Tag: military power

Last week Sen. John Cornyn put out a web ad fighting to keep the wasteful F-22 project alive. One of the reasons was simply crazy: “It’s important to our national security because we’re not just fighting wars in Afghanistan and Iraq,” Cornyn says. “We’re fighting — we have graver threats and greater threats than that: […]

So the big talk from the right is this: Russia could use bases for its strategic bombers on the doorstep of the United States in Cuba and Venezuela to underpin long-distance patrols in the region, a senior air force officer said Saturday. “This is possible in Cuba,” General Anatoly Zhikharev, chief of the Russian air […]