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Saildrone launched two Lockheed Martin JAGM missiles from a Surveyor USV during RIMPAC
Two rocks surrounded by coral, with a total land size of less than 10 square meters (approximately 108 square feet) at high tide, are the entire basis on which Japan claims a 150,000-square-mile exclusive economic zone, an area nearly the size of Japan itself. The uninhabited feature, located more than 1,000 miles south of Tokyo, is called Okinotori.In late July, Japan protested Sino-Russian live-fire drills held within the exclusive economic zone it claims around Okinotori.
“You cannot be at mental peace always. You will be worried. So even my family — they are scared all the time, and they were anxiously praying [for] the vessel [to] come out of this area safely.
The first U.S. Air Force F-15EX Eagle II long range fighter intended for permanent basing at Kadena Air Base in Okinawa, Japan, has been unveiled, marking a significant milestone in the Air Force’s efforts to significantly strength its presence on one of its most strategically important facilities worldwide. The aircraft, serial 22-0022, has now appeared in the markings of the 18th Wing, providing the first visible indication that the long-delayed transition from obsolete Cold War era F-15C/D fighters, to the much more capable F-15EX, is making progress.
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The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo, 1914. Photo: Achille Beltrame / Wikimedia Commons (Public Domain)
When Archduke Franz Ferdinand was killed in Sarajevo, the world did not immediately understand that it was standing on the edge of a war that would become a kind of pestilence. The assassination did not create World War I by itself. It exposed a system already loaded with alliance commitments, imperial insecurity, military timetables, elite arrogance, and leaders who believed escalation could be managed. That is the part of history worth remembering now.