Japan also lifted restrictions on license-produced weapons and shipped Mitsubishi-made Patriot PAC-3 missile systems to the United States, replenishing stockpiles depleted by Washington’s military aid to Ukraine. Washington agreed to purchase more PAC-3 missiles from Tokyo at the July meeting In early 2024, Tokyo and Washington launched the Defen

This hopefully heralds a shift from prosecuting small-scale farmers to targeting the criminal organizations behind illegal economies, including those funding deforestation While this is a welcome development, it is essential that the role of the armed forces in environmental protection is reduced to a minimum. Striking a balance between enforcing e

By mid 2017, FARC had ceased to exist and by 2020, more than 13 000 former FARC combatants had demobilized. However, around 800 former FARC members rejected the peace agreement and thousandswho initially demobilized have taken up arms again, joining either FARC dissident groups—whose members are believed to total more than 5200—or other non-sta

Fidan was on the same page as Erdogan: as early as March 2014, he had suggested a false flag op in order to justify an armed incursion into Northern Syria.33 During the same period that Operation “Euphrates Shield” unfolded, Fidan went to great lengths to foster a revolt within the Kurdish-controlled territory of Northern Syria; these pro-Turke

Fidan began restructuring the M?T along the lines of his 1999 plan by and pushing M?T into the forefront of Turkish foreign policy, resulting in the 2012 establishment of a foreign operations department and absorbing the signals intelligence (SIGINT) role of the military By 2014, this was further entrenched legally when the Turkish parliament passe