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Chad President Deby, ally in fighting extremism, dies at 68 By EDOUARD TAKADJI and CARLEY PETESCH ...

KNBN NewsCenter1 April 21, 2021 RAPID CITY, S.D. — On April 10, the South Dakota Army National Guard graduated their first female drill sergeant from the U.S. Army’s Drill Sergeant Academy in Fort Jackson, South Carolina. Staff Sgt. Erin Fagnan of Rapid City is the first female from South Dakota to attend and graduate from the academy while serving in the South Dakota Army National Guard, and also graduated on the Commandant’s List – putting her in the top 10 in her class of 107 student...

7 With convergence of Joint effects being one of the main goals of Project Convergence 21, joint interoperability was the main order of business during the second of four communications exercises planned in the lead-up to PC21. The communications exercise, which took place from April 5-15 at the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command’s, or DEVCOM, Joint System Integration Lab on Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, brought together nearly 60 technologies from the Join...

Chad president Deby dies at 68 after three-decade rule EDOUARD TAKADJI and CARLEY PETESCH, Associated Press April 20, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail 8 1of8FILE - In this Friday, May 29, 2015 file photo, Chadian President Idriss Deby Itno arrives for the inauguration of the new Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari, at the eagle square in Abuja, Nigeria. Deby, who ruled the central African nation for more than three decades, was killed on the battlefield Tuesday, April 20, 2021 in a fight...

AU Should Deploy Crisis Team to Ensure Civilian Protection, Rule of Law Recently deceased Chadian President Idriss Déby Itno seen here addressing the Climate Action Summit at the United Nations General Assembly, at UN headquarters on Monday, Sept. 23, 2019   © 2019 AP Photo/Jason DeCrow, File (Nairobi) – Chads transitional military council should scrupulously respect human rights and the rule of law, ensuring that civilians are protected and avoid any ...

Human Rights Watch transitional military council should scrupulously respect human rights and the rule of law, ensuring that civilians are protected and avoid any escalation of abuses against civilians, Human Rights Watch said today. The military council should also ensure a swift transition to democratic civilian rule, upholding the right of Chadians to elect their leaders in free and fair elections. A spokesman for the Chadian army announced on national television on April 20, 2021, that Pre...

Italian aircraft carrier cleared by joint program office to operate F-35Bs By (0) U.S. Sailors, assigned to the aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis, standby to bring the Italian Navy flagship, aircraft carrier ITS Cavour, which was certified last Friday as safely capable of landing and launching F-35B aircraft, into port at Naval Station Norfolk in Virginia in February. File Photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Apprentice Curtis Burdick/U.S. Navy April 20 (UPI) -- The U.S. F-35 Join...

Richard D. Fisher, Jr. On Taiwan: Building a global response to CCP aggression Where is the world’s disposition today vis-a-vis the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)? Is it similar to that in Munich, September 1938 when Europe’s powers appeased Adolf Hitler over the “Sudetenland,” despite existing treaty commitments? In other words, analogous to the failure to recognize the PRC’s aggressive intent and to mobilize in response to serial CCP outrages, e.g., Tiananmen and South China Sea; sup...

Big War, Special Forces: How America Could Fight Russia or China Special Operators are able to hit targets behind enemy lines, scout out an area, conduct a raid, or perform any number of missions. Key point: Pararescue, recon, directing aircraft or artillery fire, helping to prepare the way for an assault--these are all things special forces can do. Here is how their training and real-life fighting in the Middle East makes them ready for any future combat. U.S. Air Force Special Operators are ...

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