For the first time in 24 years, the US Navy will begin recruiting people without a degree.

The US Navy is starting to recruit high school dropouts, again lowering the bar for new recruits amid its worst recruiting crisis in decades.

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Iran announced that it had successfully launched a conventional satellite and two other cubesats using one launch vehicle.

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MILITARY EYE – "Britain’s inability to strike Houthi movement’s bases from warships highlighted how the Royal Navy would be unable to “go toe to toe” with Chinese and Russian warships."

— British defence source to The Telegram.

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The German drone manufacturer Quantum Systems has started the delivery of 100 Trinity drones of various models to Ukraine.

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Russian Deputy Defense Minister Yunusbek Yevkirov arrives in Benghazi, Libya, and meets with Field Marshal Haftar.

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COLD WAR – This is the new winter residential complex for Russia's Vostok station in Antarctica, which Eussian president Putin ordered a trial run today.

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China says it ‘allowed’ Philippines to supply troops at Ayungin Shoal

It seems that China blocking PH ships was very bad publicity, so now China is trying the "kind and merciful China" to improve its image.

The China Coast Guard said it had made "temporary special arrangements" so that the Philippines could deliver supplies to troops at a grounded World War II-era vessel at a disputed reef.

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⚡♨️ TAIWAN – 7 PLA aircraft and 6 PLAN vessels around Taiwan were detected until 06:00 today.

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CHINA – Global Times on South China Sea tensions with the Philippines:

A group of Philippine fishermen trespassed into the reefs of China’s Huangyan Dao in the South China Sea on January 12 to illegally catch seashells. China Coast Guard sent personnel to give verbal warnings.

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The EU does not see the light at the end of the Ukrainian tunnel - Borrell

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TURKEY – Today in Ankara, Kosovo's Minister of Defense, Maqedonci, and his Turkish counterpart, Güler, have signed the Defense Framework Agreement between the two countries.

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BREAKING – Georgia’s ruling Georgian Dream party will name its chairman, Kobakhidze, as the next Prime Minister, replacing PM Garibashvili ahead of parliamentary elections later this year, Bloomberg writes

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SPAIN – US Navy destroyer USS Delbert D. Black DDG119 arrived today in the port of Rota

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The Ukrainian Defense Ministry says that France will be able to supply Ukraine with 3,000 shells per month.

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Ukrainian security services say employees of an arms company and officials of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry embezzled nearly $40 million intended to purchase shells for the war with Moscow

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Estonia's Ministry of Defense has confirmed that Estonia will participate in the training of Ukrainian recruits as part of the Interflex international program.

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The US Department of Defense has canceled the military training programs of some African armies

These nations, according to a Pentagon statement, are accused of “coups against elected democratic governments or human rights violations,” reports the Washington Post.

Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, Ethiopia, Eritrea and Sudan have been denied military training programs.

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