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Army Lt. Col. Roderick Vinson, whose military career spanned 37 years, died Aug. 11 while exercising near his off-base residence in Sumter, South Carolina, Army officials announced.
Investigators do not suspect foul play in connection with Vinson’s death, according to the Sumpter Police Department and County Coroner’s Office. His autopsy is scheduled for Thursday. The coroner’s office said it may take a while for test results to determine the exact cause of his death.
Recent years have seen Japan reevaluate its defense posture and a subsequent strategic repositioning of the United States in Japan. In 2022, the Government of Japan allocated approximately 43 trillion yen (about 30 billion dollars) to the strengthening of Japan’s defense capabilities. On July 28, 2024, Japan hosted the U.S.-Japan Security Consultative Committee, which focused on accelerating the alliance’s integration. We asked four experts to look at the U.S. strategic repositioning in Japan, Japan’s expansion of defense capabilities, and the implications of these developments.
German authorities have issued an arrest warrant over the sabotage of the Nord Stream gas pipelines in September 2022.
The US Department of State has approved over $20bn in military sales to Israel, giving the green light to five separate deals.
The Israel headquartered defence company saw a gross profit of $389.7m, with a quarterly revenue of $1.63bn.
Task & Purpose is proud to unveil the first episode of its ‘Between Two T-Walls’ interview series. In an interview conducted in Baghdad, Army Maj. Gen. Joel “JB” Vowell, the commanding general of Operation Inherent Resolve, discusses the U.S.-led mission against the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria.
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Rheinmetall acquired all equity interests in the Michigan-based Loc Performance company, expanding its US defence market presence.
In recent years, with the intensification of strategic competition between the United States and China, the “battle for the narrative” in the international media landscape has become more heated. But in the push to understand Beijing’s influence efforts, there is a tendency among elements of Washington and the broader China-watching community to focus on specific aspects of China’s activities depending on where they sit in the U.S. system.
When Russia attacked Ukraine in 2014, Ukraine could not afford to waste time establishing an official drone corps before deploying unmanned quadcopters onto the battlefield. Ukrainian soldiers did not pass a formal accreditation process and earn a skill identifier before assignment to these previously non-existent units, either. Instead, a whole-of-nation collaboration allowed civilian innovators to partner with Ukrainian intelligence and cyber units to rapidly create a new military unit, Aerorozvidka, and deploy an innovative threat against the Russian invasion. The 2022 U.S.