When I was stationed aboard the USS Iowa (BB-61) for pre-commissioning of the battleship in the 1980s, the Ticonderoga class Aegis cruisers were the pride of the US Navy. I remember seeing several docked across the quay in Pascagoula Mississipi, and how fast, sleek, and intimidating they looked. Almost forty years on, and these greyhounds […]
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UK, Dutch & Danish navies escort Chinese warships heading to Baltic for drills with Russia (PHOTOS)
“A Chinese frigate, a supply ship and a destroyer are passing through Danish waters. We are escorting [them] as part of the normal surveillance we have in our territorial waters,” Klaus Thing Rasmussen, senior duty officer at the Danish military operations center, told the DR broadcaster. Rasmussen, however, declined to reveal the exact location of […]
Rogue Venezuelan Attorney Caved to International Pressure?
Rachel Boothroyd Rojas (VA) : Venezuela’s Attorney General, Luisa Ortega Diaz, has responded to a video released by Franklin Nieves last week, in which the former public prosecutor accuses the national public prosecution of mounting a “show trial” against jailed right-wing politician Leopoldo Lopez. Franklin Nieves’ profile picture on Twitter, where he describes himself […]