Source: Navy Times By: Geoff Ziezulewicz China’s ongoing military buildup on islands in the South China Sea is akin to “preparing for World War III,” the chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee declared on Tuesday. The comment by Republican…
Source: CIMSEC By Duncan Kellogg Imagine, for a moment, a hypothetical country rapidly spiraling towards autocracy, illegally arresting American citizens, imprisoning journalists, and attacking American-supported forces. Now imagine that same country actively purchasing Russian surface-to-air missile systems and erecting missile…
Source: Al Monitor By Jack Detsch A top Syrian Kurdish official visiting Washington today said US-backed fighters would consider integrating with Bashar al-Assad’s forces after the United States completes its pullout from the war-torn country. “The Syrian Democratic Forces can…
Source: CNN By Nick Paton Walsh, Barbara Arvanitidis and Alex Platt, Venezuelan army defectors are calling on the Trump administration to arm them, in what they call their quest for “freedom.” Former soldiers Carlos Guillen Martinez and Josue Hidalgo Azuaje,…
Source: Hurriyet Daily News Turkey expects some four million Syrians to return to the safe zones that will be set up by Ankara in the war-torn country, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said Jan. 28. “We are aiming in the first…
Source: Ahvalnews By Nikos Georgiades The United States is fostering efforts by Greece, Cyprus and Israel to form an eastern Mediterranean security alliance as Washington’s NATO ally Turkey flirts with Russia and Iran, and confronts U.S. policy in Syria. Alongside…
Source: UK Defence Journal By George Allison Boeing has been awarded an almost $2.5 billion contract to produce 19 P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft for the US Navy, Norway and the United Kingdom. Ten of the aircraft are for the…
Source: AA By Mohamad Misto and Levent Tok More than 600 additional U.S. troops have arrived in Syria to provide protection to other American forces during their pullout from the war-torn country, according to local sources. The sources, who spoke…
Source: The Drive By Tyler Rogoway Yesterday, we reported on what appeared to be the first image of Russia’s much-touted, but never yet to be seen Okhotnik, or Hunter, unmanned combat air vehicle (UCAV) that had been in development for…
NATO Allied Maritime Command (MARCOM) and the Dartmouth Centre for Seapower and Strategy (DCSS) at Plymouth University will co-host the Second MARCOM-DCSS Sea Power Conference at Warren House, Kingston-Upon-Thames, Surrey UK on Monday, 11 February 2019. The inaugural 2018 Conference…