Steve Berriman

1 week ago | aol.com | Holly Williams |Emmet Lyons |Steve Berriman

Townsville Field Training Area, Queensland, Australia — The U.S. is expanding its military presence in northern Australia as it looks to project power and provide a deterrence against the increasing threat of China in the Asia-Pacific. China's President Xi Jinping is thought to have ordered his armed forces to be ready to invade the island of Taiwan by 2027, if necessary, raising fears of a conflict that could draw in American forces.

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Holly Williams |Emmet Lyons |Steve Berriman

Townsville Field Training Area, Queensland, Australia — The U.S. is expanding its military presence in northern Australia as it looks to project power and provide a deterrence against the increasing threat of China in the Asia-Pacific. China's President Xi Jinping is thought to have ordered his armed forces to be ready to invade the island of Taiwan by 2027, if necessary, raising fears of a conflict that could draw in American forces.

Aug 23, 2024 | yahoo.com | Ian Lee |Steve Berriman

On the Ukraine-Russia border — CBS News met the troops of Ukraine's 117th Territorial Defense Brigade in the eastern Sumy region as they prepared for another trip to the front line. Their mission is to support Ukraine's military operations inside Russia's Kursk region. The forces were preparing another drone for a one-way mission — its deadly payload: a grenade attached with cable ties. The simple weapon cost only about $400 to assemble, but it would soon be hunting multimillion-dollar targets.

Aug 22, 2024 | cbsnews.com | Ian Lee |Steve Berriman

Ukraine using drones in attacks inside Russia On the Ukraine-Russia border — CBS News met the troops of Ukraine's 117th Territorial Defense Brigade in the eastern Sumy region as they prepared for another trip to the front line. Their mission is to support Ukraine's military operations inside Russia's Kursk region. The forces were preparing another drone for a one-way mission — its deadly payload: a grenade attached with cable ties.

Jun 7, 2024 | yahoo.com | Charlie D'Agata |Steve Berriman

Charlie D'Agata, Steve BerrimanUpdated June 7, 2024 at 12:44 PM·3 min readCollville-sur-Mer, Normandy, France — The word "hero" is overused. But if not for the courage of the few remaining D-Day survivors and their friends who fell as they launched the fight to oust Adolf Hitler's Nazi German forces from France 80 years ago, there would have been no celebrations this week in Normandy. With each passing year, living testimony of the hell those Allied forces endured in the name of freedom is fading.