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CHINA THREAT
RELENTLESS MILITARY SURGE – China's Communist party congress opens with Xi Jinping calling for military growth. Chinese leader Xi Jinping on Sunday called for faster military development and announced no change in policies that have strained relations with Washington and tightened the ruling Communist Party's control over society and the economy.
Party [CCP] plans call for creating a prosperous society by mid-century and restoring China to its historic role as a political, economic and cultural leader. Beijing has expanded its presence abroad including a multibillion-dollar Belt and Road Initiative to build ports and other infrastructure across Asia and Africa, but economists warn reversing market-style reform could hamper growth.
“The next five years will be crucial,” Xi said in a televised speech of one hour and 45 minutes to some 2,000 delegates in the cavernous Great Hall of the People. He repeatedly invoked his slogan of the “rejuvenation of the Chinese nation,” which includes reviving the party's role as an economic and social leader in a throwback to what Xi regards as a golden age after it took power in 1949…
The congress will install leaders for the next five years. Xi, 69, is expected to break with tradition and award himself a third five-year term as general secretary and promote allies who share his enthusiasm for party dominance.
The party's military wing, the People's Liberation Army, needs to “safeguard China's dignity and core interests,” Xi said, referring to a list of territorial claims and other issues over which Beijing says it is ready to go to war.
China, with the world's second-largest military budget after the United States, is trying to extend its reach by developing ballistic missiles, aircraft carriers and overseas outposts. “We will work faster to modernize military theory, personnel and weapons,” Xi said. “We will enhance the military's strategic capabilities.”
PENTAGON WOKE WATCH
SAY NO TO TAXPAYER-FUNDED ABORTION – Democratic lawmakers, veterans groups sign letters urging the VA do more to provide abortion service. More than 90 veterans and advocacy groups and 55 Democratic lawmakers signed two letters showing support for efforts by the Department of Veterans Affairs to provide abortion services for veterans and urge the agency to do more.
COUNTER WOKE ATTACK? – New generation of combat vets, eyeing house, strike from the right. A class of political newcomers with remarkable military records are challenging old ideas about interventionism — and the assumption that electing veterans is a way to bring back bipartisanship.
CLUELESS – Army secretary tells leaders to stand up for soldiers ‘IRL or online' after telling them to stay out of ‘culture wars.' Secretary of the Army Christine Wormuth attempted to clear up her remarks from earlier in the week about leaders engaging on social media.
NATIONAL SECURITY
The Pentagon's recruiting woes. The U.S. Army recently told the press that it missed its fiscal year recruiting goal by 25%, coming up short nearly 20,000 soldiers. For 50 years America has relied on volunteers to defend the country, but that system is a luxury maintained at a cost, and its struggles deserve attention.
JUST PAY MUSK FOR HIS SERVICES – Pentagon exploring communications options for Ukrainian military as Starlink service threatens pullout. The Pentagon is exploring strategic communications options for Ukraine's military amid fears that the vital satellite internet system Starlink could be pulled from the battlefield.
HOMELAND SECURITY
THIS AFFECTS NON-MUSLIMS TOO – Muslims suing over watch-list status say US tactics block scrutiny. Advocates who have been challenging the constitutionality of the “No-Fly List” say that when they sue, they get removed, making it impossible to have their concerns heard in court.
RUSSIA THREAT – UKRAINE WAR
US sending $725 million more in military aid to Ukraine. The Biden administration will send Ukraine a new $725 million package of weapons and other military assistance, the White House said Friday, as the U.S. added to a flurry of aid announcements from European allies this week.
Ukraine war: Kyiv attacked by kamikaze drones, say officials. Russia has hit the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, with a wave of Iranian-made kamikaze drones – killing at least one person, says Mayor Vitali Klitschko.
Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 236. Russian forces launched air attacks on Ukraine's capital for the second time in a week while Russian and Ukrainian forces battled it out in heavy fighting around two towns in the Donbas region in the east, officials said.
UKRAINE HITS BACK – Strikes hit Russian border region, a key staging ground for Moscow. Explosions rocked Belgorod on Sunday, wounding three people, a day after shelling set fire to a fuel depot.
NOT GOOD FOR MOSCOW – Assailants kill 11 troops and injure 15 at training ground, Russia says. The Russian Defense Ministry called the shooters “terrorists” after several people were killed at a Belgorod training ground.
ESCALATION OR ABOUT TIME? The EU is moving toward training thousands of Ukrainian soldiers on its own soil. The European Union will train thousands of Ukrainian soldiers on its own soil starting as early as next month under a plan that is expected to be approved Monday by EU foreign ministers.
NORTH KOREA THREAT
South Korea kicks off military drills amid talk of North Korean nuclear test. South Korea's troops kicked off their annual Hoguk defense drills on Monday, designed to boost their ability to respond to North Korea's nuclear and missile threats amid simmering tension over both sides' military activities.
IRAN THREAT
Iran plans to send missiles, drones to Russia for Ukraine war, officials say. The increased flow of weapons could help offset steep Russian weapons losses and provide precision-guided munitions like those used in strikes in Ukraine last week.
FECKLESS, PARTISAN FOREIGN POLICY – Biden aide says change in US military aid to Saudis is possible. President Joe Biden's options for re-evaluating US-Saudi relations include “changes to our approach to security assistance to Saudi Arabia,” White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said.
INTERNATIONAL SECURITY
Canada, US send military equipment to crisis-torn Haiti. The equipment is to help the national police to fight ‘against criminal actors' amid a month-long turmoil.
HELLO, CHINA – India says submarine-launched ballistic missile test a success. India is now the sixth country to have nuclear-powered submarines with ballistic missile launch capabilities.
French Navy chief talks battle readiness and global reach. France, with its 2,000 miles of domestic coastline and over one dozen overseas territories, has long understood and invested in sea power. The country's key budget plan, the 2019-2025 military programming law, included significant investments in the navy's surface ships, submarines, and naval technologies that seek to protect France's populations and exclusive economic zones around the globe.
SPACE THREAT
Space Force commander cannot ‘forgive' Russia for ‘reckless' ASAT test. Lt. Gen. Stephen Whiting talks “contested” space, his worries about space cybersecurity and what happens if adversaries target commercial US firms in orbit.
Cybersecurity is the ‘soft underbelly' of space operations, SpOC commander says. The Space Force does not fully understand its cyber threats, and cybersecurity is an overlooked vulnerability of space operations, one of the service's top leaders said Oct. 14.
TO THE MOON AND BEYOND – Aalyria envisions communications revolution for Earth, the moon and beyond. Only recently out of “stealth mode,” ambitious start-up Aalyria is swinging for the stars, literally, with two platforms company officials say will revolutionize communications by enabling rapid land, sea, air and space radio frequency and optical communications out to the Moon and beyond.
New security advances, private companies critical to future US space defense, Space Force general says. The future of global military operations in space will be shaped by the United States, and success will rely heavily upon elements such as private partnerships and new advances in the cyber realm, a top Space Force general said Friday.
US MILITARY
George H.W. Bush Carrier Strike Group Now under NATO command. The George H.W. Bush Carrier Strike Group went under NATO command on Friday as part of the Neptune Strike 2022 exercise series, the deputy Pentagon press spokesperson announced.
IMPRESSIVE – WISH WE HAD MORE RAPTORS – An Air Force F-22 Raptor just fired off a record number of air-to-air missiles. The U.S. Air Force found out that the F-22 Raptor can fire far more air-to-air missiles than ever before.
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China at war in five years? Sounds like a plan Biden might have made so he can blame someone else for what he’s most definitely had a part in.
And it’s starts right in New York! Where the Chinese police are stationed. Allowed by our DOJ and Biden. Great way to invade our country on the sly!!!! Plain and simple. China, I’m sure is calling America STUPID!!!
Allowing all these country’s in here, and then letting them buy up land, and buildings, to be occupied by their own citizens, is about as stupid as you can get. It makes you stop and wonder, why is the left so willing to destroy our country? China just might not have to go to war against us, we might just hand this country over to them.