Top U.S. officials are warning that countries around the world can no longer hide from the ramifications of an ever more ambitious and aggressive China. And they say Beijing is growing ever more comfortable flexing its military might farther away...
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Is Biden Reenlisting In The Forever Wars?
Authored by Pat Buchanan via Buchanan.org,
Thursday, in its first military action, the Biden Pentagon sent two U.S. F-15Es to strike targets of Kataib Hezbollah, an Iranian-backed Iraqi militia...
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Mark Episkopos
Security, Asia
This is one really old and backward military force.
Here's What You Need to Know: North Korea's numerical personnel superiority is not without significant caveats.
North Korea’s defense budget occupies a staggering...
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Mark Episkopos
Security, Middle East
But ISIS did.
Today, airpower continues to be the crucial military ingredient in the enforcement of Russian “de-escalation zones” strewn across the western parts of Syria, and in intermittent bombing runs...
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Turkish-Iranian tensions are rising over Turkey's ongoing military operations against Kurdish militants in northern Iraq. The regional rivals are engaged in increasingly bitter diplomatic sparring as Ankara threatens to expand its Iraqi operations...
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Nigeria’s President has ordered a massive military operation following the safe return of nearly 300 schoolgirls who were kidnapped last week – the latest in a string of abductions.
They were taken from their boarding school in Jangebe...
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Gone are the days of the Sino-Soviet Treaty of Friendship, Alliance, and Mutual Assistance, but that hasn’t prevented the two nations from building significant military, political and economic ties in recent decades in the many fields where their...
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The country can’t function with the Internet turned off, but, as long as it remains on, pro-democracy protesters can’t easily be controlled.
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The accident occurred near Camp Pendleton.
Daniel L. Davis
History, Middle East
Overwhelmingly victory in the first Gulf War convinced officers, researchers, or journalists of America's military supremacy, leading to the assumption that any future challengers could be easily defeated....
Mark Episkopos
Security, Asia
As the Su-57 enters serial production, Rosoboronexport has begun the lengthy, complex process of negotiating contracts with major prospective clients.
Here's What You Need to Know: A deep dive into Russian technology...
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Marine Gen. Frank McKenzie, the top U.S. commander for the Middle East.
Associated Press
A top US general says troops were evacuated at just the right moment before an Iranian missile attack last year.
The US military planned its movements on...
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Myanmar’s military is cracking down on dissent over the Feb. 1 coup there, arresting hundreds of protesters and journalists, including one from The Associated Press.The AP’s Thein Zaw was detained alongside Ye Myo Khant, a photojournalist from...
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[The strike was probably legal (as were similar small-scale strikes by Trump). But there are serious constitutional problems with the overall US military presence in Syria.]
F-15 fighter, similar to the ones used in the recent air strike in...
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Warfare History Network
History, Europe
A human pilot still needed to guide the planes and so had to hastily bail out before getting close to target!
Key point: The plane was not a full drone, but more of a suicide bomber without a pilot staying...
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Both chambers of the Bolivian parliament voted late last year to indict former interim president Jeanine Añez and 11 members of her cabinet over the deaths of 37 protesters against the November 2019 military coup d'etat against socialist president...
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Protests against military coup in Kayin State, Myanmar on Feb. 9. This weekend saw the bloodiest day of protests after the police and security forces fired live ammunition into crowds of protestors. Analysts fear that more bloodshed is almost...
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David Axe
Security, Middle East
Iran used to be an American allies, but has been stuck with old U.S. equipment since its revolution made Tehran hostile to Washington.
Key point: Tehran has been under a lot of sanctions since the Iranian...
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Kris Osborn
China Military, Asia
The Pentagon’s newly established China Task Force is now formally underway, a move that introduces the prospect of strategic and operational military adjustments in the Pacific intended to ensure stability and...
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Mark Episkopos
military, Europe
The T-90M is an important upgrade that Moscow hopes to roll out across 400 of its tanks.
Russia’s Army has received another shipment of modernized T-90M “Proryv” main battle tanks (MBT’s). Russian state news...
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