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THE US army is would be annihilated if it went to war with Russia and China, a Pentagon report has shockingly revealed.

The US ground troops are currently not ready and unable to deter or defeat highly capable peer enemies

Donald Trump's gung-ho attitude and tensions in North Korea have led the US to the brink of war on several fronts.

But worryingly for The Donald, a white paper produced by US defence officials states their ground combat forces would be defeated by well-equipped enemies specifically naming China and Russia as potential enemies.

The US is not ready to take on high capable enemies, the report warns.

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Before his inauguration, Donald Trump asked a security expert three times during a briefing, why the US couldn't use nuclear weapons after he becomes president.

The document reads: "The US ground troops are currently not ready and unable to deter or defeat highly capable peer enemies."

The paper adds that US soldiers are not "sufficiently trained, organised, equipped, nor postured" to win wars in the decades to come.

As a result, the US army has unveiled a new strategy for fighting multiple countries at the same time.

Political analyst Ilya Plekhanov said the US is preparing for a high-tech war without the use of ground troops.

He added: "This is why the US Army is currently leading the way in developing this doctrine.

"They understand the army will be nearly expendable in a high-tech war against potential adversaries, primarily China and Russia.

Russian Marines attached to the Admiral Tributs anti-submarine ship put on a terrifying display during a rare stop in Manila. Hitting each other with burning logs, smashing breeze blocks across their stomachs with sledge hammers: are they the most terrifying soldiers in the world?

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A marine has breezblocks broken across his stomach.

"The war of the future will be lethally chaotic for it."

China and the US were reported to be on the brink of all-out war with China over disputed territory in the South China Sea.

And The Donald has repeatedly clashed with Putin's Russia over North Korea and NATO.

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Nick Pope, who is now based in the US, worked for the Ministry of Defence on its now closed investigations into the UFO phenomena from 1991 to 1994.

He said no world government is prepared at all for a potential alien invasion, reports Metro.co.uk.

Speaking ahead of the March 20 DVD release of the sci-fi movie Arrival, about an alien visitation of Earth, Mr Pope added: "Theres no contingency plan as far as Im aware.

"The governments answer would be that, 'We regard this as an incredibly small possibility'.

"But I would say, why not have a plan if theres even the smallest possibility of it happening."

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Mr Pope is not suggesting a War of the Worlds-style invasion is imminent, but said teams of scientists and military experts should be ready to communicate with any new arrivals.

He said this was needed because if aliens were able to visit Earth from a far-flung corner of the galaxy, they would be far superior to us technologically.

And even a peaceful alien visitation could create an inter global conflict with world super powers trying to get hold of alien technology to ensure they stayed on top.

He said: "There would be a scramble for the alien technology, and weapons.

There would be a scramble for the alien technology, and weapons.

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"Some of the big countries and also, nowadays, corporations would be scrambling to get their hands on alien technology.

"The country that gets that [technology] would be the world leader for the foreseeable future."

But, he say, it may instead unite the world.

He added: "Ultimately this [an alien visit] might have a unifying effect.

"An extra terrestrial arrival might convince us that theres more that binds us together than pushes us apart."

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The Crop Circles are often believed to be created by aliens, as there is no proper explanation behind this phenomenon.

"Dont start running for the hills or shooting at alien ships.

"Wait for some of the finest minds on the planet to figure out what this is."

Astronomers have found several exoplanets which orbit stars like ours and are the right distance from them to have the potential conditions for life to form.

But, so far, there is no confirmed evidence that aliens exist, but many conspiracy theorists claim world governments already have evidence and keep it hidden from the public under an alleged truth embargo amid fears of the impact the knowledge would have on religion and the rule of law.

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THE US has deployed nuclear bombers to the Korean peninsula as tensions with North Korea grow.

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North Korea and the US have been locked in a bitter feud which has threatened to spark World War 3.

Ruthless leader Kim Jong-un fired off four ballistic missiles in a chilling warning to Donald Trump on Monday morning.

But the US president is sending in B-1 and B-52 bombers which are built to carry nuclear bombs in a show of force against the Hermit Kingdom.

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The joint exercises will continue without a halt. It is a purely defensive annual drill

F-35B stealth fighters the most advanced aircraft in the world will also arrive in South Korea next week.

Dastardly dictator Kim oversaw the rocket launch himself and aimed the projectiles at US bases, with missiles landing in Japanese waters.

In response, both South Korea and the US have been taking part in operation Foal Eagle, where air, naval and land units take part in military drills.

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The operation has been condemned by Kim, who described Foal Eagle as a "rehearsal for invasion".

China has urged both nations to stop the war drills, to prevent further aggravating the tubby tyrant.

But South Korean defence ministry spokesman, Moon Sang-gyun, denied the Chinese request.

Since 2008, photographer Eric Lafforgue ventured to North Korea six times. Thanks to digital memory cards, he was able to save photos that was forbidden to take inside the segregated state

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He said: "The joint exercises will continue without a halt. It is a purely defensive annual drill."

The allies will also start a command exercise, Key Resolve, to run drills on cyber attacks.

Trump is considering plans to assassinate Kim or launch air strikes on nuke factories.

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MORE than 8,000 troops including British and US Marines have massed near the Russian border.

About 700 members of the British Royal Marines have joined thousands of troops from the US and Norway for joint military exercises in Vladimir Putins back yard.

The battalions are practicing for Arctic war in temperatures as low as -10C.

But more than 300,000 Russian troops are waiting nearby sparking fears the war gams could spark a real conflict.

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Russian Marines attached to the Admiral Tributs anti-submarine ship put on a terrifying display during a rare stop in Manila. Hitting each other with burning logs, smashing breeze blocks across their stomachs with sledge hammers: are they the most terrifying soldiers in the world?

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A marine has breezblocks broken across his stomach.

The 10-day drill dubbed Joint Viking involve fighter jets, helicopters and military transport aircraft as well as ground troops.

The elite military units will simulate war in the most extreme conditions in Finnmark a region at the frozen northern tip of Norway.

Eleven NATO countries have sent 4,000 troops to Lithuania to participate in this years Iron Sword exercises.

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Members of the U.S. 173rd Airborne Brigade prepare a simulated attack

Mock battles will take place across 80 square miles of mountains and forests.

NATO wants to show it could protect its member Norway which has a border with Russia.

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Spooked Norway has already reinforced its eastern border to ward off an invasion by Putin.

The Scandinavian country has reportedly informed Moscow of the Joint Viking war games, possibly in a bid to prevent the exercises spiralling into a hot war or as a warning to the Russian strongman leader.

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NATO troops took part in the Swift Response-16 exercise, which is one of the premier military crisis response training for multi-national airborne forces in the world.

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Polish troops land with parachutes at the military compound near Torun, central Poland as part of the NATO Anaconda-16 military exercise

Russia held similar drills near Norways border last September.

NATO which has been warned Russia could overrun Eastern Europe in just 60 hours is sending 4,000 troops, planes, tanks and artillery to the Baltic states and Poland to stop a Russian invasion.

But Putin has countered by sending nuclear-capable missiles to Russias Kaliningrad territory it holds in Europe between Poland and Lithuania.

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Could Trumps Military Spending Surge Be the First Salvo of WW3?

Russian President Vladimir Putin welcomed Donald Trumps election. Yet World War 3 seems closer now. The Russians feared Hillary Clinton, who spoke aggressively about Russia. Yet, not two months into the Trump presidency, and conflict with Russia, or WW3, seems closer. It was under Hillary Clintons tenure as Secretary of State that the Maidan revolt took place in Ukraine.

That was the catalyst for a civil war between pro-West and pro-Russia Ukrainians. Putin toasted Trumps win last November. But, as Trump announced a massive increase in military spending, the Kremlin issued a statement that, while short on words, was deafeningly loud on content.

The Russian president said that relations between Moscow and Washington are at their lowest point since the Cold War. What has changed? Russia WW3 2017, China WW3, or WW3predictions in general are not just for catastrophists any longer. Trumps firstand most successful so faraddress to Congress made it clear he wants a much bigger military.

During the campaign, Trump did not hide his military ambitions. Yet, even as he advocated more spending on military equipment, his major military and geopolitical target was Islamic State or ISIS, rather than Russia. Trumps focus was going to be the Syrian war. The bigger military, moreover, was going to serve as a friendly reminder to China about its own military buildup.

But China is not the only power on Trumps agenda. There have been allegations that members of his cabinet have had meetings or contacts with Russian officials. Theres nothing especially incriminatory about that. But while the media harps on about what that Russian ambassador said to this Trump insider, it has ignored a crucial thing.

Trump and Putin have not met yet. Trump has done absolutely nothing that Putin might interpret as a win for Russia. If anything, the Trump administration has stayed on message where Ukraine is concerned. Trump has also threatened Iran, a close Russian ally in the fight against ISIS and the Syrian rebellion in general.

The one member of the Trump cabinet who may have had the closest ties to Putin was General Michael Flynn. He resigned a few weeks ago from the post of National Security Advisor. Flynn allegedly told Moscows ambassador to Washington that the Trump administration would cancel the additional sanctions leveled against Russia by the outgoing President Obama.

Flynn, according to critics, became vulnerable to possible blackmail from the Russians. Flynn thickened clouds of suspicions about Trumps relationship with Moscow. Regardless of the level of contact, what is clear is that the many deliberations about the budding Trump-Putin ties have died in the bud.

Putin is pursuing a Russia First policy; it was never going to mesh with America First properly. Indeed, the kind of spending that Trump has promised to lavish on the military deserves to be described as historic. The Cold War ended to help stop the military buildup that ended up crippling the Soviet Unions finances.

It also helped reduce fears of another war, a nuclear war. And what is WW3 if not a nuclear war? The U.S. military budget under Trump will inflate by $54.0 billion. And thats just the first taste of what Trump has in mind. That amount will pay for new attack aircraft and for the production of other weapons to bolster the quality of the U.S. defense systems.

Its almost as if World War 3 is inevitable. In effect, the Pentagon will get almost 10% more than it did in 2016. In turn, other federal agencies will see a reduction in funding. These other pure Cold War policiesare those which many Americans thought they would never see again. Trump complained that the U.S. has not won a war in ages.

Both the boost in military spending and the logic that has prompted it are unusual. The U.S. is not involved in any major military conflict now. Its true that Special Forces are on the ground in Iraq and the U.S. Air Force has bombed ISIS targets in Iraq and Syria. But neither one of these goals or theaters of war requires special stealth aircraft or new weapon systems.

Trumps vision is wider and he wants to cast a shadow over Chinaexpectedand Russiaunexpected. Trump mentioned ships as one of the reasons to increase military spending. He also wants more planes. The addition of a single ship or watercraft would add nothing in the fight against ISIS or terrorism in general.

It would, however, help drive a China WW3or Putin WW3 scenario. The ships and planes make nothing but sense against the lens of the Strait of Hormuz, which separates the Arabian Peninsula the coast of Iran. The Pentagon clearly wants a bigger presence to control key international waterways such as the Strait of Hormuz and the South China Sea.

More ships and planes would also help keep a closer watch over the Arctic and northern seas, where Russia has been intensifying its own patrols. Apart from Iran, this military buildup, then, provokes Russia as well as China. America already has the most powerful fighting force in the world, by several orders of magnitude.

America already spends more on defense than any other country:

(Source: Trends in World Military Expenditure, 2015, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, April 2016.)

Not all in the military share Trumps bellicose ambitions. A group of over 100 retired U.S. generals and admirals have urged Congress to fully fund American diplomacy, rather than weapons. They see more strength in a combination of diplomacy and defense as the best way to keep America safe. Trump thinks adding 74 ships and 100 jets is the best way.

But, diplomacy must take a backseat now. Not only does Trump want to increase spending on military hardware, he wants to increase the army to 540,000 active-duty soldiers. Thats a 15% increase, given there are currently 480,000 active-duty soldiers. And thats just the Army. Trump also wants more Marines; 50% more, from 23 to 36 battalions.

The President made no specific reference about the nature of the threat that requires this massive increase in military spending. But just a day later, like a thunderbolt from Thor, the Swedes delivered a hint. Sweden wants to bring back conscription. Sweden happens to share the Baltic waterways with Russia.

The Baltic States, including Latvia, Estonia, andPoland, are among the most concerned about Russia. They happen to be in NATO. They are asking the U.S. for more defensive artillery and Patriot missiles to deploy along the borders with Russia. The Baltic is one of the regions of the world where World War 3 could start.

The other scenario comes from trade. Trump would like to find how the World Trade Organization (WTO) can impose sanctions and reprisals against countries accused of damaging Americas trade interests. Thus Trumps trade policy matches his military ambitions. Just to clear any doubts, Trump supports NATO. Now, he wants the WTO to support it as well.

Trump has ordered the Pentagon to develop a plan to demolish and destroy ISIS. The New Security Advisor, General Herbert McMaster has advised Trump to use the term radical Islamic terrorism sparingly. McMaster is more diplomatic than his predecessor Flynn, but the Middle East, as ever, remains a major trigger point for the next global conflict.

Its not so much ISIS but Iran thats the problem. Trump has not spoken much about the nuclear deal that Obama secured in 2015. But, if the new president were to repeal it, it would necessarily require a military strike against Irans well-protected facilities. The problem is that the deal ensured that Irans nuclear program remains civilianonly.

Without the deal, there are no internationally binding agreements holding Irans enrichment plansor threatsback. But, attacking the facilities would not be easy. Even stealth F-35 or F-22 fighter jets would suffer losses. Iran has Russias S-300 defense system, which renders the nuclear facilities virtually impenetrable.

Russia has a stake in this as well. Russia and Iran have been the main powers against ISIS and other Islamiststhe very kind Trump wants to eliminate. Attacking Iran would put Moscow and Washington in direct opposition. Not since the Cuban missile crisis would relations take such a turn for the worst.

Trump and Putin would never authorize the use of nuclear warheads in a conflict. But, the first strike option exists and could be unleashed, given the imminent threat of any kind of catastrophic attack. Neither Kennedy nor Khrushchev, both milder than Trump and Putin, were going to push the nuclear button. But the Cuban missile crisis did almost get there.

Nobody wants to test those odds again. Deterrence is not an exact science. There is also an art, which thankfully, nobody has had the misfortune of practicing yet. One party will always strike first. Its up to the retaliating party to decide what direction the conflict, in this case WW3, might take.

Albert Einstein famously observed that he didnt know how World War 3 would be fought, except that World War 4 would be fought with sticks and stones. But, there is a nuclear threshold. Both Trump and Putin can choose a scalable nuclear conflict rather than a full-out one. Miscalculation could trigger unimaginable consequences.

The general view is that both the U.S. and Russia would use nuclear warheads only after defeat would be assured in the conventional scenario. Thus, the idea that WW3 might be won using conventional weapons alone still exists. Its up to the losing party to decide if they want to bring down the world with them.

That said, this, theoretically, justifies Trumps military buildup. The logic being that an overwhelming conventional attack would defeat the enemy before they would have a chance to bring nuclear weapons into the calculus. Putin did not appreciate Trumps military spending plans because it forces Russia to respond in kind.

But Russias economy is in a slow recovery mode at best. It cant afford an arms race. Trump, perhaps, wants to take advantage of that weakness with a massive spending surge now to overwhelm any potential enemy from even considering challenging the United States. Its a gamble.

Its also a guarantee that for the next few years, defense contractors in Washington will do brisk business. Russia will have to increase its arsenal buildup as will China, perpetuating the cycle.

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CHINAS plans for WW3 have been revealed after pictures of its terrifying new tank were leaked online.

The photo which surfaced on the Chinese military website CJDBY shows what is thought to be a prototype of a deadly new Chinese infantry fighting vehicle.

The tanks fearsome new cannon can fire explosive shells at 1km per second, analysis suggests.

The new hardware is being developed as tensions continue to rise between China and the West in the South China Sea.

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China has issued a chilling warning to America over US Navy patrols in the South China Sea which it deemed threatening and damaging.

Chinese military leaders also revealed war with the US could now become a reality as a top powerbroker warned war could erupt between the two nations if trade agreements were to break down.

Experts believe the tank will replace the ZBD-04 and ZDB-04A which are used by China's People's Liberation Army.

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Unconfirmed Chinese media reports suggest the IFV may be armed with a new fast-loading cannon.

A similar weapon system was recently unveiled at the Chinese Zhuhai Airshow in November last year sparking claims the weapon could be fitted to the leaked photo.

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The developer, China North Industries Corporation, claimed the cannon can fire up to 200 rounds per minute.

It can fire explosive rounds at a speed of 1km per second.

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CHINA has issued a chilling warning to the US as the tanks, troops and warships flood into the Pacific.

China told the US this is not the caribbean and you cant tame the dragon as US forces moved into Thailand for a massive war games drill called Operation Cobra Gold.

US and Thai forces practised in the 10-day conflict exercise which saw soldiers, marines, tanks, paratroopers and helicopters take-part in huge live-fire warfare scenarios.

The drills come as the US also announced aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson will be moving into the South China Sea for routine patrols.

China is fuming over the carriers deployment and has promised to deploy more weapons and into the contested region.

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With relations between the US and China fragile, holding a joint live-fire military display with the Thai army could be seen as making things worse especially when Trump's white supremacist Chief Advisor Steve Bannon believes America and China will be at war 'within a few years.'

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Thai and US military tanks participate in a live fire military display

The US military insists on showing that it is capable of taming the China Dragon

Chinas state-run mouthpiece newspaper published a chilling column in which it launches into a scathing assessment of the US plans and threatened Washington over hoping Beijing would grin and bear it.

US and China have been at loggerheads since the middle of 2016 when the United Nations ruled against the Chinese attempts to claim islands in the South China Sea.

The disputed region hosts half of the worlds merchant shipping activity and is believed to be rich in oil and national gas.

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Defiant Beijing has continued to expand into the disputed waters as it claims ownership to islands and sandbars by building giant defensive bases packed with missiles and designed to launch warplanes.

If the US military insists on showing that it is capable of taming the China Dragon, they are bound to see all kinds of advanced Chinese weapons as well as other military deployments on the South China Sea islands, wrote the Chinese governments Global Times.

"The South China Sea is not the Caribbean. It is not a place for the US to behave recklessly. US generals said they are ready to fight when necessary. The People's Liberation Army is also making preparations.

It added: "Aren't US carrier groups' constant patrols in the South China Sea the most prominent militarisation in the waters?

"Aren't the public statements made by the US military, that all its moves were done to warn China, direct military threats?"

Last week, the Chinese Foreign ministry described the US moves in the disputed sea as "threatening and damaging.

Such schools are an extreme example of the "patriotic education" which China's ruling Communist party promotes to boost its legitimacy, but which critics condemn as little more than brainwashing.

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War tensions have reached a new head as some of US president Donald Trumps top aides have talked up war with China.

Steve Bannon, White House chief strategist, said; ""Were going to war in the South China Sea in five to 10 years."

Daily Star Online revealed the devastating consequences of war between the US and China in which 12 million would die in a nuke strike across the West Coast.

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ViaMoi/flickr"When did World War 3 start?" asked an afternoon CPAC panel featuring Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke. He was relevant because the panel was the first of two on WW3. Today's was on "the threat at home" and tomorrow will be "the threat abroad." The panel didn't turn out that way.

"How many people feel scared?" panel moderator Ginni Thomas of the Daily Caller asked the audience at the beginning of the panel. "Can I get an amen?" Security, she noted, was a primary reason many people vote.

Clarke spoke first because, according to Thomas, he had the most Twitter followers, which was how Thomas determined the order. Clarke focused mostly on sanctuary cities and border security, saying the time had come to begin to "aggressively enforce the rule of law in America."

"Sanctuary cities are havens for criminals," Clarke insisted, ignoring the history of sanctuary cities as a policy supported by law enforcement to secure the cooperation of illegal immigrants in criminal investigations.

Clarke never got around to explaining how illegal immigration connected to WW3. He did not bring up, for example, overblown claims popular in the right-wing echo chamber about terrorist fighters crossing in from Mexico.

Instead, Clarke suggested prosecuting one mayor for the sanctuary city policy, saying that would have a chilling effect on other sanctuary city officials.

The second panelist, New Zealand author Trevor Loudon, led with the WW3 hook. "WW3 started about 1400 years ago, and it got a big boost during the Bolshevik revolution," Lauden suggested, because of Islamists and communists.

He went on to praise the U.S. for defending freedom in the South Pacific during World War 2. The U.S. "keeps all of the world stable and all of the world free," Loudon insisted, repeating tired talking points about Barack Obama's foreign policy aiding U.S. enemies and hurting U.S. allies, a strange point to hold on to during the nascent Trump administration, given President Trump's willingness to talk tough to traditional U.S. allies like Australia or NATO.

Loudon pivoted to the "radical left" plan to undermine America, tying anti-Trump protests to that effort. He called on attendees to support Trump through social media if they "cared about America," saying the medium made it possible to combat all kinds of radicals.

Former CIA employee Claire Lopez, of the Center for Security Policy, spoke third, talking about "civilization jihad."

"We are not fighting terrorism," Lopez insisted, "we are fighting the forces of Islamic jihad and sharia."

She insisted the U.S. was fighting for individual liberty, equality for all, human dignity, and the consent of the governed, saying those concepts were "anathema and even blasphemy" for Islamists. Fears over sharia law, however, are anathema to some of the ideals Lopez herself said the U.S. fought for.

It went downhill from there. Lopez claimed, without providing any specifics, that the government and national security apparatus, and even local law enforcement, were "deeply penetrated" by the Muslim Brotherhood, a common right-wing bugaboo.

The last speaker was acting Federal Trade Commissioner Maureen Olhausen. How did she fit into the theme of World War 3? She came to speak about intellectual property and warn about the effort to "devalue" intellectual property rights in the U.S., which she said discouraged investment at home and encouraged intellectual property theft abroad. Olhausen mentioned China in passing as one of those countries, but did not make it her focus nor did she place China within a working theory of a World War 3 that had already started, sticking to more generic descriptions of the U.S. being "under attack" by those who would steal intellectual property.

"It's gonna be fight every day, I'm up for it," David Clarke said during the concluding remarks. "Are you?"

The panel was disappointing. The framework of a putative World War 3 can be an interesting one through which to think through U.S. foreign policy issues and options. One could argue WW3 started on 9/11, or during the First Gulf War, or in 1979 during the Islamic revolution in Iran, or even further back. Any of these starting points could yield interesting questions about and critiques of U.S. foreign policy.

Arguably, even, neither World War 1 nor World War 2 have completely played out. Many of the tensions arising from NATO's role in the world come from it being a post-war, Cold War-era alliance operating in a post-Cold War world. Many of the geopolitical issues in the Middle East, meanwhile, can be traced to the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, which chose the losing side in WW1.

Instead of any of that however, perhaps unsurprisingly, the panel became a hodgepodge of security-related issues not connected by any over-arching theme other than fear. While today was supposed to be about "the threat at home," not even that became a unifying theme for the panel.

Tomorrow's panel on WW3 and "the threat abroad" starts at 8:15a.m.

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PRESIDENT Donald Trump has declared the US will be the "top of the pack" as he vows to increase the country's nuclear weapons.

Trump announced he will "make America great again" with military expansions and increased nuclear missile capability.

The billionaire businessman also slammed existing arms reduction treaties as "one-sided" against the US amid rising tension with rival nuclear powers Russia, North Korea and China.

Trump said: "If countries are going to have nukes, were going to be at the top of the pack.

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He added: I am the first one that would like to see everybody nobody have nukes, but were going to fall behind.

"We've fallen behind on nuclear weapon capacity.

"But we're never going to fall behind any country even if it's a friendly country."

Trump also slammed the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty signed with rival nuclear power Russia as a "one-sided deal".

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His comments follow Russia's announcement their country is ready war with 41 new nuke-capable missiles amid a massive military expansion.

Trump said: "Just another bad deal that the country made, whether its START, whether its the Iran dealwere going to start making good deals."

The billionaire also blasted Putin over his cruise missile deployment in violation of the treaty.

We live in turbulent times. Trump has the keys to nuclear weapons, and could end work to prevent climate change. Putin is looming in the East, the far-right are on the rise in Europe and Kim Jong-un is developing nuclear weapons of his own. Is this the END of days?

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Before his inauguration, Donald Trump asked a security expert three times during a briefing, why the US couldn't use nuclear weapons after he becomes president.

He added: "To me, it's a big deal ... If I meet [Putin], if and when we meet, I would bring it up.

"It's a violation of an agreement that we have."

Referring to China's military action in the South China Sea, he added: "Many things took place that should not have been allowed.

There is a reason people fear nuclear war the weapons are now so powerful they could wipe out humanity. The bombs dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima are tiny by comparison to the destructive power of modern nuclear weapons which are thought to be over 3000 times more powerful.

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The mushroom cloud over Nagasaki, viewed from the ground.

"I know exactly what's going on between China and North Korea and everybody else.

"One of them is the building of a massive, you know, massive military complex in the middle of the South China Sea.

"Don't forget I've only been here for four weeks. This is something that took place and has been started three years ago.

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THE US military is drafting expansion plans amid fears of World War 3, it has been claimed.

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A defence official has leaked unauthorised information on the US militarys expansion plans after Donald Trump vowed to rebuild the nations depleted force last week.

According to the unconfirmed plans the army, air force and navy are set to receive increased man and weapon power.

The expansion plans comes as tensions continue to rise between the US and several countries including Russia, North Korea, China and Iran.

Washington has said to be flexing its military muscles after Chinese military bosses declared war between the US and China is now a reality.

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Our country will never have had a military like the military we're about to build and rebuild

An unnamed defence official has claimed draft plans have been set in motion to increase the US Army by around 30,000 men by October.

The US Air Force is also said to want to expand their airmen by roughly the same amount but over the next five to six years.

While the US Navy as part of the proposed expansion has asked for 82 more ships and submarines which would be a 30 percent increase in the size of the fleet.

It comes after the nations marine corps unveiled their new lethal amphibious combat vehicles.

As Donald Trump has promised to start an arms race, we take a look at the futuristic weapons being developed for the US military.

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A projectile fired from an electromagnetic rail gun. Rail Guns use an electro magnet to propel a projectile at speeds up to 2500 meters per second.

They plan to add at least 200 of the deadly vehicles to their arsenal by 2023.

Trump said: "Our country will never have had a military like the military we're about to build and rebuild."

The US is set to deploy its first F-35A Joint Strike Fighter jets to the Pacific amid growing threats from North Korea and China.

In a pre-inauguration day speech, Trump promised to beef up the US military in a bid to make America great again.

The Donald had made increased military spending a key part of his election campaign and after being named the 45th president pledged to strengthen the nations nuclear weapons in a $3 trillion expansion.

Acting Pentagon press secretary Capt Jeff Davis added: The budget submissions that DOD makes to the president will come from Secretary Mattis.

They will reflect his thinking, and his priorities, which are to rebuild combat readiness of America's military, while being faithful stewards of every taxpayer dollar we spend on defence.

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