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    North Korea (Superthread)

    Another sign that things are worse than commonly known in North Korea: BBC
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    Pentagon's restrictions on Pokemon Go game prompted by spying fears

    To the mods, please keep this separate from the other thread on Pokemon Go in the gaming section. Defense News
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    F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF)

    Meanwhile in Japan...
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    Islam and Western Society

    Just a slight correction to what you said about the Philippines. They're a predominantly Catholic country (95%) and the Muslim minority is largely confined to the southernmost island of Mindanao and nearby smaller islands. Roman Catholicism is firmly rooted there because it was a Spanish...
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    Islam and Western Society

    Haters gonna hate. As usual. When I was in graduate school at SFU, I had a number of classmates who were foreign students from Pakistan and Bangladesh. Whenever the Middle East was the topic, they would quickly dominate the discussion and endlessly rant about how Israel was "evil". The...
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    Syria Superthread [merged]

    More to reinforce the idea that Putin is in bed with the Iranians: Al Jazeera
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    Russia in the 21st Century [Superthread]

    Marshal Mannerheim and the Finns' experience with the Russians aside... Meanwhile in the present day, a key figure within Putin's inner circle resigns and is transferred... American Interest
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    Politics in 2016

    :facepalm: Enough with the shirtless photobombs already! Toronto Star
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    US Army prepares for Patriot radar replacement competition

    Did political considerations have to do with MEADS' adoption by the US Army being cancelled? Defense News
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    South Korea wants BMD capability for their destroyers

    Aren't the ROKN's Sejong the Great class DDGs pretty much carbon copies of Japan's Kongo and Atago AEGIS destroyers? US Naval Institute
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    US Election: 2016

    Trump alienates another minority/diaspora group in the US with his comments last week. As I stated in another thread, wherever, Filipinos have immigrated, there is a propensity to serve in the military of the adoptive country. Over Several thousand Filipinos have joined the US Navy since the...
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    Chinese Military,Political and Social Superthread

    Last week, the Philippines sent a special envoy to China, Fidel Ramos, a former president of the Philippines during the 1990s. Ramos is not only a former military general and a foreign graduate of West Point, but he also fought in the Korean War as a junior officer with the Philippine contingent...
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    India (Superthread)

    So much for Lockheed's aforementioned plans to get a deal to build F16s in India if the Indian MoD is eyeing an Indian-made Super Hornet instead: Defence Update
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    USAF Woes

    More about how the USAF is addressing the aforementioned pilot shortage: Air Force Times
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    "The Last Ship" tv series depicts USN AEGIS destroyer fighting global pandemic

    Spoilers below this line: ---------------------------------------- "Wow, just wow" is all I have to say after tonight's episode! Finally a sea battle between China and the USN! Though it's sad how the USS Shackleton and the USS Hayward got the worst of it with multiple SSMs hitting them...
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    Turmoil in Libya (2011) and post-Gaddafi blowback

    The latest in the fight against IS in Libya: Army Times
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    Pan-Islamic merged mega thread

    An IS insurgency in the making: Army Times
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    US eyes SkyHunter- Raytheon version of Israel's Iron Dome

    Please note an older thread about Canada's purchase of the radar system linked to Iron Dome last year, if I can recall correctly: Defense News
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    Chinese Military,Political and Social Superthread

    China using gas platforms near Japan for military purposes?
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    Iran Super Thread- Merged

    Months after the deal, the rift remains between these 2 allies: Defense News
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