Author: Horace Hines

Throughout history, war has been irrevocably changed by the advent of new technologies. Historians of war have identified several technological revolutions. The first was the invention of gunpowder by people in ancient China. It gave us muskets, rifles, machine guns and, eventually, all manner of explosive ordnance. It’s uncontroversial to claim gunpowder completely transformed how we fought war. Then came the invention of the nuclear bomb, raising the stakes higher than ever. Wars could be ended with just a single weapon, and life as we know it could be ended by a single nuclear stockpile. And now, war has – like so…

Waldes Thomas and Diamond Darville were driving for the grocery delivery service Instacart near Miami in mid-April when they drove the order up to the wrong address. Thomas, 19, and Darville, 18, reportedly told authorities they were backing away from the home when the owner emerged with his son, grabbed on to the driver’s window and fired a gun three times at their car. Antonio Caccavale, who didn’t hit anyone, later reportedly claimed to police who investigated the encounter that he shot because he feared for his and his son’s lives as Thomas and Darville’s car ran over his foot…

It is the envy of the world for its diversity and vitality. Yet America appears on a likely course for a presidential election between a white man in his 80s and a white man in his 70s. And yes, they’re the same guys as last time. Joe Biden, the 46th president and oldest in history, this week formally launched his campaign for a second term in a video announcement. The 80-year-old faces no serious challenge from within the Democratic party and told reporters: “They’re going to see a race, and they’re going to judge whether or not I have it or don’t…

Bosnia’s Republika Srpska entity said it has cut all ties with Bosnia’s UK and US embassies following the US decision to add a leading RS official to its list of sanctioned individuals. The government of Republika Srpska, one of two entities in Bosnia and Herzegovina, said it would “end cooperation” with US and UK embassies in the country from Thursday, in reaction to recently imposed US sanctions on the director of the Administration for Geodetic and Property Affairs of Republika Srpska, RUGIPP, Dragan Stankovic. “The government of the Republika Srpska states that the Republika Srpska is forced to end cooperation…

A former Alaska State Trooper was found guilty Friday of attempted sexual abuse of a minor stemming from a 2018 incident in which he showed up to a hotel date to meet with a 16-year-old girl, state prosecutors said. Vance Peronto, now 62, had pulled the teen over on the Kenai Spur Highway for driving without headlights in April 2018, and began messaging her on social media shortly afterward. Prosecutors said at the time that Peronto and the girl exchanged “very explicit” and sexual messages. The contact between Peronto and the girl was reported to troopers later that month, and…

MOSCOW, March 22 (Reuters) – Russia said on Wednesday that a division of its Bastion coastal defence missile systems had been deployed to Paramushir, one of the Kuril islands in the north Pacific, some of which Japan claims as its territory. The move is part of a wider strengthening of Russian defences in its vast far eastern regions, Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said, partly in response to what he called U.S. efforts to “contain” Russia and China. Shoigu was speaking to Russia’s top army brass a day after President Vladimir Putin and Chinese leader Xi Jinping cemented their “no limits”…

India said it expected the Canadian government to secure the Indian mission’s headquarters in Vancouver amid Sikh independence demonstrations. Canada has one of the largest Sikh communities in the world. India has summoned Canada’s top diplomat in New Delhi to voice its discontent with protests by supporters of a Sikh separatist which took place outside its mission headquarters in Vancouver on Saturday. Hundreds of supporters of fugitive Sikh separatist Amritpal Singh demanded an independent Sikh state, Canadian media reported.  Delhi said on Sunday it was concerned with how the protesters were purportedly allowed to breach the security of its diplomatic mission. “It is…

The US classifies a number of semiconductors as essential to national security. REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA — The United States Department of Commerce (US) has proposed rules to prevent funds in semiconductor manufacturing and research funds from being used by China and other countries deemed to be of concern. The fund could reach 52 billion US dollars. The proposal limits US grantees from investing in expanding semiconductor manufacturing in foreign countries of concern such as China and Russia, and limits grantees with incentives to engage in joint research or technology licensing efforts with foreign entities of concern.It also classifies some semiconductors as…

Protests had gridlocked Ottawa and blocked key border crossings for weeks The Canadian government met the “high” threshold in invoking never-used emergency powers to end last February’s trucker protests, an inquiry has found. Justice Paul Rouleau, who led the probe into the use of 1988 Emergencies Act, called the decision a “drastic move” but not a “dictatorial one”. The act bestows the government with added powers in times of crisis. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau used it on 14 February 2022 – three weeks into the protests. “Lawful protest descended into lawlessness, culminating in a national emergency,” Mr Rouleau wrote in…

By the time a 6-year-old shot his teacher at a Virginia elementary school, the system had already failed him. But it is not a story unique to one child or even one state. The unidentified child has an “acute disability,” according to his family, and like 7 million other students in the U.S., he receives an education plan designed for students with disabilities, according to the family’s lawyer. Those education plans, while well-intentioned and legally binding, are often at the center of cases where U.S. schools fail to abide by them. Media reports have highlighted worries about the Newport News…