Cocaine production is taking root in a new region

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Honduras cocaine drug bust
A Honduran police officer stands on confiscated packages of cocaine on the outskirts of Tegucigalpa in July 2012.

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The US military has 6 new air-to-air missiles in the works

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US airmen remove a training missile from a F-15C in September 2018.

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Japan is ditching its attack helicopters in another sign that one of the most important modern military weapons is losing its luster

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A Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force AH-64D fires a Hellfire missile during an exercise in Washington state in December 2021.

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A new Pentagon map shows how China is beefing up what a top US general calls its 'dangerous position' in the South China Sea

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Structures on the artificial island built by China in Cuarteron Reef in the Spratly Islands, seen on October 25.

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France is already sending one armored 'oddity' to Ukraine. Now it might send a slightly odder one.

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French soldiers with AMX-10P armored vehicles
French soldiers with AMX-10P armored vehicles at a UNIFIL base in southern Lebanon in September 2006.

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The US, its allies, and North Korea are one wrong move away from disaster

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People at the Seoul Railway Station watch a TV broadcast about a North Korean ICBM test in November 2017.

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World-class ships and new supersonic jets mark the quiet rise of a new defense industry powerhouse in Asia

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South Korea K-2 tanks
South Korean K2 tanks during the live-fire drill in Gyeonggi-do on February 11, 2015.

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A German company is offering Ukraine the benefit — and burden — of being the first military to get its brand-new tank

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A Rheinmetall Panther KF51 main battle tank at the Rheinmetall plant in Lower Saxony in July.

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China is scrambling to find pilots to fly from its growing aircraft carrier fleet

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China Liaoning aircraft carrier J-15 fighter jet
A Chinese navy officer takes photos with the public in front of a J-15 fighter jet aboard the aircraft carrier Liaoning in July 2017.

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Russia and Ukraine's deadliest battle is starting to look like Stalingrad 'without the importance,' expert says

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Soviet soldiers on the attack in Stalingrad in February 1943.

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