🇺🇸Exercise Green Dagger took place at the US Marine Corps' Twentynine Palms base in the Mojave Desert in southern California.
The US forces asked for a “reset” half way into the five-day war fighting exercise, having suffered significant simulated casualties
➡️At one point, the commandos’ “kill board”, an intelligence assessment of the level of damage inflicted upon enemy equipment and units, had a tick against almost every American asset telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/11/0…
📌Exercise Green Dagger is a multi-national, multi-domain war fighting exercise, played out across one of the biggest military training areas in the world.
It is designed to test the United States Marine Corps in preparation for operational readiness
🏜️Based around three urban areas set within a vast expanse of over 3500 Km2 of mountainous and desert terrain, the exercise facilitated complex operational scenarios telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/11/0…
British troops infiltrated the enemy’s rear area causing havoc by striking high value targets and command and control nodes, which paralysed any counterattack.
✖️Throughout the exercise, the commando artillery unit destroyed multiple enemy vehicle and artillery positions
🇬🇧British troops used the exercise to trial the new Littoral Response Group (LRG) structure, around which the future commando force will be built.
It aims to produce highly flexible and mobile commando forces and will operate alongside allies and partners
Britain will eventually have two LRGs; one based in the UK and one located in and around the Omani port of Duqm.
🇴🇲The LRG based in Oman will focus on British military activity in the Indo-Pacific region
🌍Each LRG will be able to work with the carrier strike group to produce an expeditionary strike force capable of operating anywhere in the world for extended periods of time telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/11/0…
🗣️Lieutenant Colonel Andy Dow said: “Throughout this deployment our focus has been on integrating game-changing capabilities from across the commando force to deliver disproportionate effect in the face of a free-thinking peer adversary”
🔴UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has urged "all parties" to "make every effort" to extend the agreement on Ukrainian grain exports, including facilitating shipments of Russian grain
🔴The Dutch military intelligence service has warned companies that Moscow is trying to obtain high-tech assets for its war in Ukraine through front companies, local media has reported
🔴 Ukrainians will freeze to death this winter if the West does not urgently send blankets and generators to keep them warm, Vitali Klitschko has said
The 51-year-old mayor of Kyiv, and former heavyweight boxing champion of the world, told The Telegraph's @Barnes_Joe that increasing Russian attacks on power plants have left his country on the brink of a fresh humanitarian crisis
🔴America is to bring forward the delivery of dozens of highly accurate guided tactical nuclear weapons to Europe amid escalating tensions with Moscow
➡️In what was seen as a move to reassure Nato allies amid Russian nuclear-sabre-rattling, the replacement process will begin in December, having previously been expected next spring
Before the war, when “Maugly” came across a rival football team supporter, it would usually end in a brawl.
Muscular, tattooed and with a shaved head, he looks every inch the football hooligan - and he admits he has acted like it too telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
He is part of Hoods Hoods Klan, an anti-fascist, anti-racist ultra group that supported the now-bankrupt Arsenal Kyiv and engaged in violence with rival football factions known for including neo-Nazis.
But all that has changed. Now they are more concerned with Russia’s violence