Tag: military

[T]he naval blockade remains an attempt to halt drug trafficking, which constitutes 30% of Chavist income.

Trump will inherit 'a world far more hostile to U.S. interests than the one he left behind four years ago,' warned Mitch McConnell.

The Americans behaved as if Japan were under U.S. occupation.

[T]he recent deterioration of Iraq’s security came as a consequence of the rejection of the American presence on Iraqi soil[.]

The government must not accept the accident report without questioning it; it should judge the contents of the report.

For a long time, the United States has carried out illegal provocations in the South China Sea[.]

The current situation in Okinawa, where about 70% of Japan's facilities for U.S. military use are concentrated, goes against democracy.

[T]he U.S. Armed Forces have sometimes become a social laboratory. And this time is no exception.

[T]his growing divergence between military and politics reflects different understandings of U.S.-China relations.

[The U.S.] has built structures around the defense industry that have become increasingly more difficult, even impossible, to challenge.

Plans in anticipation of actual warfare, such as maintaining facilities, strengthening troops and deploying missiles, are in abundance.

The U.S. and Japan share a sense of impending danger over China’s military expansion, but that does not necessarily mean their national goals and interests are in perfect alignment.