updated Fri. March 9, 2018
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STRATFOR
March 9, 2018
When it comes to tackling security issues in Central Asia, Russia and China will cooperate more than compete. The two countries will ramp up joint military exercises, counterterrorism training and diplomatic consultations in the region through the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. As China expands itsÃÂ ...
Business Standard
March 9, 2018
The meeting between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un would not take place without "concrete actions" that match the promises made by the reclusive nation, the White House said today. It, however, maintained that the time and place for the meeting has not beenÃÂ ...
India Today
March 9, 2018
The Indo-French strategic partnership that concluded 20 years ago, soon after India's nuclear tests in May 1998, stands on a triad-cooperation in the defence, space and civil-nuclear fields. Over the years, however, defence cooperation has largely been confined to regular military exercises between theÃÂ ...
The National Interest Online (blog)
March 9, 2018
... explore strategic issues and find bi-lateral solutions mutually supporting U.S. and Turkish interests. Through increased intelligence sharing, continued counter- terrorism coordination, and regular military-to- military dialogue, USEUCOM is committed to strengthening the trust between the U.S. and Turkey.".
Korea Times
March 8, 2018
South Korea hopes to extend the rare momentum for peace and reduce military tension on the peninsula by engaging in repeated dialogue with the North. The regular military drills, delayed until after the closing of the PyeongChang Paralympics, has been one of the major sources of conflict between SeoulÃÂ ...
The Jamestown Foundation
March 8, 2018
The reason for the disbandment of the "Cossack" military units is clear--few if any "registered Cossacks" actually served in those titular units, or really any other regular military units. According to then-chief of the General Staff, Nikolai Makarov, about 30,000 men of military service age were members of theÃÂ ...
War on the Rocks
March 6, 2018
The Quadrennial Review of Military Compensation in 2012 (the most recent available study) found that average regular military compensation for enlisted personnel and officers corresponded to the 90th and 83rd percentiles, respectively, for comparable civilians. Five years later, researchers from theÃÂ ...
Korea Times
March 1, 2018
Seoul and Washington delayed the regular military exercises until after the closing of the Paralympics in South Korea after both sides agreed to temporarily stop provocations from the North during the Olympics. But with the North sending an unexpected sign for peace, reports surfaced that the joint drillsÃÂ ...
Korea Times
March 1, 2018
Seoul and Washington delayed the regular military exercises until after the closing of the Paralympics in PyeongChang after both sides agreed to temporarily stop provocations from the North during the Olympics. But with the North sending an unexpected sign for peace, reports surfaced that the joint drillsÃÂ ...
Korea JoongAng Daily
March 1, 2018
Recollecting Korea's achieving of independence through its martyrs and activists, Moon said Thursday at Seodaemun Prison History Hall in western Seoul, "In 1940, the Korean Provisional Government founded the Korean Liberation Army, the first regular military forces of the Republic of Korea." Moon wasÃÂ ...
Korea JoongAng Daily
February 28, 2018
China could be on a regular military drill, but it could also be trying to extend its influence through a display of military prowess. China's ramped-up aggression comes amid suspicion of Chinese President Xi Jinping trying to stretch his rule beyond 10 years. The China's ruling Communist Party plans to scrapÃÂ ...
Yonhap News
February 28, 2018
China could be on a regular military drill, but it could also be trying to extend its influence through a display of military prowess. China's ramped-up aggression comes amid suspicion of Chinese President Xi Jinping trying to stretch his rule beyond 10 years. The China's ruling Communist Party plans to scrapÃÂ ...
U.S. News & World Report
February 28, 2018
Voice of America
February 28, 2018
The aircraft was told to "halt its threatening flight" and "any other actions that could raise the possibility of sudden conflict," said the South Korean defense official, adding Chinese officials told South Korea's military the aircraft's movements had been part of regular military exercises. The aircraft was told toÃÂ ...
The Hill
February 27, 2018
"I think that we would think that we should move forward, continue to do our very legal and very regular military exercises with Korea and make sure we're looping in the Japanese at every appropriate juncture." Inhofe, a senior member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, led a delegation on a trip lastÃÂ ...
NTA News
February 6, 2018
Hamza Suleiman: Nigeria will consider the absorption, into the armed forces, some members of civilian Joint Task Force (JTF) who are assisting the military in fighting Boko Haram. The JTF members, he said, should, however, be qualified to be absorbed, Minister of Defence, Mansur Dan-Ali, said onÃÂ ...
Business Insider
December 31, 1999
The Jamestown Foundation
February 16, 2018
While reforming its reserve system, Georgia has simultaneously fully ended Conscription to the regular military's combat units: these units are already almost 100 percent staffed by contract soldiers (see EDM, April 29, 2016). Instead, draftees from the "mobilization reserve" perform some auxiliary functionsÃÂ ...
Reason
February 11, 2018
While the proponents of a strong centralized government lost no time in presenting to Congress their plans for a regular military establishment, the anti-Federalist opponents of the Constitution united to prevent the creation of a standing army." The militarists did not get everything they wanted, but they gotÃÂ ...
Inland Valley Daily Bulletin
February 10, 2018
Losers and the insecure hold regular military parades for no reason other than to strut their stuff, about which they feel inadequate, often for good reason. The French armed forces march up the Champs-Elysees every year to, what, give the Germans a scare, finally? The Soviet leadership massed in RedÃÂ ...
Long Beach Press Telegram
February 10, 2018
Losers and the insecure hold regular military parades for no reason other than to strut their stuff, about which they feel inadequate, often for good reason. The French armed forces march up the Champs-Elysees every year to, what, give the Germans a scare, finally? The Soviet leadership massed in RedÃÂ ...
Korea Times
February 8, 2018
Philippine Star
February 8, 2018
"Moreover, the threats that supposedly require the extension could already be suppressed through regular military operations," Alejano, a former Marine officer, said in statement. Headlines ( Article MRec ), pagematch: 1, sectionmatch: 1. READ: Lagman told: Convince me rebellion in Mindanao has ended.
Kyiv Post
February 8, 2018
The moral onus on an organized, state and its regular military formations as contrasted with volunteer, frequently rag-tag mobile groups striking out (oftimes blindly) in self defense is much greater. We know that the Nuremberg trials concluded that Ukrainian nationalists organized in self defense and inÃÂ ...
CNBC
February 7, 2018
Russia also has an annual Victory Day military parade in Moscow in May to mark the defeat of Nazi Germany. Also, Russia last July held a navy Day military parade with thousands of sailors, warships, submarines and aircraft in St. Petersberg. China also has regular military parades in Beijing showing itsÃÂ ...
NTA News
February 7, 2018
Hamza Suleiman: Nigeria will consider the absorption, into the armed forces, some members of civilian Joint Task Force (JTF) who are assisting the military in fighting Boko Haram. The JTF members, he said, should, however, be qualified to be absorbed, Minister of Defence, Mansur Dan-Ali, said onÃÂ ...
Yonhap News
February 4, 2018
"Moon should say the same thing to the North (regarding the parade)," he said. Conservatives here said that as Seoul and Washington have decided to put off their annual regular military exercise until after the quadrennial sports event to ease military tensions on the peninsula, Pyongyang should also takeÃÂ ...
Pulse Nigeria
February 1, 2018
At the same time, some say the North is seeking to gain advantage from its participation, and reports say it will mark the anniversary of the founding of its regular military with a major military parade a day before the opening ceremony. Hyon Song-Wol, leader of North Korea's popular Moranbong band, hasÃÂ ...
The Straits Times
January 31, 2018
But critics say the North is seeking to gain advantage from its participation, and reports say it will mark the anniversary of the founding of its regular military with a major military parade a day before the opening ceremony. Earlier this week, Pyongyang unilaterally called off a joint cultural event slated for FebÃÂ ...
Mediamax.am
January 31, 2018
Armenian Defense Ministry notes that the main directions of the cooperation are military education and exercises, exchange of experience, as well as regular military and political consultations. The participants of the meeting have also summed up the results of the work, implemented in 2017, as well asÃÂ ...
Deccan Herald
January 31, 2018
Since last year's Doklam crisis when troops from both nations had a 72-day-long stand-off on a territory dispute inside Bhutan, regular military exchanges between Indian Army and People's Liberation Army were put on the back burner. The annual hand-in-hand exercise between the two armies was alsoÃÂ ...
Armenpress.am
January 31, 2018
... 2018 cooperation program in defense field was signed which includes more than 10 actions to be implemented in Armenia and Lithuania. The main directions for cooperation are military education and trainings, exchange of experience in different spheres and regular military-political consultations.
Channel NewsAsia
January 31, 2018
But critics say the North is seeking to gain advantage from its participation, and reports say it will mark the anniversary of the founding of its regular military with a major military parade a day before the opening ceremony. Earlier this week, Pyongyang unilaterally called off a joint cultural event slated for FebÃÂ ...
TRT World
January 29, 2018
Pyongyang has also said it will commemorate the 70th anniversary of the foundation of its regular military on February 8 -- the day before the opening ceremony for the Olympics -- and satellite photos have shown soldiers and armoured vehicles rehearsing for a possible parade that would amount to a showÃÂ ...
Rappler
January 29, 2018
Pyongyang has also said it will commemorate the 70th anniversary of the foundation of its regular military on February 8 -- the day before the opening ceremony for the Olympics -- and satellite photos have shown soldiers and armoured vehicles rehearsing for a possible parade that would amount to a showÃÂ ...
Global Times
January 28, 2018
Chinese military troops stationed in over 20 South China Sea and East China Sea islands have access to a power grid ahead of schedule, which experts said could guarantee regular military drills and improve the military's combat capabilities. A total of 89 border troops have been provided with electricityÃÂ ...
Channel NewsAsia
January 22, 2018
Until 1978 the anniversary was marked on the February date, and the switch back gives Pyongyang a formal justification if it decides to go ahead with a parade next month, which will be the 70th anniversary of the regular military's establishment. satellite photos have shown troops and military vehiclesÃÂ ...
ABC News
January 21, 2018
Hatami, the first non-Guard-affiliated military officer to be made defense minister in nearly 25 years, made the comments in an interview published Saturday by the state-run Iran newspaper. He said supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ordered both the country's regular military and the Guard to getÃÂ ...
RT
January 17, 2018
According to the 'double freeze' plan advocated by the two nations, Pyongyang would have to pause further nuclear and missile tests while the US would put on hold regular military exercises in the region, which North Korea believes to be rehearsal and a potential cover for an invasion. The US rejects theÃÂ ...
The National Interest Online (blog)
January 13, 2018
Since their invention in the tenth century, engineers, soldiers and tinkerers have constantly tried to make firearms more deadly. Typically that involves moving to heavier bullets driven by more powerful gunpowders, and while that is effective it is also louder, generates more recoil and necessitates newÃÂ ...
TheChronicleHerald.ca
January 12, 2018
Russia and China had suggested a quid pro quo compromise whereby Kim would freeze his nuclear program in exchange for a commitment by the U.S. and South Korea to suspend their regular military exercises. But the Americans weren't interested. This was the context in which Foreign Affairs MinisterÃÂ ...
Toronto Star
January 11, 2018
Russia and China had suggested a quid pro quo compromise whereby Kim would freeze his nuclear program in exchange for a commitment by the U.S. and South Korea to suspend their regular military exercises. But the Americans weren't interested. This was the context in which Foreign Affairs MinisterÃÂ ...
Digital Journal
January 11, 2018
Readers can learn with her as she remembers her sister's revelations about America's regular military, to include units like the 82nd Airborne Division, the 1st Cavalry Division, and the 101st Air Cavalry Screaming Eagles. Readers can then witness the heat of her emotions when she, for the first time, comes into contact withÃÂ ...
The Australian
January 10, 2018
Daily Sabah
January 9, 2018
It is regarded as a last step in establishing a regular military. Meanwhile, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on Tuesday that "it is time to counter the PKK terrorists from forming a corridor in northern Syria, along Turkey's border." Speaking to Justice and Development Party (AK Party) lawmakers inÃÂ ...
Washington Examiner
January 4, 2018
"I'm unaware of any plans to alter longstanding and scheduled and regular military exercises with our partners in South Korea, the Republic of Korea, or with our partners in Japan," Tillerson said at joint news conference with Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland. "These exercises have beenÃÂ ...
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
December 28, 2017
One bonus that comes with reporting is the fact that you get to do a lot of things that normally aren't open to the public. That bonus came into play a couple of weeks ago when members of the army's Special Operations came to Mercer County for some training exercises. These soldiers were among us for aÃÂ ...
War on the Rocks
December 15, 2017
The story of the two cousins and their friendship sheds light on the workings of organizations like Hizballah, which has morphed from a shadowy underground resistance movement and communal militia into a large, quasi- regular military force. In many cases, members belong to the same family or clan,ÃÂ ...
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