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– The Secretary of Defense spends most of his time traveling even when the virus infects higher army and government officials.
– President Trump is committed to getting all U. S. troops out of Afghanistan until the end of the year.
– Pence, Harris departs from Trump’s remedy to the military only in the vice-presidential debate.
This year’s protests against police brutality are demoralizing, it may be worse. Today is the 51st anniversary of the Days of Rage, when the national terrorist organization Weather Underground attacked businesses, houses and police officers because of the Vietnam War and racism (they also later bombed the State Department and an army recruitment center). A new film through Aaron Sorkin that will air next week on Netflix that tells the story of the Chicago 7 trial can put our existing ups and downs in perspective. Tips: [email protected]. And stay with @bryandbender, @morningdefense and @politicopro on Twitter.
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“THERE IS NO INTENTION OF REVERBER”: two senators renewed their requests for sanctions against Turkey on Wednesday amid reports that he was planning a Russian-made missile defense formula opposed to US aircraft, our colleague Connor O’Brien reports.
“To date, management has not imposed sanctions on Turkey for the acquisition of the S-400,” despite a law aimed at preventing allies from buying Russian weapons, Senators Chris Van Hollen and James Lankford wrote in a letter to Mike Pompeo’s Secretary states: “Reports of this activation obviously imply that Turkey does not aim to reverse the trend and get rid of this system. “
“Furthermore, the slow speed with which the Defense Ministry is preparing to remove Turkey from the F-35 origin chain has undoubtedly emboldened President [Recep Tayyip] Erdogan,” they added. “Turkey’s recent activation of the S-400 formula to stumble upon the usF-16 underscores our serious considerations about Russia’s knack for sensitive data. “
Related: Turkey will check on a Russian-made missile that has infuriated the United States, Bloomberg.
Y: Congress will have to act to finalize U. S. Army aid to the Philippines, through The Hill.
“A REMARQUABLY HUESO IDEA”: A Pentagon proposal to the headquarters of the United States African Command outside Germany has no chance, says Adam Smith, President of the House Armed Forces.
“All they know is that the president looked for 12,000 troops to get out of Germany and they couldn’t do the math unless they moved that command,” Smith said Wednesday at a webinar organized through the American Security Project.
He predicted that the highest likely completion of the game is that President Donald Trump, who ordered troops to leave after criticizing Berlin for doing enough in defense, will lose to former Vice President Joe Biden next month and the concept becomes debatable anyway.
NEW OFFER FOR SEXUAL ASSAULTS: Defense organization Protect our Defenders, which is committed to ending sexual assault and rape in the military, is today launching a crusade to win at least 60 senators for the Military Justice Improvement Act to triumph over obstruction. .
The “Senate Nomination Promise 2020” is presented at a Supreme Court hearing on October 13 that will address statutes of limitations for rape cases, adding those involving several surviving veterans or sexual assault.
“DO NOT SUPPORT THE FACTS”: Rep. Elissa Slotkin is pressuring the country’s top intelligence officer to give her assurances that she will keep policy out of the intelligence about foreign electoral interference.
“I am involved in your recent public statements about foreign interference in our elections being backed by the facts, as reported through Congress through career intelligence officers,” Slotkin, a former CIA officer, wrote in a letter to the Director of National Intelligence on Wednesday. . John Ratcliffe.
She asked Ratcliffe to engage in a briefing at the Congress of CIA and NSA chiefs on electoral threats and to allow career intelligence officials to inform lawmakers after elections about foreign influence assessments.
OPERATIONS QUARANTINE: Deputy Navy Commander General Gary Thomas conducted the coronavirus test, the moment the four-star officer will be affected by the disease this week, reports our colleague Lara Seligman.
Thomas, one of the most sensible army officers to be quarantined this week after Coast Guard Deputy Commander Admiral Charles Ray tested positive On Monday, has mild symptoms.
The news came when the Pentagon increased the frequency of testing for senior army officials, Seligman reported. All joint bosses have been evaluated on Tuesday and Wednesday and plan to be re-evaluated on Friday.
Related: White House informed veterinarians that they may have been exposed to the virus at the event: The Daily Beast
DODGE SORTIR: “The Pentagon’s most sensitive military leaders are quarantined. The case of the coronavirus president raises considerations that the United States is vulnerable to adversaries. And the election is fueling fears of more riots in American cities. But Defense Secretary Mark Esper” is rarely seen in the capital in those days,” Seligman reports.
In total, Esper has spent almost part of the last two days on an official settlement and defense officials say he has another one scheduled for this month. Critics say he avoids Washington in times of crisis.
Esper spokesman Jonathan Hoffman responded that “even through the demanding situations presented through COVID-19, the Secretary has noticed a wonderful price on his recent travels, especially those in which he continues to interact with partners and allies in our country and meets with the army corps. workers and their families. “
The pentagon chief “also remains in full command of our armed forces and is in constant communication with the Pentagon and the White House,” Hoffman said.
TOWARDS THE NEW HOME: On the 19th anniversary of the start of America’s longest war, Trump promised Wednesday that all remaining U. S. troops in Afghanistan would be home until the end of the year, POLITICO’s Caitlyn Oprysko reports.
“We have the remaining small number of our BRAVE men and women stationed in Afghanistan until Christmas!”posted it on Twitter.
Previously, all troops in Afghanistan were expected to return home in May next year under the peace agreement reached with the Taliban this year.
Related: THE US and its allies in the Middle East have been But it’s not the first time It goes from condition-based retreat to unsleek evacuation from Afghanistan, through tasks and purposes.
HARRIS SLAMS TRUMP RECORD IN THE MILITARY: Vice President Mike Pence and Sen. Kamala Harris, who hopes to update you, discussed Trump’s remedy to the military in their only debate Wednesday in Salt Lake City.
“This is a Donald Trump style, where he called our men who serve in our military fools and losers,” Harris said in a grueling exchange, “because of course he thinks about what’s in it for him. “
Pence, whose son is captain of the Marine Corps, defended the representative by saying that “slander against President Donald Trump on men and on our armed forces is absurd. “
Pence also promorated the president’s record in foreign terrorism, more competitive efforts to drive the organization out of Iraq and Syria.
By honoring Kayla Mueller, an American aid worker who captured and murdered through the militant organization, and whose parents were in the public debate, Pence accused her predecessor of abandoning her.
“The truth is, when Joe Biden was vice president, we had a chance to save Kayla Mueller,” Pence said. “It breaks my center to think about it, but the army entered the Oval Office, presented a map and said they knew where Kayla was. But when Joe Biden was vice president they hesitated for a month and when the Armed Forces despite each and every one came in it was seen that she had been moved two days earlier, and her circle of relatives said with a center that broke centers of each. and every American, who if President Donald Trump had been president, believe Kayla would be alive today.
F-35S IN QATAR? Qatar, the Gulf’s best friend, filed a formal application to acquire the Lockheed Martin F-35 fighter jet, joining the United Arab Emirates in search of a military apparatus following its U. S. negotiated agreement with Israel, Reuters reported Wednesday.
But a management official told Morning D that an application did not mean that the US government was not a U. S. government. But it’s not the first time I’d approve it or even approve it. Congress is sometimes informed after the State Department has won such an application, however, the House Foreign Affairs Committee has not yet been informed of a forward-looking sale, a Congressional assistant said.
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John Rood, who was overthrown as pentagon’s most sensible policy officer in February, is now ceo of his own consulting firm, John Rood and Associates LLC, according to his LinkedIn page.
– Decisive theatres: Navy will have to decide the right fights in a high-power competition: Heritage Foundation
Why national security demands a physically powerful and cutting-edge generation sector: Lexington Institute
Democrats face ‘internal’ defense spending, Smith: Defense News says
– SECNAV Braithwaite names the first USS Constellation FFG (X): USNI News
– Army Times investigates U. S. Senate candidate for a case
– White House installs CIA campaign veteran: POLITICO
– Healy’s crippled icebreaker for a reconstruction: Breaking the defense.
– Space progression company to buy launch for 28 spaceships: Space News
– The Pentagon is concentrated in Taiwan: the war opposed to rocks.
– Russia hypersonic missile on Putin’s birthday: Reuters
– How Russia Ignores High-Tech Blockade to Succeed in American Readers: The Wall Street Journal
– LIVE REVUE: War: How The Conflict Shaped Us: The New York Times