The Pentagon said earlier this year that it would try to recruit more Hispanics, who are under-represented, based on their overall numbers in the country. Sounds like a fair plan, right? Not to a group of antiwar activists in Los Angeles. The group—Latinos for Peace—announced on Monday the start of a national campaign to keep military recruiters out of high schools. The group’s goal: “to keep our children from being cannon fodder.”
In order to deny China “sanctuaries” from which it can launch air and missile salvos during a potential invasion of Taiwan, the U.S. Air Force needs to buy far more B-21 bombers and F-47 fighters than currently planned, according to a new report from AFA’s Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies.
