Questions tagged [military]
Questions related to the military. This may include questions about the actions or inaction of the military, the armed forces themselves or government action related to the military.
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Is there any other reason to stockpile minerals aside preparing for war?
“The Chinese central government stockpiling minerals is one potential
indicator that it may be preparing to invade Taiwan,” Gregory
Wischer of Dei Gratia Minerals told the Commission in a prepared
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What's North Korea's yearly production capacity for artillery shells?
North Korea has sent about 6,700 containers carrying millions of
munitions to Russia since September in exchange for food as well as
parts and raw materials for weapons manufacturing, according to
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Why are the IDF instituting humanitarian pauses against Netanyahu's wishes?
Yesterday, it was announced that the IDF would be introducing humanitarian pauses in fighting along one of the roads into Rafah, to allow more aid to flow into Gaza.
What intrigues me about this is ...
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Do foreigners who became South Korean citizens recently have to perform military service?
The Republic of Korea (“South Korea”) requires male citizens to
perform military service. U.S. citizens who also hold South Korean
citizenship—those born in the United States to parents who are
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What pro-French paramilitary forces exist on New Caledonia?
The news is reporting that paramilitaries are assisting police in the unrest in New Caledonia:
600 heavily armed police and paramilitaries on Sunday took part in an operation to retake the 60-...
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Understanding the exact legal procedure by which the U.S. government provides military funding to Israel?
I have done a little preliminary research which I would like fact-checked.
The Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 laid out the rights and limitations the government has for providing foreign aid, ...
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Based on the current/planned cost of the war, is Israel able to sustain the war in Gaza without extra aid from United States?
I wonder based on the current economic situation of Israel, if it could sustain the war against Hamas by itself without external aid.
It is reported that the United States committed over $3.3 billion ...
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How much of the components of Ukranian aid from the US is unconditionally free, with conditions and a simple long-term loan?
Apparently, while Biden did sign a Lend-Lease act specifically for Ukraine (which is like a long-term loan that needs to be repaid), he instead mainly used other US programs to supply economic and ...
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Is there any other country than Ukraine that required women to register for military conscription after WW2?
Under the looming threat from Russia, new legislation was enacted on
21 December 2021 requiring women to register for military service, if
they are deemed medically fit for military service, are ...
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How can a military exercise on the Black Sea happen with a closed Bosporus?
Romania holds a NATO naval military exercise on the Black Sea.
However, exactly the same war made also Turkey to close the Bosporus before military ships.
How can this exercise then happen? Afaik ...
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Does Kataib Hezbollah get any funding from the government of Iraq?
I am curious what it means exactly that PMF forces (including Kataib Hezbollah) are
designated [...] as an "independent military formation" within the Iraqi armed forces.
Do they actually ...
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What's the basis for Niger's military to claim that the 2012 accord with the US was 'in violation of the “constitutional and democratic rules”'?
News is that Niger's military government just denounced the 2012 accord with the US that was the basis of the latter's base and operations in Niger.
“The government of Niger, taking into account the ...
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Why was Saudi Arabia not granted the status of "major non-NATO ally" of the US?
The present list of "major non-NATO ally" (MNNA) of the US:
Argentina, Australia, Bahrain, Brazil, Colombia, Egypt, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Kuwait, Morocco, New Zealand, Pakistan, ...
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Why don't NATO troops and untrained volunteers help Ukraine prepare fortified positions?
Recently, after the fall of Avdiivka, Russia made some relatively quick advances due to the lack of prepared defense lines. At this point, with Ukraine on the backfoot, its important for them to fight ...
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Is there any treaty that prevents the militarization of the moon?
Plans for installing a joint nuclear power plant on the moon’s surface
within the next decade are being considered by Russian and Chinese
officials, the head of Russia’s space agency said Tuesday, a ...
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Did the Taliban give any hint they were letting the US 'keep' the Bagram Airfield (under some conditions)?
Trump claimed in 2022 that his peace plan for Afghanistan (that Biden ruined) involved keeping the Bagram Airfield:
We were gonna be out. I got it down to 2,000 [troops] we were getting ready to pull ...
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Is there any agreement that allows China to use Russian naval bases for its military cooperation?
Over the past decade, China and Russia have transformed Europe’s
maritime security seascape through their military basing access and
port investments across maritime Europe — from the Baltic and Black
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How much is Lithuania paying/cost-sharing for the US troop presence in their country?
It's been suggested in some comments (and now an answer) to a related Q that the US is expected to demand lest cost sharing from Germany than from South Korea, for US troop presence, because Germany ...
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Why is Europe (Germany in particular) apparently paying so little for US troop presence/protection, compared to South Korea?
CNBC wrote in that 2020 about the cost-sharing agreement for US troop presence in South Korea
In the last one-year, cost-sharing agreement, Seoul agreed to pay roughly $900 million and in ...
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Which countries has the US publicly threatened to sanction if they expel US troops, say, in the past 25 years?
Back in 2020,
When Iraq’s parliament voted to expel American troops from the country Sunday, it was an apparent bid by the government to extract the country from an escalating US-Iran proxy war. [...]...
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Has the Niger junta explained why they expelled French but not US troops?
The Niger junta that took power this summer expelled French but not US troops. From what I can tell, France had about 1,500 troops there, and the US has about 1,100 (or maybe just 600--sources differ ...
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Have any prominent politicians in the US called for US troops to leave Iraq this year?
Some US politicians, like DeSantis, have said US troops in Iraq are just "sitting ducks", at their present strength, so called for either a surge or departure.
“We’ve got troops in Syria ...
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Did anybody challenge the credibility of Turner's claim over the anti-satellite nuclear weapon? [closed]
According to the news US Senator Mike Turner claimed that the Russians were developing a nuclear anti-satellite weapon to be deployed in space. The linked article cited an expert called Pavel Podvig ...
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Why does Ukraine deny responsibility for attacks on Russia?
What is the reasoning behind Ukraine denying (or refusing to accept) responsibility for attacks and incidents of sabotage in Russia?
From a recent article:
There was no immediate comment from ...
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Why would a state retaliate to a nuclear strike if the consequences could be human extinction?
The entire mutually-assured destruction (MAD) concept is based on game theory and mutual belief.
Suppose we have two states (A and B) with massive nuclear arsenals which together suffice to plunge the ...
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When it comes to procuring weapons, does NATO have specific guidelines and regulations that member countries must adhere to?
NATO members in Europe have signed a contract for up to 1,000 Patriot
missiles to bolster air defenses in the face of the threat from
Russia, the alliance said Wednesday.
The announcement of the ...
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How much autonomy does the Israeli Army have from the War Cabinet?
The announcement followed remarks by US Secretary of State Antony
Blinken, from Amman, that Israel would soon announce the beginning of
the third phase. This suggests that Washington has begun to ...
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To what extent has the war on terror in the Somalia achieved its goals?
Has it been at all effective in getting rid of Al-Shabaab? How has it affected the region?
Edit: I mean the US-led Operation Enduring Freedom - Horn of Africa.
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Is this Hamas military uniform?
It's been widely alleged that Hamas hide among civilians of Gaza and do not wear military uniforms.
The first question to ask when evaluating the validity of such claims is whether Hamas military wing ...
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Was there any issue with the auditing system for its military in China prior before the recent change?
The Central Military Commission has taken direct control of the PLA's
audit office, the Defence Ministry announced yesterday, a move experts
said would strengthen President Xi Jinping's campaign to ...
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