SALINAS, Peru (Oct. 2, 2021) UNITAS is the world’s longest-running maritime exercise. Hosted this year by Peru, it brings together multinational forces from twenty countries and includes 29 ships, four submarines, and twenty aircraft conducting operations off the coast of Lima and in the jungles of Iquitos. The exercise trains forces to conduct joint maritimeContinue reading “U.S. Navy landing craft, air cushion vehicles attached to Special Marine Air-Ground Task Force UNITAS, land on a beach during an amphibious landing demonstration as part of UNITAS LXII, Oct. 2, 2021.”
Monthly Archives: October 2021
Reporting From Hell: The Journalists Who Witnessed The D-Day Landings First-Hand
The civilians who risked their lives to bring the brutal truth of war to the Homefront The nation was at a standstill at 9:19pm on June 6, 1944, waiting to hear directly from the front line of the D-Day Landings, the launch of Operation Overlord designed to kickstart the liberation of Europe by Britain and her allies. Several dozen journalists from the BBC and hundreds more from around the world were,Continue reading “Reporting From Hell: The Journalists Who Witnessed The D-Day Landings First-Hand”
Standing NATO Maritime Group 1
ATLANTIC OCEAN (Aug. 16, 2019) The Belgian navy Karel Doorman-class frigate Leopold I (F930), left, and the Portuguese navy frigate NRP Francisco de Almeida (F334), right, conduct a replenishment-at-sea with the Henry J. Kaiser-class underway replenishment oiler USNS Patuxent (T-AO 201), center, as the guided-missile destroyer USS Gridley (DDG 101) transits behind them. Gridley isContinue reading “Standing NATO Maritime Group 1”
The Malayan Emergency – Britain’s Vietnam, Except Britain Won
How an army of ‘5,000 men and 50,000 trees’ took on the British Empire and lost. The Malayan Emergency was a conflict that lasted between 1948 and 1960 between the British Empire and communist insurgents on the Malayan Peninsula. The conflict was one of the few successful counter-insurgency wars fought by a Western power duringContinue reading “The Malayan Emergency – Britain’s Vietnam, Except Britain Won”
CSG21: Japanese, US And UK Carriers Join Forces For Exercise
HMS Queen Elizabeth was also joined by ships from New Zealand, Canada and the Netherlands as she leads the Carrier Strike Group 21. UK, US and Japanese aircraft carriers have sailed together during a joint exercise. HMS Queen Elizabeth was joined by USS Carl Vinson, USS Ronald Reagan and Japanese carrier JS Ise in waters southwestContinue reading “CSG21: Japanese, US And UK Carriers Join Forces For Exercise”
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