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Army recruiting: better than last year, still short of goal, officials say
[ad_1] LONDON—U.S. Army recruiting is adding about 20 percent more new soldiers than last year, the commander of the Army’s Recruiting Command said Friday, although it is still likely to fall short of its goal for the fiscal year. The Army is “doing a lot better,” said Maj. Gen. Johnny Davis at the DSEI arms ... -
Today’s D Brief: Ukraine liberates village, hits Russian warships; China investigates military chief; USAF seeks new drone bases; And a bit more.
[ad_1] Ukrainian forces liberated a village called Andriivka, located about 6 miles south of Bakhmut, Deputy Defense Minister Hanna Maliar said Friday in a terse message on Telegram. “It was difficult, and the situation changed very dynamically several times yesterday,” she added. Reuters described Andriivka as “devastated,” but said the Ukrainian advances open a door ... -
After Affirmative Action, My Black Daughter Wonders, ‘Do I Belong at a Top College?’
[ad_1] My daughter recently called me in a panic. She said, “I’m not getting into Brown!” I wondered what she was talking about. She had just finished her junior year of high school and hadn’t applied to college yet. Then I realized why she was calling. Two days earlier the United States Supreme Court ruled ... -
Behind the Data: Uncovering New Truths in School Librarian Employment
[ad_1] Keith Curry Lance of RSL Research Group has been studying school librarian employment for a long time, roughly 30 years since his first study came out. In that time, he has seen a lot of changes. But when he sat down a decade or so ago to sort out which states had gained librarians ... -
[evergreen updated July 13] Fastenal’s Q2 digital sales top $1 billion
[ad_1] Fastenal Co.’s second-quarter ecommerce sales — including transactions through the company’s web verticals and EDI — accounted for 23.3%, or $438.76 million, of net sales, the company said today. But Fastenal said its Q2 total digital sales, or what it calls its total digital footprint, accounted for 55.3%, or $1.04 billion, of total sales, ... -
Public agencies embrace more digital commerce, e-procurement
[ad_1] The state of public sector e-procurement is changing. And those changes directly relate to the same trends changing the face of B2B ecommerce. As with business ecommerce, younger and more digitally driven purchasing managers and procurement teams at government, academic and charitable organizations are now turning to more forms of digital technology — including ... -
How China could use generative AI to manipulate the globe on Taiwan
[ad_1] Chinese researchers are already investigating how to use generative AI tools—similar to ChatGPT—to manipulate audiences around the world and will likely use such tools to shape perceptions about Taiwan, according to researchers from RAND. “Given the [People’s Liberation Army] and the Chinese Communist Party’s prior intentions, their prior actions…we think is logically the next ... -
Uncertainty at the top blurs Marine Corps’ work on 2025 budget
[ad_1] The lack of a Senate-confirmed Marine Corps commandant is making it harder to draw up and defend the 2025 budget proposal, the service’s would-be leader said. “We’re very close to wrapping that up. But what I think the challenge is, again, when I cannot be somewhere to say that ‘The Marine Corps’ position is ...











