April 2023

By Linda F. Hersey Inside Defense/Inside Washington Publishers NATIONAL HARBOR, MD — A modernized approach to integrated fighting is transforming strategies and the mindset for future maritime combat operations, according to a panel of Navy and Marine Corps leaders speaking Tuesday at the Sea-Air-Space conference. Fighting multiple fleets simultaneously is among the challenges that military […]

By Linda F. Hersey Inside Defense/Inside Washington Publishers NATIONAL HARBOR, MD — “Peace is war without bloodshed for China” is how Naval War College Professor James Holmes described that country’s position toward rules-based order and international law that hold sway in the South China Sea and across the Indo-Pacific. “Control is how you win,” Holmes

WASHINGTON — The Defense Department has identified 400 former service members who experienced “possible or probable” exposures to chemical weapons during the Iraq War with the Department of Veterans Affairs to conduct clinical evaluations and offer consultations and treatment, according to VA officials. Called VET-HOME, the newly formed VA veterans exposure team for “health outcomes

WASHINGTON — Col. Doug Collins attended seminary school, worked as a pastor at a small-town church and served as a chaplain in the Navy and Air Force Reserve. But the attorney also served four terms as a Republican House lawmaker from Georgia and was one of President-elect Donald Trump’s most ardent defenders in 2020 during