Soon after the well-publicized U.S. Navy freedom of navigation operations (FONOPS) within 12 nautical miles of China’s artificial island built on the disputed Subi Reef, in late October Tokyo reportedly sought access to Vietnam’s strategic Cam Ranh naval base. This implies the possibility of more frequent SDF presence in Southeast Asia, not least having in mind Beijing’s growing assertiveness in the South China Sea. Last month, Abe told U.S. President Barack Obama that Tokyo would be studying the feasibility of SDF activities in the South China Sea.

If they ever materialized, such operations will most likely be unilateral since Tokyo has clearly outlined its stance of not joining the American FONOPS. “At present, the SDF does not continuously conduct surveillance activities in the South China Sea, and we have no such specific plans,” Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said at a press conference, adding that “we want to continue to study (what Japan can do in the South China Sea) as we carefully assess what impact the situation in the South China Sea poses to the security of our country.”

The question is whether Abe can enhance Japan’s maritime pivot to Southeast Asia by going down this path of creating a more regular SDF presence. Domestic, strategic and operational constraints would seem to undermine such aspirations.

By launching its first combat strikes from a submarine, Russia is demonstrating to the West that it now has a long-range cruise missile capability formerly monopolized by the US and its allies.

Unlike their Western analogues, the Russian cruise missiles, even those developed years ago, are all supersonic all, which meanings that they are able to penetrate the enemy’s missile defenses.

Russian military experts said that more powerful, faster and longer-range cruise missiles were now in the pipeline and would enter active service already before this the end of the decade is out.

The Pentagon, fearing Kalibr's ability to infiltrate air defense networks, constructed the JLENS aerial detection network around the Washington D.C. area to detect a so-called "decapitation strike" by nuclear-armed Kalibrs.

A Bell 412EP Helicopter of Pakistan Army crashed at Awaran, Balochistan. Its crew fortunately escaped with minor injury, and have been safely evacuated.

The cause of the crash remains unknown, the army have launched an investigation to the cause of the crash and have secured the crash site.

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Warplanes of the Russian task force in Syria deliver from 30 to 40 airstrikes daily in support of the Free Syrian Army, Russia’s General Staff reports. Some 5,000 FSA troops together with the Syrian Army are on the offensive in Hama, Homs, Aleppo and Raqqa provinces.

The number of FSA personnel that have come over to the Syrian Army is constantly growing, Russia’s Defense Force Chief of Staff, Army General Valery Gerasimov, said.

He added that Russia’s task force in Syria is also supplying FSA units with “weapons, munitions and other material supplies.” In this way, Russia is “promoting the [Syrian] government troops and opposition groups joining efforts to defeat the terrorists,” the general said.

According to the General Staff, for the purpose of cutting the terrorists off financing, Russian jets bomb oil processing Islamic State- (IS, formerly ISIS) controlled infrastructure, such as oil refineries, oil pipeline pumping stations, oil tankers in the locations where they concentrate en route to the Turkish border.

An SAS sniper was able to stop a group of jihadis launching a suicide bomb attack by killing the terrorists with just three bullets in a dramatic shoot-out in an ISIS-held part of Iraq.

The marksman, who joined the SAS a decade ago, potentially saved the lives of hundreds of innocent people by firing three well-aimed shots at the jihadists as they left a bomb factory near Mosul.

The sniper was given the go-ahead after the men were spotted leaving the bomb factory wearing heavy coats in hot weather – a sign they were trying to hide their suicide vests.

But the British Transport Police, which patrols railways in England, Scotland and Wales, was not covered by Mr Osborne’s pledge, it has emerged. Spending by Ministry of Defence Police, which guards military bases across the UK, and the Civil Nuclear Constabulary, which protects nuclear sites and nuclear waste when it is being transported, has also been excluded. The three forces have more than 6,000 officers between them.

In November 2014, The Namibian said that talks were being held at the “highest” levels for the Chinese army to put up a base at Walvis Bay, the country’s only natural deepwater port, “in the next 10 years”.

This would be one of a string of bases that would rope in countries along the Indian Ocean such as Djibouti, Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, Madagascar and Seychelles to help China patrol key international maritime trade—and military— routes, it reported citing a Chinese media report.

China is involved in infrastructure and resource projects including uranium extraction in the southern African country, in which it also has a satellite tracking station.

In November, after months of coyness, China confirmed it was in negotiations with Djibouti to build a logistics hub for military operations in the strategically vital African country.

“This facility will help Chinese vessels to better carry out UN operations, like the escort missions and humanitarian assistance”, foreign ministry spokesman Hong Lei told a regular briefing.

Bloomberg news wire said Hong shied away from describing the centre as a “military base”, but the comments came after US general David Rodriguez, the commander of the US Africa Command, reportedly said that Beijing had signed a 10-year lease for the base, describing it as China’s first “military location” on the continent and that it would “extend their reach.”

The size of the camp will triple from 1,041 acres to 3,453 acres,” said Col. Holland. “There will be significant increase in population as well from 11,000 to 42,000.”

He said that when completed, the base will offer an improved mission command, improved protection for armed forces, more efficient base operations and better support for non-combatant evacuation operations.

Engineers and construction workers are attempting to complete the construction project on schedule.

But the camp still looks empty, with only two facilities including an engineering unit having been moved in so far. American soldiers were only seen intermittently on the road when reporters were given a tour of the huge base by bus.

Some of the roads are still unpaved dirt tracks, so the bus jolted and rattled over the rough ground. “People here love SUVs,” Col. Holland said and laughed.

The allies have been carrying out projects to relocate the USFK and return land to Korean people through two major plans ― the Yongsan Relocation Plan (YRP) and the Land Partnership Plan (LPP).

The YRP is to relocate the U.S. Yongsan Garrison in central Seoul including USFK headquarters and 8th Army headquarters to Pyeongtaek, while the LPP will consolidate 2ID from north of Seoul to Pyeongtaek.

Pyeongtaek is located 70 kilometers south of the capital.

For Iraq’s armed forces, and the Americans who are training and backing them, this is a particularly important fight. Here, the country’s Shiite militias are not taking part, and that gives the regular Iraqi military a chance to repair its image. The fall of Ramadi seven months ago struck a blow to the already tattered reputation of the security forces, and it highlighted flaws in the U.S. approach to supporting them.

Airstrikes played a large part in the advance here, soldiers said, raising questions about the army’s capability to push farther, particularly in areas with a high concentration of civilians, where air support is more complicated.

“Eighty percent of the battle finished from the air,” Asri said, pointing out a body crushed under a nearby palm tree.“We received only a little resistance. The airstrikes had the major role.”

But to the southwest, Iraqi special forces, known as the Golden Division, have seen more close combat, seizing control of the sprawling Tamim neighborhood last week. Having trained closely with the U.S. military, the division is considered the country’s most elite fighting force.

“These neighborhoods we know street by street, we know the houses,” said Lt. Gen. Abdul Ghani al-Asadi, head of Iraq’s special forces, as he spread out a map of the city at his office in Baghdad. There are about 600 fighters from the Golden Division involved in the operation, he said.

Asadi estimated that there are still about 1,000 Islamic State militants in the city, while U.S. officials have suggested that with 350 killed in the latest assault, they could number between 250 and 650.

In a briefing last week, Col. Steve Warren, a U.S. military spokesman in Baghdad, cautioned that in an urban environment, a relatively small force of fighters could hold back a larger army “for some time.”

But the militants have dug underground tunnels, stockpiled car bombs and laced roads with explosives.

“Go and fight,” the Islamic State leader’s voice extolled his men over the walkie-talkie. “Either you will have victory, or you will be a martyr in heaven. Fight them, fight them, fight them.”

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