Military & Security

27

Apr

Dimona, Israel, missile incident, Syria, Tomer

What does Dimona missile incident mean?

PEJOURNAL - A powerful explosion rocked a sensitive Israeli missile factory named Tomer on Tuesday during a test for advanced weapons, according to reports by Israeli news outlets 22 hours later.  Around 1:30 AM Thursday, it was reported that a missile had hit near the occupying regime’s top-secret military nuclear facility Dimona. The landing of the long-range projectile was a game-changer, thus complicating the situation far beyond any simple analysis.  Although the Zionist regime would either try to downplay the gravity of the situation or take advantage of it to improve its disparate internal and political affairs, it would never…

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24

Apr

banks, Dellas Center for Peace Studies, European banks, Saudi coalition, Yemen

The role of banks in the Yemen bombings

BY: Valeria Rodriguez PEJOURNAL - An investigation published by the Delas Center for Peace Studies revealed that several European banks financed the Saudi and coalition bombings of Yemen. The report is called "Financing the weapons of the Yemen war" and analyzes the period from 2015 to 2019 in which it accounts for the presence of financial capital from banking entities such as BBVA, Santander, the French Bank BNP Paribas, among others. It should be noted that these banks were not sanctioned for financial support to the bombing against Yemen despite demonstrating the violation of international law, but in contrast in…

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21

Apr

Afghanistan, antiwar, Brown University, Pentagon, the United States, war, withdrawal

The War in Afghanistan Has Cost Over $2.26 Trillion

PEJOURNAL - The US government has spent over $2.26 trillion on its failed war in Afghanistan, according to the latest numbers from Brown University’s Costs of War Project. The report also estimates that the war has directly killed 241,000 people in Afghanistan and Pakistan. The $2.26 trillion in spending was broken down into five categories. The single greatest expense was $933 billion, which was covered by the Defense Department’s Overseas Contingency Operations Budget. The second-highest cost is the estimated interest accrued by borrowing money for the war, which accounts for $530 billion. The Pentagon’s base budget saw increases over the…

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03

Apr

British citizen, Buckingham, GERMANY, Iran, Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, UK

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ intelligence service plays with Buckingham reputation

BY: Tony Johnson PEJOURNAL - Mehran Raouf, a British citizen, was arrested on October 16th by the intelligence service of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps of Iran and is currently being held in Ward 2-Alef of Evin Prison (a special branch of the Iranian prison for political prisoners). Britain is currently grappling with major problems, including Scotland's secession, and the dire economic and social consequences of COVID19, and in this turbulent situation, the news about arresting one of its citizens by the Revolutionary Guard Corps intelligence service is a heavy blow to Buckingham officials and the Boris Johnson administration. The…

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01

Apr

Drones, Export Military, Strategy, Turkey

Turkey’s Strategy to Export Military Drones

PEJOURNAL - Turkey, which intends to become self-sufficient in military equipment, has invested 35 billion dollars in the defense industry over four years. Taking those stages, Turkey became a military power by investing heavily in the elements of its hard power, in addition to expanding its soft power. Turkey has become a militarily influential country with investments in the defense industry by conducting effective studies in the field of development and research. It became one of the most important countries in the world, especially in the field of reconnaissance drones and armed drones, after the United States. While Ankara supplied…

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30

Mar

Britain, British nuclear activities, Dominique Robb, IAEA, NPT, NUCLEAR

The danger of British nuclear activities for the world security

PEJOURNAL - Under the terms of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Convention, the elimination of nuclear weapons is part of the security of the international system, and member states are committed to working towards that.However, British Foreign Secretary Dominique Robb has called the Boris Johnson administration's plan to expand its nuclear arsenal, necessary for what it calls a "minimum of deterrence". The plan seeks to increase the number of British nuclear warheads from 180 to 260, which is completely contrary to the provisions of the NPT. This British action comes at a time when there are a few noteworthy…

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29

Mar

Arctic, Atlantic, Baltic, military drills, Russia, Strategic Bombers, USA

US Strategic Bombers Engage in Arctic, Baltic and Atlantic Exercises

PEJOURNAL - U.S. B-2 Spirit bombers concluded their role in what US European Command calls an historic Bomber Task Force deployment to Europe amid unprecedented and daily mounting tensions with the US’s fellow nuclear superpower Russia, last week. The current iteration of the Bomber Task Force mission combined the B-2 deployment with one of B-1B Lancer strategic bombers. Since the Cold War the two planes along with the B-52 Stratofortress have made up the American nuclear-capable, long-range, supersonic bomber fleet. In 2007 the B-1 was converted to carry only conventional bombs in accord with the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty…

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29

Mar

baltic sea, NATO, Russia

NATO’s Northeastern Expansion Meets Russia’s Northwestern Border

PEJOURNAL - That German warplanes are within immediate range of Russia’s Kaliningrad oblast (and not much further from St. Petersburg, formerly Leningrad) and that Germany is in charge of a permanent battlegroup formation in Lithuania are topical issues as we approach the eightieth anniversary of Germany’s Operation Barbarossa invasion of Soviet Russia in 1941. When the Baltic states and former Soviet republics Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania were brought into NATO in 2004, five years after Baltic neighbor Poland, that expansion consolidated the process of turning the Baltic Sea into a NATO one. The above four nations joined NATO members Denmark…

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27

Mar

China, Euro-Atlantic, NATO, new coalitions, Russia

Russia’s need to new coalitions

PEJOURNAL - These days and following the imposition of various sanctions by the European Union and the United States of America on Russia under various excuses, there are concerns more than any other time over relations between Moscow and Euro-Atlantic. There is a question that the intensification of tensions would have what impact on the previous cooperation between Kremlin and the West? And more importantly, it would create which challenges for Russia in one hand and the Western coalition in the other? The new Euro-Atlantic order against Russia It is not hyperbole if we say the arrival of Joe Biden…

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04

Mar

Academi, Al Bukamal, Blackwater, Canada, CENTCOM, Erbil, International Atomic Energy Agency, Iraq, Jens Stoltenberg, NATO, NATO mission Iraq, United Kingdom, United States

What does NATO want in Iraq?

BY: Valeria Rodriguez PEJOURNAL - The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) plans to increase the number of its forces in Iraq with the intention of expanding the organization's training activities in the area as soon as the Covid19 epidemic subsides. Since World War II, the United States had a leading role within the organization, made up of 30 states, being the one that contributes the most to the budget with 22.1 percent, followed by Germany with 14.70 percent, France with 10, 60 percent and the United Kingdom with 9.8 percent. During the Trump administration, the relationship with NATO was somewhat…

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