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After World War One and the defeat of the Ottoman Empire, the victorious Western allies made provision for a Kurdish state in the 1920 Treaty of Sevres. However, that promise was nullified three years later, when the Treaty of Lausanne set the boundaries of modern Turkey and made no such provision, leaving Kurds with minority status in their respective countries.(wiki) The world should stand with the Kurdish people and give them their own state. They have fought against many

Iraqi Troops Storm Mosul's Old City, Last IS Stronghold In-Depth Coverage RFE/RL June 18, 2017 Iraqi security forces have launched an operation to retake the last Islamic State (IS) militant group stronghold in Mosul, the country's second-largest city. Brett McGurk, the U.S. envoy to the international coalition fighting IS militants, said on Twitter that Iraqi forces breached Mosul's Old City early June 18. Lieutenant General Abdul-Amir Rasheed Yarallah, who commands army

OPERATION INHERENT RESOLVE Operation Inherent Resolve (OIR) is the U.S. military's operational name for the military intervention against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS, in the vernacular, Daesh),[96] including both the campaign in Iraq and the campaign in Syria. Since 21 August 2016, the U.S. Army's XVIII Airborne Corps has been responsible for Combined Joint Task Force – Operation Inherent Resolve (CJTF-OIR). By early 2017 forces backed by NATO members Turkey and

Officials: U.S. Missile Defense System Outpaces Threat In-Depth Coverage By Cheryl Pellerin DoD News, Defense Media Activity WASHINGTON, June 8, 2017 – The defense system that protects the United States from ballistic missile attacks now outpaces the threat from adversaries out to 2020, and the Defense Department is advancing the capability to stay ahead of the threat into the future, defense officials said on Capitol Hill yesterday. Thomas H. Harvey III, acting assistant sec

DoD Release of the Report on Military and Security Developments in China Press Operations Release No: NR-209-17 June 6, 2017 Alpha 10 PRINT | E-MAIL The Department of Defense's annual report, "Military and Security Developments Involving the People's Republic of China" is now available here: https://www.defense.gov/Portals/1/Documents/pubs/2017_China_Military_Power_Report.PDF This report informs Congress of the Department of Defense's assessment of military and security dev

The early summer of 2017 has been a busy time for the minions of ISIS. While losing ground in and around their last caliphate cities of Mosul and Raqqa, ISIS has shifted their acttacks toward soft targets in europe with relative ease. Their attacks within syria have also begub to take a larger punch at targets. One imagines when a dangerous animal is losing ground and defenseless what does it do? Attack. Below are there stories highlighted from GlobalSecurity.org which help e

Today President Donald J. Trump sent Congress a proposed budget request of $639.1 billion, $574.5 billion in the base budget and $64.6 billion in the Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO) budget. This budget request is $52 billion above the defense budget cap in the Budget and Control Act (BCA) of 2011. This funding is required to continue to rebuild warfighting readiness and will restore program balance by fixing the holes created by previous budget cuts. Since enactment o

By GlobalSecurity - Division The Army consists of four corps and 18 divisions. In the active Army, there are ten divisions: two forward deployed in Europe, one in Korea, one in Hawaii, and six in the continental United States. The remaining eight are Army National Guard Divisions. The U.S. Army had 28 Divisions - 18 active and 10 National Guard – in 1991. Eight Army divisions were deployed to the Persian Gulf, just as eight Army divisions had been deployed to Korea four decad