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Author: Oriana Pawlyk

Congress is offering the Defense Department the option to purchase Turkey's F-35 Joint Strike Fighters and giving the defense secretary discretion to spend up to $30 million to store the fifth-generation jets until a plan for their use is formalized, according to the final version of the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal 2020.

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Article: https://www.wearethemighty.com/gear-tech/us-turkey-undelivered-f-35
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Author: Emily Writes

Summer reissue: A column this year pondered why anyone would work in fencing, but it applies to much of manual labour. With her husband’s permission, Emily Writes shares his story of what an honest living really is.

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Article: https://thespinoff.co.nz/society/02-01-2020/summer-reissue-an-honest-living/
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Author: Julian Kerr

New Zealand has begun implementing updated procurement rules across sectors including defence that ban offsets but outline requirements for ‘broader outcomes’ such as economic benefits.

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Article: https://www.australiandefence.com.au/defence/budget-policy/nz-brings-in-updated-procurement-rules
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Author: David B. Larter

WASHINGTON — The U.S. military in September ordered the largest stress test of its wartime sealift fleet in the command’s history, with 33 out of 61 government-owned ships being activated simultaneously. The results were bad, according to a new report.

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Article: https://www.defensenews.com/naval/2019/12/31/the-us-military-ran-the-largest-stress-test-of-its-sealift-fleet-in-years-its-in-big-trouble/
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Author: Jo Lines-MacKenzie

Two of the country's fastest roads are actually saving lives.

No one has died on either the Cambridge section of the Waikato Expressway, or the SH2 Tauranga Eastern Link Toll Road, since they opened just over two years ago, figures released to Stuff show.

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Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/117577747/waikato-bay-of-plenty-110kmh-speed-limit-roads-prove-safer-than-regular-highways
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U.S. Marines with 1st Light Armored Reconnaissance (LAR) Battalion and the New Zealand Army conduct Exercise Sari Bair at Waiouru Military Camp, Wanganui-Manawatu, New Zealand, October 8-12, 2019. Exercise Sari Bair is an annual live-fire training exercise to enhance warfighting skill sets.

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Author: China Uncensored

China is expanding its Navy's reach in the Pacific. The goal—challenge the United States for control of the world's oceans.Joining me today is Captain Jim Fanell, the former Director of Intelligence and Information Operations for the U.S. Pacific Fleet.

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Category: Defence
Author: Ron Mark

In this term of government, we’ve been very busy with the defense portfolio. We’ve unveiled the Strategic Defence Policy Statement, which identified how we view the strategic environment in which we operate. Then we built on it with reports on climate change and how the New Zealand Defence Force, or NZDF, will work better in the Pacific. We’ve then used this to create the Defence Capability Plan to meet the challenges we’re facing in our strategic environment and to modernize the Defence Force.

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Article: https://www.defensenews.com/outlook/2019/12/02/new-zealands-defense-minister-shaping-the-future-of-the-defence-estate/
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