Middle East-focused Marine command cancels birthday ball
A spokesman attributed the “tough decision” to cancel the Tampa ball to “the dynamic and uncertain security environment" in the Middle East.
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A spokesman attributed the “tough decision” to cancel the Tampa ball to “the dynamic and uncertain security environment" in the Middle East.
Invoking the 1951 Mutual Defense Treaty – acknowledging and repeatedly stressing its applicability in the West Philippine Sea (a Philippine proposition earlier rejected by the Obama administration) – the United States appears to be angling to use Subic Bay once more as its naval base in this part of the world.
Subic Bay was tagged as a “priority” site for infrastructure projects aimed at “supporting economic growth” in the Philippines, diplomats and defencse officials of Manila and Washington said in a meeting last week
Alkegen to add over 30 MFGF lines
More than 80 years since the attack on Pearl Harbor, the surprise military strike still looms large in Hawaii’s memory. Now, amid rising tensions with China…