34 US troops suffered brain injuries in the Iranian missile attack, Pentagon confirms
World | January 24, 2020 23:44 ISTPresident Donald Trump had initially said he was told that no troops had been injured in the Jan 8 strike
President Donald Trump had initially said he was told that no troops had been injured in the Jan 8 strike
In this era of great power competition, China will emerge as America's strategic threat, a top Pentagon official has said, reiterating the need of ramping up US presence in the Indo-Pacific region.
US Defence Secretary Mark Esper has said that he shares President Donald Trump's views that additional attacks by Iran on US embassies was a likely situation but there was no specific evidence that it was plotting an attack on four US embassies.
The United States Navy on Friday said that Pentagon has a secret 'classified' video of an incident relating to an Unidentified Flying Object (UFO). Pentagon, through its spokesperson, later confirmed the existence of this video.
Trump said Sunday he "was not pleased with the way that Navy Seal Eddie Gallagher's trial was handled by the Navy." He was treated very badly but, despite this, was completely exonerated on all major charges. I then restored Eddie's rank.
AWS lost the JEDI (Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure) contract on October 25 that will provide enterprise level, commercial Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS) to support Department of Defence business and mission operations.
In a statement Thursday, Amazon said that “numerous aspects” of the bidding process involved “clear deficiencies, errors, and unmistakable bias.” It did not elaborate.
Asked about President Trump saying that Baghdad was whimpering and crying before he died, General Milley said the presidential account was based on the conversation that he had with those involved in the attack.
The Pentagon awarded Microsoft a $10 billion cloud computing contract , snubbing early front-runner Amazon, whose competitive bid drew criticism from President Donald Trump and its business rivals.
According to MIT Technology Review report citing a memo obtained by Bloomberg, the browser extension "would automatically report staffers who create a calendar event with more than 10 rooms or 100 participants."
They aren’t coming home and the United States isn’t leaving the turbulent Middle East, according to current plans outlined by U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper before he arrived in Afghanistan on Sunday. The fight in Syria against IS, once spearheaded by American allied Syrian Kurds who have been cast aside by Trump, will be undertaken by U.S. forces, possibly from neighboring Iraq.
Defense Secretary Mark Esper on Tuesday approved the use of $3.6 billion in funding from military construction projects to build 175 miles of President Donald Trump’s wall along the Mexican border.
A quarter of US exports go to the Indo-Pacific. Exports to India and China have more than doubled over the past decade due to free and open trade routes through the air, sea, land, space and cyber commons that form the current global system.
The US Department of Defence (DOD) released its annual public assessment of China’s military capabilities. The Office of the US Secretary of Defence noted the development in its annual report to Congress last week.
On March 27, India achieved a historic feat by shooting down its own low-orbit satellite with a ground-to-space missile, making the country a space power.
In February, President Donald Trump declared a national emergency in order to funnel billions of dollars to wall construction. As part of his announcement, he directed the use of counter-drug funds to partially begin a new wall construction.
The California-based Internet giant has long sought to expand in China, home of a Great Firewall.
The strike was the first by the Indian Air Force (IAF) inside Pakistan after the 1971 war.
India and the United States had last year signed the COMCASA (Communications Compatibility and Security Agreement) to facilitate interoperability between the two militaries and sale of high end technology.
The report "Challenges to Security in Space" examines the space and counterspace programmes that could challenge the US or partner interests in the space domain.
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