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Summary List Placement The superiority the US Air Force has enjoyed in skies around the world for the past three decades is coming to an end, the service's new top officer said in his first major strategic document, published this week. In a paper titled "Accelerate Change or Lose," Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Charles C.Q. Brown Jr., who took over in August,...

In a wide-ranging interview with Business Insider on Monday, former national security adviser John Bolton discussed the 2020 election, President Donald Trump's performance, foreign interference, and the coronavirus pandemic. Bolton said that if people thought about resigning "every time something objectionable happened" in the Trump White House, "you'd last about three or four hours in the job." On Trump's suggestion to delay the November...

The US could be near the brink of war with Iran again after months of rising tensions.  The Pentagon on Thursday announced the US had killed a top Iranian general, Qasem Soleimani.  Iran's top diplomat described Soleimani's death as an act of "international terrorism" by the US. A war with Iran would likely be geopolitically and economically disastrous while further destabilizing a region that...