Pentagon Confirms Over 1,000 COVID-19 Cases Among Military, Orders Bases To Stop Public Reporting
The Department of Defense (DoD) announced a grim milestone Monday — it's total number of COVID-19 cases among US service members,...
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Matthew Petti
Security,
But the military insists that it is only drawing down because it was successful.
The U.S.-led counterterrorism coalition denied that its decision to withdraw from an Iraqi base was “related to recent attacks against...
I’m trying to think of a decision that would stir public panic more than members of the military going door-to-door and checking the legal residency of those inside.
On 29 March, the Saudi military shot down three rockets during attempted strikes on the capital city of Riyadh and the port city of Jazan, near the border with Yemen, the broadcaster Al-Arabiya reported.
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David Axe
Security,
In late 2005 and early 2006, “morale was awful,” the commander admitted. And that’s when his assembled pilots, sensor operators and maintainers actually booed him during a meeting.
For the first decade after its...
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David Axe
Security,
A secretive group of U.S. Air Force intelligence specialists flying aboard American spy planes helped U.S. military commandos kill more than a thousand enemy combatants in just a single year back in 2012.
A secretive group of...
U.S.-led coalition forces have pulled out of an Iraqi military base that nearly brought Washington into an open war with Iran
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - A military spokesman for Yemen's Houthi militants said Sunday that the group targeted Riyadh and several southern Saudi cities with drones and rockets overnight, Houthi media reported.
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In early January, the United States took out Iran's top military leader, Gen. Qassem Soleimani, as he passed through Iraq. President Donald Trump's decision to order the killing of a foreign government official was controversial both at home and...
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Samuel Arlington Page
Security, Americas
And we aren't exactly winning this fight.
Our military is faced with a conflicting dichotomy. On one hand, we tout that we are the most technologically advanced military force on the planet. On the other,...
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Earlier it was reported that Washington ordered preparations for a military campaign against Iranian-backed militia groups in Iraq as the number of coronavirus patients around the world eclipses 660,000, according to Johns Hopkins University data.
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CIMSEC
Security, Asia
China is spending more on defense than you think.
Key point: Since the fall of the Soviet Union, the U.S. shipbuilding industry has experienced a tremendous decline.
China is modernizing every element of its military. It has...
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Rhode Island is deploying the National Guard and state police to "hunt down" certain people over the coronavirus.According to Bloomberg News, military personnel and police officers are searching for individuals from New York who are seeking refuge...
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Land theft / Ethnic cleansing / Settlements During the Coronavirus crisis, Israel confiscates tents designated for clinic in the Northern West Bank B’Tselem 26 Mar — This morning, Thursday, 26 March 2020, at around 7:30 am, officials from...
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Amid the coronavirus pandemic, it was reported earlier that the US army may suspend military training and impose 'restrictions of the highest level' on overseas missions.
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The fledgling military branch promised that it would continue to operate despite the coronavirus raging in the country and the US military reportedly diverting resources to help authorities combat the outbreak.
Rob York
Security, Asia
Since the end of military rule, South Korean political parties have each ruled two presidential cycles back to back. Will this pattern hold?
Can the COVID-19 pandemic change the course of history during the April 15 South...
U.S. officials say they get reports almost every day about "imminent" attacks on military and diplomatic targets.
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"This Is Unprecedented" - South Africa Invokes Military-Controlled Lockdown As Infections Soar
South Africa's 57 million people entered into a Martial law-style lockdown for three weeks starting on Friday, a move by the government that...
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The Navy is the military service hit hardest by the coronavirus crisis