The Armed Forces of Ukraine are plagued by “huge problems” ranging from inadequate command to severe lack of essential military equipment and supplies, German tabloid Bild reported on Monday, citing several soldiers and officers it had talked to. Several told the paper that Kiev’s much-touted summer counteroffensive, which failed to …
Read More »Ukrainian command center destroyed – Moscow
The Russian military has destroyed a major Ukrainian command center, the country’s Defense Ministry reported on Saturday. Cruise missiles launched from the sea were used to target the facility, the ministry’s spokesman, Lieutenant General Igor Konashenkov, announced during a media briefing. “On the evening of April 28 of this year, …
Read More »‘Tweeting our launch codes?’ US Strategic Command sends cryptic tweet, setting off panic & speculations
The cryptic 13-character message appeared on STRATCOM’s Twitter on Sunday evening. In about half an hour that transpired before the post was removed, it racked up thousands of retweets. The message prompted a wave of frantic speculations as to whether something relatively benign such as the command’s Twitter password got …
Read More »‘Quiet professionals’? US Special Operations Command appoints partisan ‘Diversity & Inclusion’ chief who compared Trump to HITLER
SOCOM took to Facebook and its other social accounts on Thursday to announce that Richard Torres-Estrada had been appointed the new diversity chief, saying he has “nearly two decades worth of experience working diversity and inclusion programs and activities in federal agencies.” While it appended the hashtag “#QuietProfessionals” to the …
Read More »Hackers and SPACE COMMAND: Boris pledges £16.5bn military spending spree amid cuts to foreign aid & welfare
Major media outlets reported the budget deal, citing sources at Number 10 Downing Street ahead of the official announcement in the Commons on Thursday. Johnson reportedly said that “the defence of the realm must come first,” even as Britain struggles to deal with the economic and health impact of the …
Read More »Israeli spies allegedly killed al-Qaeda second-in-command in Iran 3 months ago… & all countries involved have kept mum until NOW?
Al-Qaeda’s second-in-command and his daughter were shot dead three months ago in the streets of Tehran by a pair of Israeli assassins acting “at the behest of the United States,” the NYT reported on Friday. Iranian authorities have supposedly kept the killing under wraps, and al-Qaeda itself has not revealed the death of …
Read More »Azerbaijan has ‘handed over’ command of its Air Force ops in Nagorno-Karabakh to Turkey, Armenian defense ministry claims
Turkey’s military command has allegedly been coordinating the Azerbaijani airstrikes against targets in Nagorno-Karabakh, the Armenian defense ministry’s spokeswoman, Shushan Stepanyan, said in a series of Twitter posts on Wednesday. She claimed Turkish officers “directly control” the actions of Azerbaijan’s military aviation from aboard an E-7T early warning and control …
Read More »The EU does not intend to create the command structure of NATO
EBrosius in the framework of strengthening defense cooperation between the member countries did not intend to create the command structure of NATO. Such, in particular, the staff of the Supreme command of the United armed forces of NATO in Europe (SHAPE), said the head of EU diplomacy Federica Mogherini. This …
Read More »The Russian command makes the rotation of the militants on the frontline
The enemy reinforces the position. The Russian command “L/DND” holds a hidden rotation of units and divisions which are at the forefront in the area of ATO, said military experts of the group Information resistance. According to the group, is regrouping and redeployment of forces and means of the enemy …
Read More »The command of the Russian Federation brings the fighters on Donbass to suicide
On 23 July, the action of one of the units “motorized rifle brigade” (Bryanka) carried out suicide with the use of personal weapons. Among the personnel of the militants of the terrorist organizations DNR/LNR marked another cases of non-combat losses and suicides as a result of abuse of Russian officers …
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