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CHINA THREAT
When China pushes, push back, admiral says. Seventh Fleet commander says the U.S. needs to continue freedom of navigation patrols in the Pacific.
Chinese aircraft carrier deployment prompted record Japanese fighter scrambles. In a six-month period from April to September, Japanese fighters scrambled 446 times to intercept threatening aircraft from China and Russia, according to the Japanese Ministry of Defense.
China's military committee leadership at stake at Xi's People's Congress. With this Party Congress under way in Beijing, Xi Jinping will put in place China's political and military leadership for the next five years, writes Dean Cheng.
Senate to add $10 billion in Taiwan aid, scale back arms sale reform. The Senate's annual defense authorization bill will now include $10 billion in military aid for Taiwan — more than double the initial amount proposed — even as it scales back language intended to help address the $14 billion backlog of arms sales the Asian nation already made from the U.S.
The US isn't ready to face China on the battlefield. The invasion of Ukraine has exacerbated critical deficiencies in America's defense industrial base.
UNACCEPTABLE – American technology boosts China's hypersonic missile program. Military research groups at the leading edge of China's hypersonics and missile programs — many on a U.S. export blacklist — are purchasing a range of specialized American technology, including products developed by firms that have received millions of dollars in grants and contracts from the Pentagon.
OUTRAGEOUS – China recruiting former RAF pilots to train its Army pilots, UK says. Citing national security, Britain wants to stop its retired military pilots from accepting lucrative contracts to train members of the People's Liberation Army.
NATIONAL SECURITY
The US military's growing weakness. A new Heritage Foundation report warns about declining U.S. naval and air power.
More vets are running for Congress now than any election since 2012. Nearly 200 veterans won major-party primaries this year and will vie for a seat in Congress in the midterm elections, making this the largest field of candidates with military experience in a decade.
RUSSIA THREAT – UKRAINE WAR
Waves of ‘kamikaze' drones strike Ukraine's capital, 4 killed. The concentrated use of the drones was the second barrage in as many weeks — after months in which air attacks had become a rarity in central Kyiv.
Russia hits targets north of Kyiv, Mykolaiv: Officials. Russian attacks hit ‘critical infrastructure' north of Kyiv and in Zhytomyr while one person was killed in a raid on the southern city of Mykolaiv.
EU approves $486 million for Ukraine, plus training mission. The European Union on Monday approved a military training mission in Europe for thousands of Ukrainian troops and a plan to provide about €500 million (U.S. $486 million) in extra funds to help buy weapons for the war-torn country.
Take more prisoners, Zelenskiy urges troops after big exchange. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Monday urged his troops to take more prisoners, saying this would make it easier to secure the release of soldiers being held by Russia.
Iranian-made drones are Russia's latest terror weapons in the invasion of Ukraine. The drone attacks are reminiscent of Germany's V-1 “flying bomb” attacks on London during World War II, an expert said.
NORTH KOREA THREAT
South Korea's military is on high alert for North's first nuclear test since 2017. South Korea's presidential office is on an around-the-clock alert amid expectations that the North may soon conduct its seventh nuclear test, a government official told news agencies on Sunday.
IRAN THREAT
US to penalize Iran, third parties for missile sales to Russia. A U.S. official issued the warning following reports that Tehran was expanding its military aid to Moscow.
INTERNATIONAL SECURITY
NATO begins nuclear exercises amid Russia war tensions. NATO on Monday began its long-planned annual nuclear exercises in northwestern Europe as tensions simmer over the war in Ukraine and President Vladimir Putin's threat to use any means to defend Russian territory.
Japan's warning system needs changes after ‘meaningless' North Korean missile alerts, officials say. Members of the Japanese government questioned how effective their country's early warning system is after it provided flawed messaging when North Korea launched a ballistic missile over Japan earlier this month.
Mexico's military gets hacked. Mexico's President Andrés Manuel López Obrador ran for office in 2018 as an honest politician out to clean up corruption. Now the largest computer hack in Mexican history and new revelations suggesting that the government uses spyware to surveil citizens are rewriting that narrative.
Ethiopian soldiers take strategic city in Tigray amid civilian exodus. Government soldiers seized control of a key city in Ethiopia's northern region of Tigray on Monday after days of airstrikes and an artillery barrage, according to a diplomat who spoke to witnesses, accelerating an exodus of civilians amid some of the most intense fighting since a five-month cease-fire was shattered in August.
SPACE THREAT
US Space Force awards ‘rapid launch' contracts to Firefly, Millennium Space Systems. The U.S. military has asked two space companies to launch a satellite on short notice.
US MILITARY
US Transportation Command favors buying used sealift ships. The head of U.S. Transportation Command would prefer to continue recapitalizing the nation's sealift fleet with used vessels rather than design and build new ones, as suggested by a congressional panel.
US military developing tech, concept to resupply Pacific troops. The U.S. government may require commercial planes and ships conducting military lift operations to carry technology that lets them navigate and communicate even when an adversary is trying to jam their systems, according to the head of U.S. Transportation Command.
SERIOUSLY? – NOT A FAN – Bloomberg takes over Pentagon advisory panel. The business mogul and former New York mayor succeeds inaugural chair Eric Schmidt, the former Google CEO, who sought to infuse the innovative spirit of Silicon Valley to Pentagon planning and investments.
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