General Dynamics Failed to Build Artillery Shells for the Army — ProPublica

The fiasco has cost American taxpayers $533 million, according to the Army. But the Army has not held General Dynamics or a key Turkish subcontractor — which provided the factory’s much-hyped but little-proven equipment — publicly accountable for the failures. Nor has it made General Dynamics pay a penny back. 

 Just the opposite: General Dynamics, one of the world’s largest defense companies, has been showered with new contracts, continuing its track record as one of the greatest beneficiaries of Pentagon spending. The company is still in charge of the factory. It recently announced that it will fix things there by bringing in another much-hyped but little-proven technology...

 https://www.propublica.org/article/general-dynamics-artillery-factory-failed

Palantir gets $10 billion contract from U.S. Army - The Washington Post

The shift is driven, in part, by the Trump administration's focus on AI and on shifting government activities toward commercial companies...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/07/31/palantir-army-contract-10bn/

 

Army helicopter forces two jetliners to abort DCA landings : NPR

"Unacceptable. Our helicopter restrictions around DCA are crystal clear," Duffy said in a post on the social platform X. "Safety must ALWAYS come first. We just lost 67 souls! No more helicopter rides for VIPs or unnecessary training in a congested DCA airspace full of civilians."… 

Duffy said he'll also be talking to officials at the Defense Department about "why the hell our rules were disregarded."

https://www.npr.org/2025/05/03/nx-s1-5385802/dca-army-black-hawk-helicopter-airlines-abort-landings

 

Army releases report on Trump camp’s Arlington cemetery altercation - POLITICO

The Army on Friday released the report from a controversial August incident between the Trump campaign team and an Army staff member working at Arlington National Cemetery, in which the campaign staffer made contact with the Army official "with both hands," according to the heavily redacted document...

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/10/25/trump-arlington-cemetery-00185603

Far-Right GOP Congressman Wants the US Army to Be More White

Gosar, Rep. for Arizona's 9th congressional district. is known for his far-right views and has been accused of having links to White nationalists and Capitol rioters. 

The idea that the military has become too "woke" and concerned with liberal values has become a pervasive one among the far-right, due to changes such as the adoption of LGBTQ+ inclusive policies…

https://www.businessinsider.com/far-right-rep-paul-gosar-wants-us-army-more-white-2024-1

Putin’s Top Cheerleaders Panic Over Russian Army ‘Mutiny’

Solovyov pointed out: "All of them have phones and they won't stay silent. If they're being handed rotten things, if they have no helmets, no body armor, no one is going to hide it... I will tell you very politely: don't play games with people… This isn't some liberal riff-raff, these are our people and I refuse to be silent about it." Continuing with the same theme, Simonyan cautioned: "Comrades Commanders, this is not the time for this... don't anger the people!" The head of RT urged those involved in the process of mobilization to remember the story of the mutiny that occurred on the battleship Potemkin, sparked by the crew being fed maggot-infested meat. Simonyan exclaimed: "Let me remind you that in 1905, small things like these led to the first mutiny of an entire military unit in the history of our country. Is that what you want?" She starkly warned: "You're toying with armed people."…

https://www.thedailybeast.com/putins-top-cheerleaders-panic-over-mobilization-mutiny

Yes, American police act like occupying armies. They literally studied their tactics

For the past week, our social media and television screens have been dominated by images of police officers in head-to-toe body armor wielding batons, pepper-ball guns, riot shields, and teargas against mostly peaceful protesters. Many Americans are now more certain than ever that we need to “demilitarize” our police. In fact, we’ve gotten slightly closer. The aggressive response – and in many cases, over-response – of American law enforcement agencies has invigorated a bipartisan push in Congress to ban transfers of military materials to police. Yet the 20th-century history of US policing shows that truly demilitarizing the police will be more difficult than simply removing the body armor. Our law enforcement agencies learned many of the most routine aspects of contemporary policing from US imperial excursions abroad for the purpose of stamping out rebellion. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jun/08/yes-american-police-act-like-occupying-armies-they-literally-studied-their-tactics

Interior transfers parts of public lands to Army for border wall construction - The Hill

The Interior Department approved a transfer of 560 acres of public land to the U.S. Army to build about 70 miles of border wall, Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt announced Wednesday.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/462089-interior-transfers-parts-of-public-land-to-army-for-border-wall

Daily Kos: Cartoon: One day in Donald Trump's Army

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1814328

I attended the International Army Games and saw Russia's decadent and depraved military strategy first-hand - Business Insider:

What attending a tank biathlon outside of Moscow taught me about contemporary Russia....
https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/08/24/the-international-army-games-are-decadent-and-depraved/

Trump Turning 'ICE Into His Own Personal Army of Hate': California Lieutenant Governor - Newsweek

Amid President Donald Trump arrival to California Tuesday, which also includes a stop at border wall prototypes, it's lieutenant governor has slammed his visit and charged that he has turned the nation's Immigration and Customs Enforcement into his "own personal army of hate." ....
http://www.newsweek.com/trump-turning-ice-his-own-personal-army-hate-california-lieutenant-governor-843502

Trump will tap billionaire who pushed for overseas private armies to lead intelligence agency: report -- Raw Story

President Donald Trump is expected to choose the billionaire co-founder of Cerberus Capital Management -- who has pushed for turning over the ongoing conflict in Afghanistan to mercenary armies and the CIA -- to lead the President's Intelligence Advisory Board. ....
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/01/trump-will-tap-billionaire-contractor-pushed-overseas-private-armies-lead-intelligence-agency-report/

Rick Wiles Says A Foreign Army Will Invade America If We Don't Shut Down Planned Parenthood

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otY397MD9EU&feature=youtu.be

Charles Blow: Trump Is Building an Army for a Second Civil War | Alternet

The president may be preparing his supporters to revolt in the event that he's impeached.....
http://www.alternet.org/media/charles-blow-trump-building-army-second-civil-war

11 books the US Army's top officer recommends to help understand the world -- Business Insider

US Army Gen. Mark Milley at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on his nomination to be Army chief of staff, July 21, 2015. Secretary James Mattis has been heralded as a "warrior monk" for his prodigious knowledge and voracious reading habits. But Mattis, a retired Marine general, is not the only US military officer who has supplemented his martial knowledge with academic achievement....
http://www.businessinsider.com/11-us-army-chief-of-staff-book-recommendations-2017-8

The US lost track of $1 billion in weapons, and they might end up in ISIS' hands -- Business Insider

The US army has failed to monitor over $1bn worth of arms and other military equipment transfers to Kuwait and Iraq, Amnesty International says in a report citing a 2016 US government audit. The now-declassified document by the US Department of Defence (DoD) audit, was obtained by the rights group following Freedom of Information requests. ...
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/05/army-lost-track-1bn-worth-arms-170524145405542.html