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“citing a damning report exposing a trafficking network that had sent more than 1,000 Kenyans to fight alongside the Russian army in Ukraine.”
“He found that hundreds of thousands of gays entered the military despite a procedure for screening out homosexuals.”
“More than 1,400 soldiers took part in the annual display of military pomp and pageantry on London's Horse Guards Parade.”
“The Home Office confirmed it intends to use three more ex-military barracks to house small boat migrants while also reaching capacity at RAF Wethersfield and Crowborough.”
“Fourteen House Republicans took down a procedural measure to attach the SAVE America Act to the the $1.15 trillion defense spending bill.”
“Since 8:00 PM, air defense forces have destroyed 61 UAVs on approach to Moscow alone.”
“Under the previous Conservative government in 2022, former prime minister Boris Johnson attempted to introduce similar “pushback” orders for the Navy”
“nine months after it was due to be completed”
“limit the conflict to the four regions of Ukraine”
“Soleimani was killed in a US drone strike at Baghdad International Airport on 3 January 2020”
“While many think American military power will be stronger in 50 years”
“Those polled were also asked what they thought the food was that best represents America, with some surprising results. The overwhelming winner was hamburgers, with a third (33%) opting for the ground beef sandwich, whose origin is strongl…”
“Recruiters reportedly target former soldiers and police officers, offering salaries of around €2,500 per month and bonuses reaching €10,000. The promise of obtaining Russian citizenship is also said to be part of the deal.”
“SHILTS started the book in 1988, before the current debate about gays in the military.”
“Nine activists, four of them Turkish, were killed when Israeli troops raided the six-ship convoy in an operation on Monday.”
“The £15billion additional investment over four years remains £13billion short of the recommended expenditure”
“For weeks, a GOP blockade has effectively prevented them from advancing key legislative items, including two appropriations bills this week, and would have threatened the passage of the annual defense bill.”
“the Russian Defence Ministry said it had intercepted or destroyed 419 Ukrainian drones by Monday evening”
“In January 2022, former prime minister Boris Johnson and his home secretary, Priti Patel, announced they were handing operational control of the Channel over to the military under a plan dubbed Operation Isotrope”
“nearly £13.5billion under what officials had been asking for”
“After seven years, under an Ottoman law, they confiscate the land”
“the aid will not reach the one million Rwandan refugees displaced by warfare there.”
“majorities in all six predominantly Muslim nations surveyed think the US could pose a military threat to their country some day.”
“However, the £15billion additional investment over four years remains £13billion short of the £28billion that military commanders had reportedly sought”
“While Putin admitted that escalating Ukrainian strikes on Russia’s energy infrastructure were causing fuel shortages, he insisted that these problems were limited. More air defense systems were being rapidly produced to deal with this chal…”
“Recently, our Defense Forces of Ukraine already reached four such Russian centers, not only in the Moscow region but also in the Vladimir region.”
“The plan was quietly dropped four months later after a backlash from the Navy, refugee charities and a threatened High Court challenge”
“Nearly 10 months behind schedule”
“In February 2025, one impact ... A white patch 15 meters in diameter now marks the repaired section where the fire burned through the dome.”
“THIS WEEK'S NATO BOMBING CAMPAIGN AGAINST SERB MILITARY POSITIONS”
“The package encompasses £64billion for renewing the nuclear deterrent”
“In the face of a catastrophic shortage of personnel, the Armed Forces of Ukraine, apparently, believe that this could be a salvation for them. But saving the Kyiv regime is not part of our plans.”
“defence spending will hit 2.7 per cent of GDP by 2029”
“Nato has assessed it must be ready for conflict as early as 2030.”
“including asset freezes and commercial restrictions introduced in 2023.”
“Russian troops occupied the plant for 35 days, holding staff hostage.”
“1990 book”
“Yet defence spending will only reach 2.7 per cent of GDP by 2027/28, falling short of NATO's 3.5 per cent target for 2035”
“But saving the Kyiv regime is not part of our plans. … this limited ceasefire would only 'distract our attention and our forces from solving the main task — the final liberation of Donbas and Novorossiya.'”
“hitting NATO’s target of 3.5 per cent of GDP by 2035”
“the Navy will have six expensive headquarters”
“Andriy, a member of the 1st battalion of the Ukrainian National Guard, stationed at Chernobyl for 40 years to secure the site.”
“the one-year-long NATO mission is nearly half over.”
“John Healey, who resigned as defence secretary earlier this month after claiming he had only been offered £13.5billion for the plan”
“Ukraine’s military personnel shortage, while serious, is not catastrophic. New recruitment/military contract reforms should improve matters.”
“the meeting will include at least six ministers: Energy Minister Tim Hodgson, Defence Minister David McGuinty, Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree, Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Rebecca Alty, Indigenous Services Minister Mandy…”
“Khan al-Ahmar lies in Area C, which covers 62 percent of the occupied West Bank and is administered by the Israeli army.”
“send 20,000 U.S. soldiers”
“John Healey warned 'Britain will still be spending just 2.7 per cent of GDP in 2030'”
“More than four years after it began (and was supposed to have been won), Putin has implicitly had to admit that his 'special military operation' isn’t going to plan.”
“two dozen C‑17 military transport planes arrive every day with supplies”
“When the Arab-Israeli war of 1948 broke out, the clan, which had led a nomadic life in the Negev Desert in southern Israel, was driven from its grazing lands by the Israeli army.”
“60,000-strong NATO force”
“Tan Dhesi, Labour MP and Chairman of the Commons Defence Committee, called the absence of a clear pathway to 3.5 per cent 'disappointing'”
“Beijing issued a series of export controls last year on rare earths, which are essential for manufacturing technology applications in defense and energy sectors.”
“We'll hear how he began his first concert with the only pieces the late Polish composer Witold Lutoslawski (VEE-told loot-oh-SWAHF-skee) ever wrote for solo piano: Two Etudes, from 1941, begun as a series a la Chopin, but abandoned after w…”
“increase the use of low-cost one-way strike drones to boost the Army's lethality tenfold”
“signed by 60 retired military officers around the world”
“We are already delivering the biggest sustained increase in defence spending since the 1980s, £270billion over the spending review period. And I can announce today that under the Defence Investment Plan we are increasing this by an extra £…”
“From 1955 until 1980, he was responsible for planning and training for nuclear warfare”
“Because it was supposed to be published last Autumn, then the Ministry of Defence found a massive £28billion black hole, and now, of course, there's been a massive row over recent weeks.”
“Richard Perle is a former Assistant Secretary of Defense, and is currently a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute”
“We’ve pledged to get to five per cent by 2035, and we haven't even laid out how we're going to get to three per cent. But other countries in Europe are already surging ahead, Germany will be at 3.7 per cent, Sweden be at 3.5 per cent.”
“U.S. Navy Rear Admiral Eugene Carroll, retired, is deputy director of the Center for Defense Information”
“the launch of the Strategic Defence Review, which was in Glasgow last June”
“More than a million Rwandan refugees—and an unknown number of Zairean citizens — have been forced to flee fighting between the Zairean army and Rwandan-backed Zairean rebels.”
“Before the Dip is even published, we are already investing record amounts in defence of our nation £270billion over the course of this Parliament, which is the highest sustained increase in spending since the Cold War.”
“killed 19 U.S. soldiers in Saudi Arabia this summer”
“£5billion over the next four years to make sure we've got that capacity so that we can meet the modern threats that we face as a country and keep our nation safe.”
“MOORE was in command of the 1st battalion of the 7th Cavalry”
“The Armed Forces will only receive half of the £28billion needed to keep Britain safe under the Defence Investment Plan (DIP).”
“The U.S. military attacked missile and drone sites in Iran yesterday, the first such attacks since the country signed a ceasefire agreement a week ago.”
“with a £5billion-valued focus on drones and automation.”
“NATO ministers announced on Tuesday that a summit will be held July 8th and 9th to extend the first invitations to former Soviet-bloc countries”
“In one of his final acts as Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer will finally reveal the plan on Tuesday.”
“the new countries could achieve membership by 1999.”
“The Prime Minister is to press ahead with publishing the long-delayed Defence Investment Plan (Dip) ahead of the Nato leaders summit on July 7”
“in May 1993 when his Marine Colonel father spoke against gays in the military to the Senate Armed Services Committee.”
“John Healey quit as defence secretary earlier this month because the Dip was only due to provide £13.5billion extra investment in defence”
“its air defenses had intercepted two Iranian ballistic missiles.”
“it had hit 10 Iranian military targets.”
“Last week, the U.N.'s Commission on the Truth issued it's report (based on these declassified documents) on abuses by the Salvadorian military, implicating them in the murders of Archbishop Romero, four American churchworkers, and six Jesu…”
“The photographs were all taken one summer day in 1941 by German soldier”
“An estimated 100,000 Rwandans have been killed in tribal massacres and clashes between troops and civilians since the beginning of the month”
“It's the third anniversary of the democratic elections annulled by the military.”
“BESCHLOSS and co-author Strobe Talbot were in contact with officials and communiques. in both American and Soviet governments, and with officials in NATO and the Warsaw Pact from about 1989 on.”
“three-week ceasefire”
“Norma Storch (mother) is married to actor Larry Story who starred in the TV comedy F-Troop in the mid 1960's.”
“one week before the anniversary of the military crackdown that ended pro‑democracy protests in Beijing's Tiananmen Square on June 4th, 1989”
“The photographs were all taken one summer day in 1941 by German soldier and have never been published before.”
“The Bosnian Serbs must withdraw artillary and mortars from their stranglehold positions on Sarajevo by February 21st or face NATO air strikes.”
“This drone, made by Fire Point, a Ukrainian defense technology company, can travel between 800 and 1,200 miles.”
“Iran was given a chance to honor the ceasefire agreement but elected not to when its forces launched a one-way attack drone that hit M/T Kiku this morning at 4:30 a.m. ET.”
“Kuwait said on Sunday that its air defenses had intercepted two Iranian ballistic missiles.”
“On Sunday, the Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah killed an Israeli soldier in Deir Siryan village in southern Lebanon, according to Israel's military”
“Late Saturday, U.S. Central Command said it had hit 10 Iranian military targets.”
“World War II's Battle of the Bulge began in December 1944 in the forests of Belgium, and it sent the German army into retreat, but at the cost of more than 80,000 U.S. casualties.”
“one Israeli soldier was killed.”
“double that of surface-to-air missiles”
“Army recruiting was so bad at that stage in the early '80s”
