Via Reuters: The USNS Comfort, a 1,000-bed U.S. Navy hospital ship, arrives in New York Harbor and docks on Manhattan’s west side after departing Norfolk, Virginia. The Comfort will treat non-coronavirus patients, including those who require surgery and critical care, the Navy said. Hospitals in New York City have been overrun with patients suffering from…

Law, Military

Telling the Truth

by JOHN ADAMS • 02/15/2020

Cats, History, Military

Friday Catblogging: ‘Treat ’em rough – Join the tanks – United States Tank Corps’

by JOHN ADAMS • 05/24/2019

From the Library of Congress, a First World War American recruiting poster shows a black cat with prominent fangs and claws leaping above a battlefield with tanks.

Ethics, Military, Trump

About Those Bone Spurs…

by JOHN ADAMS • 12/26/2018

Steve Eder asks Did a Queens Podiatrist Help Donald Trump Avoid Vietnam?: In the fall of 1968, Donald J. Trump received a timely diagnosis of bone spurs in his heels that led to his medical exemption from the military during Vietnam. For 50 years, the details of how the exemption came about, and who made the…

America, Foreign Affairs, Military, Putin, Russia, Trump, Trump-Russia

The Return of the Second Fleet

by JOHN ADAMS • 05/07/2018

Russia, ruled by a dictator and oligarchs friendly with Trump, has made herself a political and military adversary of the United States. One reads that The Navy is resurrecting a fleet to protect the East Coast and North Atlantic from Russia: The U.S. Navy has reactivated a fleet responsible for overseeing the East Coast and North…

Holiday, Military

Memorial Day 2017

by JOHN ADAMS • 05/29/2017

Via On Memorial Day, Military Monuments Hold Special Meaning @ Voice of America News.

History, Holiday, Military

Memorial Day and Veterans Day, Explained

by JOHN ADAMS • 05/28/2017

Understanding the history and different meanings of the two holidays.

Foreign Affairs, Military, Russia

Evidence that Russian Military Unit was Behind DNC Hack

by JOHN ADAMS • 12/22/2016

Ellen Nakashima reports that a Cybersecurity firm finds evidence that Russian military unit was behind DNC hack: The firm CrowdStrike linked malware used in the DNC intrusion to malware used to hack and track an Android phone app used by the Ukrainian army in its battle against pro-Russia separatists in eastern Ukraine from late 2014…

America, Authoritarianism, Enforcement, Law, Liberty, Military, Tyranny

Gingrich’s Defense of a Self-Pardoning Administration: From Bad (12.19) to Much Worse (12.21)

by JOHN ADAMS • 12/21/2016

On the Diane Rehm Show of 12.19.16, former Speaker of the House Gingrich offered that a Trump Administration could simply pardon its own advisors to remove those advisors’ unlawful conflicts of interest: I think in the case of the president, he has a broad ability to organize the White House the way he wants to. He…