's a Reason the World's Best Militaries Love… | |
2149 <p><strong>Here's What You Need to Remember:</strong… | |
2150 <p>The bustling global arms trade has resulted in many excellent h… | |
2151 <p><strong>The Colt M1911A1</strong></p> | |
2152 <p>Designed by prolific gun designer John Moses Browning, and firs… | |
2153 <p>The original 1911 weighed 2.4 pounds and had a seven-round inte… | |
2154 <p><strong>The Glock 17</strong></p> | |
2155 <p>The<a href="http://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/w… | |
2156 <p>From the original Glock 17, capable of carrying seventeen round… | |
2157 <p><strong>The Sig P226</strong></p> | |
2158 <p>Developed by the Swiss-German partnership Sig Sauer to replace … | |
2159 <p>The P226 was an evolution of the Sig P220, a postwar favorite o… | |
2160 <p>The Sig Sauer P226 served with the U.S. Navy SEALs for twenty-e… | |
2161 <p><strong>The Smith & Wesson M&P</strong><… | |
2162 <p>Smith and Wesson is one of the oldest names in American firearm… | |
2163 <p>Introduced in 2005, the M&P features a steel-reinforced pol… | |
2164 <p>The M&P is available in a number of midsize pistol calibers… | |
2165 <p><strong>The CZ 75</strong></p> | |
2166 <p>One of the best handguns in the world wasn’t even available t… | |
2167 <p>Locked away behind the Iron Curtain and unable to secure contra… | |
2168 <p><em>Kyle Mizokami is a defense and national-security writ… | |
2169 <p><i>Image: Reuters</i></p> | |
2170 | |
2171 <a href="https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/theres-reason-… | |
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2173 <item> <title>Cut Social Security and Medicare Spending? </title> | |
2174 <link>http://nationalinterest.org/node/190795</link> | |
2175 <description>There isn’t much vocal pushback against high government … | |
2176 <author>Stephen Silver</author> | |
2177 <category>economy</category> | |
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2179 <pubDate>Sun, 01 Aug 2021 10:55 EDT</pubDate> | |
2180 <source url="https://nationalinterest.org/rssfeed">The National Interes… | |
2181 <content:encoded><p><b>Stephen Silver</b></p> | |
2182 <p><em><category>economy, </category></em>… | |
2183 <a href="https://nationalinterest.org/206843"><a href… | |
2184 <h3>There isn’t much vocal pushback against high government spen… | |
2185 <title>Cut Social Security and Medicare Spending? </title> | |
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2200 | |
2201 <a href="https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/cut-social-sec… | |
2202 </item> | |
2203 <item> <title>Swimming Gives Your Brain A Boost – But Scientists Don�… | |
2204 <link>http://nationalinterest.org/node/190784</link> | |
2205 <description>Swimming offers a host of beneficial effects on the brain.… | |
2206 <author>Seena Mathew</author> | |
2207 <category>Health</category> | |
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2209 <pubDate>Sun, 01 Aug 2021 10:44 EDT</pubDate> | |
2210 <source url="https://nationalinterest.org/rssfeed">The National Interes… | |
2211 <content:encoded><p><b>Seena Mathew</b></p> | |
2212 <p><em><category>Health, </category></em>&… | |
2213 <a href="https://nationalinterest.org/206831"><a href… | |
2214 <h3>Swimming offers a host of beneficial effects on the brain.<… | |
2215 <title>Swimming Gives Your Brain A Boost – But Scientists Don’… | |
2216 <p>It’s no secret that <a href="https://doi.org/10.1016… | |
2217 <p>Regular swimming has been shown to improve <a href="ht… | |
2218 <p>But scientists are still trying to unravel how and why swimming… | |
2219 <p>As a <a href="https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=See… | |
2220 <p><strong>New and improved brain cells and connections</… | |
2221 <p>Until the 1960s, scientists believed that the number of neurons… | |
2222 <p>Now, there is clear evidence that <a href="https://doi… | |
2223 <p>Research shows that one of the key ways these changes occur in … | |
2224 <p>Studies in people have found a strong relationship between <… | |
2225 <p>Aerobic exercise also promotes the release of <a href="… | |
2226 <p>In <a href="https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.191640"&… | |
2227 <p><strong>But what’s special about swimming?</strong&g… | |
2228 <p>Researchers don’t yet know what swimming’s secret sauce mig… | |
2229 <p>Swimming has long been recognized for its <a href="htt… | |
2230 <p>Most of the research to understand how swimming affects the bra… | |
2231 <p>In one study in rats, swimming was shown to <a href="h… | |
2232 <p>One of the more enticing questions is how, specifically, swimmi… | |
2233 <p>Rats got six attempts to swim freely and find the hidden platfo… | |
2234 <p>Although the leap from studies in rats to humans is substantial… | |
2235 <p>Another study compared cognition between land-based athletes an… | |
2236 <p><strong>Kids get a boost from swimming too</strong>… | |
2237 <p>The brain-enhancing benefits from swimming appear to also boost… | |
2238 <p>Another research group recently looked at the link between phys… | |
2239 <p>They found that children’s accuracy was much higher for words… | |
2240 <p>The details of the time or laps required, the style of swim and… | |
2241 <p>For centuries, people have been in search of a <a href=&quo… | |
2242 <p><a href="https://theconversation.com/profiles/seena-mat… | |
2243 <p><em>This article is republished from <a href="ht… | |
2244 <p><em>Image: Reuters</em></p> | |
2245 | |
2246 <a href="https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/swimming-gives… | |
2247 </item> | |
2248 <item> <title>Is This the Start of a Russia-China Military Alliance? </… | |
2249 <link>http://nationalinterest.org/node/190866</link> | |
2250 <description>With the United States withdrawing from Afghanistan, Mosco… | |
2251 <author>Mark Episkopos</author> | |
2252 <category>Russia, China</category> | |
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2254 <pubDate>Sun, 01 Aug 2021 10:33 EDT</pubDate> | |
2255 <source url="https://nationalinterest.org/rssfeed">The National Interes… | |
2256 <content:encoded><p><b>Mark Episkopos</b></p> | |
2257 <p><em><category>Russia, China, World</category>… | |
2258 <a href="https://nationalinterest.org/206917"><a href… | |
2259 <h3>With the United States withdrawing from Afghanistan, Moscow an… | |
2260 <title>Is This the Start of a Russia-China Military Alliance? <… | |
2261 <p>Russian and Chinese troops will hold a massive round of joint d… | |
2262 <p>Chinese Defense Ministry spokesman Wu Qian<a href="http… | |
2263 <p>The drill’s underlying premise remains vague, with the Defens… | |
2264 <p>Russia’s Defense Ministry<a href="https://tass.com/de… | |
2265 <p>The Chinese state news outlet<a href="https://www.globa… | |
2266 <p>The contours of Russian-Chinese cooperation in<a href="… | |
2267 <p><em>Mark Episkopos is a national security reporter for th… | |
2268 <p><em>Image: Reuters.</em></p> | |
2269 | |
2270 <a href="https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/start-russia-chi… | |
2271 </item> | |
2272 <item> <title>Shooting Dumb: The U.S. Military Is Facing a Smart Bomb S… | |
2273 <link>http://nationalinterest.org/node/190846</link> | |
2274 <description>Yet even if the Pentagon wants more smart bombs, the U.S. … | |
2275 <author>Michael Peck</author> | |
2276 <category>military</category> | |
2277 <guid isPermaLink="false">http://nationalinterest.org/node/190846</guid> | |
2278 <pubDate>Sun, 01 Aug 2021 10:22 EDT</pubDate> | |
2279 <source url="https://nationalinterest.org/rssfeed">The National Interes… | |
2280 <content:encoded><p><b>Michael Peck</b></p> | |
2281 <p><em><category>military, Americas</category>&l… | |
2282 <a href="https://nationalinterest.org/206897"><a href… | |
2283 <h3>Yet even if the Pentagon wants more smart bombs, the U.S. defe… | |
2284 <title>Shooting Dumb: The U.S. Military Is Facing a Smart Bomb Sho… | |
2285 <p><b>Here's What You Need to Remember: </b>Fina… | |
2286 <p>Since the 1980s, smart bombs have become the wonder weapons of … | |
2287 <p>But precision-guided munitions, or PGMs, don’t do much good i… | |
2288 <p>“Current operations have demonstrated a large demand for all … | |
2289 <p>The Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile (JASSM) is a cruise m… | |
2290 <p>The CRS report coincides with a<a href="https://nationa… | |
2291 <p>CRS questions whether the Pentagon even knows how many smart mu… | |
2292 <p>The pace of PGM acquisitions is also slow. “China and Russia … | |
2293 <p>Yet even if the Pentagon wants more smart bombs, the U.S. defen… | |
2294 <p>Then there is the question of whether America can even produce … | |
2295 <p>Finally, while smart munitions are invaluable—better to expen… | |
2296 <p><em>Michael Peck is a contributing writer for the Nationa… | |
2297 <p><i><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/soldier… | |
2298 | |
2299 <a href="https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/shooting-dumb-… | |
2300 </item> | |
2301 <item> <title>Bad News: Social Security Covers Only 40% of Retirement C… | |
2302 <link>http://nationalinterest.org/node/190799</link> | |
2303 <description>Increasing healthcare costs often hurt seniors’ financi… | |
2304 <author>Ethen Kim Lieser</author> | |
2305 <category>economy</category> | |
2306 <guid isPermaLink="false">http://nationalinterest.org/node/190799</guid> | |
2307 <pubDate>Sun, 01 Aug 2021 10:11 EDT</pubDate> | |
2308 <source url="https://nationalinterest.org/rssfeed">The National Interes… | |
2309 <content:encoded><p><b>Ethen Kim Lieser</b></p> | |
2310 <p><em><category>economy, Americas</category><… | |
2311 <a href="https://nationalinterest.org/206848"><a href… | |
2312 <h3>Increasing healthcare costs often hurt seniors’ financial w… | |
2313 <title>Bad News: Social Security Covers Only 40% of Retirement Cos… | |
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