Local aviation student earns scholarship
A Gilroy aviation student has received a $1,200 scholarship sponsored by the South County Airport Pilots Association (SCAPA), a nonprofit San Martin organization dedicated to preserving the San Martin Airport and providing disaster airlift relief in times of emergency.
Vasilios Karapanos, of Gilroy, who is...
Pax Americana built by U.S. Armed Forces
The historian Thomas F. Madden described the United States as “an empire of trust,” a phrase he fashioned to compare modern America with the golden era of the ancient Roman Republic. According to Madden, both the American and the Roman republics grew into sovereign powerhouses because external threats stimulated the drive to expand their boundaries of geopolitical influence by means of superior military might, used to transform enemies into allies.
