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I read the news today, oh boy. About a lucky man named Elon Musk. But he lost out on one thing: he didnāt…
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When it comes to our nationās military affairs, ignorance is not bliss. Whatās remarkable then, given the permanent state of war in which…
As a late-stage baby boomer, a child of the 1960s, I grew up dreaming about Americaās nuclear triad. You may remember that…
When I was in the U.S. military, I learned a saying (often wrongly attributed to the Greek philosopher Plato) that only the dead have…
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