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Afghan General: ANDSF Ready to Crush Taliban after Withdrawal Gen. Haibatullah Alizai, the Commander of Special Operations Command of the Afghan National Army (ANA), on Wednesday assured the Afghan people that the nation’s armed forces are fully prepared to crush any hostile move by the Taliban once the US and NATO forces withdraw from the country. He said that members of the Special Operations Command are among the best in the world and will not allow the Taliban to win on the battlefield....

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Yost, hospital commander (Troop Program Unit), 228th Medical Command Hospital, Forward Detachment 2, U.S. Military Hospital, Operation Spartan Shield, Kuwait, to deputy commander for professional services (Troop Program Unit), 807th Medical Command (Deployment Support), Saint Charles, Missouri. /Public Release. This material comes from the originating organization and may be of a point-in-time nature, edited for clarity, style and length. View in full here. Why? Well, unlike many news organisa...

massive solar storm. This has focused military minds on alternatives. A soldier checks a map during NATO’s Trident Juncture exercise in October 2018. Participants accused the Russian government of GPS jamming during the exercise. Leon NealGetty Images The Navy’s Automated Celestial Navigation System would replace manual shipboard measurements with something more accurate, while Special Operations Command experts are developing a handheld device for commandos. Both pieces of tech are aimin...

FORT BRAGG — Construction is now underway for the final building that is part of the John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School campus on Fort Bragg.   The dirt turned April 16 for the center’s 90,000-square-foot Human Performance Force Generation facility, which is expected to be completed in 2023.   The facility, located on a block bordered by Ardennes Street and Gruber, Reilly and Zabitosky roads, is part of the $156.7 million construction of four buildings that past...

8 U.S. Africa Command conducted an aerial show of presence over Somalia using multiple aircraft in conjunction with air-to-ground integration training with the Somalia National Army – Danab, April 22. “The U.S. brings with it an arsenal of specialized aircraft and aerial capabilities that enable our forces to respond to crises and combat terrorism,” said U.S. Air Force Maj. Gen. Dagvin Anderson, Special Operations Command – Africa commander. “We use these capabilities...

LEADERSHIP: Tolerating Failure  April 23, 2021: The U.S. Navy is still trying to fix the problems that led to three warship collisions in 2017. While the recent (March 2021) steering mishap in the Suez Canal, that closed the Canal for six days, put the spotlight on the problems and risks the helmsman (sailors trained to actually steer a ship) encounter, the Suez Canal case was different because when moving through canals or entering a port the navy will use pr...

Share This: After a long period of hibernation, tension in the Arctic is increasing, with military build-ups and encounters there between the U.S. and its near-peer competitors, Russia and China. In a reflection of that tension, the Army recently released a strategy meant to secure its military preeminence in the Arctic. Dubbed “Regaining Arctic Dominance,” the strategy aims to create a dedicated headquarters and specialized Arctic warfare units, improve infrastructure in the region, and in...

0 Engagements Twenty-eight people aged between 33 and 71 were arrested for suspected involvement in providing illegal remote 4-D, Toto and horse betting services, with more than $1.2 million seized in the two-day police operation. The 27 men and one woman are believed to belong to a remote gambling syndicate that purportedly used betting websites and phone messaging apps to facilitate their illegal remote betting activities. On Tuesday, more than 180 police officers from the Criminal Investigat...