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U.S. military would very likely lose a war against Russia or China (report from National Defense Strategy Commission)
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“If the United States had to fight Russia in a Baltic contingency or China in a war over Taiwan, Americans could face a decisive military defeat."
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Russia/China have "precision-strike capabilities, integrated air defenses, cruise/ballistic missiles, advanced cyber and anti-satellite capabilities, significant air and naval forces and nuclear weapons—a suite of advanced capabilities heretofore possessed only by U.S."
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First film screened in the new White House movie theater - this day in 1942 - and it was a good one
Times Square, New Year's Eve, 1945
World War II was over and America stood astride the world like a colossus; never again would it be so utterly dominant: half the world's GDP, untouched by the war itself - the only country with the bomb
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One of the worst years in American history was finally over, and Lyndon Johnson - his five-year presidency also at an end - celebrated. That awful year easily remains the worst America has endured in the last half-century
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Two Presidents died on this day. Modest men from the Midwest, each had been VP for just a few months before ascending to the top job. Harry Truman, the 33d POTUS (1945-53), died in 1972; Gerald Ford, the 38th (1974-77) in 2006
President for just three months when Franklin D. Roosevelt died, Truman became president just as World War II was ending in Europe. He made the grave decision to drop two atomic bombs on Japan, which brought the Pacific war to an end /2
Truman oversaw the Marshall Plan, Berlin Airlift, Korean War and creation of NATO—the North Atlantic Treaty Organization—a pillar of global peace and order for nearly 3/4 of a century - but is now threatened /3
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Some thoughts on the NDS Commission report & the South China Sea:
As most folks interested in national security issues are aware, the NDS Commission recently released an assessment of renewed great power competition and the state of the U.S. military. usip.org/sites/default/…
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@BlackSocialists - thoughts on this resource?

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