Hints and tips:
...Many emails are from private contractors working with the US military....
...The military chain of command could also be thrown into chaos, experts have said....
...Johnson also received briefings from top Pentagon officials, including those from United States European Command. The intelligence was persuasive....
...Acts run by Hybe, JYP and SM already command 7 per cent of Japan’s live music market, and Goldman expects that ratio to double by 2026....
...But others said Russia’s aim was to make sure Scholz would never be able to execute a U-turn on the missiles....
...US Central Command said that the Houthis in Yemen, “fully enabled by Iran”, had targeted three commercial vessels, connected to 14 countries, with ballistic missiles or drones....
...Wormuth confirmed King had been facing military discipline....
...The US and Japanese armed forces are rapidly integrating their command structure and scaling up combined operations as Washington and its Asian allies prepare for a possible conflict with China such as a...
...In Beijing’s Military Museum of the Chinese People’s Revolution, the prize exhibit is the pockmarked wreckage of an aircraft that became an icon of the cold war — an American U-2 spy plane....
...The Russian military setback is the Kremlin’s biggest since it was forced to U-turn on plans to take the Ukrainian capital and has led to a rising tide of recriminations in Moscow....
...The two lateral gates open on to a cobbled driveway that seems to be tracing a wrap-around U encircling the villa. One of them is open slightly. I look at it, then at Mariani....
...It is a remarkable U-turn for a president who promised to treat the kingdom as a pariah and to engage with King Salman, not his son, MBS, as the heir apparent is known....
...He also said the Saudis would look for promises that the Biden administration would lobby Congress to support military sales to Riyadh....
...In the 1970s and 1980s Powell switched back and forth between civilian and military roles....
...“All Embassy personnel are located on the premises of Hamid Karzai International Airport, whose perimeter is secured by the U.S....
...US military officials blame the attacks on suicide bombers linked to Isis. Here’s the FT’s Aime Williams....
...US special operations command, which oversees special operations forces but does not run component training, said: “The bottom line is our mission has continued with no qualitative or quantitative significant...
...Two command centres in Stuttgart, one for Europe and the other for Africa, will also be closed....
...Admiral Philip S Davidson, commander of the US’s Indo-Pacific Command, has acknowledged that there is “no guarantee” the US would win a future conflict against China....
...On June 24, a Chinese warplane suddenly approached a US military tanker and naval surveillance aircraft south-east of Taiwan, according to Taiwanese military sources and experts....
...In his final military role, he headed the US Pacific Command, responsible for hundreds of thousands of personnel and an area spanning half the earth’s surface....
...Mr Esper in November fired Richard Spencer, the previous navy secretary, for trying to negotiate a deal with the White House after Mr Trump intervened in a military justice case involving a Navy seal who...
...But Ofqual’s U-turn was not Foxglove’s first algorithmic victory in August....
...Mr Prayuth, the leader of Thailand’s 2014 military coup, is unlikely to succeed....
...Quick hits Other FT stories that have caught my eye this week The US Federal Reserve left interest rates unchanged this week, executing “one of its sharpest U-turns in recent memory”....
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