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☆ U.S. to Put Houthis Back on Terrorist List
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-17 | by ( Vivian Salama | Daniel Nasaw | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Houthi fighters and tribesmen Sunday stage a rally against the U.S. and U.K. strikes on Houthi-run military sites near San’a, Yemen. (AP Photo) Photo: /Associated PressWASHINGTON—The Biden administration plans to put the Houthi rebel group back on one of its lists of terrorist organizations, days after the U.S. launched strikes on its facilities in Yemen in retaliation for months of attacks on commercial vessels in the Red Sea, officials said. The placement as a specially designated global terrorist group, which the U.S. plans to formally announce on Wednesday, reverses a decision made early in President Biden’s term to remove the Houthis from the list over concerns it hurt prospects for peace talks and further crippled the economy of an impoverished nation at risk of famine. The Trump administration first put the Houthis on the list.

Persons: Associated Press WASHINGTON —, Biden, Biden’s, Trump Organizations: U.S, Associated Press WASHINGTON Locations: San’a, Yemen, Red

F-15The U.S. is also sending more planes to boost its deterrent posture in the region. The F-15 was first flown in the 1970s and has been updated since. It is designed primarily to attack other aircraft.

☆ Navy to Begin Drug Testing SEAL Commandos
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-29 | by ( Daniel Nasaw | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ U.S. Condemns Russia’s Arrest of Embassy Contractor
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-16 | by ( Alan Cullison | Daniel Nasaw | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Robert Shonov worked for more than 25 years for the U.S. Consulate General in Vladivostok, Russia. Photo: Yuri Smityuk/Zuma PressThe U.S. condemned Moscow’s jailing of a Russian contractor for the American Embassy there, describing the arrest as a “blatant use of increasingly repressive laws against its own citizens.”Robert Shonov, 62 years old, was charged under a statute penalizing Russians who help a foreign state undermine Russia’s interests, Russian news agencies reported. The U.S. said the allegations were “wholly without merit.” He was arrested in March, and is now being held in Moscow’s Lefortovo prison, whose cells are typically reserved for suspects in high-profile espionage cases, and faces eight years in prison, the agencies reported.

☆ Air Force Plans Special Operations Mission for Arizona Base Set to Lose Aging Attack Planes
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-02 | by ( Daniel Nasaw | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

The Air Force has been trying for years to phase out A-10 Warthog attack jets, including those at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Arizona. Photo: Ash Ponders for The Wall Street JournalWASHINGTON—The Air Force plans to establish a new special-operations wing at an Arizona base threatened by the looming retirement of its aging A-10 attack jets, a shift that illustrates the pressure Congress exerts on the Pentagon to maintain local jobs and federal funding as the U.S. modernizes its military. The A-10 Warthogs, lauded for their role saving ground troops in firefights over 20 years of combat in Iraq and Afghanistan, are ill-suited for wars of the future, defense officials say. But for a decade, Congress has limited the Air Force’s authority to retire the Warthogs, out of deference to representatives and senators whose constituencies stood to lose if the planes were scrapped.

☆ Pentagon Looking Into How Accused Leaker Accessed Top Secret Documents
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-14 | by ( Nancy A. Youssef | Daniel Nasaw | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

Federal authorities on Thursday arrested Jack Teixeira in Dighton, Mass., for the suspected unauthorized removal, handling and distribution of secret information, officials said. Mr. Teixeira, 21 years old, holds the rank of airman first class in an intelligence unit of the Massachusetts Air National Guard and is a junior Air Force communications specialist, according to his service record. His job title—cyber transport systems journeyman—gives no obvious hint why he would have access to the types of files that were leaked. He joined the Air Force National Guard in September 2019, according to his service record. Mr. Teixeira is expected to appear Friday in federal court in Massachusetts.

☆ Why Is America Still Flying the A-10 Warthog, a Cold War Relic?
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-13 | by ( Daniel Nasaw | Photographs Ash Ponders For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Every day, teams of technicians at a vast Air Force base in Tucson, Ariz., tend to a fleet of attack jets the Pentagon has been trying to retire for more than a decade. They have picked replacement parts from the base’s famous “Boneyard,” where old military planes go for scrap, which stretches far into the surrounding desert. The Air Force has said for years that the A-10 jets, nicknamed Warthogs for their bulky silhouette and toughness in a fight, have passed their prime and will be vulnerable in the wars of the future. The production line where they were made fell silent in the mid-1980s, and the average A-10 here is four decades old. Its job can be done by newer, more advanced planes, the Air Force says.

☆ What Makes the M1 Abrams So Critical to the Russia-Ukraine War?
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-25 | by ( Daniel Nasaw | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

M1 Abrams tanks at the end of joint U.S., Polish and U.K. military exercises in eastern Poland in September. WASHINGTON—The M1 Abrams tank is among the most powerful ground weapons in the U.S. arsenal, able to close in on enemy tanks, troop positions and other targets, blast them with its cannon and machine guns, and then speed away. The tank’s heavy armor protects the vehicle and its four-person crew from small-arms fire, shell fragments and even some direct hits. It can ford waters up to four feet deep.

☆ Spending Bill Contains Billions for Ukraine, Funds U.S. Ammunition Manufacturing
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-20 | by ( Daniel Nasaw | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

WASHINGTON—The spending bill unveiled in the Senate early Tuesday contains $45 billion to support Ukraine in its battle against Russia. If passed by Congress, it would arm and equip Ukrainian and North Atlantic Treaty Organization forces, fund a surge of U.S. troops and materiel to Europe, bolster the U.S.’s domestic defense industry, extend budget and economic assistance to the Kyiv government and much more.

Since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine over a year ago, the U.S. has committed more than $30 billion in security assistance that has included artillery, missiles, small arms, armored vehicles, radar systems, drones, body armor, millions of rounds of ammunition and more. In his first remarks after the Feb. 24, 2022, invasion, President Biden said nothing that indicated how that would unfold. He pledged, “Our forces are not and will not be engaged in the conflict with Russia in Ukraine.”

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