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A dramatic new facility will help disperse the Chinese fleet
Good on Ken Moriyasu of Nikkei Asia for spotting this.
The Tumen River separate Russia and North Korea and across this border pour the arms and ammunition to keep Russia alive in Ukraine.
Ten Miles up river is Chinese territory. What a great location for three friends to establish a new joint naval facility.
Currently the Chinese South, East, and Northern Fleets have to go through Allied Territory to reach the deep Pacific.
D.F. Lawrence, Military.
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Once the hunters of the Atlantic ocean, the German wolfpacks by 1944 had become the hunted.
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This week marks the eighth month of the U.S. Navy’s combat operations against Houthi forces in Yemen. That’s four times longer than the first Gulf War.
There’s a now-famous exchange from Norm MacDonald’s appearance on Jerry Seinfeld’s Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, in which the two discuss the then-recent sexual assault charges against Bill Cosby. Norm: [Another comedian] told me, “I think the worst part of the Cosby thing was the hypocrisy.” And I disagreed. Jerry: You disagreed with that? Norm: Yeah, I thought it was the raping. It’s one of those jokes in which the import seems obvious in retrospect.
A unique team of Army soldiers who train to defuse nuclear emergencies has been training alongside the elite combat units that might one day have to them into — and back out of — a doomsday-like scenario.
Nuclear Disablement Team 1 recently held training with the 7th Special Forces Group and the 75th Ranger Regiment, the kind of special operations units they may work alongside during a major nuclear emergency.
Congress is debating — yet again — the idea of including women in a national military draft more than a decade after the end of rules that kept them from combat roles.
The idea of adding women to the draft, should one ever be enacted, has bounced around the halls of Congress many times with support from both political parties but never enough votes to become law. It’s unclear if this year’s attempt will gain enough support to pass.
This year’s attempt is in the fiscal year 2025 national defense policy bill that passed out of the Senate Armed Services Committee last week.
Department of Defense Chief Information Officer John Sherman is calling on other U.S. government agencies, the defense industrial base and international partners to take steps to prevent typos that could accidentally divulge sensitive military information to unintended email recipients.
In a May 23 memo with the subject line, “Unauthorized Disclosure Due to Typographical Errors,” which was recently cleared for public release, the Pentagon CIO highlighted an issue that was in the news last year and appears to be an ongoing problem.
Jude Sunderbruch has retired from his role as executive director of the Department of Defense Cyber Crime Center, the organization announced Thursday.
He exited the job June 18 and also retired from the Senior Executive Service and Air Force Reserve, where he reached the rank of colonel, according to a release.
Sunderbruch took the helm of DC3 in August 2022.