The Economics of War

More Than 1,000 TSA Officers Have Quit Amid Shutdown Authored by Troy Myers via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said Monday that more than 1,000 Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers have left the agency since the partial shutdown began on Feb. 14. An employee with the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) checks the documents of a traveler at Reagan National Airport in Washington, Jan. 6, 2019. Joshua Roberts/Reuters Amid the record-breaking lapse in funding, DHS said that with summer months approaching and the FIFA World Cup kicking off...

While focus on Israel’s military operations tends to be on Lebanon, the Gaza Strip, and the West Bank, operations have quietly continued in southwest Syria, where Israeli troops continue to regularly enter Quneitra Governorate on patrol, setting up checkpoints and harassing locals. A force of eight IDF military vehicles also deployed into Daraa Governorate over […]

Reports of food shortages on naval ships deployed to the Middle East. Video footage of disabled military veterans—some in wheelchairs, others leaning on canes—being zip-tied and dragged out of the Capitol Rotunda for staging a peaceful, anti-war protest. Sixty-six veterans were arrested while conducting a flag-folding ceremony in recognition of the 13 military servicemembers who have died so far […]