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PENTAGON WOKE WATCH
UNBELIEVABLE โ GENDER INSANITY INFECTS MARINE CORPS โย Why the Marines could nix gender identifiers for drill instructors. Will it be the end of โsirโ and โma'amโ?
BUT IS IT, REALLY READINESS? OR IS IT CLIMATE POLITICS? โย For the Navy and Marines, weather readiness is climate readiness. Recently, Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Energy, Installations, and Environment Meredith Berger claimed that for the Navy and Marines, climate readiness is mission readiness. She made her case by citing this year's North Atlantic hurricane season and stating that climate change is making the world a more volatile place by bringing extreme weather events, more humanitarian crises and heightened friction around essential natural resources. Her main point was that the Department of the Navy's Climate Action 2030 addresses these issues by increasing the resilience of the Navy and Marine Corps while reducing the threat.
YES โย Senator wants review of US security assistance to Nigeria following abortion report. U.S. Senator Jim Risch, the top Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, has requested a review of U.S. security assistance and cooperation programs in Nigeria following Reuters reporting on an illegal abortion program and killing of children carried out by the Nigerian military.
POLITICS
DANGEROUSLY PARTISAN PRECEDENT โย Jan. 6 panel urges Trump prosecution with criminal referral. The House Jan. 6 committee urged the Justice Department on Monday to bring criminal charges against Donald Trump for the violent 2021 Capitol insurrection, calling for accountability for the former president and โa time of reflection and reckoning.โ
The military pays for beltway budgetary brinkmanship. Will House Republicans protect the armed forces from losing another decade to fiscal disorder?
NATIONAL SECURITY
China, Russia hold joint naval exercises to โdeepen' partnership. China and Russia have increased military exercises in an alignment of foreign policies and in opposition to the West.
The Russian military has a new pop song celebrating its โSon of Satan' nuclear ICBMs. Because everyone knows ICBMs are a bop.
HOMELAND SECURITY
Supreme Court temporarily halts end of (keeps) Title 42 immigration policy. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts on Monday temporarily halted the end of the Title 42 policy that allows the U.S. to expel migrants at the southern border without the chance for asylum.
400 Texas National Guard troops sent to El Paso as city sees influx of migrants. The Texas National Guard on Monday deployed an additional 400 troops to El Paso, where the mayor has declared a state of emergency as a surge of migrants cross the border from Mexico, according to city and military officials.
CHINA THREAT
China's Liaoning Carrier Strike Group now operating in the Philippine Sea. The People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) Liaoning Carrier Strike Group is now operating in the Philippine Sea, according to Japan's Ministry of Defense.
Washington is waking up on weapons for Taiwan. The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for fiscal year 2023, which now heads to President Joe Biden for his signature, includes landmark legislation related to Taiwan that can begin to close the gap between words and actions in Washington and play a decisive role in deterring Chinese aggression and avoiding great power war.
India beefs up military at tense China border. India's foreign minister has said that the country has scaled up troop deployment along a disputed border with China to an unprecedented level.
RUSSIA THREAT โ UKRAINE WAR
How Putin's war in Ukraine became a catastrophe for Russia. A Times investigation based on interviews, intercepts, documents and secret battle plans shows how a โwalk in the parkโ became a catastrophe for Russia.
Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 300. Speaking ahead of Security Services Day which falls on Tuesday, President Vladimir Putin ordered the strengthening of Russia's borders as Moscow tries to regain momentum in its war against Ukraine. Russian โkamikazeโ drones hit key energy infrastructure in and around Kyiv on Monday, which followed Friday's missile attacks in one of Russia's biggest assaults against Ukraine since the start of the war, Ukrainian officials said.
Putin arrives in ally Belarus after Russian drones hit Kyiv. Belarus allowed its territory to be used as a launchpad for Moscow's invasion of neighboring Ukraine, but has not joined the fighting directly.
โWiped out': War in Ukraine has decimated a once feared Russian brigade. The bloody fate of Russia's 200th Motor Rifle Brigade in Ukraine is emblematic of Vladimir Putin's derailed invasion plans.
The Pentagon says it has helped Ukraine thwart Russian cyberattacks. The Pentagon's Cyber National Mission Force has been supporting Ukraine's digital defense with daily consultations, a collaboration that has helped unearth thousands of warning indicators of potentially compromised Ukrainian computer networks, a top U.S. cyber commander said.
Send the ground-launched small diameter bomb to Ukraine. The GLSDB would allow Ukrainian forces to strike Russian military targets up to 150 km away with an accuracy of around one meter, write John Hardie and Bradley Bowman of FDD.
NORTH KOREA THREAT
PODCAST โย Today, North Korea sent a pair of missiles capable of reaching Japan.
US flies bombers, stealth jets nearby as Kim's sister threatens. The United States flew nuclear-capable bombers and advanced stealth jets in a show of force against North Korea on Tuesday, as the powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un derided doubts about her country's military and threatened a full-range intercontinental ballistic missile test.
North Korea says latest launches tested 1st spy satellite. North Korea said Monday it fired a test satellite in an important final-stage test for the development of its first spy satellite, a key military capability coveted by its leader Kim Jong Un along with other high-tech weapons systems.
INTERNATIONAL SECURITY โ NATO, MIDDLE EAST, ASIA, AFRICA
In joint raid, Kurdish forces seize IS militant in Syria. A Kurdish-led group in Syria said Monday that its fighters alongside U.S. forces have arrested a wanted militant with the Islamic State group that continues to stage attacks in the region.
US airstrikes kill 15 al-Shabab fighters in Somalia, AFRICOM says. More than a dozen al-Qaida linked militants were killed in separate airstrikes in Somalia, U.S. Africa Command said.
Pakistani forces retake anti-terrorism center, free hostages โ sources. Pakistani security forces retook a counter-terrorism interrogation center on Tuesday two days after it was seized by Islamist militants, security sources said, adding that all hostages, some slightly wounded, had been rescued.
BIDEN AFGHAN DISASTER
30 retired military leaders urge Congress to pass Afghan Adjustment Act before the new year. Former flag officers plead for Congress to pass the Afghan Adjustment Act, hoping for the legislation to pass before the next session.
SPACE
STARCOM hosts largest ever Space Flag Exercise, focusing on Europe. Space Training and Readiness Command hosted its largest ever Space Flag exercise at Schriever Space Force Base, Colo., from Dec. 5 to 16, with 165 participants exercising potential strategies for a European conflict.
US MILITARY
Meet America's new manned B-21 stealth bomber. It might be the last. The U.S. Air Force has, to put it mildly, a mixed record building strategic bombers over the past 60 years. The B-1 Lancer was poorly regarded from the start and canceled by Jimmy Carter before being revived by Ronald Reagan following his 1980 election. The B-2 Spirit, known for its stealthy, fuselage-free profile, was so expensive that Congress and George H.W. Bush agreed to cut the fleet to just 20 aircraft. The spotty performance managing bomber programs helps explain why the Air Force keeps about 70 aging B-52s in service, six decades after that production line shut down.
B-2 nuclear bomber fleet grounded amid search for safety defects. All 20 of the Air Force's B-2 Spirit bombers are grounded as the service hunts for potential safety defects, a spokesperson confirmed Monday. The stealth aircraft will be down until further notice.
DOES SMALLER, LIGHTER AND WEAKER HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH IT? โย Barriers still preventing women from joining special ops, watchdog say. Inconsistent policies to prevent gender discrimination and sexual harassment are among the barriers to why women make up less than 10% of U.S. special operations forces, according to a government watchdog report released on Dec 15.
BIGGEST AND BADDEST โย At sea with the Navy's newest carrier. USS Gerald R. Ford: โThe Biggest and Baddestโ reads a T-shirt in the store aboard the Navy's newest aircraft carrier. The slogan appeared again on a poster not far from the galley. And it was repeated by the ship's captain as he overlooked the flight deck from the bridge.
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1 Comment
We are so screwed! Wasnโt it Barack Husain Obama who said, โone way to destroy are military is to demoralize itโ. Iโm sure that he has a whole case of Kleenex near by as his โwet dreamsโ are coming true!