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Ukraine's secretary of the National Security and Defense Council, Oleksiy Danilov, has backed the assessment of Ukrainian military leader, Valerii Zaluzhnyi, that Ukraine needs to change its approach to defending itself from Russian aggression.During an interview with Radio Svoboda on Nov. 3, Danilov said that if Western aid had arrived sooner, the Russian war against Ukraine might have had different results.He added that Russia has already “recuperated” and has begun to involve its ‘friends’ — Iran and North Korea.“That's why I believe General Zaluzhnyi is correct,” the secretary said.In Zaluzhnyi’s article, published in UK weekly news magazine the Economist on...

TEHRAN, Iran — The chief of an elite unit in Iran’s Revolutionary Guard has accused the U.S. of having “no will” to stop the Islamic State group after the fall of the Iraqi city of Ramadi, an Iranian newspaper reported Monday. The comments by Gen. Qassem Soleimani, the head of the Guard’s elite Quds unit, come just after U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter accused Iraqi forces of lacking the “will to fight” in an interview aired the day before. It wasn’t clear whether Soleimani’s remarks came as a direct response to Carter’s, though tensions remain high between the two countries...

Forward From the log of War Admiral Norman North, Commander, 7th fleet: I always blamed myself for letting it happen. But in reality, it was society's fault. Society, our society, which had rotted to the very core. I had roused them once before, to face the menace which now threatened to utterly wipe us out as a free society. But when a chance came for peace, any chance, no matter how unrealistic, no matter how risky, they grasped it in an unbreakable bear hug, and there was nothing I or anyone could do to separate them from it. For our...