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Senator Questions If Allies Would Aid Taiwan in Potential Chinese Invasion

Taiwanese Marines on Jan. 11, 2023. Taiwan Ministry of National Defense Photo

A senior Republican on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence questioned several allies’ willingness to come to Taiwan’s aid if China invaded the island.

Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) said Monday at the American Enterprise Institute that debating if the United States should drop its strategic ambiguity stance if the island democracy was attacked is a “moot point.” While Chinese President Xi Jinping expects the U.S....

https://news.usni.org/2023/01/23/senator-questions-if-allies-would-aid-taiwan-in-potential-chinese-invasion

Russian Cyber Efforts in Ukraine See Muted Effects, Says Panel

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The Kremlin’s disinformation campaign and massive escalation of cyber attacks on Kyiv’s infrastructure have failed to break the Ukrainians’ will to fight, the author of a recent book on Russian information warfare said Thursday.
Speaking at the United States Naval Institute event, Bilyana Lilly, geopolitical risk lead at Krebs Stamos Group, said Moscow increased its reconnaissance of potential Ukrainian targets for cyber attack a year before the Feb. 24 invasion. In the time...

https://news.usni.org/2022/09/29/russian-cyber-efforts-in-ukraine-see-muted-effects-says-panel

CNO Gilday: Sweden, Finland’s NATO Membership Poised to Change Allied Arctic Strategy

CNO Adm. Mike Gilday arrives at the BALTOPS22 closing reception aboard the Blue Ridge-class command and control ship USS Mount Whitney (LCC-20) in Kiel, Germany, June 17, 2022. US Navy Photo

WASHINGTON NAVY YARD — Finland and Sweden joining the NATO alliance would fundamentally alter naval strategy and operations in the Baltic Sea and Arctic Basin, the heads of the French and American navies said today.

Because the two Nordic nations – which have officially applied for NATO membership – already...

https://news.usni.org/2022/06/24/cno-gilday-sweden-finlands-nato-membership-poised-to-change-allied-arctic-strategy

Overview of U.S. Security Assistance to Ukraine

The following is the June 6, 2022, Congressional Research Service In Focus report, U.S. Security Assistance to Ukraine.

From the report

The United States has been a leading provider of security assistance to Ukraine, both before and after Russia renewed its invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022. From 2014, when Russia first invaded Ukraine, through June 1, 2022, the United States has provided more than $7.3 billion in security assistance “to help Ukraine preserve its territorial integrity,...

https://news.usni.org/2022/06/07/overview-of-u-s-security-assistance-to-ukraine

Ukraine Will Make ‘No Deals’ To Cede Territory to End War With Russia, Says Ambassador

UK MoD’s Ukraine Conflict Map on March 31, 2022

Ukrainian leaders will make “no deals” for peace that cede territory to Russia, as the nation is braced for a long war lasting into next winter, Ukraine’s United Nations ambassador said on Wednesday.

“It’s a matter of principle” not to accept new boundaries between Ukraine and Russia, Sergiy Kyslytsya said at an event at The Washington Post.

He called former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger’s suggestion that such a concession could lead to peace...

https://news.usni.org/2022/06/01/ukraine-will-make-no-deals-to-cede-territory-to-end-war-with-russia-says-ambassador

Finland, Sweden Will Bolster NATO in Baltic, Says EUCOM Nominee Cavoli

The U.S. Army Europe and Africa Command Commanding General Gen. Christopher G. Cavoli delivers a speech during the 7th Army Training Command change of command ceremony at Tower Barracks in Grafenwoehr, Germany, June 2, 2021. U.S. Army

The nominee to be the next top commander of United States forces in Europe told the Senate Armed Services Committee this week that he “looks forward to the accession” of Finland and Sweden to NATO to bolster the alliance’s defenses, particularly in the Baltic Sea...

https://news.usni.org/2022/05/27/finland-sweden-will-bolster-nato-in-baltic-says-eucom-nominee-cavoli

U.S., NATO in for a ‘Long Haul’ Conflict with Russia, Says Polish PM

U.S. Army Sgt. Keegan Davis, assigned to 4th Squadron, 10th Cavalry Regiment, 3rd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, walks towards his Soldiers after laying out parts of machine guns onto the front of an M1A2 Abrams tank after conducting a live-fire accuracy screening test as part of Defender 22 at Mielno Range, Drawsko Pomorskie, Poland, May 11, 2022. U.S. Army Photo

NATO and the West must be “in the fight for the long haul” economically, diplomatically and militarily in...

https://news.usni.org/2022/05/17/u-s-nato-in-for-a-long-haul-conflict-with-russia-says-polish-pm

‘More Ugliness’ Coming For Ukraine, Says Former Top NATO Commander

A street in Mariupol Ukraine from the Facebook page of the 36th Marine Brigade on April 7, 2022.

A “whole lot more ugliness” for the Ukrainian people and countryside is likely to unfold over the coming weeks as Moscow concentrates forces and long-range artillery in the Donbas and near the Sea of Azov and Black Sea, a former top commander for NATO said Monday.

Retired Air Force Gen. Philip Breedlove said, “there can be no rush to do business as usual with Russia,” in light of its continued attacks...

https://news.usni.org/2022/05/02/more-ugliness-coming-for-ukraine-says-former-top-nato-commander

U.S. Missiles Sent to Ukraine Aren’t Easily Replaced, Panel Tells Senate

U.S. Marines with Charlie Company, Infantry Training Battalion, School of Infantry – West, fire an M98A2 Javelin guided missile system during a field-fire demonstration as part of the Anti-Tank Missileman Course at Range 204B on Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California, Jan. 22, 2020. ITB trains, develops and certifies Marines as riflemen, as well as their primary military occupational specialty within the infantry field, before sending them to join the Fleet Marine Force. US Marine Corps...

https://news.usni.org/2022/04/27/u-s-missiles-sent-to-ukraine-arent-easily-replaced-panel-tells-senate

Russia Could Bring Marines to Mariupol in Another Amphibious Assault

Ivan Gren-class amphibious warship RTS Pyotr Morgunov (117) entering the Black Sea on Feb. 9, 2022. Photo by Yörük Işık‏ used with permission

The Russian Navy could land more of its marines near the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol, which remains contested nearly two months into Moscow’s invasion, a senior defense official told reporters Monday.

Reports from the Ukrainian military suggest Russia, which has failed to take the port city of Mariupol 54 days into its invasion of Ukraine, might use...

https://news.usni.org/2022/04/18/russia-could-bring-marines-to-mariupol-in-another-amphibious-assault

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