カテゴリー: US military
Questions mount about pact’s ultimate purpose and implications for other Asean countriesIt was initially seen as an audacious enlistment by Joe Biden of Australia into the 21st-century struggle against China, elevating the country in the process to a s…
Sighting renews concerns over Beijing’s capability and intentions as tensions rise over South China SeaSatellite images show China has built mock-ups of a US navy aircraft carrier and destroyer in its north-western desert, possibly for practice for a f…
Investigation finds civilian deaths did not violate law as strike attempted to target Islamic StateA Pentagon investigation that found a drone strike in Kabul that killed 10 Afghan civilians was an “honest mistake” and recommended no legal or disciplin…
Analysis: China recently tested a nuclear-capable manoeuvrable missile and Russia and the US have their own programmesA new focus on hypersonic glider weapons, after a reportedly successful Chinese test, is helping drive an arms race that is eclipsing …
Launch, possibly from a submarine, comes as US, South Korean and Japanese spy chiefs meet for talks in SeoulNorth Korea launched a ballistic missile – possibly from a submarine – into the Sea of Japan, South Korea’s military has said, in the latest in …
Small contingent of US special forces and marines training local forces in latest sign of rising US-China tensionsThe US has been secretly maintaining a small contingent of military trainers in Taiwan for at least a year, according to a new report, the…
A Taliban commander invited the media to inspect the site where America plotted killing raids and tortured prisonersThe cars, minibuses and armoured vehicles that the CIA used to run its shadow war in Afghanistan had been lined up and incinerated beyon…
Analysis: Senators’ questions to military leadership a contest in sharing out responsibility for failuresThe deeply partisan US Congress is rarely a conducive place for national introspection and Tuesday’s Senate hearing on the Afghanistan withdrawal d…
General and other military leaders in heated cross-examinationMilley defends loyalty to country and rejects suggestion to quitThe withdrawal from Afghanistan and the evacuation of Kabul was “a logistical success but a strategic failure” the chairman of…
Civilian deaths in US drone strike deal blow to credibility of chairman of the joint chiefs of staff when he needs it mostThree days after a US drone obliterated a car in a Kabul street, General Mark Milley, shrugged off reports of civilian casualties,…
Aukus described as ‘exclusionary’ amid French anger at scrapping of $90bn submarine deal with AustraliaChina has told the US, the UK and Australia to abandon their “cold war” mentality or risk harming their own interests after the three countries unve…
Zemari Ahmadi, who died alongside nine others had no connection to terrorism, a New York Times investigation suggestedThe US mistakenly targeted and killed an innocent aid worker for an American company in a drone strike in Afghanistan, the New York Ti…
The Missouri Democrat has been described as a possible president – but for now he’s focused on healing wounds of a 20-year warJason Kander is tired. For weeks the former Missouri secretary of state, an Afghanistan veteran as well as a rising star of De…
Congressman Markwayne Mullin, criticized for rogue rescue effort, says he would do it again ‘without hesitation’The Oklahoma Republican congressman Markwayne Mullin has said he has no regrets about trying to enter Afghanistan on a rescue mission last m…