Todd South
Editor-at-large
Todd South has written about crime, courts, government and the military for multiple publications since 2004 and was named a 2014 Pulitzer finalist for a co-written project on witness intimidation. Todd is a Marine veteran of the Iraq War.
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US Navy ‘wasted’ $1.8 billion on cruiser modernization program: Report
The report found that the Navy’s cruiser rehab program has had “weak oversight” and been “plagued with ... delays, wasted costs and poor-quality work.”
Special ops leaders eye alarming levels of adversary collaboration
China, Russia, Iran and North Korea are all finding ways to antagonize U.S. efforts.
This Marine unit now has its own tool to blast drones out of the sky
The system replaces a cumbersome legacy platform Marines have long used to defend the skies: The Man-Portable Air Defense System, or MANPADs.
Second man guilty in Colombian drugging, kidnapping of US soldiers
Another defendant faces trial in November. The first defendant was sentenced to 48 years.
Army officer fined nearly $100,000 for harassing female officers
Prosecutors alleged Lt. Col. Benjamin West conducted a “step-by-step” escalation of sexual harassment of three female officers at Joint Base Lewis-McChord.
These Marine units will field new mobile command vehicle in 2025
Elsewhere in the Corps, Marines conducted the service’s first organic rebuild of a JLTV engine at a Defense Department depot.
JD Vance to take Marine veteran Daniel Penny as Army-Navy Game guest
Vance publicly criticized the decision to prosecute the fellow Marine veteran.
This new tool lets brigades ‘see’ their electronic warfare footprint
A handful of operational U.S. Army brigades now have a tool to “see” how they and enemy forces look in the otherwise invisible electromagnetic spectrum.
