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by Sylvie LANTEAUME Agence France Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The United States and South Korea have scaled down a joint military exercise scheduled for the spring of 2019 to facilitate nuclear talks with North Korea, US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said Wednesday. “Foal Eagle is being reorganized a bit to keep it at a level that will not be harmful to diplomacy,” Mattis said, adding that it would be “reduced in scope.” US […]
by Thomas Watkins Agence France Presse LAREDO, United States (AFP) — They started work in the cool of the morning and moved quickly, uncoiling reel after reel of vicious-looking fencing and tying it with barbed wire to green poles hammered into the ground. Over the course of three days, a gleaming, shoulders-high barrier of concertina-wire emerged like a silver snake along a lush riverbank, stretching as far as the eye could see. This was […]
PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea (AFP) — The United States said Saturday it will join forces with Australia in the development of a new naval base in Papua New Guinea, a project seen as a move to curb China’s influence in the Pacific. Australia, which has long-standing military ties with the US, has already announced plans to redevelop PNG’s Lombrum Naval Base on Manus Island. China’s desire to build a military facility on Fiji’s […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said Wednesday that the military operation to harden the US-Mexico frontier was clearly necessary, as he visited troops deployed on the controversial mission. President Donald Trump ordered the deployment in the build-up to last week’s midterm elections, with critics assailing the move as a costly political stunt to mobilize his conservative base. According to Mattis, some 5,900 troops are now at the border. The mission could […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Authorities in Southern California have identified the gunman who killed 12 people in a crowded bar as 28-year-old Ian David Long, a former Marine who may have been suffering from PTSD. Here is a look at Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and the impact it has on veterans. – How big a problem? – Millions of veterans are dealing with PTSD, a signature wound of any war. Symptoms can range from […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The Pentagon will deploy more than 5,000 soldiers to the US-Mexico border, a top general said Monday, as President Donald Trump warned a caravan of Central American migrants that the military was waiting. “By the end of the week, we will deploy over 5,200 soldiers to the southwest border,” Air Force General Terrence O’Shaughnessy, head of the US military’s Northern Command, told reporters. Trump in recent weeks has repeatedly said […]
by Thomas Watkins Agence France Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The Pentagon is expected to deploy about 800 troops to the US-Mexico border, two US officials told AFP on Thursday, after President Donald Trump said the military would help tackle a “national emergency” and called on a caravan of migrants to turn around. The active-duty troops would augment the 2,000 or so National Guardsmen already deployed to support operations on the border, and could […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — The two Koreas and the US-led United Nations Command held talks Tuesday on demilitarizing a section of the heavily fortified border dividing the peninsula, as a diplomatic thaw gathers pace. “The three parties examined the progress in removing landmines at the Joint Security Area (JSA)…and discussed other practical matters regarding steps toward disarming the area,” Seoul’s defense ministry said in a statement. The JSA, also known as the truce […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte has appointed the head of the Army’s intelligence unit as the military’s next commanding general. Major General Macairog Alberto, chief of the Intelligence Service unit of the Armed Forces of the Philippines will replace Major General Rolando Bautista, who is slated to retire on Oct. 15. President Duterte has said, however, that he would appoint Bautista as the next Social Welfare secretary. Alberto served as commander of Task Force Davao […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Japan’s military said Sunday one of its members was killed in a car crash in the Philippines during joint exercises with US and Filipino troops. Suguru Maehara, a 38-year-old sergeant of the Ground Self-Defense Forces, was involved in the accident on Tuesday last week, according to a GSDF spokesman who confirmed his death. “It is the first time a GSDF member has died during an overseas drill,” the spokesman told […]
(Eagle News)—-The Armed Forces of the Philippines chief Lt. Gen. Carlito Galvez Jr. recently visited a Moro Islamic Liberation Front’s camp. Galvez visited Camp Darapanan in Maguindanao in particular, pictures provided by the military showed. According to the AFP, this is the first time the military chief visited an MILF camp.
(Eagle News) — Senator Panfilo Lacson believes the military should not have revealed the names of the schools that are allegedly being tapped by Communists for the Red October plot. “Intel reports are supposed to be for the consumption of the intel operatives..,” he said. According to Lacson, this was for the operatives “to pursue and follow up and eventually transform the same into actionable intelligence for the operatives to execute with the sole objective […]
