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** TUESDAY, JUNE 15, 2021
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Let us therefore animate and encourage each other, and show the whole world that a Freeman, contending for liberty on his own ground, is superior to any slavish mercenary on earth.
– George Washington, General Orders, Headquarters, New York [July 2, 1776]
** HORNBERGER'S BLOG
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June 15, 2021
Old and New Official Enemies ([link removed])
Doing his best to justify President Biden’s $750 billion military budget, Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told Congress that China’s military has been building its military capabilities at “a very serious and sustained rate.” Well, of course it has been. How else would the U.S. national-security establishment justify its ever-increasing budgets? I’m just surprised that Milley didn’t ...
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