Hints and tips:
...Richard Fadden, a former head of the CSIS who served as Trudeau’s national security adviser, said he had been surprised by the prime minister’s move....
...But officials said the increase was expected to fall well short of the £10bn increase spread over two years that Ben Wallace, the defence secretary, has been pushing for to allow military spending to keep...
...would imperil US national security, weaken the authority of the president, and throw confusion into the chain of command of the armed forces, which the president, as commander-in-chief, commands”....
...John McTernan, former political secretary to Tony Blair, summed up the reaction on X: “Shortest ever post holder, surely? Placeholder for a Labour nominee!”...
...President John F Kennedy asked his National Security Council in January 1963, “Why should we have in Europe supplies adequate to fight for ninety days when the European forces around our troops have only...
...John Healey, shadow defence secretary, said that if Labour won the general election, expected later this year, it would conduct a review within its first year in office to assess the state of the armed forces...
...John Bolton, Trump’s former national security adviser and the former US ambassador to the UN under George W Bush, has publicly criticised him, as have Mark Esper, his former defence secretary, and John Kelly...
...Antony Blinken, secretary of state; Alejandro Mayorkas, secretary of homeland security; and White House homeland security adviser Liz Sherwood-Randall are to meet López Obrador and his team “to discuss further...
...It would also reduce options to address other national security issues — and allies might not always have sufficient spare capacity to help.”...
...Starting with his vice-president, we can add his chief of staff, John Kelly, both his defence secretaries, Jim Mattis and Mark Esper, his national security adviser, John Bolton, his first secretary of state...
...He said a House panel would move forward next week with articles of impeachment against Homeland Security secretary Alejandro Mayorkas over the border crisis — and hold a vote on the House floor “as soon...
...John Cornyn, a Republican senator from the oil and gas-producing state of Texas, blasted the project review as a form of “climate wokeism”....
...“It was Henry’s enduring capacity to bring his strategic acumen and intellect to bear on the emerging challenges of each passing decade that led Presidents, Secretaries of State, National Security Advisors...
...One official in the enclave said its hospitals were running at full capacity because of the number of casualties they had received since Saturday....
...Could John F Kennedy have engineered a peaceful solution to the Cuban missile crisis, with Fox News on in the background 24 hours a day?...
...The next step is an American ‘yes’ on actually making use of the F-16s in combat by Ukrainian fighter pilots . . . It’s a step-by-step approach.”...
...US department of homeland security....
...Kennedy, who is the son of the late Senator Robert Kennedy and nephew of the former president John F Kennedy, is known for his scepticism towards vaccines and his questioning of the US’s support for Ukraine...
...The US president and top officials in his administration have placed efforts to enhance the financial firepower of the multilateral lender at the top of the agenda at the G20 leaders’ summit due in New Delhi...
...Peretz and his partner had been hiding in the safe room of their house for hours, desperately trying to call in help from Israel’s security forces....
...He has defended his strategy as one of working on behalf of the Mexican public....
...Gideon RachmanAs you say, Michael, you are a historian of the US. You’ve done a book on the New Deal, you’re doing a book on John F Kennedy....
...(A good Jemima Kelly column on that, albeit one that made this particular centrist splutter into his cornflakes.)...
...“When Lula was president, it was one of the best times here in Pernambuco — and perhaps in the whole of Brazil,” says John Bezerra da Silva, who worked as a welder at both the shipyard and refinery but now...
...What would a press secretary in a Russian embassy in the west be forwarding to the Kremlin these days? The question was posed to me by a German official early in Ukraine’s counteroffensive....
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