by Leesa K. Donner | Jan 14, 2024 | Articles, Good Reads, Opinion, Politics
As the US ratchets up military strikes against the Houthis in Yemen, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin languishes in a Walter Reed hospital room recovering from a urinary tract infection (UTI) that occurred as a result of prostate cancer surgery. It has been widely...
by Dave Patterson | Jan 10, 2024 | Articles, Military Affairs, Opinion
On Monday, Jan. 8, Defense Department spokesman Maj. Gen. Patrick Ryder took the podium to speak to the Pentagon press corps about Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and his secret absence from duty. The brief was intended to clarify why his hospitalization was kept...
by Dave Patterson | Jan 8, 2024 | Articles, Good Reads, Military Affairs, Opinion
As the ramifications sink in regarding Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin’s decision to keep his recent hospitalization a secret, questions of the worst kind are arising. When the story first broke about Austin being in Walter Reed National Medical Center’s...
by Dave Patterson | Jan 8, 2024 | Articles, Good Reads, Military Affairs, Opinion
The Pentagon was without a resident Defense Secretary for almost a week – and no one knew. According to reports from inside the beltway, the highly unusual situation was made all the more peculiar because Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin III was in the hospital, and...
by Dave Patterson | Dec 23, 2023 | Articles, Military Affairs, Opinion
Recently Israeli ground forces mistook friendlies for the enemy. The tragic error resulted in three hostages who had escaped Hamas imprisonment being killed. In addition, a French foreign ministry worker was killed during fighting in Rafah. The incidents marked a...