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An overwhelming majority of Americans think it is vital to US interests that Ukraine beats back Russia’s invasion, while over half think providing military aid to the cause is worth it, a new survey shows. A Reagan Institute survey on national security issues found that 76% percent of Americans believe Kyiv’s victory is important to the United States, with a staggering number of Democrats (86%) and Republicans (71%) sharing this sentiment. Fewer Americans, however, are as excited about propping up Ukraine’s wartime efforts, with 59% believing that Washington should continue to provide weapons and additional support. The most common justification...

Appearing on CNN’s Boss Files with Poppy Harlow, failed Republican presidential candidate and former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina said she believes it is “vital” for President Donald Trump to be impeached.

FORT HUACHUCA — Without equivocation, Maj. Gen. Peter D. Utley said, “EPG is not closing.” For some time there has been rumors involving the potential closing of the Electronic Proving Ground, heightened by Department of Defense officials noting the military is being reduced in size. However, Utley, who heads the Army Test and Evaluation Command to which EPG is subordinate, talked about the post high-tech organization Tuesday during EPG’s 60th anniversary. At the Antenna Test Facility, where he participated in the ribbon cutting for the new Small Arc Range, the general talked with the Herald/Review after the ceremony. “The Department...

Astronauts on the International Space Station have discovered a leak of ammonia coolant on their orbiting habitat, and NASA is looking into the problem, though it poses no immediate danger to the crew, officials said today (May 9). The space station uses chilled liquid ammonia to cool down the power systems on its eight giant solar array panels. A minor leak of this ammonia was first noticed in 2007, and NASA has been studying the issue ever since. In November 2012 two astronauts took a spacewalk to fix the problem, rewiring some coolant lines and installing a spare radiator due...

US general reiterates "insignificant progress" in ME peace process. US Gen. David Petraeus reiterated Tuesday that "Israel is - has been, is and will be a - an important strategic ally of the United States." In an address to Washington based think tank the "Woodrow Wilson Center," Petraeus, commander of the US military’s Central Command, said reports claiming that he was seeking to relocate both Israel and Palestinian Territories from the European Command to his Central Command were “not correct".

WASHINGTON, March 25, 2010 – The Afghan National Army’s air corps is critical to NATO’s mission to grow and empower security forces in Afghanistan to fight the Taliban and other insurgents, a top U.S. officer posted in Kabul said today. Air Force Brig. Gen. Michael R. Boera discussed how NATO forces are helping the Afghan government to expand and refine the country’s air power capabilities during a “DoDLive” bloggers roundtable. Boera commands the Combined Air Power Transition Force for NATO Training Mission Afghanistan and Combined Security Transition Command Afghanistan, as well as the 438th Air Expeditionary Wing in Kabul. The...

BAGHDAD, Oct. 1, 2009 – It's not difficult to find a servicemember who can speak two or possibly three languages, but it's nearly impossible to find one who is fluent in five. Army Spc. Ikram Mansori smiles as she is greeted by a group of Iraqi girls at an elementary school during a combined humanitarian assistance mission in Salman Pak, Iraq. Mansori speaks five languages, including Arabic. U.S. Army photo by Pvt. Jared Gehmann   (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. For Moroccan-born Army Spc. Ikram Mansori, who now calls San Francisco home, being fluent in Arabic, French, Spanish, Moroccan...

Chicago's bid to win the right to host the 2016 Olympic Games is an important strand in President Barack Obama's diplomatic efforts to reach out to the world, his senior advisor Valerie Jarrett told AFP on Thursday. Jarrett, who was given personal responsibility by Obama of the first ever White House Office of Olympic, Paralympic and Youth Sport, said that the President and the First Lady Michelle Obama considered the Olympic Movement and the Games itself as vital to diplomacy.

ALTAQADDUM, Iraq (Jan. 26, 2008) -- It was 11:30 a.m. on March 29, 2003. Three U.S. Army soldiers with the 3rd Infantry Division were operating a checkpoint on Iraq’s Highway 9 in Najaf when an orange and white taxicab pulled over to the shoulder of the road to be searched. The soldiers went through the normal procedures. No one would ever know if they noticed something strange about the driver, only that he would detonate 100 pounds of C-4 explosive in his trunk, killing himself, the soldiers and a passing bicyclist. The explosion would become a milestone in modern warfare...

WASHINGTON, Dec. 6, 2007 – Throughout the Middle East, the U.S. Navy provides vital medical support to U.S. troops serving in the war on terror, the Navy surgeon general said today during a visit to the region. Navy Vice Adm. Adam M. Robinson Jr. spoke to online journalists and “bloggers” from Iraq, where he was midway into a trip touring medical facilities in the region. Robinson has visited U.S. Naval Forces Central Command, in Bahrain; Camp Arifjan, Kuwait; and Camp Buehring, Kuwait, which is 50 miles from the Iraqi border. In Camp Arifijan, Robinson visited the 44-bed U.S. Military Hospital...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, Aug. 28, 2007 – The National Guard is making a vital contribution to current wars and will continue to be integral as the U.S. military enter a period of persistent conflict, the Army chief of staff said here Aug. 26. With the sixth anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks fast approaching, Gen. George W. Casey Jr. counseled citizen-soldiers and -airmen to reflect on the future. “We are at war. We are facing a period of protracted conflict. … Stop for a minute and think about what’s at stake here,” he urged those attending the...

WASHINGTON, July 18, 2007 – A Tennessee-based organization provides deployed servicemembers with a link to home and the gratitude of the American public through care packages and letters it sends. “Operation Troop Aid is … striving to make a positive difference and inspire our armed forces by letting them know Americans stand with them,” Mark Woods, the group’s president, said. Operation Troop Aid is a new member of America Supports You, a Defense Department program connecting citizens and corporations with military personnel and their families serving at home and abroad. The group’s primary mission of sending servicemembers things they...

Vital satellites sitting ducks for missile attack 13:48 25 June 2007 NewScientist.com news service Robert Adler Vital communications and navigation satellites could be more vulnerable to missile attack than previously thought. After China's deliberate destruction of one of its own satellites in January 2007 (see China comes clean over shot-down satellite), two specialists in infrastructure vulnerability set out to determine whether a rogue state or terrorist group with access to an intermediate-range ballistic missile could also destroy a satellite. Using a satellite-tracking programme available on the internet, plus some university-level physics, they were able to recreate the Chinese shoot-down -...

World-class equipment and top-rate logistics are playing a vital part in helping British troops bring stability to some of the most hostile parts of Afghanistan. Report by Jason Impey. For those troops on the front-line in Afghanistan equipment and logistics play a vital part in helping them achieve their mission as they take the fight into the Taliban's heartland in order to help rebuild a nation's shattered infrastructure. Supporting more than 7,700 troops from all three Services as well as thousands of vehicles and machines is an immense task and conditions in the southern Afghan deserts in and around Helmand...

WASHINGTON, May 11, 2007 – The most powerful weapon in Iraq will be proving to the population that the government is capable of providing essential services and security, a U.S. commander in northern Iraq said today in a news conference.  An important task of the government will be competent participation at the provincial level, Army Maj. Gen. Benjamin Mixon, the commander of Multinational Division North, told Pentagon reporters via videoconference. “That confidence will enhance our security operations and enable us to ultimately defeat the enemy,” he said. Although some of the northern provinces have shown success in working toward...

Vital Signs: Potassium OverloadFunky fruit can be fatal. by Tony Dajer “Notification!” Brenda shouted as she hung up the red phone. “Eighty-year-old, altered mental status, no palpable blood pressure. Three minutes out.” While nurses gathered IV equipment and an EKG machine, two paramedics rolled in a stretcher bearing a small, moaning, barely conscious Asian woman. “Couldn’t get a blood pressure,” the chief medic said, panting. “Pulse 30 on arrival.” That meant her ventricle had stopped responding to her pacemaker, so they jolted her heart with a shot of atropine, which bumped her heart rate to 60. "Her medical history is...

WASHINGTON, April 2, 2007 – Army reserve-component training and equipment reset will be immediately affected if an emergency supplemental funding request isn’t signed into law by April 15, Defense Department officials said here today. Further, there will be serious repercussions for deployed servicemembers if the supplemental funding isn’t approved by May 15, the officials said. Both the Senate and House bills have passed bills that provide the funding but contain amendments that call for combat troops to be out of Iraq on a certain timetable. President Bush has vowed to veto any bill containing these provisions. During his weekly...

(IsraelNN.com) A new Gallup poll shows that more than half of American citizens consider Israel to be a "vital friend" in the Middle East. The average U.S. citizen considers Israel to be one of America's most important allies, according to a survey released this week by the world-renown Gallup polling organization. The poll examined America's perception of foreign nations, which it considers to be allies and which it views with disfavor. More than half of Americans rated Israel as a 'vital friend' – 55 percent of the respondents rated the Jewish State as "favorable" and "important", the only country to...

WASHINGTON, Jan. 18, 2007 – Following President Bush’s recent announcement on the new strategy for Iraq, Defense Department officials have emphasized the importance of heightened support to military families throughout the nation. Michael L. Dominguez, principal deputy undersecretary of defense for personnel and readiness, met Jan. 11 with 22 support organizations to discuss how to further help military families. “As additional forces deploy in support of the new strategies in Iraq, programs and policies at home will immediately respond to the needs of families,” Dominguez said. “These families will need grassroots support, as many are National Guard and reserve...

Climate change sceptics lose vital argument 29 November 2006 From New Scientist Print Edition. Zeeya Merali The "hockey stick" graph, which shows a rapid rise in world temperatures over recent decades, has been both poster child for the dangers of human- induced global warming and prime target for climate change sceptics. They cite an anomaly in the graph - it does not record a dip in temperature between 1200 and 1850 - as reason to ditch the whole thing. Now new data may help explain why the graph does not record the "little ice age". Ocean currents in the North...