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As President Trump met with senior Defense officials on Tuesday to discuss America’s options regarding Kim Jong un’s North Korean regime, the wheels were already in motion for yet another show of force over the Korean Peninsula involving American and allied aircraft. Late Tuesday night, U.S. Air Force B-1B Lancer bombers flew over the Korean Peninsula, […]
OKINAWA,Japan – An AH-1Z Viper fires two training missiles over ranges in Okinawa, Japan, September 28, 2017. The squadron conducted aerial live-fire training in Okinawa, which is crucial to maintaining a stronger, more capable, forward deployed force in the Indo-Asia-Pacific region. The aircraft is assigned to Marine Light Attack Helicopter Squadron 169, Marine Aircraft Group […]
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Thursday called a snap election, as fresh opinion polls showed a fledgling conservative party led by popular Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike was gaining momentum ahead of the expected Oct. 22 vote. Abe, a conservative who returned to power in 2012, is hoping a boost in his voter support in […]
Japan announced it has deployed Patriot Advanced Capability-3 surface-to-air interceptors (PAC-3) in response to North Korea’s recent missiles launches. The battery was moved to a Ground Self-Defense Force camp in the city from an Air Self-Defense Force base about 70 km away, apparently because the interceptors only cover a range of roughly several dozen kilometers. The Patriot […]
As President Trump prepared to speak before the United Nations, where he was expected to address the growing tensions on the North Korean peninsula, U.S. bombers and fighters joined aircraft from the South Korean military and Japanese Defense Force to send a message of their own to North Korea’s despotic regime. In what U.S. Defense […]
Japan announced it has deployed Patriot Advanced Capability-3 surface-to-air interceptors (PAC-3) in response to North Korea’s recent missiles launches. The battery was moved to a Ground Self-Defense Force camp in the city from an Air Self-Defense Force base about 70 km away, apparently because the interceptors only cover a range of roughly several dozen kilometers. The […]
Trump is employing the “madman” strategy to dealing with a nuclear North Korea It’s an approach straight from his own heart — and the “Art of the Deal” And while it’s a legitimate strategy, it may end up proving disastrous Retired general David Petraeus cautioned that President Donald Trump’s “madman” approach to dealing with a […]
North Korea conducted yet another ballistic missile test early Friday morning, only days after the United Nations Security Council unanimously voted to place new sanctions on the reclusive state as a result of the Kim regime’s pursuit of nuclear weapons and ballistic missile delivery systems. This latest lunch comes after a new slew of North […]
The unsung heroes you never really hear about risk their lives daily just in training. A pilots best friend. Realistic training enables the military to improve its readiness and war fighting capabilities. A1C Jay Brackins joins the 31st Rescue Squadron at Kadena for combined operations with the 320th Special Tactics Squadron and 17th Special Operations […]
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday after talks with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe that the two leaders “decisively condemned” North Korean weapons tests. “We decisively condemned North Korea’s launch of a medium-range ballistic missile that flew over Japan’s territory on August 28, as well as the new nuclear tests conducted on September 3,” […]
For many people born after about 1975, the 80’s was a time of adventure and rebirth from the gas shortages and economic downturn of the decade before. The first space shuttle, Columbia made its maiden flight in 1981; movie goers could take in everything from Terms of Endearment to Friday the 13th; and the geek […]
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and South Korean President Moon Jae-in will ask China and Russia for their support for new sanctions against North Korea, Kyodo News said on Thursday, citing a Japanese official. Abe and Moon, in talks on the sidelines of the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok, Russia, agreed to step up pressure […]
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