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SCANG’s largest deployment since the summer of 2018 is part of expeditionary force rotation Credit: U.S. Air National Guard photo by Lt. Col. Jim St.Clair, 169th Fighter Wing Public Affairs U.S. Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcon jets, assigned to the South Carolina Air National Guard’s 169th Fighter Wing, prepare to depart McEntire Joint National Guard Base, South Carolina, to support an Air Expeditionary Force deployment to Prince Sultan Air Base Saudi Arabia, April 12, 2021. The 169th Fighte...

How Biden’s team overrode the brass on Afghanistan POLITICO 4 hrs ago By Lara Seligman, Andrew Desiderio, Natasha Bertrand and Nahal Toosi © Andrew Harnik-Pool/Getty Images “We cannot continue this cycle of extending or expanding our military presence in Afghanistan, hoping to create ideal conditions for the withdrawal and expecting a different result,” Biden said Wednesday in a speech announcing the decision. The military spent more than a decade urging three differe...

Video Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken made an unannounced visit to Afghanistan a day after President Biden announced his decision to withdraw from the country by Sept. 11. Mr. Blinken visited the U.S. Embassy and delivered remarks reassuring that the U.S. would continue to support the country.CreditCredit...Afghan Presidential Palace, via Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Secretary of State Antony Blinken made an unannounced visit to Afghanistan on Thursday, a day after President Biden...

Will Afghanistan Become a Terrorism Safe Haven Once Again? Not likely, at least in the short term, intelligence officials assess. But stopping terrorism groups over the long term could be more difficult. United States and Afghan military personnel in Afghanistan in 2019. U.S. spy agencies do not believe terrorist groups in the country pose an immediate threat to strike the United States.Credit...Jim Huylebroek for The New York Times April 13, 2021, 7:32 p.m. ET WASHINGTON — The Sept. 11 attac...

USA TODAY WASHINGTON – The consensus of Afghanistans future after the withdrawal of U.S. troops by Sept. 11 is grim, according to some U.S. experts. The estimated 2,500 U.S. troops that President Joe Biden has ordered home offered some slim assurance that the Afghan government could withstand the Taliban insurgency that has reemerged across the country of 37 million. Without those forces in place, the same negative trends – the ascendance of the once-topped Taliban, the descent of the U....

How Biden’s team overrode the brass on Afghanistan POLITICO 1 day ago By Lara Seligman, Andrew Desiderio, Natasha Bertrand and Nahal Toosi © Andrew Harnik-Pool/Getty Images “We cannot continue this cycle of extending or expanding our military presence in Afghanistan, hoping to create ideal conditions for the withdrawal and expecting a different result,” Biden said Wednesday in a speech announcing the decision. The military spent more than a decade urging three differe...

By Capt. Carrie Volpe, AFCENT Public Affairs / Published April 13, 2021 Coalition leaders from multiple countries gather for a conference at Shaw Air Force Base, South Carolina, April 9, 2021. Senior military representatives from nine countries traveled to Shaw AFB this week to participate in “Coalition Week,” a series of events focused on showcasing 9th Air Force’s (U.S. Air Forces Central) ability to distribute operations and command and control airpower from more than ...

Drone Downed: How Iran Proved the U.S. Military Is Not Invincible The aircraft in question was a large U.S. Navy drone called the RQ-4N Broad Area Maritime Surveillance Drone (BAMS-D) with wings spanning 35 meters across—as wide as a 737 airliner. Heres What You Need to Remember: Essentially, the destruction of drones engaged in surveillance activities has not yet been treated as a casus belli. Such murky precedents appear to have motivated Tehran to overtly destroy a valuable U.S. military a...

How to Undermine Peace: Policy Reversals and Leaks | Opinion Shoshana Bryen , Senior Director, Jewish Policy Center On 4/13/21 at 5:30 AM EDT The electricity went off at Irans nuclear plant at Natanz just as it began to spin up its uranium enrichment centrifuges as part of "National Nuclear Technology Day." We dont know yet the extent of any damage, but it certainly is not the first time Iran has experienced power outages, explosions or other failures at nuclear and precision...

Judah Ari Gross is The Times of Israels military correspondent. Defense Minister Benny Gantz, left, fist-bumps US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin at the Nevatim Air Base in southern Israel on April 12, 2021. (Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry) Defense Minister Benny Gantz on Monday said he told his American counterpart, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, that any future agreement to address Iran’s nuclear program must be “more robust” than the 2015 accord it will replace, without any “expirati...