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Blinken: Broad ASEAN Support to Press Myanmar’s Junta to Stop Violence - Voice of America
Foreign ministers of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations again condemned the violence in Myanmar, triggered by the military junta's bloody crackdown on pro-democracy opponents. At a summit in Jakarta, Indonesia, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken sought support to counter China's...
Irregular Warfare Podcast: Elite Capture of the Security Sector - West Point's Modern War Institute
What does it mean when a state’s security sector undergoes what scholars call “elite capture”—a form of corruption in which military and defense resources are leveraged to benefit a small, powerful segment of society? What problems contribute to elite capture and is it possible to disentangle them?...
Senate defence act draft opens door for deeper US cooperation with India - The Hindustan Times
The draft NDAA asks the US defence secretary to deepen cooperation with India in areas such as AI, undersea domain awareness and air combat. As part of the National Defence Authorisation Act (NDAA), the umbrella legislation that determines the United States (US)‘s defence budget...
Amb. Taylor: ‘Zelenksyy can be pleased with the outcome of this summit’ - NBC News Now
Bill Taylor, former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine and now vice president for Russia and Europe at the U.S. Institute of Peace, joins Meet the Press NOW to discuss the latest from the NATO summit in Lithuania...
Are NATO's promises to Ukraine enough? - CBS News
The G7 nations offered a new security package to Kyiv that they say should hold until Ukraine becomes a NATO member. The package includes modern military equipment, training for Ukrainian forces and intelligence sharing. Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine William Taylor joins...
Ex-ambassador: Zelenskyy likely ‘pleased’ with NATO summit - NewsNation
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy walked away from this week’s NATO summit with more pledges for military aid, but a somewhat ambiguous plan for ascension into the military alliance. Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Bill Taylor says Zelenskyy is likely satisfied with the outcome...
China and Taiwan loom large behind Ukraine at NATO summit - CNN
The presence of four Asia-Pacific leaders at the NATO summit this week suggests that Ukraine is not the only major security issue on the agenda of the European-North American defense alliance. The war in Ukraine has brought members of the US-led alliance closer than at any time since the Cold War, and...
What the Wagner Group Mutiny Reveals About Putin’s Grip on Power - PBS's Frontline
It’s been described as the most serious threat to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s authority in years — and it came from an ally. On June 23, the Russian mercenary Wagner Group and its leader, longtime Putin associate Yevgeny Prigozhin, launched an armed mutiny against Russia’s military leadership...
NATO leaders agree Ukraine should join, but what's the plan? - KCBS Radio
"Ukraine's future is in NATO." That's the message from NATO leaders during the The 2023 Vilnius summit. And while leaders tout Ukraine's future as a NATO member, there was no definitive timeline or clear pathway given to Ukraine to join the alliance. For more on this, Brett Burkhart and Patti Reising spoke...