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Daily Rocket Miner
April 30, 2018
The United States has faced, and beaten, some mighty foes. Our citizens ... In more modern times, there are fewer opportunities to test our mettle in uncharted corners of the globe, and U.S. military prowess has all but eliminated the probability another country will directly threaten our borders. With fewerÃâà...
New York Times
April 30, 2018
It is easy to grasp why the United States views that as a success. A ruthless despot with a history of sponsoring terrorism surrendered his efforts to build a catastrophic weapon. But that despot, Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, might not see it as such a good deal today. No one will ever know for sure because heÃâà...
The Daily Progress
April 30, 2018
On April 3, the National Protection and Programs Acquisition Division of the Department of Homeland Security released a request for bids titled “ Media ... How long would it take for the courts to intervene in the execution of this tactic of limiting the scope of a free and open press in the United States?
Common Dreams
April 29, 2018
A revolution that seemed to be emerging from one country, Guatemala, was actually the project of another, the United States. False flag operations are a well established tactic. Many intelligence agencies have staged them. Often they are successful. They lead the world to blame a crime or atrocity on anÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
April 19, 2018
A coalition of community organisations in the city of Durham in the US state of North Carolina has successfully lobbied the city council to ban training and ... Key to the organisation's demands is to prevent US cities from adopting Israeli military operations and tactics designed to enforce its occupation ofÃâà...
Sputnik International
March 13, 2018
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - The prospective meeting between North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and President Donald Trump may be a diversionary tactic by Pyongyang and the summit may fail because of the US president's inability to grasp the issues, former State Department official Harvey Blaney toldÃâà...
Yahoo News
March 13, 2018
In a more broadly calculating way, the Taliban's peace offensive also comes after months of a sharply augmented air campaign by the United States that has apparently arrested the momentum of the Taliban insurgency and forced it to adjust its military tactics. By offering the prospect of negotiations, theÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
March 13, 2018
The appointment of former CIA director Mike Pompeo as US secretary of state occurred on Tuesday after months of rumours that Rex Tillerson was on the way ... The prison camp was one of the testing grounds for the "enhanced interrogation" tactics of the administration of former President George W Bush.
Newsweek
March 13, 2018
The leading military official claimed that the U.S. would strike under the false pretense of a chemical weapon attack—a tactic that Russia has denied the Syrian ... Russian military police members stand guard at the Al-Wafideen checkpoint on the outskirts of the Syrian capital Damascus neighboring theÃâà...
The Republic
March 12, 2018
One of Washington's closest watchers of the Afghanistan conflict, Anthony Cordesman of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, wrote last month that the administration has made major improvements in military tactics and plans for developing Afghan forces but has “done nothing to deal with civilÃâà...
The Epoch Times
March 11, 2018
A few years ago, China and the United States engaged in a “war of words” on whether J-20 was a knockoff of the American F-35, because the two models shared many similarities. In 2014, a Chinese national pleaded guilty for conspiring with Chinese sources to steal design information and manufacturingÃâà...
New York Times
March 10, 2018
FRANKFURT — South Korea made an impassioned appeal to the American secretary of defense and national security adviser, reminding them of its role trying to defang North Korea. Europe pointed out that it was, in fact, a longstanding military ally of the United States. But it was Australia that deployed aÃâà...
The Messenger
March 7, 2018
The opposition generally rejects evacuation agreements, saying they amount to demographic engineering — a tactic through which the government ... Meanwhile, Turkey called on the United States to prevent U.S.-backed Kurdish forces from sending fighters deployed against the Islamic State group toÃâà...
IHS Jane's 360
March 7, 2018
The United States formally handed over an unmanned aerial intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) system to the African Union Mission in ... system, AMISOM has received training implemented through AFRICOM from US and UK military subject-matter experts on the techniques and tactics toÃâà...
Department of Defense
March 7, 2018
Lindsey Pfau, a dietitian with the 720th Special Tactics Group, is setting out to make people rethink how special operations airmen should be fed in a deployed environment. “We've got years of nutritional science to tell us what foods are good for our bodies from a health perspective and from a performanceÃâà...
PBS NewsHour
March 7, 2018
South Korean officials say North Korea has offered to stop testing nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles if the U.S. agrees to direct talks, and that Kim Jong .... to his nuclear and missile program, 25 missile launches, to include an intercontinental ballistic missile that can touch the whole of the United States,Ãâà...
WBUR
March 7, 2018
Vladimir Putin did his best Darth Vader impression last week in his latest effort to terrify the United States. In his state of the nation address, Putin claimed that Russia's military has developed a nuclear cruise missile that can evade any defense. He even showed an animation of a swarm of the things zeroingÃâà...
NEWS.com.au
March 7, 2018
THE United States military's $A512 billion F-35 program is at risk, with Pentagon negotiators struggling to strike a deal on the latest batch of fighter jets from ... tactics regarding the F-35 that were of concern, citing hiccups from a new deal for C-130 cargo planes — an aircraft the US military has been buyingÃâà...
Theredstonerocket
March 1, 2018
Experts in their fields, the Soldiers have spent the last year working shoulder-to-shoulder with Guatemala's maritime forces as they fight to interdict hundreds of tons of illicit drugs that flow from South America through the Central American corridor into Mexico and, ultimately, the United States. The dedicationÃâà...
UNIAN
March 1, 2018
The United States and Russia have been on different sides of the seven-year-old war, with Moscow heavily backing Syrian President Bashar ... Separately, Votel said the U.S. military was seeing some "positive indicators" from Pakistan, showing it is becoming more responsive to U.S. concerns aboutÃâà...
The Hill
March 1, 2018
One state … the United States, has overstepped its national borders in every way.” In May 2007, Russia pioneered cyber warfare, attacking Estonia's government and commercial banks. Since the brief August 2008 war in Georgia, Russia has modernized its military, hardware and tactics, putting moreÃâà...
New York Times
March 1, 2018
Egypt's armed forces have used internationally outlawed cluster bombs, made in the United States, in operations aimed at crushing Islamic extremists in .... military efforts both in Egypt and internationally, as human rights advocates and local tribal leaders accuse the military of using scorched-earth tacticsÃâà...
New York Times
February 28, 2018
Be it saber-rattling in the South China Sea, proselytizing on American college campuses, theft of corporate secrets or censorship of the web, China has alienated one constituency after another in the United States. “The military is gone, the press is gone, the intellectuals are gone, civil society is gone andÃâà...
U.S. News & World Report
February 28, 2018
FILE PHOTO - Commander of the U.S. Central Command General Joseph Votel, waits for the start of a round table meeting of NATO defence ministers and the Coalition to Defeat the Islamic State at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, November 9, 2017. REUTERS/Virginia Mayo/Pool Reuters.
War on the Rocks
February 28, 2018
Even though the United States is clearly still struggling at the strategic level in its fight against terrorists and insurgents, it is supremely confident in its ability to defeat ... The diffusion of such tactics seems to be underway, and it may generate serious concerns for U.S. security policy in the future if ignored.
Just Security
February 20, 2018
Although the term “shift cold” is not found in official US military doctrine, it is a well-understood “tactic, technique, and procedure” (TTP) for the .... The precise position of the United States on the multiple facets of the requirement to take precautions in attack set forth in Article 57 is somewhat unclear. HoweverÃâà...
New York Times
December 31, 1999
WASHINGTON — The United States-led air campaign to hunt down the last pockets of Islamic State militants in eastern Syria effectively ground to a halt ... The new tactics have helped increase strikes in eastern Syria to 23 last week compared with only three in the week ending April 5, military officials said.
DefenseNews.com
December 31, 1999
The U.S. recently released its Nuclear Posture Review, a road map for the country's nuclear arsenal and related defensive measures. Michael Kofman, an expert on the Russian military at CNA, told Defense News: “It is hard to read the NPR and not feel that the United States is desperately afraid of nuclearÃâà...
Business Insider
December 31, 1999
ORLANDO -- Russia's Su-57 stealth fighter, like China's Chengdu J-20, has become a bogeyman to the United States in the competition to possess the best fifth-generation fighters in the world. But has the Su-57 made its debut in Syria? The Pentagon, won't confirm it. "The addition of fifth-generationÃâà...
