September 11, 2026

Military

Did the Fall of Kabul Change America’s Mind on Afghanistan?

US Armed Service Chief, General Milley and other top Generals have been telling multiple sources that the original withdrawal plan included leaving behind a contingent force, in other words, not really a withdrawal at all but a significant dial-down.

The fall of Kabul, the Generals appear to wish to have us believe, changed their minds and resulted in the more sudden withdrawal.

Military leaders wanted U.S. contingent force in Afghanistan; fall of Kabul led to full withdrawal

From www.washingtonpost.com
2021-09-28 19:33:20

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In later questioning, Milley noted that the unanimous advice the generals gave Biden on Aug. 25 was motivated by the conviction that “the risk to mission and the risk to force and most importantly, the risk to American citizens who are remaining, that was going to go up, now down, on the first of September.”

 

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Lawmakers rally to cause of Marine jailed for Afghan criticisms

From www.washingtontimes.com
2021-09-30 21:03:41
Mike Glenn
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A growing number of conservative lawmakers on Capitol Hill are rallying to the cause of a Marine lieutenant colonel jailed this week for his outspoken and repeated criticism of his superiors and what he said was their failure to take responsibility for mishandling the chaotic final days of the U.S. war in Afghanistan.

Lt. Col. Stuart Scheller lost his job as commander of the Advanced Infantry Training Battalion at North Carolina’s Camp Lejeune after posting a video demanding accountability from top military leaders after the Aug. 26 suicide…

 

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What Did We Learn from Milley and the Senate Post-Afghanistan and China Call?

7 Takeaways as Generals Testify on Afghanistan, China Phone Calls

From www.dailysignal.com
2021-09-28 22:45:26
Fred Lucas
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In some cases, the answers were surprising. In other cases, the answers were surprising only in hearing top U.S. military leaders state publicly what already was suspected.

The Senate Armed Services Committee got some answers Tuesday from Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin; Army Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; and Marine Gen. Kenneth McKenzie Jr., commander of U.S. Central Command.

Most questions from senators focused on the Biden administration’s botched withdrawal from Afghanistan, but they also wanted to know about Milley’s now infamous calls to his Chinese counterpart, Gen. Li Zuocheng of the People’s Liberation Army, while Donald Trump was still president.

Austin, Milley, and McKenzie are set to testify Wednesday before the House Armed Services Committee.

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France Gets Greek Order for Multiple Warships

Immediately after the EU sided with France over the US essentially cancelling France’s submarine deal with Australia, Greece has announced a major multibillion dollar deal with France that will see Greece purchase a minimum of 6 French Warships, a move that is sure not to please the Turks, or the Americans, for that matter.   The relationship between Greece and America is necessarily strong, for now, but Europe now appears ready to finally treat Greece like a member of the European family, choosing them at long last over Turkey.

Greece, France, expected to announce major warship deal – The Seattle Times

From www.seattletimes.com
2021-09-27 20:06:07

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 The leaders of Greece and France are expected to announce a major, multibillion-euro deal in Paris on Tuesday involving the acquisition by Greece of at least six French-built warships, Greek state ERT TV reported.

ERT said Monday that Greece was planning to acquire three French FDI frigates — with the option of later buying a fourth —and another three corvettes.

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America Gets Hypersonic Thanks to Raytheon Design

U.S. successfully flight tests Raytheon hypersonic weapon – Pentagon

From www.reuters.com
2021-09-27 18:41:00

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The United States has tested an air-breathing hypersonic weapon capable of speeds faster than five times the speed of sound, marking the first successful test of the class of weapon since 2013, the Pentagon said on Monday.

The test took place as the United States and its global rivals quicken their pace to build hypersonic weapons – the next generation of arms that rob adversaries of reaction time and traditional defeat mechanisms…..

The free flight test of the Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapon Concept (HAWC) occurred last week, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, said in a…

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Afghanistan War Shifts to Illegal Drone Strikes

From www.laprogressive.com
2021-09-28 10:15:30

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Three weeks after his administration launched a drone attack that killed 10 civilians in Kabul, Afghanistan, President Joe Biden addressed the United Nations General Assembly. He proudly declared, “I stand here today, for the first time in 20 years, with the United States not at war.” The day before, his administration had launched a drone strike in Syria, and three weeks earlier, the U.S. had conducted an air strike in Somalia. The commander-in-chief also apparently forgot that U.S. forces are still fighting in at least six different countries, including Iraq, Yemen, Syria, Libya, Somalia and Niger. And he promised to continue bombing Afghanistan from afar.

Unfortunately Biden’s withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan is substantially less meaningful when analyzed in light of his administration’s pledge to mount “over-the-horizon” attacks in that country from afar even though we won’t have troops on the ground.

“Our troops are not coming home. We need to be honest about that,” Rep. Tom Malinowski (D-New Jersey) said during congressional testimony by Secretary of State Antony Blinken earlier this month. “They are merely moving to other bases in the same region to conduct the same counterterrorism missions, including in Afghanistan.”

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US Air Force Secretary Warns China Could Gain Nuke Advantage over U.S.

While America consumes itself from within on the assumption that evil was inventeed by America and America was invented by white males (or something to that effect), her opponents are continuing to work on ways to reduce America’s power abroad and at home.  China is the most powerful of these opponents, and is the one that US Air Force Secretary Frank Kendell was focusing on when speaking to reporters about China’s continued accelerated expansion of their nuclear aresenall.

Kendall said, “If they continue down the path that they seem to be on—to substantially increase their ICBM force—they will have a de facto first-strike capability.

For the people in the back that might not understand, he’s saying China might soon have a nuclear advantage over America that could allow it to strike before we we could respond.  For the people leading the suicidal charge from within America, the DNC and its ‘allies,’ that means our lives are all at risk of significant reduction of the quality of life if China ever gets to a position of power dominance over the United States.  If you think we white Americans invented evil, as many of you do, especially in the DNC coalition of American self-haters, wait til you get a load of the super boss that could replace America, China.

If you’re really against fascism, DNC coalition, then stop destroying America from within at the benefit of the biggest fascistic threat in the world today, China.  So long as you continue to destroy American power while ignoring Chinese power, no American should consider you an American at all, or, even, a safe neighbor to live next to, for if the Chinese ever did land on our shores (something they hardly need do given how many Americans work for them already), your neighbor would consider you more of a threat to them than any Chinese soldier that would ever find themselves stationed here.

Whatever America is, whatever sins we have committed, what the state of Xi represents, has representeed, in the 20th and 21st centuries is considerably more human dignity and diversity denying than anything America has ever committed on any scale throughout any part of her history, and the DNC wants you to believe that no one has ever been evil before white men invented America or will be after we rid the world of this white supremecist demon.  If you believe them, you’re not fighting fascists, you’re enabling them.

Air Force Secretary Warns of China’s Burgeoning Nuclear Arsenal, Reveals B-21 Detail

From www.defenseone.com
2021-09-21 01:20:00

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China could be heading for a first-strike nuclear capability, the U.S. Air Force secretary said Monday, urging the United States to accelerate its own weapons development to keep pace with Beijing.

“If they continue down the path that they seem to be on—to substantially increase their ICBM force—they will have a de facto first-strike capability,” Frank Kendall told reporters at the Air Force Association’s annual conference outside Washington, D.C.

But independent nuclear-policy experts noted that even China’s decades-old ICBMs could be “a first-strike weapon,” and challenged Air Force officials to produce evidence that Beijing actually intends to change its “no first use” policy.

In his second major speech since becoming Air Force secretary two months ago, Kendall called out various Chinese weapons developments as reason for concern.

“You’re gonna get tired of hearing me talk about China and the pacing threat that we face,” he said at a press conference a few…

 

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US, 14 Others Conduct Military Drills in Ukraine

In a show of force and solidarity directed at Russia in support of Ukraine, 15 nations, including the United States, are conducting drills in the Ukraine, with Ukrainian troops, in an operation called Rapid Trident 21.

Multinational military exercise Rapid Trident 21 begins in Ukraine

From www.army-technology.com
2021-09-21 15:18:53
Aninda Chakraborty
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A multinational military exercise called Rapid Trident 21 has commenced in Ukraine with an opening ceremony at Central City Stadium near the city of Yavoriv.

Around 6,000 troops from 15 nations, including 4,000 soldiers from Ukraine, will participate in this annual training exercise.

The military drill will primarily seek to boost combat readiness, defence capabilities and interoperability among the forces.

 

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UN Calls on Halt to Human-Threatening AI

UN urges moratorium on use of AI that imperils human rights

From timesofindia.indiatimes.com
2021-09-15 14:45:11

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GENEVA: The UN human rights chief is calling for a moratorium on the use of artificial intelligence technology that poses a serious risk to human rights, including face-scanning systems that track people in public spaces.
Michelle Bachelet, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, also said Wednesday that countries should expressly ban AI applications which don’t comply with international human rights law.
Applications that should be prohibited include government “social scoring” systems that judge people based on their behavior and certain AI-based tools that categorize people into clusters such as by ethnicity or gender.
AI-based technologies can be a force for good but they can also “have negative, even catastrophic, effects if they are used without sufficient regard to how they affect people’s human rights,” Bachelet said in a statement.
Her comments came along with a new UN report that examines how countries and businesses have rushed into applying AI systems that affect people’s lives and livelihoods without setting up proper safeguards to prevent discrimination and other harms.
“This is not about not having AI,” Peggy Hicks, the rights office’s director of thematic engagement, told journalists as she presented the report in Geneva. “It’s about recognizing that if AI is going to be used in these human rights — very critical — function areas, that it’s got to be done the right way. And we simply haven’t yet put in place a framework that ensures that happens.”
Bachelet didn’t call for an outright ban of facial recognition technology, but said governments should halt the scanning of people’s features in real time until they can show the technology is accurate, won’t discriminate and meets certain privacy and data protection standards.
While countries weren’t mentioned by name in the report, China has been among the countries that have rolled out facial recognition technology — particularly for surveillance in the…

 

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General Milley Open to Future Taliban Alliance with US

In the near future, in the name of fighting Terrorism, America could find herself working as an ally with the Taliban on some operations that target the type of Islamo-Fascist groups that this particular Islamo-Fascist group might not like.  This isn’t a speculation, this is something offered as a possibility by none other than General Milley himself, the current Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Working with the Devil? The Potential for U.S.-Taliban Cooperation Against the Islamic State in Afghanistan

From warontherocks.com
2021-09-16 07:55:13
Jonathan Schroden
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…. Should the United States cooperate with the Taliban in order to counter the Islamic State in Afghanistan? When asked about prospects for that during a Sept. 1 press conference, Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, responded, “It’s possible.” Given the 20-year U.S. war against the Taliban, Milley’s remarks made news and came as a shock to some observers.

In fact, the United States has already worked with the Taliban on several occasions in pursuit of common interests, and Milley’s comment makes clear U.S. officials are seriously thinking through the possibility of doing so again. A review of the pros and cons of future U.S.-Taliban cooperation against the Islamic State in Afghanistan shows that while there may be operational advantages for both sides,

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