Tag: military

• Tuesday, March 29th 2022 - 21:55 UTC

  Argentina envisions further military developments in southernmost areas

  

  Argentina has launched a plan to strengthen its military capabilities in the province of Tierra del Fuego, which includes the installation of a mobile radar, the construction of a new naval base, as well as a new Army unit, it was reported Tuesday in Buenos Aires.

• Friday, July 16th 2021 - 09:40 UTC

  Colombian court hears new charges against Army staff allegedly involved in human rights violations

  

  Colombia's Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) has filed charges Thursday against 15 members of the national army of “war crimes and crimes against humanity,” it was announced.

• Friday, February 26th 2021 - 21:27 UTC

  Beijing naval expansion has driven 2020 world military expenditure to a record

  

  Global military spending, driven in part by Chinese naval expansion, reached record levels in 2020 despite the impact of the coronavirus pandemic and ensuing economic contraction, a British think-tank said on Thursday.

• Thursday, July 9th 2020 - 09:51 UTC

  Maduro shuffles military high command, but General Padrino Lopez remains defense minister

  

  Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro has shuffled his military high command but Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino Lopez, a general, kept his post.

• Wednesday, June 17th 2020 - 12:16 UTC

  China and India fight in disputed Himalayan area; New Delhi admits 20 dead soldiers

  

  China and India have accused each other of provoking fighting in which at least 20 Indian soldiers were killed in a disputed Himalayan area. The Indian army said that both sides suffered casualties, but there has been no word on numbers from China yet.

• Monday, February 10th 2020 - 08:55 UTC

  France, Brazil's biggest military threat over the next 20 years and an Amazon invasion?

  

  France is expected to be Brazil's biggest military threat over the next 20 years and could invade the Amazon in 2035, according to a secret report published by Brazilian media on Friday. Although the French embassy jokingly “saluted” its “limitless imagination”, the military document is aimed at redefining the country's foreign policy strategy and could add yet another chapter to its troubled relations with France.

• Friday, May 3rd 2019 - 09:54 UTC

  Pentagon claims China plans to add military bases around the world

  

  The US Defense Department expects China to add military bases around the world to protect its investments in its ambitious One Belt One Road global infrastructure program, according to an official report released on Thursday.

• Tuesday, April 30th 2019 - 08:56 UTC

  US Navy sends warships through the Taiwan Strait; for Beijing a highly contentious issue

  

  The US military said it sent two Navy warships through the Taiwan Strait on Sunday as the Pentagon increases the frequency of movement through the strategic waterway despite opposition from China.

• Thursday, March 28th 2019 - 08:45 UTC

  Trump calls on Russia to pull its troops from Venezuela; Guaido's wife meets Trump and Pence at White House

  

  U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday called on Russia to pull its troops from Venezuela and said that “all options” were open to make that happen. The arrival of two Russian air force planes outside Caracas on Saturday believed to be carrying nearly 100 Russian special forces and cyber-security personnel has escalated the political crisis in Venezuela.

• Wednesday, March 20th 2019 - 09:57 UTC

  Venezuelan opposition makes new offer to the military hoping they will switch sides

  

  Members of the Venezuelan armed forces that abandon President Nicolas Maduro will keep their rank and be reinstated once a new government is in place, the opposition-controlled legislature said on Tuesday. The announcement marked the latest offer from the National Assembly, headed by opposition leader and self-declared interim president Juan Guaido, to try to convince more military personnel to switch sides.