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General Qamar Javed Bajwa commended innovativeness of military planners to cope up with the mounting challenges and ensure impregnability of country's defence

Washington is refocusing on bigger threats and competitors, and that means China. The U.S. Navy is relocating massive maritime power from the Middle East to the Pacific theater as part of a force repositioning and, as the Pentagon put it, sustain a “free and open Indo-Pacific.” The USS Nimitz Carrier Strike Group is moving from Central Command’s area to the Pacific. This means that there is now no U.S. carrier in the Middle East, and power projection of international strategic waterways i...

Sat, 02/06/2021 - 1:19pm -- tim Vermont Business Magazine About 350 Soldiers primarily from the 3rd Battalion, 172nd Infantry (Mountain), 86th Infantry Brigade Combat Team (Mountain), Vermont Army National Guard, as well as about 200 additional soldiers from New Hampshire, Connecticut, and Colorado will deploy to multiple locations across US Central Command as part of Task Force Avalanche. When: Sunday, February 07, 2021; beginning 09:30 a.m. through 12:30 p.m. Where: Jericho Readiness Center,...

Friday, 05 February 2021 9:11 AM   [ Last Update: Friday, 05 February 2021 9:20 AM ] Houthi forces in Sana’a after a reported airstrike by the Saudi-led coalition on Dec. 5, 2017. (Photo by AFP) Reacting to the news of the US president’s decision to stop supporting the Saudi war on Yemen, Yemen’s Supreme Political Council said that Yemenis will not be fooled by mere US statements. “We consider any move that does not end the ...

12:14 PM The USS Nimitz carrier strike group is heading into the Indo-Pacific region after serving an extended period in the Middle East. The group had served more than 270 days in the Central Command and was moving into the Indo-Pacific region, Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said on Tuesday. The Indo-Pacific region includes the world’s busiest international sea lanes including the South China Sea. The Nimitz was conducting flight operations in the Arabian Sea last wee...

The US aircraft carrier will be departing the Central Command "ensuring our national security and deterring conflict in a very critical region of the world", Pentagon Press Secretary John F. Kirby said. The Biden administration has pulled the carrier from the Gulf in a sign of potentially easing tensions with Iran. "These decisions are carefully weighed," the Pentagon spokesman said, adding," Supporting Strike Group is a decision driven by a frank assessment of the threats in the area, and al...

IDF and US military launch what might be the last biennial joint military exercise of this type. By Yakir Benzion, United With Israel About 1,000 American and Israeli soldiers are holding a joint military exercise this week focusing on training the two air and ground forces to work together, the U.S. military announced Thursday. “In accordance with long-standing bilateral agreements, US European Command (USEUCOM) and the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have begun Exercise JUNIPER FALCON 2021 (JF2...

Judah Ari Gross is The Times of Israels military correspondent. An Israeli Air Force officer takes part in the Juniper Falcon exercise in February 2021. (Israel Defense Forces) The Israel Defense Forces and the United States European Command (EUCOM) launched a joint air defense exercise this week, dubbed Juniper Falcon, focused on the threat of ballistic missile attack, the two militaries said Thursday. It may be the last time that the two hold the biennial exercise, after 20 years of cooperati...

"We want to thank all the men and women aboard the ships in that strike crew and the squadrons who supported Central Command now for more than 270 days, ensuring our national security and deterring conflict in a very critical region of the world," Kirby said. The carrier is homeported in Bremerton, Washington. It is now in the 7th Fleet area of responsibility and can be called upon for operations, training or humanitarian exercises there. The Nimitzs departure means there is no U.S. carrier ope...

US President Joe Biden's administration has pulled an aircraft carrier out of the Gulf in a sign of potentially easing tensions with Iran, which had soared under former president Donald Trump.