An early delivery of US fighter jets would not have changed the course of Ukraine’s failed counteroffensive because there were not enough trained pilots to fly them, White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan has said. Speaking to ABC News on Sunday, Sullivan disagreed with the narrative that the White …
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Ukrainian soldiers are trained to ‘find mental peace’ on the battlefield and practice meditation while the conflict rages in their country, the New York Times has reported, citing one of Kiev’s military commanders. According to the outlet, dozens of members of the volunteer Territorial Defense Forces take part in the …
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America’s CIA has been overseeing a covert training program for members of Ukraine’s special forces in preparation for a potential conflict, former US intelligence and national security officials have reportedly claimed. The mission has supposedly been underway since the 2014 re-absorption of Crimea and is based at an undisclosed facility …
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The US spent a staggering $88 billion arming and training Afghanistan’s military, only for Afghan forces to crumble before the Taliban’s lightning fast reconquest of the country in August. Though the Taliban have promised amnesty to these personnel, stories of violent reprisals have circulated, and according to the Wall Street …
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“Thus far, we’ve identified seven individuals who were former members of the Colombian military that had received some sort of … US funded and provided education and training,” Defense Department spokesman John Kirby said on Thursday, stressing that such training is “very common,” and did not “[lead] to or [encourage] …
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Buran is the latest addition to a small but fierce raptor unit of the Federal Protective Service (FSO), Russia’s counterpart to the US Secret Service. The first Arctic owl to ever live at FSO’s Kremlin mews, he was recruited last year and will soon start active service. The primary foes …
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Daily Caller writer David Hookstead posted an article about the viral video on Saturday, showing children in protective hockey gear trading heavy-gloved punches to the helmet as a coach yells instructions. At one point, the coach holds a student by the shirt and throws a slow-motion punch to the facemask …
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With “domestic extremists” now officially the enemy du jour in Washington, the top order of business has become finding some. On Wednesday, newly-anointed secretary of defense (and former Raytheon board member) Lloyd Austin ordered a two-month stand-down so that commanders could engage in “needed discussions” with their subordinates on the …
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The developers have created a system that long-term study on a large set of video data. Training convolutional neural networks, the Russian developers of Samsung and the SKOLKOVO Institute of science and technology (Skoltech) animated photography, portraits and paintings. It is known that to synthesize realistic avatars is difficult for …
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The gunman had military training in the Russian Belgorod. The soldiers of combined forces was detained in the Donbas militants hybrid forces. This was told in the press center of OOS. It is reported that after completing military training in the Russian Belgorod attacker joined one of the brigades of …
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