🇺🇸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”
London was uniquely positioned to take the lead on Sudan's transition to democracy - but unwisely ceded the initiative to Washington, writes @mutazamd.
Vaccine passes are gaining traction around the world as countries introduce greater freedoms for the immunised.
🇳🇿New Zealand’s Covid policy has hit the headlines - with PM Ardern admitting that new covid restrictions risked turning the country into a “two-tier” society
Under the "traffic light" policy, those who are vaccinated will be able to move around and use services relatively freely, while the unjabbed will not.
🔴A long-brewing crisis caused by drought, war and poverty has now been accelerated by the Taliban's shock takeover in August.
The militants' resumption of their Islamic emirate has been accompanied by a suspension of aid and now economic collapse telegraph.co.uk/global-health/…
The World Food Programme estimates nearly 23 million of the country's 39m population are now unable to get regular access to enough food.
❌The rare tuskless genetic condition in Gorongosa National Park in central Mozambique has become far more common after years of ivory hunters devastating the species
Around 90% of the country’s elephant population were slaughtered between 1977 to 1992 by Kalashnikov-wielding armed groups for ivory to fund a bloody Cold War-era conflict.
🐘The survivors were likely to share a key characteristic: half the females were naturally tuskless
Saudi Arabia has unveiled plans for a sprawling, oil rig-themed amusement park with flumes and jet skis, as the Gulf state attempts to boost Western tourism
The attraction, dubbed The Rig, will also include: