Author: Michael

The U.S. Air Force has deployed B-52H strategic bombers for operations off the Venezuelan coast, as part of a large scale military buildup the United States has launched against its southern neighbour. Washington has explicitly laid out a goal of removing the Venezuelan government from power, with the country standing out as one of a small number on the continent remaining outside the Western Bloc’s sphere of influence, and retaining considerable oil and mineral reserves. The bombers maintained approximately 80 kilometres from Venezuela’s airspace.

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth unveiled broad plans on Friday to shake up the Pentagon’s approach to Foreign Military Sales, marking a cornerstone in the Trump administration’s disruptive new effort to reform the U.S. military’s processes for supplying technology and weapons systems to international buyers. 
“Transforming requirements and acquisition alone is not enough. We must also improve the way our department and the industrial base supports weapon sales to our allies and our partners.

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Some military leaders are telling their troops to prepare for their on-base commissaries to close by early December if the government shutdown continues. As many as 168 locations at bases across the continental U.S. could be affected.
But officials with the agency that runs the military-only grocery stores insisted to Task & Purpose this week that the stores will be open through Thanksgiving.
“Our stores will be open to serve our customers through Thanksgiving,” Kevin Robinson, a spokesperson for the Defense Commissary Agency, or DECA, told Task & Purpose.

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