Defense Secretary Jim Mattis spoke today by telephone with President Ashraf Ghani of Afghanistan to discuss the enduring U.S.-Afghan security relationship, according to a statement issued by Pentagon spokesman Navy Capt. Jeff Davis.

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Operational deployments will boost U.S. presence in the western Pacific and in Europe. 7,500 sailors will deploy and focus on maritime security operations and theater security cooperation efforts and bilateral exercises.

Les saoudiens ont aidé les adversaires de leurs alliés historiques pour rien ou plutôt pour le pire ! Les républicains ne sont pas près d'oublier cette forfaiture. Donald Trump a promis de faire bouffer aux Saoud leur kéfié. Le règlement de comptes sera titanesque. Par Hedy Belhassine, Le 23 décembre 2016. Source : HYB.

Using appropriate government-to-government channels, the Defense Department has called upon China to immediately return an unmanned underwater vehicle that it unlawfully seized yesterday in the South China Sea.

Seventy-five years since the attacks on Pearl Harbor that spurred U.S. involvement in World War II, Defense Secretary Ash Carter and Japanese Defense Minister Tomomi Inada met in Tokyo today to affirm an enduring alliance of peace.

Depuis 20 ans, les observateurs indépendants dénoncent un danger devenu enfin une évidence à la faveur des élections aux USA et en France: le prosélytisme des fondamentalistes wahhabites menace la paix dans le monde. 

The United States “is a Pacific nation and a Pacific power. It always has been and it always will be” said Navy Adm. Harry B. Harris Jr., commander of U.S. Pacific Command. The Indo-Asia-Pacific region remains “the most consequential area for America’s future”.

The guided missile destroyer USS Sampson is rushing to New Zealand to help those affected by a magnitude 7.5 earthquake that struck yesterday. The quake killed two and stranded thousands of residents and tourists on New Zealand’s South Island.

The isolation and liberation of the Syrian city of Raqqa from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant are key in efforts to ultimately defeat the terrorists, Pentagon Press Secretary Peter Cook said today. "The removal of the ISIL cancer is the next step..."