War Games

Koreans Oppose U.S. Military Aggression

November 16, 2022 UNAC Editor Korea, U.S. Aggression

by Lyn Neeley, published on Workers World, November 11, 2022 The U.S. media repeatedly reported that “Operation Vigilant Storm” was in retaliation to four missiles fired by North Korea. These joint military drills were the largest in the history of such operations, with a display of about 240 warplanes including F-35B fighters, which conducted some 1,600 sorties. But more transparent[…]

US-South Korea Provocations in the Pacific

September 16, 2022 UNAC Editor Korea, U.S. Aggression

by Aditya Sarin, published on People’s Dispatch, September 6, 2022 Between August 22 and September 1, the United States and South Korea concluded their largest joint military drills in the Korean Peninsula since 2017, under the name ‘Ulchi Freedom Shield’. Over the last four years, the scope of the annual exercises had been scaled back, first because of Donald Trump’s attempts at[…]

Suspending U.S.-ROK Military Exercises, Decreasing Military Tensions on Korean Peninsula

March 26, 2022 UNAC Editor Anti-War, Hybrid Warfare, Korea, Statement, War and Peace

by G. Dunkel, published on Workers World, March 24, 2022 This statement was written by a collaboration of U.S. and South Korean peace groups, joining many colleagues in the U.S., South Korea and around the world to amplify our very urgent call. It will be sent to President Biden and President Moon in early April 2022. We, the civil society[…]

U.S. Wargames in Nordic Region Aimed at Moscow

July 9, 2021 UNAC Editor Russia

by Agneta Norberg, published on Organizing Notes, July 3, 2021 Suddenly the Arctic Sea is a critical area of dispute. U.S. forces are there to put in their marker because the arctic waters are no longer frozen for most of the year. It used to be that only Russia, with a long arctic coastline, built ships to navigate the frozen[…]

Countering the “China Threat”–At What Price?

June 27, 2021 UNAC Editor China, Korea, Military vs The Environment, War and Weapons

by Koohan Paik-Mander, published on Organizing Notes (Space4Peace), June 26, 2021 This is really quite sickening. My first thought was a line from the old Joni Mitchell song, “Big Yellow Taxi“, “Pave Paradise. Put up a parking lot.” But, of course, it is far worse than that. They are turning “Paradise” into “Hell”. And we are paying our tax dollars, […]

U.S. ‘War Games’ Threaten COVID Spread in Hawaii

August 2, 2020 UNAC Editor Environment, Militarism, Poisoning the Environment, Public Health

by Quell Nessumo, published on Workers World, July 29, 2020 Despite the ongoing global pandemic, the U.S. military has no plans to cancel RIMPAC (Rim of the Pacific Exercise), the largest international military exercise in the world. Beginning in 1971, and held every two years in June and July off the coast of Hawaii, RIMPAC is a show of imperialist[…]