Live-fire zones read as rehearsal, not signal
Same waters, shorter notice, longer windows — the pattern planners call normalisation.
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Tue 18 Aug · 5 minIn 60 seconds
- PLA live-fire zones east of the median line.
- Iskander brigades moving toward Belgorod.
- Africa Corps takes 12% of Mali’s Loulo.
Taiwan Strait
Live-fire zones read as rehearsal, not signal
Thursday’s declared zones overlap April’s exercise footprint almost exactly. Taipei filed the standard protest; Washington said nothing on the record…
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Iskander shuffle points south
Two brigades leaving Kaliningrad matters less than where the reload stocks went.
Gold-for-security in Mali, day 5
A 12% concession stake is the clearest price tag yet on Africa Corps protection.
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