As the humanitarian crisis at the southern border has grown, the President and his allies have called for the U.S. military to be deployed in greater numbers. I commanded the U.S. Southern Command, overseeing all forces south of this country, for a...
Sebastien Roblin
Security, Americas
Think nukes.
Of course, the U.S. military has a ground-based strategic Global Operations Center in Nebraska, and land-based transmitters for communicating with the nuclear triad. However, the E-6’s sinister...
A fresh push to repatriate Rohingya refugees to Myanmar fall flat on Thursday, with no one turning up to hop on five buses and 10 trucks laid on by Bangladesh.Members of the Muslim minority, 740,000 of whom fled a military offensive in 2017, are...
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Iranian-backed Houthi forces claimed credit for the downing of the drone, an MQ-9 Reaper.
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North Korea said Thursday it has “no interest” in dialogue unless Washington stops “escalating hostile military moves”, as a senior US envoy visited Seoul with an eye on reviving nuclear talks with Pyongyang. Talks between...
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More than two thousand military personnel and about 2500 units of military and special equipment, including more than 100 aircraft and helicopters, took part in the exercises.
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IDLIB (Sputnik) - No serious clashes between the Syrian army and militants have been reported in the vicinity of Khan Sheikhoun city in Syria's last terrorist-held province of Idlib so far, a Syrian military source said on Wednesday.
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KHARTOUM (Sputnik) - The outgoing head of the Sudanese Transitional Military Council (TMC), Abdel Fattah Burhan, was sworn in on Wednesday as the chief of the freshly formed Sovereign Council (SC).
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The Iranian military promised to formally unveil the advanced air defence system, which has been undergoing testing since 2017, later this week; the defence industry started work on the project in 2010 as a result of UN Security Council sanctions...
CHISINAU (Sputnik) - Bucharest is ready to accept more US troops who are expected to then be deployed to various policing and military units in the country, Romanian President Klaus Iohannis said following his meeting with US President Donald Trump.
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DAMASCUS (Sputnik) - The Syrian army has surrounded terrorists in settlements in the north of the Hama province south of the city of Khan Sheikhoun, a local military source said on Wednesday.
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TEL AVIV (Sputnik) - The Israel Defence Forces said on Wednesday that their troops in the occupied Golan Heights accidentally fired at a civilian aircraft after mistaking it for a trespassing Syrian plane.
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TOKYO (Sputnik) – North Korea’s Foreign Ministry said on Thursday it was committed to resolving disagreements through dialogue, noting, however, that Pyongyang was not interested in negotiations accompanied by military threats.
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As a top North Korean military official concluded a visit to China this week in an effort to boost military ties with Beijing, experts said Washington’s big-deal approach could push Pyongyang to deepen its military relations with Beijing, a...
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Sudan's 39-month transition to elections has begun.
On Tuesday evening, Sudan's ruling military council formally disbanded, and the country's generals and opposition leaders formed a new 11-member joint ruling body, which is made up of six civilians...
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It's time for United Launch Alliance's Delta IV medium rocket to retire. Luckily, you have one last chance to watch the rocket launch live.
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Why are some people calm and rational, while others become fearful and paralyzed? According to a former military psychologist, it all comes down to training and experience.
There is a classic scene in any disaster movie: The tsunami, or earthquake,...
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The United States and Russia are entering a new arms race, and the costs aren’t just monetary. On August 8, Russian civilians around the remote village of Nyonoksa found themselves downwind of a military nuclear propulsion experiment gone wrong in...
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Dave Majumdar
Security, Asia
Scary stuff.
Meanwhile, North Korea is also modernizing its armored forces—but the mechanized troops are not the main focus of the regime in Pyongyang.
While analysts often focus on the so-called Democratic...
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On Tuesday, The United States greenlighted an $8 billion sale of 66 F-16 fighter jets and related equipment to Taiwan which seeks to modernise its military and maintain credible defence capabilities.
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