Tag Archives: Military

Admiral Chris Barrie, who led the Australian Defence Force from 1998 to 2002, called for a royal commission to investigate allegations that Australian special forces in Afghanistan carried out unlawful killings, and insisted that responsibility for such crimes ultimately rests with the country’s military command. A four-year investigation, led by …

The severe lack of accounting of the military toys provided to Kabul was exposed in a new report by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR). The Combined Security Transition Command-Afghanistan (CSTC-A) tasked with providing so-called end-use monitoring (EUM) needed to ensure the provided equipment was utilized exactly as …

Biden’s choice of retired US Army General Lloyd Austin marks the first time that a black man has been nominated to serve as the senior civilian manager of the nation’s defense. While there is no doubt that Austin’s experience lends itself to carry out these challenges in a competent and …

The Israeli government has instructed the IDF to draw up plans in the event Trump orders a preemptive strike on the Islamic Republic, which could potentially target the country’s nuclear infrastructure, journalist Barak Ravid reported in Axios on Wednesday, citing anonymous senior officials in Tel Aviv. The preparations are linked …

Donald Trump may be on the way out, but he’s far from finished on China. On Monday, it was announced that an additional 89 Chinese firms are to be added to a US blacklist and considered a ‘national security threat’ over their purported ties to Beijing’s military. The firms, almost all …

If the list is published, US suppliers will have to obtain special licenses from the US government to export various items to those firms. This reportedly applies to everything from computer software like word processing, to scientific equipment like digital oscilloscopes, and aircraft parts and components. While obtaining such a …

Boris Johnson’s announcement that the United Kingdom would be undertaking the biggest increase in defence spending in over 30 years has come as a major surprise.  Pledging what is likely to amount to an additional £16.5 billion over the next four years to the military, the prime minister vowed to …

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 …

In his new book, ‘A Promised Land’, the two-term president claimed that while Russia has “a nuclear arsenal second only to our own,” the country “wasn’t a superpower anymore,” as it “lacked the vast network of alliances and bases that allowed the United States to project its military power across …

The US military is “buying the granular movement data of people around the world, harvested from innocuous-seeming apps,” Joseph Cox of VICE’s Motherboard wrote on Monday. Specifically, one of the buyers is the US Special Operations Command (USSOCOM), which deals with counter-insurgency, counter-terrorism and various covert activity around the globe. …