The US DOD plans to buy two Israeli-developed Iron Dome batteries and deploy them next year as a first step in a new $1.7 billion project to both provide American troops an interim defense against cruise missiles and also explore long-term adoption of Iron Dome components, Times of Israel reported. The U.S. is still assessing …
Death of ‘Rodrigo Cadete’ in Colombia Heavy Blow to FARC Dissidents insight crime Written by Juan Camilo Jaramillo y Bjorn Kelstad* The death of FARC dissident leader “Rodrigo Cadete” in a recent Colombia military operation has dealt a severe blow to a group of FARC dissidents who wish to unite the former militants that have abandoned …
Pakistan Army Air Defence displayed its fire power capability at Air Defence firing ranges near Karachi. Firing by all air defence weapon systems was culminating event of two weeks long Exercise Al Bayza-2019. Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa and Chief of Air Staff (CAS) Air Chief Marshal Mujahid Anwar Khan witnessed …
As Trump Wall Stalls, Pakistan Builds 2,600-km Border Fence AMI Newswire National Security By Joseph Hammond While President Trump is having trouble adding a few miles of fence to America’s incomplete border with Mexico, Pakistan is busy building one of the world’s longest border fences. Climbing over some of the world’s toughest terrain, Pakistan’s border …
America’s First Black Military Aviator USAF In August of 1917 Eugene Jacques Bullard, an American volunteer in the French army, became the first African American military pilot and one of only a few blacks pilot in World War I. Born in Columbus, Ga., on Oct. 9, 1894, Eugene Bullard left home at the age of 11 …
Chinese National Sentenced to Prison for Illegal Photography of U.S. Naval Installation in Key West, Florida FBI Feb 5 A People’s Republic of China (PRC) foreign national was sentenced to prison today for illegal photography of the U.S. Naval Air Station Key West, Joint Interagency Task Force, South (JIATF-South). Ariana Fajardo Orshan, U.S. Attorney for …
Can ISIS regroup? Lessons from interviews with ex-ISIS fighters As part of wider qualitative research on terrorist organisations, Vera Mironova has interviewed local and foreign fighters of ISIS (or Daesh), as well as people involved in the smuggling of fighters. She shares her insights into the different types of fighters, what happened to them and …
