British-led International Fund for Ukraine (IFU) hits the £1bn mark as allies continue to ramp up efforts to furnish Ukraine’s armed forces.
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In July, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said he would be open to hosting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad for a visit to Turkey. Normalization will not come easily or soon, but Erdoğan’s push for rapprochement is in itself remarkable. Given the intensity of Turkey’s commitment a decade ago to overthrowing Assad and ushering in a new era in the Middle East, this moment marks an end to an extraordinarily tumultuous period in Turkish history. The Arab Spring and its consequences, particularly in Syria, were inseparable from the catastrophe that engulfed Turkey in the 2010s.
Given Osama bin Laden’s profile in the 1990s as the leader of Al-Qaeda, he was a clear target for U.S. intelligence agencies. That work accelerated, obviously, following the 9/11 attacks on America.
However, despite the National Security Agency’s access to a satellite phone Bin Laden had been using, media reports alerted the terrorist leader to that collection, leading to an effective electronic communications collection blackout for the agency.
U.S Air Force pararescuemen and HC-130 rescue aircrews led a mass casualty exercise on the remote Pacific island nation of Papua New Guinea in late August.
As part of Pacific Angel 24-1, over 100 search and rescue personnel from the U.S., Australia, France trained together on Papua New Guinea, along with that island nation’s defense forces. The final field event included the pararescuemen, or PJs, and non-U.S. partners assessing and collecting multiple patients from a simulated mass casaulty event and handing them off to evacuation aircrews from different countries.
The Defense Innovation Unit is looking for a commercial data mesh solution to bolster the distribution of information across the Department of Defense’s complex, global web of networks.
In a new commercial solutions offering solicitation, DIU specifically asks for industry to pitch a capability that “can reliably and efficiently distribute data across multiple, geographically-dispersed network enclaves that can communicate with each other using routing protocols and devices.
You remember Rylan Tuohy. Or maybe you’ve never heard his name, but you’re one of the 8.5 million people who saw the Navy Spirit Spot he directed called “Naptown Funk.” Or, you find yourself saying things like, “The Army doesn’t give a ship,” straight from his video, “We Give a Ship.”
We promise. You know this guy:
And now, Tuohy, (who also happens to be one of WATM’s favorite dudes) is back with the ultimate goal: to crowdfund enough money to make a 2024 Spirit Spot – made possibly by Navy fans for Navy fans.
The III Marine Expeditionary Force will soon receive a new semi-submersible unmanned platform known as the autonomous low-profile vessel, according to the commander of the Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory.
The unit, based in the Indo-Pacific in Okinawa, Japan, will experiment with the system as the service pursues new capabilities to keep troops out of harm’s way and better position them to operate in contested environments against advanced adversaries such as China.
Space Force guardian Col. Nick Hague will lead a NASA mission to the International Space Station that will retrieve two astronauts who have been stranded on the station due to problems with Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft.
Hague will serve as commander of the mission along with Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov on NASA’s Space X Crew-9 mission, which is expected to launch by Sept. 24, a NASA news release says.
He is the second NASA astronaut to come from the Space Force. The first was Col. Mike Hopkins, who transferred to the Space Force while aboard the International Space Station.
A lot happens every day. Alliances shift, leaders change, and conflicts erupt. With In Brief, we’ll help you make sense of it all. Each week, experts will dig deep on a single issue happening in the world to help you better understand it. *** Last week, U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan traveled to China and met with Chinese Premier Xi Jinping, Foreign Minister Wang Yi and Central Military Commission vice chairman Gen. Zhang Youxia. The visit was touted by both sides as aimed at stabilization of the U.S.
The first time your soldier leaves, like leaves-leaves, can feel like an empty hole in your home. Their side of the bed is empty, there are fewer dishes, their voice is absent from regular conversations you once had. And all of their things are in the same place they left them, since, quite obviously, they aren’t there to move them.
In theory, all this sounds like a no-brainer. Of course it’s quiet, of course their side of the bed goes untouched. Duh. But as it plays out, life is just … quieter. Emptier. Lonelier. No amount of planning can prep you for the absence of your everyday norm.