Questions tagged [military]
Questions related to the military. This may include questions about the actions or inaction of the military, the armed forces themselves or government action related to the military.
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Why does the US still maintain so many military facilities in Western Europe?
The US maintains a lot of military facilities in countries like Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, etc.
This doesn't make economic sense. The US military expenditure is on trajectory to reach a ...
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Does The Bahamas have any formal defense treaties?
In relation to a recent question, if somebody were to attack The Bahamas (or one of their ships etc.) can The Bahamas formally invoke any explicit defense treaty with some country with more military ...
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Do a majority of Israeli Jews still think that the IDF is holding back too much in Gaza?
Time reported on Nov 10:
Poll results were also hawkish when it came to the use of force in Gaza: 57.5% of Israeli Jews said that they believed the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) were using too little ...
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Approximately how many civilian deaths were caused by Bashar al-Assad's regime in the Syrian civil war?
According to Wikipedia, the war started In March 2011, violence in the war peaked during 2012–2017, and the situation still remains a crisis, with 12 million Syrians remained forcibly displaced in the ...
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What does Gaza territory "under Israeli control" or "under Palestinian control" imply in a guerilla warfare?
This is a map from Wikipedia depicting the status of Gaza during the ongoing war in the Gaza strip:
I can see that there are areas claimed to be under Israeli control or Palestinian control. However, ...
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Have any countries besides Germany announced plans to increase military aid to Ukraine? (Nov 2023)
VOA, Nov 14:
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz's governing coalition has agreed in principle to double the country's military aid for Ukraine next year to about $8.5 billion, a political source in Berlin ...
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Is "Mutually Assured Destruction" still valid considering so many conventional missiles are currently getting shot down?
Apologies if this is posted in the wrong place, but I couldn't find "military" stack exchange so this site appears to be the closest.
While following the current Russia/Ukraine war, it ...
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Did the U.S. sign any deal to put guardrails around the use and development of AI for military use according to what's available in the public domain?
When US president Joe Biden meets with his Chinese counterpart Xi
Jinping in the San Francisco Bay Area this week, the pair will have a
long list of matters to discuss, including the Israel-Hamas war ...
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Are there agreements or laws that prevent U.S. allies to use Chinese drones militarily?
The U.S. and its allies cannot simply integrate Chinese drones into
their forces absent serious security risks, as well as the very real
possibility of Chinese supply-chain disruption if tensions ...
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Did Hamas & PIJ manage to smuggle in substantial numbers of fully assembled rockets after 2014?
In 2014, the IDF gave a breakdown of their estimates of the Hamas rocket arsenal. Interestingly, in the 45km range rockets, the whole-piece smuggled ones dominated, but in the 75km range, it was ...
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Are UN peacekeeping forces allowed to pass over their equipment to some national army?
The Mali junta has made it an issue that the UN forces didn't hand over their bases and (some) equipment to the Mali army. Instead, because the Mali junta prohibited the UN from moving out some ...
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What are the tools the U.S. president can use to circumvent the chambers in granting military aid to Ukraine?
Debate over the funding request is beginning in earnest after a
weeks-long delay while House Republicans struggled to name a new
speaker, and it is unclear what, if anything, can get through both
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How critical will be Samarium Cobalt Magnets to the US war effort in case of a war in Taiwan strait with China? [closed]
I am working on a case study as part of my MPhil research project in regards to which I want to know the importance of Samarium Cobalt (SmCo) magnets to the US military in case of a large scale war.
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Despite the high public support to fight Russia, why are some family members of soldiers protesting in Ukraine and making demands? [closed]
As this answer points out, political support to fight the Russians and retrieve occupied territories remains high among the public in Ukraine. So I was surprised when I came across the news that ...
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War "strategism"
I'm just reading an article and I see this sentiment expressed:
Ukraine has been let down by a US-led reluctance to supply Ukraine with the weapons it needs, meaning Kyiv lost a golden opportunity to ...
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What has been the impact on US military manufacturers vis-a-vis the war in Ukraine?
Read with interest the following Ukraine War and US "funding" but the one question that was not addressed was who is manufacturing this military equipment. (Presumably the US Dept of Defense ...
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Authoritative sources for the Chinese balloon's sensors "had never been activated while over the Continental United States?" Activated beforehand? [closed]
CBS News' September 17, 2023 almost clickbait title The bizarre secret behind China's spy balloon left me disappointed (but not surprised.
See also CBS video including bits of interview with Milley: ...
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Who is the Kim Kun Ok that North Korea named their recent submarine after?
According to CNN
The submarine, named “Hero Kim Kun Ok,” was launched to much fanfare at a ceremony attended by North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Wednesday, according to the state-run Korean Central ...
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What "whizzy new tools" in space are America and its allies using to track China’s military activity and illegal fishing? (The Economist) [closed]
Background and evidence of research effort
The non-paywalled part of the Economist's August 15, 2023 Keeping tabs on China’s murky maritime manoeuvres; America and its allies are using whizzy new ...
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How can one tell the missiles North Korea showed Sergei Shoigu are banned?
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Russia’s defense minister accompanied North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to a defense exhibition that featured the North’s banned ballistic missiles as the neighbors pledged to boost ties, North ...
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Does the money earned by military hardware export enter the mainstream economy in Pakistan?
Pakistani JF-17s replace Iraq’s F-16 fleet
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... it’s rumored that Iraq has acquired 12 JF-17 Thunder Block III fighters, with the ...
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Is there any practical way to bring the military generals under accountability in Pakistan?
A huge number of people in Pakistan see the military as the savior of the country. There is a popular opinion inside Pakistan that the Pakistan Military's dominance must exist as long as the Indian ...
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Why was Turkey able to remove military establishment, but Pakistan weren't?
I know that the military establishment is defeated in Turkey by Erdogan, his party, and his supporters.
What is the reason that the military's dominance, meddling, or control in politics doesn't end ...
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Can a US President be Court Martialed?
I’ve heard that the answer to this question depends on the situation. Suppose, for example, a US president decides to conspire to poison a city’s water supply to cover-up some administrative abuse or ...
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What are the benefits of not using private military companies (PMCs) as China did?
While China explicitly forbids PMCs, China legalized PSCs in September
2009. Since then, Chinese PSCs have rapidly proliferated, increasingly obscuring the line between security and military services.
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Are there dual-citizenship holders within the Armed Forces of United States
Are there dual-citizenship holders within the Armed Forces of rank O-7 (General Officer) or higher?
What percent, if any?
Which nations, if any?
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Why does the Latin letter Z represent the Russian military in the current conflict in Ukraine? [duplicate]
I do NOT repeat NOT mean to provoke any sort of political discussion with this question! I am simply trying to understand how the letter Z from the Latin alphabet has taken on its current meaning in ...
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What stereotypes are true when it comes to religion, genders, race, military, and the government? [closed]
Provide accurate information of evidence along with the stereotype that is true base on one or more of the subjects that I listed above.
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Which pro-Assad forces use crypto as funding? [closed]
Are there any Pro-Assad forces or militias that use cryptocurrencies to finance their battles?
During my research on the Ukrainian war there are people on both sides using crypto for financing of ...
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How much of the total Ukrainian military budget comes from other countries?
I am interested in how much of the total Ukrainian military budget comes from other countries seeing how much other countries are funding Ukraine in the war.
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Based on International law, to what extent can Ukraine take aggressive military action within the territory of Russia?
I wonder, based on international law, if Ukraine takes aggressive military action in the territory of Russia, such as occupying some cities of Russia (I am not considering Donbas, Luhansk and Crimea ...
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Was Nigerian COAS Gen. Faruk Yahaya actually arrested/imprisoned?
There are various stories from Dec last year that Nigeria's Chief of Army Staff, general Faruk Yahaya was sentenced to jail or prison for contempt of court.
The chief of army staff was also jailed ...
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What did Putin mean by "We have [...] withdrawn almost all large and heavy weapons from the European part of Russia" in a 2008 interview?
From a 2008 press conference:
We have eliminated bases in Cam Ranh (Vietnam) and in Cuba. We have withdrawn our troops deployed in eastern Europe, and withdrawn almost all large and heavy weapons ...
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If a US citizen were born on US military base abroad, would they be considered as born on US soil and thus eligible to be elected US president?
As we know, the US Constitution provides that only a US citizen born on US soil can be elected US president. How about a hypothetical scenario of a US citizen born on a US military base abroad?
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Are there other (contemporary) examples of failed coup-proofing [by creating multiple armed forces] resulting in a civil war?
According to an MIT political scientist, the current clashes in Sudan are an example of failed coup-proofing, meaning that multiple centres of military power were created in order to create a [...
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What is the role of the U.S. Marines under contemporary joint warfare doctrine?
Is the U.S. Marine Corps, as a separate branch, largely a historical artifact, or does it fulfill a distinct purpose within the context of modern joint warfare doctrine?
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Are the UK, Germany and USA not concerned about their (donated) tanks being captured and researched by Russia?
It has been well established that several NATO countries are donating armoured vehicles (and training crews) to Ukraine. Some of the more notable vehicles that are being delivered include the American ...
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Have US forces not pulled back from the Turkey-Syria border (along the entirety of it)? If so, when did this turn in policy happen?
I somewhat vaguely recalled that Trump agreed to a pullback of sorts of US forces from parts of northern Syria, reported in the press at the time as practically complete in that area:
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What is the rationale of shooting toxic shells in an area that was meant to be liberated?
The UK authorities confirmed that they will provide depleted uranium shells to the Ukraininan forces.
As usual to divert the attention from the metal toxicity they pointed out the low radioactivity. ...
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Aukus deal. Was Australia called in to share ballooning development costs?
The Aukus deal is a trilateral security pact between Australia, the Uk and the US. The biggest part of the pact is the acquisition of nuclear powered submarines jointly developed by the three ...
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Why isn't Argentina part of the F-35 program?
https://asiatimes.com/2023/03/china-argentina-on-verge-of-region-rattling-fighter-deal/
This week, South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported that Argentina’s
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Does China sell more weapons to Iran or to Saudi Arabia?
Interestingly, China is selling some non-trivial weapons like ballistic missiles to the "traditional US ally" Saudi Arabia.
Is it possible to know if China sells more weapons [e.g. in terms ...
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Was the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia an "invasion" or not? [closed]
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, "invasion" means:
an instance of invading a country or region with an armed force.
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Can the monarch prevent any Commonwealth realm from declaring war or launching a sanctioned military attack?
The USA requires that the president orders a (lawful) nuclear strike.
The United Kingdom requires that the Prime Minister orders a (lawful) nuclear strike, although the Chief of the Defence Staff ...
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Has Iran presented any evidence that their drones (used in Ukraine) were sent to Russia before the war?
It seems Iran initially denied they sent drones to Russia, but later Iran’s foreign minister Hossein Amirabdollahian said that they sent some, but before the war.
“Some western countries have accused ...
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How does the military decide if an unidentified flying object can or should be shot down or not?
According to NY Times, the military shot down a few unidentified flying objects after being visually confirmed:
The U.S. and Canada are investigating three unidentified flying
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Is there any official confirmation that Denmark will replace their French 155mm guns (that they're giving to Ukraine) with Israeli ones?
A couple of sources 1 2 seem to indicate that Denmark is giving away all their CAESAR 155mm howitzers to Ukraine... and planning to get Israeli ATMOS howitzers as replacements. The first part of this ...
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How can Estonia give "all" of their 155mm howitzers to Ukraine?
Kaimo Kuusk, the Estonian Ambassador to Ukraine apparently announced that:
We are giving all our 155mm howitzers to Ukraine.
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What is the German government's rationale for not allowing Leopard 2 tanks to be given to Ukraine?
There are many news articles today about how the German government is reluctant to allow Leopard 2 tanks to be given to Ukraine. For example, the BBC reports:
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(When) did Switzerland tighten its neutrality law provisions regarding armaments and ammo post WW2?
According to RFERL and Swissinfo Ukraine is facing a shortage of 35mm gun ammo for the Gepards donated by Germany because said ammo is apparently manufactured in Switzerland. It looks like the Swiss ...
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