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Author: Michael
The United States Armed Forces on December 10 landed personnel on a civilian tanker in international waters, seizing the vessel which was transporting Venezuelan oil for export. Footage showed heavily armed personnel descending onto the ship, with U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi announcing regarding the operation: “Today, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Homeland Security Investigations, and the United States Coast Guard, with support from the Department of War, executed a seizure warrant for a crude oil tanker used to transport sanctioned oil from Venezuela and Iran.
Foreign policy communities in open societies love to debate their own relevance. Analysts quarrel over whether their insights inform statecraft or merely decorate it, and governments alternately embrace and ignore them depending on the moment. One might assume that in China this dynamic hardly exists, that an authoritarian system simply compels its experts to fall in line and rewards those who echo the leadership’s priorities.The reality is more complicated. China’s foreign policy experts neither operate in lockstep with the state nor stand wholly apart from it.
Peru and South Korea have formalised a framework for the procurement of 54 K2 Black Panther main battle tanks and 141 K808 16 wheeled armoured vehicles, marking the first sale of the K2 in the Americas. The Peruvian state-owned factory FAME S.A.C. will make limited contributions to production, while the contract will expand Peru’s domestic capacity for production, maintenance, and modernisation activities both types of vehicles.
Reports from media outlets based on Taiwan have reported that the Japanese military leadership has been highly unsettled, to the point of being “freaked out” in the exact words used in one report, by the results of two engagements between Chinese J-15B and Japanese F-15 fighters on December 6. Citing senior Japanese defence sources, it was reported that after J-15Bs operating from the aircraft carrier Liaoning locked onto F-15Js, the American-supplied aircraft’s radar warning receivers were only able to notify pilot of the threat after a weapons lock had already been formed.
The Japan Air Self-Defense Force has scrambled a large number of F-2 fighters from Tsuiki Air Base equipped with ASM-2 air-to-ship missiles. The aircraft were reported by a number of sources to be participating in simulated strikes against the Chinese carrier strike group led by the aircraft carrier Liaoning, which is conducting exercises near Japanese waters.
Officials at U.S. Southern Command posted a photo collage Tuesday, illustrating Marines fast roping from a helicopter and a masked infantryman wearing his helmet, NVGs, a plate carrier, and armed with his rifle.
But the Marine, some noted, was out of uniform.
The black and white collage features a Marine with the Jerusalem Cross patch fixed prominently on their helmet. The Marines appear to have been assigned to the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit, which is currently deployed to the Caribbean as part of Operation Southern Spear, the Pentagon’s stated mission to dismantle drug cartels.
The Defense Department is writing an updated version of its zero-trust strategy that will outline new cybersecurity frameworks for systems beyond information technology.
“We’re prepping the [ZT] strategy 2.0, estimating that it will be publicly available … around March 2026,” Randy Resnick, senior advisor for the Pentagon’s Zero Trust Portfolio Management Office, said Tuesday during a keynote at DefenseTalks hosted by DefenseScoop.
The seniors playing in this weekend’s Army-Navy football game all know where they are headed after graduation.
Navy’s star quarterback, Blake Horvath, will be off to Naval flight school in Florida. His favorite receiver, Eli Heidenreich, will spend a year training as a Marine Corps ground officer.
Army linebacker Kalib Fortner, the team’s defensive captain who as a sophomore was named the 2023 Army-Navy game MVP, is headed to the infantry, one of eight Army senior cadets who will serve in that branch, the same number who will train in artillery.
The Norwegian frigate HNoMS Roald Amundsen has