by | Oct 23, 2023 | Security
SEOUL, South Korea — The South Korean, U.S. and Japanese militaries conducted their first-ever trilateral aerial exercise on Sunday in response to evolving North Korean nuclear threats, South Korea’s air force said. The training held near the Korean Peninsula was to...
by | Oct 23, 2023 | Security
ANKARA, Turkey — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has submitted a protocol for Sweden’s admission into NATO to Turkey’s parliament for ratification, his office said Monday, bringing the Nordic country a step closer to membership in the military alliance. Erdogan...
by | Oct 23, 2023 | Security
MANILA, Philippines — The Philippine military is realigning its modernization program to strengthen territorial and coastal defense amid escalating tension with China. On Sunday, the Philippines reported Chinese ships collided with a crewed military supply vessel...
by | Oct 23, 2023 | Security
MANILA, Philippines — The Philippine defense chief has ordered all defense personnel and the 163,000-member military to refrain from using digital applications that harness artificial intelligence to generate personal portraits, saying they could pose security risks....
by | Oct 23, 2023 | Security
WASHINGTON — The Chinese military is wrestling with shortcomings in fights where access to and control of the electromagnetic spectrum is hotly contested, according to a U.S. Department of Defense assessment. The spectrum is a critical resource in modern conflicts, as...
by | Oct 23, 2023 | Security
The White House submitted a $105 billion supplemental spending package to Congress on Friday. The proposal seeks to help three beleaguered democracies — Israel, Ukraine and Taiwan — confronting adversaries that seek to destroy or subsume them. Understandably, given...
by | Oct 23, 2023 | Security
MILAN — Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said the country’s forces are leaning heavily on Chinese DJI drones in the defense of their country, a claim that the manufacturer has since declared was news to them. The Oct. 8 statement made by Denys Shmyhal at the...
by | Oct 21, 2023 | Security
ISLAMABAD — Pakistan has test-fired an Ababeel missile capable of carrying multiple warheads that can attack different targets. Pakistan last tested the multiple independently targetable reentry vehicles-capable weapon on Jan. 24, 2017. The military’s media branch,...
by | Oct 20, 2023 | Security
WASHINGTON ― The White House has asked Congress to pass a $105 billion supplemental spending package with most of the money allocated for a diffuse array of the Biden administration’s defense priorities, ranging from Ukraine to Israel to the Indo-Pacific region. Much...
by | Oct 20, 2023 | Security
CANBERRA, Australia — The Australian government announced Friday it has decided not to cancel a Chinese company’s 99-year lease on the strategically important Darwin Port, despite U.S. concerns that the foreign control could be used to spy on its military forces. The...
