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BOGOTÁ – During a recent key leader engagement visit to Colombia, Command Sgt. Maj. Sean Rice, the senior enlisted adviser at Security Assistance Command, saw firsthand how the foreign military

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 focus on other groups and global counterterrorism as a whole. Gen. Paul Nakasone, the head of US Cyber Command, told Congress in written testimony in March that the command is “shifting JTF-Ares’ focus ...

Joseph Maguire. A copy of the unclassified letter was obtained by Inside the Ring. The letter urged the DNI to use intelligence to counter enemy coercion and subversion and help the American military “win without fighting” by engaging in similar gray zone warfare against China and Russia. Specifically, the commanders asked for “ammunition in the ongoing war of narratives” by releasing intelligence that the military can use publicly. “The main battlespace for this struggle is largely i...

Last November, days after the election and the firing of former Defense Secretary Mark Esper, then-acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller ordered U.S. Special Operations Command, or SOCOM, to report directly to him, putting it on par with the other military services for the first time. As he announced the change Nov. 18, Miller said that it would streamline the decision-making process and improve the agility of SOCOM and the Defense Department. In Wednesdays memo, Austin said that the assi...

By JIM THOMPSON | The Northwest Florida Daily News | Published: May 4, 2021 WASHINGTON (Tribune News Service) — Many airmen within the ranks of Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC) are "evil geniuses" who are demonstrating the capability to improve the Hurlburt Field-headquartered special operations arm, their commander told a U.S. Senate subcommittee last week. Lt. Gen. James Slife made the lighthearted but serious remark during a hearing of the Senate Armed Services Committees Sub...

Release date: Apr 23, 2021 Giving away one (1) free copy of "DAYS OF FURY" - a riveting true story of tank warfare on the frontlines of Operation Desert Storm. Giving away one (1) free copy of "DAYS OF FURY" - a riveting true story of tank warfare on the frontlines of Operation Desert Storm. ...more A riveting true story of tank warfare on the frontlines of Operation Desert Storm. August 1990: Iraqi forces under the command of Saddam Hussein invade A riveting true story of tan...

‘A CALIBRATED, PRACTICAL APPROACH’: Speaking at a meeting of the G-7 foreign ministers in London, Secretary of State Antony Blinken declined to return fire in the wake of incendiary statements from North Korea in reaction to President Joe Biden’s reference to the North’s nuclear program as a “serious threat.”

Hurlburt Field-headquartered Air Force Special Operations Command is soliciting and funding airmens ideas for thwarting national security threats.

Iron Man-Style: Watch UK Royal Marines Test Jet Suit During Boarding Op Drill Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/military/202105031082791036-iron-man-style-watch-uk-royal-marines-test-jet-suit-during-boarding-op-drill/ In September 2020, a jet suit for paramedics was tested over the Lake District by the UK-based Great North Air Ambulance Service and discovered that the “flying paramedics” were able to reach patients within minutes. The UK-headquartered jet suit developer Gravity ...

The seventeen-round detachable box magazine was much larger than most handguns of the time.