The U.S. Defense Department’s regional command for South America
is the smallest of the department’s 10 unified commands. It permanently oversees just 1,200 personnel plus a few thousand troops and a handful of ships on temporary deployments.
But that doesn’t mean the U.S. military couldn’t invade Venezuela in the event Washington makes good on past threats and orders the Pentagon to intervene in the slowly-collapsing South American country.
Not, of course, that invading Venezuela is a good idea. Experts agree it’s not.
Most major U.S. military forces are by nature expeditionary, as they typically must travel long distances to participate in major operations.
The
Cyclones-class patrol boats are fast and heavily armed - perfect for first response to Iranian aggression in the Persian Gulf.
Here s What You Need To Remember: The
Cyclones spent a decade in a kind of planning limbo. But then in 2003, the United States invaded Iraq. The patrol boats suddenly found their calling.
If the United States and Iran go to war in the Persian Gulf, the U.S. Navy’s smallest warships could be the first to see combat.
The Navy’s 13
Cyclone-class patrol boats also known as “PCs” for “patrol, coastal” each displace just 330 tons of water. An
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Izumo-class helicopter carriers to embark F-35B stealth fighters.
South Korea is getting an aircraft carrier. The vessel could help Seoul’s navy to compete with its main rivals, the Chinese and Japanese fleets.
The South Korean joint chiefs of staff decided on July 12, 2019 to acquire an assault ship capable of operating fixed-wing aircraft,
Defense News reported. The vessel presumably would embark vertical-landing F-35B stealth fighters.
Seoul for years has mulled a purchase of F-35Bs to complement the country’s land-based F-35As.
“The plan of building the LPH-II ship has been included in a long-term force buildup plan,” a spokesman for the joint chiefs told
The DF-26 could be vulnerable to the latest American defenses.
Here s What You Need To Remember: China in recent years has occupied several disputed islands in the China Seas, dredged their endangered coral reefs and built atop them sprawling airfields and barracks and installations for cruise missiles and air-defense systems.
The Chinese military lobbed anti-ship ballistic missiles into the South China Sea in tests in early July 2019.
The missile trials underscored Beijing’s increasing militarization of resource-rich waters on which several countries have conflicting claims.
“The Chinese carried out the first test over the weekend, firing off at least one missile into the sea,” NBC News