Military May Revisit Making COVID-19 Vaccines Mandatory After FDA Grants Approval
Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III, visits with service members assisting the Federal Emergency Management Agency COVID vaccination site at California State University, Los Angeles, Feb. 24, 2021. (DoD/U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Jack Sanders).
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The Pentagon has not yet decided whether to require service members to get inoculated against COVID-19, once the Food and Drug Administration grants full approval for the vaccines.
But in a briefing with reporters Monday, Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby indicated full FDA approval could change how the military s leadership looks at this issue.
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Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin answering scripted questions as usual. The stenographers to power make his job quite easy, actually.
Casualties from the U.S. attack on Friday were still being assessed, Kirby said. Iraqi officials have said the bombing caused at least one fatality and wounded four, though some estimates from online accounts associated with militias said as many as 17 people had been killed.
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The limited strike in eastern Syria was meant to signal to the Iranians that the U.S. would not ignore attacks by Iranian proxies but was not seeking a wider military confrontation, officials said. It was no accident that the U.S. struck what amounted to a base used by the militias, an equivalent target to their attacks on the American facilities, officials said.
Tokyo gives coast guard authorization to fire on foreign vessels
In a decision that will only further escalate tensions in the Indo-Pacific region, members of Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) announced Thursday that the government had confirmed a “reinterpretation” of a law to allow Japan’s coast guard to fire upon foreign vessels attempting to land on disputed islands, namely the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands. The move is aimed at China as Tokyo, Washington, and their allies in the region increase their efforts to militarily and economically subordinate Beijing to their interests.
Japan Coast Guard vessel Yashima (Source: Wikimedia)