North Korea has called for US secretary of state Mike Pompeo to be removed from nuclear talks because of his “reckless” and “immature” behavior, according to reports. The official KCNA news agency quoted Kwon Jong-gun, a senior foreign ministry official, as accusing Mr Pompeo of “fabricating stories like a fiction writer.” https://kcnawatch.org/newstream/ Kwon concludes:…
https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2019/03/30/tweeting-trump-injects-white-house-into-seal-war-crimes-case/ With a Saturday morning Twitter message, President Donald J. Trump ordered the Navy to modify the detention of Special Warfare Operator Chief Edward “Eddie” Gallagher, who is behind bars awaiting a court-martial trial in San Diego for allegedly stabbing to death an Islamic State prisoner. “In honor of his…
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/text-space-policy-directive-4-establishment-united-states-space-force/ (a) The term “United States Space Force” refers to a new branch of the United States Armed Forces to be initially placed by statute within the Department of the Air Force. ***** Sec. 7. Associated Elements. (a) A Unified Combatant Command for space, to be known as the United…
(United States. Navy Dept. Bureau of Navigation. [1941] https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc495/) “It’s so much money, I don’t know what to do with it … But on the wall, they skimped…I could do the wall over a longer period of time, I didn’t need to do this, but I’d rather do it faster. I…
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/new-mexico-governor-withdraws-national-guard-border-slams-trump-s-n968336 The governor of New Mexico ordered the state’s National Guard to withdraw a majority of its troops from the southern border, slamming what she called President Donald Trump’s “charade” shortly before his State of the Union address on Tuesday.
https://www-m.cnn.com/2019/01/04/politics/trump-border-wall-national-emergency-declaration/index.html?r=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F And see: 10 U.S.C. 2808 https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/10/2808 And see 10 U.S.C 284 https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/10/284 And see 10 U.S.C 331-334 https://policy.defense.gov/portals/11/documents/hdasa/references/insurrection_act.pdf Sent from my iPhone
Gary Anderson (Elliott School of International Affairs) discusses what hybrid warfare is, and what it isn’t. smallwarsjournal.com Counter-Hybrid Warfare: Winning in the Gray Zone | Small Wars Journal
https://freebeacon.com/national-security/dem-senator-tear-gas-use-at-us-mexico-border-a-violation-of-conventions-on-chemical-weapons/ NO. NOTE: The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, “Article II. Definitions and Criteria.” at Paragraph 9,“Purposes Not Prohibited Under this Convention”, subparagraph (d) specified “Law enforcement including domestic riot control purposes.” https://www.opcw.org/chemical-weapons-convention/articles/article-ii-definitions-and-criteria Aside from this being a defense support to civil authorities (DSCA) mission in support of…
https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2018/11/21/white-house-approves-use-of-force-some-law-enforcement-roles-for-border-troops/ and see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gej9FfbSAi4 Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Instruction 3121.01B, Standing Rules of Engagement (SROE)/Standing Rules for the Use of Force (SRUF) for U.S. Forces, dated 13 June 2005 are the result of a review and revision of the previous 2000 and 1994 editions. They provide…
National Guard and Active Duty Lend a Hand to Civil Authorities on the Border OCTOBER 19, 2018 03:54:07 PM Kevin Govern Edited by: Erin McCarthy Holliday JURIST Guest Columnist Kevin Govern of the Ave Maria School of Law reveals the policy and legal limitations that will affect the involvement of…
