Posts Tagged With: US military
Japan drops ban on military exports
Rule change will help stretch Tokyo’s defence budget further in response to China’s increased military spendingJapan has relaxed its self-imposed decades-old ban on military equipment exports in a move that will open up new markets to its defence contr… Continue reading
Pakistan army rejects US findings on border attack
American investigation concludes mistakes on both sides led to US air strikes killing 24 Pakistani soldiersThe Pakistani army has rejected a US investigation that concluded mistakes on both sides led to US air strikes last month that killed 24 Pakistan… Continue reading
Inquiry into US airstrike on Pakistan troops finds both sides to blame
Pentagon says incident which led to the deaths of 24 Pakistani soldiers due to poor co-ordinationAUS military investigation into the deaths of 24 Pakistani soldiers in repeated air strikes by American warplanes on two border outposts last month has fou… Continue reading
Eight US troops charged over soldier’s apparent suicide in Afghanistan
Soldiers face charges including negligent homicide after Private Danny Chen is found dead with a gunshot woundEight US soldiers have been charged with offences relating to the death of a fellow soldier in Afghanistan who apparently killed himself.The b… Continue reading
Prosecutors claim Bradley Manning wanted to remove ‘the fog of war’
Investigators say they found emails to Julian Assange under the alias ‘Press Association’ about release of secret documentsUS army prosecutors claim to have found email correspondence between alleged WikiLeaks source Bradley Manning and Julian Assange,… Continue reading
Cables on Bradley Manning’s computer ‘exactly matched’ WikiLeaks documents
Forensic investigator’s testimony to pre-trial hearing likely to prove central to any court-martial that might ensueA forensic investigator who examined Bradley Manning’s army computers following his arrest discovered thousands of US embassy cables and… Continue reading
Bradley Manning hearing told of lax security at military intelligence unit
Controls were so loose at information facility that soldiers watched pirated films on army computersSecurity at the military unit where alleged WikiLeaks source Bradley Manning worked was so lax that soldiers could watch pirated movies on army intellig… Continue reading
Bradley Manning hearing: court told of Iraq unit’s intelligence security chaos
Head of unit describes loose controls around databases from which Manning is alleged to have downloaded military secretsA shocking lack of basic discipline and intelligence security at the unit in which Bradley Manning worked before his arrest for alle… Continue reading
Bradley Manning hearing: agents say gunship killing video found in room
Court told that video later released by WikiLeaks as ‘Collateral Murder’ found in box in Manning’s quarters in Iraq, ready to postThe US soldier accused of leaking a trove of classified documents to Wikileaks felt fragile in the army and created an onl… Continue reading