Author: Michael

When Americans think of World War II, images of Normandy, Iwo Jima, Guadalcanal, and Midway dominate the national memory.
Few recall that the war also reached the soil of the United States itself, not in Hawaii alone, but on the cold, windswept islands of Alaska. Yet in 1942, Imperial Japanese forces invaded and occupied American territory in the Aleutian Islands, marking the first foreign occupation of U.S. land since the War of 1812.

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The U.S. Army and the Australian Army have successfully conducted a complex joint demonstration during across multiple locations in Australia, which saw Australian Army M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) deployed with airlift and targeting support from U.S. Army and U.S. Air Force aircraft. Multiple HIMARS launchers from theRoyal Australian Artillery 10th Brigade, 14th Regiment, were loaded onto U.S. Air Force Boeing C-17 Globemaster III transports, which can operate from short and austere runways across Australia to redeploy rapidly.

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In the first week of January multiple reports emerged that the Saudi Defence Ministry was considering procuring Chinese JF-17 fighter aircraft under a deal valued at $4-6 billion, which would mark the first major procurement of non-Western fighters in the country’s history. Should the aircraft indeed be purchased, it would raise serious questions regarding both their role in the Royal Saudi Air Force, and how their capabilities would compare to other fighter types that are already in service.

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