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President-Elect Trump is moving fast to appoint members to his cabinet in hopes of the U.S. Senate rapidly approving the selections. He hopes to move forward with the America First agenda as quickly as possible. Part of that agenda is ending foreign wars, engaging in effective foreign policy, and securing the homeland from multiple threats.
Insert Congressman Mike Waltz as the nominee for National Security Advisor. Waltz, a U.S.

The U.S. military’s latest airstrikes against Iranian-backed groups in Syria underscores how difficult it has become to get basic information about American forces deployed to the Middle East.
U.S. Central Command, or CENTCOM, announced on Monday that the airstrikes were “in response to several attacks on U.S. personnel in Syria over the last 24 hours.”
This was the first time that U.S. military officials had acknowledged that American service members in Syria had been attacked recently.
On Monday, a defense official told Task & Purpose that no U.S.

Mike Kofman came by WOTR HQ to discuss the state of the front and findings from his most recent research trip to Ukraine. From North Korean troops, to manpower woes, to Donald Trump coming back to the Oval Office, what does it all add up to for Ukraine? Image: Ukrainian Ministry of Defense
The post As Ukraine Stumbles and Russia Advances, What Does it Mean? appeared first on War on the Rocks.

Troops stationed at Buckley Space Force Base in Aurora, Colorado might notice an odd four-legged robot loping around the base. That’s CHAPPIE. The Space Force has a robot dog that hunts down dangerous material. And yes, it is apparently named after “Chappie,” the 2015 Neil Blomkamp-directed science-fiction movie where a police robot is stolen by members of the South African rap group Die Antwoord and becomes a criminal-slash-revolutionary.
Space Force’s CHAPPIE has been in use on the base since July, according to the dates on some photos released by the service.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s calls for the withdrawal of the U.N. Interim Force in Lebanon peacekeeping mission in southern Lebanon, and headlines of rocket attacks resulting in numerous casualties, have brought to the forefront questions about the safety of U.N. peacekeepers and the utility of today’s peacekeeping enterprise. These developments highlight perennial challenges faced by peacekeepers worldwide: operating in volatile environments where escalating tensions can place them in harm’s way.