Wow.

Watching 36 USAF aircraft - 22 tankers, 13 transports and an E-3 AWACS over CONUS and Europe over the last 4 hours.

#Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi heads to Switzerland for the second round of renewed nuclear talks with the United States later this week, his ministry says.

Experts see the risk of a U.S.–China conflict over Taiwan increasing. Forty‑one percent say the risk is higher over the next three years. Explore the findings in our latest #ChinaPower survey: buff.ly/MwEtd6Q

Trump says his Board of Peace will announce $5 billion Gaza pledge during upcoming inaugural meeting, while also underscoring a firm condition directed at Hamas:

New Treasury sanctions targeting Iran's shadow fleet

Pentagon’s National Defense Strategy released tonight says Iran appears intent on reconstituting its conventional military forces and its leaders have left open possibility that they may try again to obtain a nuclear weapon

Humbled to have been inducted into the Veterans Hall of Fame today. Thank you #GovNedLamont , #LGSusanB, #SenBlumenthal, #CTVetsAffairs, and Senator #tonyhwang
for nominating me.

Returned home from Iraq tour number two 15 years ago today. Special programs office US Forces-Iraq (USF-I) headquarters, al Faw Palace Baghdad.

BREAKING:

US Virtual Embassy in Tehran: "US citizens should leave Iran now."

15 years ago today in Baghdad

Withdrawing from NATO is the most unpopular policy on this chart - louder online doesn’t mean larger in reality.

This isn’t a real movement. It’s a fringe position.

It’s the greatest military alliance in history and Americans deeply understand.

RUSSIA'S SHADOW WAR AGAINST THE UK:

The post- Cold War holiday is over.

👇When our MI6 chief & the head of our Armed Forces give separate speeches on the growing threat from Russia-we should listen.

As things stand the UK is woefully unprepared for what's coming over the hill.

Shooting armed men firing at me and fellow soldiers during war still haunts me to this day. I cannot imagine doing this to an unarmed civilian. It defies all comprehension. Propaganda and hate are threats to humanity.

In 2020, #TheJusticeDept charged Adel el Zabayar for colluding with Maduro & the Cartel de los Soles to flood the US with tons of cocaine & to recruit Hizballah & Hamas terrorists to attack the US. Cabello wanted the terrorists trained in Venezuela.

justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr...

It was a privilege to participate in the Doha Forum, one of the largest global gatherings of national security, foreign policy, and government officials. As usual, many of the world’s toughest challenges are tackled on the sidelines when traditional channels are not available.

Kyiv metro stations tonight. People hide from Russian attack.

📸: Yan Dobronosov

24 years ago today, MSG Jeff Davis, SFC Dan Petithory, and SSG Cody Prosser were killed, making them the first military deaths of the GWOT

Former Honduran president convicted of helping to smuggle 400 tons of cocaine into the United States leaves prison after being pardoned by Trump.

Hernandez's pardon comes as a surprise, given Trump has made an ostensible war against Latin American drug trafficking a centerpiece in his second term