Male Colleagues Oppose Females on the Battlefield
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Senior leadership and a single gender-neutral standard for performance are critical for females to enter combat roles, according to male colleagues who overwhelmingly oppose the entrance of females on the battlefield, reports DefenseOne.
The first F-35 assembled and delivered outside the US was delivered to Cameri, Italy. Italy becomes the sixth nation to receive an F-35 joining Australia, Netherlands, Norway, United Kingdom and the US, reports the Aviationist.
Zacks reports oil prices could fall farther with the US Energy Department news showing another unexpected stockpile addition, moving last year’s $110 per barrel price to a current struggle to stay above $40. And OPEC abandons all pretense of acting as a cartel, rejecting a limit on production to control prices and supporting the one-year-old Saudi Arabia-led policy of pumping until rivals are squeezed out of market share, reports Bloomberg.
Lawmakers call for review of immigration visas after the San Bernardino shootings, raising new questions about vulnerabilities in the iimigration system that allowed one of the suspects entry to the US last year on a special K-1 visa, reports The Hill.
The British Parliament would only have voted to strike ISIL in Syria with an agreement to avoid conflict with Russian aircraft, Breaking Defense reports that agreement likely struck by French President Hollande after he met with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The vote unleashes the Royal Air Force.
USNI reports, Russia’s plan to create a giant nuclear torpedo capable of wiping out a coastal city could be beyond the planning stage and suggests a purpose to a mysterious nuclear submarine currently under construction.
AP reports on the discovery of what may be the world’s largest sunken treasure, on a Spanish galleon that went down off South America more than 300 years ago.
Workers at the lone Volkswagen’s plant in the US voted last week to be represented by the United Auto Workers, marking the union’s first victory at a foreign-owned automaker in the South, reports the Detroit Free Press.
The A-10 Thunderbolt-Warthog is one tough Airplane, says War History Online.
