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HOMELAND DEFENSE

CRITICAL NEED – US NORTHCOM again asks for homeland cruise missile defense funding in wish list. U.S. Northern Command is asking again for additional funds to develop a homeland cruise missile defense capability in its wish list sent to Capitol Hill.

HOMELAND SECURITY

Texas Guard's border mission nearly out of cash, top general says. The cost for Operation Lone Star, which has deployed 10,000 service members, has ballooned to more than $2 billion a year.

CHINA THREAT

OF COURSE – As the world reacts in horror to Bucha, China's state media strikes a different tone. Shocking images showing the bodies of civilians scattered across the streets of Bucha, a suburb of the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv, have sparked global horror in recent days. But a starkly different narrative is playing out on China's state-run media which have been quick to emphasize the Russian rebuttal highlighting unsubstantiated claims from Moscow that the situation was staged by Ukraine.

RUSSIA THREAT

Ukraine's Luhansk region tells civilians to evacuate ‘while it is safe.' Ukraine has said Russian troops that invaded on Feb. 24 are regrouping and preparing for a new offensive in the Donbas area, which includes Luhansk.

Czech Republic sends tanks, infantry fighting vehicles to Ukraine. The Czech Republic has sent T-72 tanks and BVP-1 infantry fighting vehicles to Ukraine, a Czech defense source told Reuters on Tuesday, confirming a local media report.

MORE TANKS – Poland signs $4.75 billion Abrams tank deal as Russia's war speeds procurements. Polish Defense Minister Mariusz Blaszczak on Tuesday signed a deal worth about $4.75 billion to buy 250 M1A2 Abrams SEPv3 from the United States. Read More.

NATO says Ukraine to decide on peace deal with Russia — within limits. The United States and its NATO allies say that Ukraine must be the ultimate decider about a peace settlement. But Kyiv's decisions will have lasting consequences for global security, ranging far from Ukraine's borders.

LONG OVERDUE – AND CHINA TOO – Zelensky calls for removing Russia from UN Security Council. Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky told the U.N. Security Council it should be dissolved if Russia isn't removed and that newly uncovered atrocities following Russia's withdrawal near Kyiv could be worse than in Bucha.

YES, PLEASE – If Finland and Sweden apply to join NATO, they would be welcomed, Stoltenberg says. NATO allies would welcome Finland and Sweden into the alliance if they decided to join but any such move is up to the two nations, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said on Tuesday.

NORTH KOREA

FINALLY – S Korea's president-elect wants US nuclear bombers, submarines to return. The team of foreign policy and security aides to incoming president Yoon Suk-yeol met U.S. national security adviser Jake Sullivan as Yoon seeks a more constant security presence to deter threats from North Korea as it steps up weapons tests.

IRAN THREAT

AS BIDEN PLAYS NICE – Iran's master class in evading sanctions. The ‘central banker of terrorism' could coach Russia on how to diminish pressure from the West over the Ukraine war.

INTERNATIONAL SECURITY

UK, US, Australia agree to work on hypersonics under defense pact. Britain, the United States and Australia on Tuesday agreed to cooperate on hypersonic weapons and electronic warfare capabilities, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson's office said, following a call between leaders of the new defense alliance.

Malian, foreign soldiers allegedly killed hundreds in town siege -rights group. Malian troops and suspected Russian fighters allegedly executed around 300 civilian men over five days during a military operation in a central Mali town, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a report on Tuesday, which the country's army refuted.

BIDEN'S AFGHAN DISASTER

UNCONVINCIING – No strikes in Afghanistan since US withdrawal, DoD leaders confirm. U.S. military forces have not conducted any counterterrorism strikes in Afghanistan since withdrawing all troops from the country last summer, but military officials insisted on Tuesday that they have the capability to monitor and neutralize threats there despite logistical challenges.

US MILITARY AND SPACE

CRIMINAL? Double helicopter crash at Fort Stewart was ‘not an accident.' An incident involving two Army helicopters that killed a medical evacuation pilot at a Fort Stewart, Georgia, airfield last week was “not an accident” and is under criminal investigation, Army Times has learned.

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