Military Legitimacy


1 October 2019 – A Striking New Vision for the Marines, and a Wakeup Call for the Other Services

https://warontherocks.com/2019/10/a-striking-new-vision-for-the-marines-and-a-wakeup-call-for-the-other-services/?utm_source=WOTR+Newsletter&utm_campaign=9761da972d-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_10_30_2018_11_23_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8375be81e9-9761da972d-83039793 https://www.hqmc.marines.mil/Portals/142/Docs/%2038th%20Commandant%27s%20Planning%20Guidance_2019.pdf?ver=2019-07-16-200152-700 So What’s New for the Marine Corps? The Marines Will Focus on Naval Operations Once Again The Marines Will Focus Primarily on the Pacific The Marines Will Fight Differently The Marines Need Fewer Amphibs, More Unmanned Systems, and Possibly Fewer Marines Marines Should Have More Freedom to Do…




6 May 2019 – Israel Retaliates To A Cyber-Attack With Immediate Physical Action In A World First

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kateoflahertyuk/2019/05/06/israel-retaliates-to-a-cyber-attack-with-immediate-physical-action-in-a-world-first/#3b4b9631f895 The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has launched a physical attack on Hamas in immediate response to an alleged cyber-assault. The IDF hit a building in the Gaza Strip with an airstrike after claiming the site had been used by Hamas cyber operatives to attack Israel’s cyber space.  



18 April 2019 – U.S. Secretary of State Slammed

North Korea has called for US secretary of state Mike Pompeo to be removed from nuclear talks because of his “reckless” and “immature” behavior, according to reports. The official KCNA news agency quoted Kwon Jong-gun, a senior foreign ministry official, as accusing Mr Pompeo of “fabricating stories like a fiction writer.” https://kcnawatch.org/newstream/ Kwon concludes:…


30 March 2019 – “Tweeting Trump injects White House into SEAL war crimes case”

https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2019/03/30/tweeting-trump-injects-white-house-into-seal-war-crimes-case/ With a Saturday morning Twitter message, President Donald J. Trump ordered the Navy to modify the detention of Special Warfare Operator Chief Edward “Eddie” Gallagher, who is behind bars awaiting a court-martial trial in San Diego for allegedly stabbing to death an Islamic State prisoner. “In honor of his…


15 February 2019 – National Emergency Authority

(United States. Navy Dept. Bureau of Navigation. [1941] https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc495/) “It’s so much money, I don’t know what to do with it … But on the wall, they skimped…I could do the wall over a longer period of time, I didn’t need to do this, but I’d rather do it faster. I…


6 February 2019 – New Mexico governor withdraws National Guard from the border, slams Trump’s ‘charade’

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/new-mexico-governor-withdraws-national-guard-border-slams-trump-s-n968336 The governor of New Mexico ordered the state’s National Guard to withdraw a majority of its troops from the southern border, slamming what she called President Donald Trump’s “charade” shortly before his State of the Union address on Tuesday.