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NATO - North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (via Public) / Thirty Allied Chiefs of Defence discuss the changing nature of warfare
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Ankara s Fourth War Front: Turkish Soldiers Killed in New Iraq Offensive
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General Kenneth McKenzie, chief of U.S. Central Command, applauded the scheduled meeting of President Joe Biden and Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on the sidelines of the North Atlantic Treatment Organization summit to be held in Brussels on June 14.
In a virtual discussion with the American Enterprise Institute think tank, the commander praised Turkey as “a longstanding ally” (which first proved its value to the U.S. in the Korean War, thereby gaining NATO membership in 1952) and “valued NATO partner,” according to Turkey’s
Anadolu Agency. He also reiterated the fact that the U.S. maintains a NATO Article 5 commitment to Ankara. That article mandates all NATO members to come to the military assistance of any other member or members seeking it. (That is, an attack against one is construed as an attack against all.) Article 5 was first invoked in 2001 after the attacks in New York City and the Pentagon, and was used as the basis of NATO�
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Today the nation’s leading newspaper,
Hürriyet, reported that two Turkish soldiers were killed in Iraq in what was routinely termed a cross-border anti-terror operation in the north of the country. As though Turkey reserves the right to wage armed incursions into neighboring countries that is denied the other nations of the world. The excuse for the latest raids, part of the Turkish military’s ongoing Operations Pençe-Şimşek (Clawed Lightening) and Pençe-Yıldırım launched last week, was that the Turkish troops violating the border of sovereign Iraq were attacking forces of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). The same excuse, that of combating the PKK and affiliated groups, is used to excuse Turkey’s invasion and occupation of northeastern Syria since 2014, including its so-called Operation Peace Spring of 2019.
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General Stephen Townsend, commander of U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM), and General Kenneth McKenzie, commander of U.S. Central Command, are scheduled to testify before the Senate Armed Services Committee on April 22. The testimony, both open and closed, will address the proposed 2022 National Defense Authorization Act which is reported to include a total of $753 billion for the Pentagon’s operations around the world.
The last time AFRICOM’s Townsend addressed that committee was in January of last year, when he spoke in depth of his command’s, and more broadly the U.S.’s overall, strategy toward Africa.
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