Military & War News and Discussions

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Trump says 'bad things' will happen if Afghanistan does not return Bagram air base

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-paci ... 025-09-20/

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Hegseth shuts down group advising on women in the military

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/hegse ... r-AA1Ne0uI

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German defence minister warns against growing Russian threat in space

https://www.reuters.com/business/aerosp ... 025-09-25/

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Dozens killed in Pakistan-Afghanistan clashes, border closed

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-paci ... 025-10-12/

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Pakistan says it has agreed to a 48-hour ceasefire with Afghanistan

https://apnews.com/article/pakistan-afg ... f3cd2c545c

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Military spending bill blocked in US Senate as shutdown grinds on

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/milita ... 025-10-16/

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Trump orders US carrier strike group to Caribbean

Source: Politico

President Donald Trump has ordered an aircraft carrier strike group to the Caribbean, a major escalation of warships in the region as the U.S. attacks alleged drug-running boats and increases pressure on Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.

Deploying a carrier is a significant move for any White House, and often suggests larger scale military operations.

The arrival of the U.S.S. Gerald Ford, the Navy’s newest and most advanced aircraft carrier from the Mediterranean, alongside several destroyers and a submarine, will add to what is already the world’s largest naval deployment.

Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell announced the move on X, saying the deployment “will bolster U.S. capacity to detect, monitor, and disrupt illicit actors and activities that compromise the safety and prosperity of the United States homeland and our security in the Western Hemisphere. ”

Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/2 ... n-00621968

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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says U.S. won't be able to pay military by Nov. 15 amid government shutdown

Source: CBS News

Updated on: October 26, 2025 / 12:48 PM EDT

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Sunday that service members will miss paychecks by Nov. 15 if the government shutdown stretches on, despite the Trump administration's previous assurances that members of the military will be paid amid the funding lapse. "I think we'll be able to pay them beginning in November, but by Nov. 15 our troops and service members who are willing to risk their lives aren't going to be able to get paid," Bessent said on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan."

President Trump directed the Pentagon to use unspent research and development funds to pay the military earlier this month, with around $8 billion in funds from the previous fiscal year identified to cover the mid-month paychecks.

But officials have warned that the move was a temporary fix, and that members of the military risked missing their next paychecks at the end of the month, and beyond, if the shutdown continues.

Bessent suggested that members of the military will receive their upcoming paycheck, but he warned that if the shutdown continues, the U.S. would be unable to pay the service members by mid-November. "What an embarrassment," Bessent said, putting the blame on Democratic leaders in Congress who he claimed are "worried about their primaries, and not the American people."

Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/treasury-s ... -shutdown/

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Trump tells Department of Defense to 'prepare for possible action' in Nigeria

Source: NBC News

President Donald Trump on Saturday said he has instructed the Defense Department to “prepare for possible action” in Nigeria over the country’s alleged killing of Christians.

“If the Nigerian Government continues to allow the killing of Christians, the U.S.A. will immediately stop all aid and assistance to Nigeria, and may very well go into that now disgraced country, ‘guns-a-blazing,’ to completely wipe out the Islamic Terrorists who are committing these horrible atrocities,” Trump wrote on social media.

“If we attack, it will be fast, vicious, and sweet, just like the terrorist thugs attack our CHERISHED Christians! WARNING: THE NIGERIAN GOVERNMENT BETTER MOVE FAST!” Trump added.

Trump’s announcement comes a day after he categorized Nigeria as a “country of particular concern,” a designation the U.S. gives countries the government deems as engaging in “particularly severe violations of religious freedom.” Other countries on the list include China, Cuba and North Korea.

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics ... 696c&ei=12

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Trump administration is planning new mission in Mexico against cartels, current and former U.S. officials say

Source: NBC News

Nov. 3, 2025, 5:00 AM EST

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has begun detailed planning for a new mission to send U.S. troops and intelligence officers into Mexico to target drug cartels, according to two U.S. officials and two former senior U.S. officials familiar with the effort.

The early stages of training for the potential mission, which would include ground operations inside Mexico, has already begun, the two current U.S. officials said. But a deployment to Mexico is not imminent, the two U.S. officials and one of the former U.S. officials said. Discussions about the scope of the mission are ongoing, and a final decision has not been made, the two current U.S. officials said.

The U.S. troops, many of whom would be from Joint Special Operations Command, would operate under the authority of the U.S. intelligence community, known as Title 50 status, the two current officials said. They said officers from the Central Intelligence Agency also would participate.

A U.S. mission using American forces to hit drug cartel targets inside Mexico would open a new front in President Donald Trump’s military campaign against drug cartels in the Western Hemisphere. So far, the administration has focused on Venezuela and conducting strikes on alleged drug-carrying boats.

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/nation ... rcna241167

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Led by U.S., Revenue of Major Weapons Makers Hit All-Time High in 2024
By Jon Queally
December 1, 2025

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(Common Dreams) An annual report out Monday that tracks global arms sales shows that weapons makers in 2024 generated more revenue than at any time since the group behind the research began tracking the data over 35 years ago.

The annual report by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) shows that the top 100 weapons makers in the world—led by those in the United States—brought in a record-setting $679 billion over the course of the year, fueled mainly by the war in Ukraine, Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza, and spending on nuclear weaponry.

“Last year global arms revenues reached the highest level ever recorded by SIPRI as producers capitalized on high demand,” said Lorenzo Scarazzato, a researcher with the SIPRI Military Expenditure and Arms Production Programme, which has been tracking global arms sales since 1989.

“In 2024,” the report explains, “the growing demand for military equipment around the world, primarily linked to rising geopolitical tensions, accelerated the increase in total Top 100 arms revenues seen in 2023. More than three-quarters of companies in the Top 100 (77 companies) increased their arms revenues in 2024, with 42 reporting at least double-digit percentage growth.”

In 2024, SIPRI noted, “all of the five largest arms companies increased their arms revenues,” the first time that has happened since 2018. According to the report, those five companies alone—Lockheed Martin, RTX, Northrup Grumman, BAE Systems, and General Dynamics—accounted for an estimated $215 billion of the total arms sales tabulated in the report. Of those five, four are US companies while BAE is based in the United Kingdom.

Read more here: https://www.commondreams.org/news/glob ... les-2024

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Pentagon’s Signalgate review finds Hegseth violated Defense Department regulations

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics ... r-AA1REdVQ

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Hegseth says he would have ordered second strike on Caribbean vessel

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/he ... r-AA1RR6v8

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Compromise defense bill stymies Trump on Europe troop withdrawals

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics ... r-AA1RU1Kv

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State Dept. ‘concerned’ about fighting threatening Trump-brokered Thailand, Cambodia ceasefire

https://thehill.com/homenews/administra ... ceasefire/