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Pilar Revilla, 75, gets emotional after hugging a Catalan Mossos d’Esquadra officer after visiting an impromptu memorial where a van crashed into pedestrians at Las Ramblas in Barcelona, Spain, August 20, 2017.

Terror in Spain Shows ISIS Is Down not Out

by Tobin Harshaw | Aug 23, 2017 | Opinion

Spaniards have long lamented that Las Ramblas, the winding main artery of Barcelona, has devolved over the years from the tree-lined strolling place of Catalan flaneurs into a tourist trap filled by kitsch vendors and a cheesy sex museum. Now it will be associated...

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A Taiwan navy Kidd-class destoryer launches a SM-2 surface to air missile during a lifefire drill at sea near the east coast of Taiwan on September 26, 2013. Taiwan launched a US-made Standard II surface-to-air missile for the first time in six years, destroying a drone emulating a Chinese air attack. Photo: YEH/AFP/Getty Images

Nice Superweapon. Too Bad You Can’t Afford to Fire It.

by Tobin Harshaw | Mar 25, 2017 | Opinion

Talk about taking a bazooka to kill a fly: A US general reported last week that an unnamed ally used a $3.4 million Patriot missile to shoot down a hostile $200 commercial drone. General David Perkins’s point wasn’t that this was a technically remarkable...