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“The collapse of the Libyan state has had region-wide repercussions, with flows of people and weapons destabilizing other countries throughout North Africa.” This statement came from the Soufan Group’s 24 January 2020 Intelligence brief, entitled “Fighting Over Access to Libya’s Energy Supplies”.
Lawrence Wilkerson, retired United States Marine Colonel said that on 10 September 2015, President Barak Obama told him and several others assembled in the White House’s Roosevelt Room that “There’s a bias in Washington, DC toward war,” almost seven years into his presidency. At the time, Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson and others thought President Obama was thinking particularly of the tragic mistake he made by joining the intervention in Libya in 2011, ostensibly implementing United Nations Security Council Resolution 1973. President Obama’s Secretary of State, John Kerry, had been rather outspoken at the time about heavier United States p
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Adm. Philip Davidson, INDOPACOM commander, greats former Defense Secretary Mark Esper on a visit to Hawaii.
WASHINGTON: Indo-Pacific Command has drafted a new warfighting concept for the Asian theater, designed to parallel the global Joint Warfighting Concept spearheaded by the Joint Staff, says George Ka’iliwai, INDOPACOM director for requirements.
The new INDOPACOM Warfighting Concept (IPWC) is being shepherded by the command’s J5 planning directorate, Ka’iliwai, who heads the J8 section (requirements), told reporters at the National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA) POST conference on Friday.
“As far as progress, the J5 has completed the concepts behind the IPWC. The J5 has also done what we call a ‘roadshow,’ and as socialized and vetted the IPWC with our component commanders,” he said. “And we still have a ways to go as far as working through the Department of Defense.”
The Army was initially reluctant to grant the D.C. city government’s request to deploy the National Guard in anticipation of the pro-Trump rally that took place…
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By TIM GRAHAM
At a March 8 White House event to announce the nomination of two female generals to lead U.S. military combatant commands, President Joe Biden seemed to forget the name of Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and where Austin works. Since the theme of the president’s mental acuity is still associated with memes of former President Donald Trump, the media desperately wanted to forget this happened.
It recalls an old moment the media loved to recount: when, in 1981, President Ronald Reagan greeted his secretary of housing and urban development, Samuel Pierce (a black man, like Austin) as “Mr. Mayor” at an event with a receiving line of mayors. The New York Times liked that enough that it recalled the story in Pierce’s obituary in 2000, saying, “The widely reported anecdote clearly embarrassed Mr. Pierce and dogged him for the rest of his cabinet tenure.”