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Exercise Vigilant Shield 23: Defending North America
THE WATCH STAFF
In an era of increased threats from potential adversaries, the United States and Canada are demonstrating their ability to defend North…
USNORTHCOM and USSOUTHCOM commanders highlight PRC threat
THE WATCH STAFF
Gen. Glen D. VanHerck, the commander charged with homeland defense of the United States, recently outlined the creeping influence of the…
USNORTHCOM commander advocates for future technology to defend the…
THE WATCH STAFF
What once seemed like futuristic technology is now a necessity to defend the United States Homeland, says Air Force Gen. Glen VanHerck, who…
U.S. modernizes Pituffik (Thule) Space Base for Arctic forward operations
ELENA FARNSWORTH
Things are heating up at the top of the world.
With heightened international tensions and a warming Arctic region, the United States’…
U.S. tracks and contests Russian out-of-area naval operations
THE WATCH STAFF
President Vladimir Putin hailed a Russian Navy frigate departing from the Northern Fleet’s home port of Severomorsk in January 2023 as having…
The F-35 delivers unmatched global deterrence
THE WATCH STAFF
The barren and unforgiving Arctic terrain of the Joint Pacific Alaska Range Complex (JPARC) is where the United States military and its…
Mexican military makes ‘historic’ fentanyl seizure
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Mexico’s Army and National Guard announced July 7, 2022, a “historic” seizure of more than a half-ton of fentanyl at a warehouse in the…
U.S. launches hypersonic-warning testbed satellite
THE WATCH STAFF
An experimental satellite now in orbit will help the United States refine the development of technology to identify and track hypersonic…
U.S. personnel survey strategic Alaskan island
THE WATCH STAFF
The groundwork for large-scale United States military exercises is often laid one community at a time.
In Alaska and the Arctic region,…
NATO counters Russia with 300,000 troops at high readiness
REUTERS
NATO agreed in June 2022 to put over 300,000 troops at high readiness beginning in 2023, up from 40,000 previously, in a new military lineup designed…