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14th April 2021 - 17:17 GMT | by Jean-Marc Tanguy in Jacqueville RSS SOF from Ivory Coast mount a mock assault on the ‘hotel’ at the AILCT. (Photo: JM Tanguy) A growing facility near Abidjan offers counter-terrorism and special forces training for African militaries. Western African countries are threatened by jihadist terrorist groups affiliated with Al-Qaeda and Islamic State — both of which operate in Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso — as well as Boko Haram in Chad, N...

Vice Adm. Kelly Aeschbach is a 1990 graduate of George Washington University.  She received her commission through the Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps and was designated a naval intelligence officer. Aeschbach’s operational assignments included Patrol Squadron (VP) 6, with deployments to Adak, Alaska, and Okinawa, Japan; Amphibious Squadron One, deploying to the Western Pacific and the Arabian Gulf; and Carrier Strike Group Nine, taking part in Operation Enduring Freedom. Her ashore as...

May 06, 2021 13:41 A senior Pentagon official has warned of North Koreas weapons and mass destruction and urged American and South Korean forces to prepare for the threat. Jennifer Walsh, the acting under secretary of defense for policy, said Tuesday, "Given the risk that Kim Jong-un could seek to employ WMD in the course of or to stave off a conflict on the Korean Peninsula, [South Korea and the U.S.] must be ready for any number of WMD-related contingencies that require operating in a che...

© istock You can’t put a price on our constitution, but police these days can circumvent it, as long as they’re willing to pay. This is the absurd logic law enforcement agencies employ with data broker purchases, in which officers buy your cell phone location data from firms that offer it up to the highest bidder, and all without any court oversight. We know these data purchases have impacted tens of millions, but we actually have no way to know just whose data they’ve purchased. And it�...

What Tampa Bay vets who fought in Afghanistan think about the pull-out Here are some candid reflections on Afghanistan from the men and women who were there.     Afghan security forces stand on Humvee vehicles during a military operation in Arghandab district of Kandahar province last month. [ JAVED TANVEER | AFP ] Published May 6 They fought. They led. They planned. They bled. They lost a loved one to combat. As the United States prepares to pull its troops out of Afghanistan on the or...

Soldiers from 2nd Battalion, 34th Armor Regiment, 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, board a CH-47 Chinook helicopter prior to conducting an air assault during exercise Warrior Strike 7 at Camp Mobile, in Dongducheon, South Korea, May 3, 2017. The four-day exercise had soldiers air assault into the target area, search and clear mock villages of simulated enemy forces, and identify and exploit weapons of mass destruction sites. Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction: Focus b...

US Special Forces trained Mexican drug cartels linked to decapitation, torture, rape Published: May 6, 2021 The Cártel Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG) has established itself as one of the most feared paramilitaries in Mexico over the last decade. Images of the group have become the standard depiction of the Mexican cartels writ large. Their propaganda videos often feature groups of masked men bristling with enough small arms to make them formidable against even conventional armies. In an int...

The SureFire WarComp flash hider, is one of the most popular and most shootable flash hiders on the market. Its patent-pending design provides three valuable functions: It provides over 99% reduction in muzzle flash compared to a plain muzzle, which helps to conceal the shooter’s location and preserve his dark-adapted vision which is paramount for users of night vision or people shooting in low light conditions. In addition, It virtually eliminates muzzle rise, which enhances monitoring of t...

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News From Antiwar.com Original and up-to-date news Cyber Command Repurposing Counterterror Task Force to Face China The Joint Task Force-Ares will be focusing on great power competition in the Indo-Pacific Following the trend of the US military, US Cyber Command is repurposing a counterterrorism task force to focus on so-called “great power competition” with China in the Indo-Pacific region. The Joint Task Force-Ares was created in 2016 to go after ISIS online and was expanded in 2018 to f...