Military Cooperation
Wednesday, June 29, 2016 - 06:28
Despite concerns raised by few Western countries, such as Britain and the U.S., over the political, economic and military roles that China has been playing in Africa, China is successful in making inroads to Africa with reciprocal warm gestures from many African countries.
Monday, June 27, 2016 - 07:03
U.S. Navy Adm. Kurt W. Tidd, commander of U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM), and a delegation of senior U.S. government officials were in Cartagena June 24 to participate in a ministerial-level dialogue on defense and security in Central America’s Northern Triangle.
Friday, June 24, 2016 - 06:48
The United States and Estonia are strengthening their cooperation in research and technological development in the field of defense. The U.S. Defense Department said an agreement to reinforce collaborative efforts was signed Wednesday by Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Europe and NATO, Jim Townsend, and Estonian Ambassador to the United States Eerik Marmei.
Friday, June 24, 2016 - 06:16
As Central Accord 2016 is underway, much speculation exists over whether or not the military exercise will spawn more similar training events with other African states.
Wednesday, June 22, 2016 - 06:37
More than 1,300 military and police personnel from the Caribbean, United States, Canada, Britain, France, and Mexico, are in Jamaica for Exercise Tradewinds 2016.
Wednesday, June 22, 2016 - 06:21
Israel and the United States signed a cyber defense declaration Tuesday calling for real-time operational connectivity through respective Computer Emergency Response Teams (CERTS) of both nations.
Wednesday, June 22, 2016 - 05:52
After a week in the classroom, the American soldiers and their Central African partners are ready to put into practice what they’ve learned as part of the largest, most complex exercise U.S. Army Africa has ever conducted on the African continent.
Tuesday, June 21, 2016 - 06:40
Weeks before a key summit in Warsaw, Poland is pushing its allies to use some of NATO's planned new multinational forces to secure the Fulda Gap, a move experts say is aimed at rebalancing what Warsaw sees as a 'second class' status within the alliance.
Monday, June 20, 2016 - 07:22
Earlier in June, U.S. Army Colonel Jonathon R. Moelter, chief of U.S. Southern Command’s (SOUTHCOM) Communications Systems Directorate (J-6) and co-chairman to the U.S.-Colombia Command, Control, and Interoperability Board (CCIB), led a 13-member U.S. delegation to Bogota, Colombia and the first ever U.S.-Colombia CCIB.
Monday, June 20, 2016 - 06:20
The United States' so-called "war on terror" has reached Senegal, a small West African nation and former French colony that's being drawn increasingly close to the US in a military and intelligence alliance.