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MILITARY 3

Japan Times
WORLD
Jun 20, 2015
British army parachutist saves companion when canopy fails to open
A British army paratrooper from the country's famed Red Devils display team had a narrow escape in front of hundreds of spectators, after he was caught midair by a fellow team member when his parachute failed to open properly.
ASIA PACIFIC
Jun 20, 2015
China shows idyllic side to life on disputed reef
A Chinese website has published photographs from one of the reefs under China's control in the disputed South China Sea showing female sailors posing on ocean break walls, vegetable gardens being watered and even pigs in a pen.
ASIA PACIFIC
Jun 18, 2015
China OKs plan for civilian ships to be used by military
The Chinese government has approved a plan requiring civilian shipbuilders to ensure that new ships can be used by the military during an emergency, a state-run newspaper said Thursday.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 17, 2015
China should be invited to join naval exercises
The U.S. and its allies and friends should seek opportunities to invest China in a stable geopolitical order.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jun 17, 2015
Saddam's former elite underpins Islamic State success
A year after declaring his caliphate, it is clear that the secret of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's success is the army and state he has built from the remnants of Saddam Hussein's military, and the allegiance he has won or coerced from alienated Sunni Muslims in Iraq, Syria, and beyond.
WORLD
Jun 17, 2015
U.S. government agency thwarts hackers 10 million times per month
Attacks such as the one that exposed the personal data of millions of U.S. federal workers will continue and are likely to increase, said the head of one agency that thwarts 10 million attempted hacks every month.
JAPAN / Politics
Jun 16, 2015
Risk posed by North Korea fails to push Tokyo, Seoul together
South Korea is not ready to expand military ties with Japan even though cooperation between the two U.S. allies is a deterrent to North Korea, South Korea's defense minister said.
WORLD
Jun 16, 2015
Russia says will retaliate if more U.S. weapons stationed on its borders
A plan by Washington to station tanks and heavy weapons in NATO states on Russia's border would be the most aggressive U.S. act since the Cold War, and Moscow would retaliate by beefing up its own forces, a Russian defense official said on Monday.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / ANALYSIS
Jun 16, 2015
Expanding global footprint forces China to rethink its policy of 'noninterference'
With 5 million citizens to protect and billions of investment dollars at stake, China is rethinking its policy of keeping out of other countries' affairs.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jun 14, 2015
U.S. plans to store heavy arms in Baltic, Eastern Europe
The United States plans to store heavy military equipment in the Baltics and Eastern European nations to reassure allies made uneasy by Russian intervention in Ukraine, and to deter further aggression, a senior U.S. official said on Saturday.
JAPAN / Politics / ANALYSIS
Jun 12, 2015
Japan security bills reveal irreconcilable divide between scholars, politicians
The full-scale battle over security reform highlights an unbridgeable gap between politicians and scholars that will have to be filled by Japan's less-than-proactive Supreme Court.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jun 12, 2015
Japanese play survival games to blow off steam but have no stomach for real conflict
Dressed in camouflage fatigues and sweating in the summer heat, Kento Atari and his comrades sneak through the woods trying to outfox their enemies in a mock military exercise.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Jun 11, 2015
Security bills' credibility hobbled by suspicious explanations and reporting: scholars
As the Diet continues debate over a raft of contentious bills that would upend Japan's postwar security regime, some scholars and experts are noting the need for at least some changes to the nation's defense posture considering the security climate in the region — and a more transparent approach to...
WORLD
Jun 10, 2015
U.S. prepares to send extra troops to Iraq to aid campaign against Islamic State group
The Obama administration is preparing a plan to set up a new military base in Iraq's Anbar province and send several hundred additional trainers and advisers to help bolster Iraqi forces that have struggled in the fight against Islamic State militants there, U.S. officials said on Tuesday.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jun 9, 2015
History becomes a weapon in Russia-West rift over Ukraine
History has become a weapon in Russia's battle with the West over Ukraine as President Vladimir Putin looks increasingly to the past to whip up patriotism and rally support.
ASIA PACIFIC
Jun 9, 2015
Malaysia to lodge protest with Beijing after Chinese Coast Guard vessel 'intrudes'
Malaysia will protest against what it called the intrusion of a Chinese Coast Guard ship into its waters north of Borneo Island, the Wall Street Journal reported, in another departure from the country's previously soft approach to South China Sea disputes.

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