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U.S. Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcons from the 51st Fighter Wing join with South Korea F-35A Lightning IIs to escort two U.S. B-1B strategic bombers entering the Korean Air Defense Identification Zone and conduct a combined flight in a formation over South Korea, Nov. 19.

Travis shoppers can be twice as merry with Military Star double points Dec. 11 and 12

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TRAVIS AIR FORCE BASE — Military Star is making holiday shopping twice as nice for the military community with double points Dec. 11 and 12.

Travis Air Force Base cardholders will earn four points per $1 instead of the standard two points. Every time card holders earn 2,000 points, they automatically receive a $20 digital rewards card.

“While Travis Air Force Base shoppers are buying gifts for their family and friends, they can receive a gift for them selves with Military Star double points,” Travis Exchange General Manager Phonda Bishop said in a press release. “This special offer lets cardholders earn their next $20 dig ital rewards card even faster.”

Shoppers will receive the double rewards points on Mili tary Star purchases made everywhere the card is accepted, including all military exchanges and commissaries, ShopMyExchange.com, myNavyExchange.com, ShopCGX.com and Exchange mall vendors. Rewards exclude the Military Clothing line of credit.

Travis Exchange offers fee-free layaway for military shoppers ahead of holiday season

TRAVIS AIR FORCE BASE — Military shoppers can check everything off their wish lists early with the Army & Air Force Exchange Service’s fee-free layaway.

The Travis Exchange is waiving its layaway service fee of $3 on toys, bikes, computers, laptops, tablets, iPads, note books, smartwatches and more when layaways are paid in full and picked up by close of business Dec. 24.

“Getting a head start on holiday shopping is easy with the Exchange’s fee-free layaway,” Exchange General Manager Phonda Bishop said in a press release. “Shoppers can stock up on gifts for loved ones at military-exclusive pricing, al ways tax-free and without the layaway service fee.”

To place items on layaway, military shoppers must pay a deposit of 15% of the purchase price. Items included in the 12 Weeks of Black Friday Deals are excluded from being placed on layaway. Shoppers can visit the customer service desk for more details.

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7 online courses every Air Force leader should take

Miriam A. Thurber AIR EDUCATION AND TRAINING COMMAND

JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO— RANDOLPH, Texas — If you’re looking to grow as a leader, con sider enrolling in one of Air Ed ucation and Training Command’s free DigitalU Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Education and Training Courses.

Any airman – active duty, re serve, guard or civilian – may en roll in one of the 22 online courses specifically designed for people-fo cused leaders.

Air Education and Training Command officials recommend looking through all the offered classes and choosing one that best fills in your personal or profession al blind spots, but here are seven you can’t go wrong with:

n Dread-Free Difficult Conver sations. Overcome your discom fort and assertively lead productive, empathetic conversations with win-win outcomes. Time to com plete: 1 hour 47 minutes.

n The Emotionally Intelligent Leader. Learn how to manage the emotional climate of your team to build trust, authentic relationships and effective teams. Emotional in telligence is considered one of the strongest attributes of a leader, which is why, in industry, leaders with high emotional intelligence earn an average of $29,000 more. Time to complete: 5 hours 18 min utes.

n Unconscious Bias: Fuel Di versity and Become a Better You. A powerful way to grow your selfawareness and reveal your hidden biases. You’ll learn how your bias es may negatively impact your re lationships and the career growth of yourself and those you super vise and, most importantly, you’ll discover strategies to mitigate your biases. Time to complete: 2 hours. n Navigate & Respect Age, Ethnic & Racial Differences. Under stand and overcome the challenges of working in a multigeneration al environment with these sim ple steps to leverage age diversi ty. Time to complete: 40 minutes. n LGBT+ 101. The complete course to help you understand the various people in the LGBTQ+ community. You’ll learn how to have good, respectful conversa tions because you’ll understand

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what terms mean, which ones to use and which to avoid. Yes, you’ll be learning from a member of the LGBTQ+ community. Time to

Be a Great Mentor: A Practical Guide to Mentorship. Grow your career through mentoring, whether you’re a supervisor, lead er, subject matter expert or indi vidual. This is a NASBA CPE-accredited course. Time to complete:

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To register for classes, create an account through DigitalU at https:// digitalu.af.mil/. After finishing the course, don’t forget to upload your certificate of completion to your professional development records.

“Diversity and inclusion are es sential to mission readiness,” said Maggie Laws, chief of diversity and inclusion at Air Education and Training Command. “We succeed when we fully embrace dignity and respect throughout the force – that starts with your personal and pro fessional growth as an inclusive leader.”

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U.S. Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcons from the 51st Fighter Wing join with South Korea F-35A Lightning IIs to escort two U.S. B-1B strategic bombers entering the Korean Air Defense Identification Zone and conduct a combined flight in a formation over South Korea, Nov. 19.

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Navy mission at Travis: Take charge and move out

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BASE — The mission of Tra vis Air Force Base isn’t only to provide rapid global mobility to the nation; the base also hosts the U.S. Navy’s Fleet Air Reconnaissance Squadron 3 De tachment (VQ-3) – also known by the unit’s unofficial name, TACAMO (Take Charge and Move Out).

U.S. Navy Vice Adm. Yan cy Lindsey, Navy Installations Command commander, visited VQ-3 on Oct. 28 to get eyes on the new $64 million alert facility at Travis Air Force Base. Dur ing the visit, Lindsey toured the new facility, met with the sailors of VQ-3 and answered missionspecific questions for the securi ty personnel at the detachment.

Navy Installations Com mand, with headquarters at the Washington Navy Yard in Wash ington, D.C., is responsible for worldwide U.S. Navy shore in stallation management as the Navy’s shore integrator, design ing and developing integrated solutions for the sustainment and development of Navy shore infrastructure.

“It’s our pleasure to host Vice Adm. Lindsey and Force Master Chief Dunn,” said Lt. Cmdr. Bri an Hanks, VQ-3 officer in charge at Travis. “The new alert facility has greatly enhanced our abil ity to provide survivable, reli able and endurable command and control to the president, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the commander of the U.S. Strategic Command.”

The VQ-3 mission is to link Department of Defense leaders to nuclear submarines in the Pa cific. The connection is possible with the Boeing E-6B Mercu ry, the Navy’s largest aircraft. The E-6B relays messages with a 5-mile-long antenna that ex tends on a cable from the rear of the aircraft, then the pilot maneuvers into an orbit with a

30- to 50-degree bank slowed to a stall speed for as long as two to three hours. Miles below sea level, messages are received by a nuclear submarine.

“I’m extremely proud of our entire team for conducting the switchover from the old facility flawlessly and ahead of sched ule,” Hanks said. “Any oppor tunity I have to show off their hard work and dedication is well worth it in my book.”

Projecting the joint force isn’t a buzzword on Travis; airmen work hand-in-hand with the VQ-3 detachment to ensure their mission is a top priority.

“Without the support we re ceive from 60th Air Mobility Wing, we would be unable to accomplish our mission here at Travis,” Hanks said. “Every sin gle aspect of our operations is affected by our mutual relation ship, from parking ramp space and fuel, to medical support for my sailors, the list goes on and on.”

The 60th Operations Group tower personnel ensure mis sions happen expeditiously to give the alerts for VQ-3 a rap id launch when the Navy per sonnel get the call, according to U.S. Air Force Master Sgt. Al exandra Foley, 60th Operations Support Squadron tower chief controller.

“We owe a debt of gratitude to everyone at the 60th, from Colonel Salmi all the way down, for making us feel at home and helping ensure our no-fail mis sion remains a success,” Hanks said.

VQ-3 opened a new facili ty in June on the main side of the flight line and moved their E-6Bs to a parking area next to the 60th Air Mobility Wing’s KC-10 Extenders on the north side of the flight line, as opposed to the south side of the flight line where they were previous ly parked.

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U.S. Navy Vice Adm. Yancy Lindsey, right, Navy Installations Command commander, is given a tour by Fleet Air Reconnaissance Squadron Detachment Travis leadership during a visit to VQ-3 Det Travis, Travis Air Force Base, Oct. 28. Lindsey visited VQ-3 to get eyes on the new $64 million alert facility at Travis AFB. During the visit, Lindsey toured the new facility, met with the sailors of VQ-3 and answered mission-specific questions for the security personnel at TACAMO.

U.S. Navy Vice Adm. Yancy Lindsey, right, Navy Installations Command commander, receives a brief from Chief Petty Officer Courtney Bellamy, Fleet Air Reconnaissance Squadron Detachment Travis aviation maintenance admin, during a visit to VQ-3 Det Travis, Travis Air Force Base, Oct. 28.

U.S. Navy Vice Adm. Yancy Lindsey, left, Navy Installations Command commander, shakes hands with Seaman Matthew Seaborn, Fleet Air Reconnaissance Squadron Detachment Travis master at arms security forces, during a visit to VQ-3, Travis Air Force Base, Oct. 28.

DoD releases path to cyber security through zero trust architecture

C. Todd Lopez DOD NEWS

WASHINGTON — The De fense Department on Tuesday released its Zero Trust Strategy and Roadmap, which spells out how it plans to move beyond traditional network security meth ods to achieve reduced network attack surfaces, enable risk man agement and effective data-shar ing in partnership environments, and contain and remediate ad versary activities over the next five years.

“Zero trust is a framework for moving beyond relying on perimeter-based cybersecuri ty defense tools alone and ba sically assuming that breach has occurred within our bound ary and responding according ly,” David McKeown, the depart ment’s acting chief information officer, said.

McKeown said the depart ment has spent a year now devel oping the plans to get the depart ment to a zero trust architecture by fiscal year 2027. Included in that effort was the development

of a Zero Trust Portfolio Management Office, which stood up ear lier this year.

“With the publication of this strategy we have articulated the ‘how’ that can address clear out comes of how to get to zero trust –and not only accelerated technol ogy adoption, as discussed, but also a culture of zero trust at DoD and an integrated approach at the department and the compo nent levels.”

Getting the Defense Depart ment to reach the goals laid out in the Zero Trust Strategy and

Roadmap will be an “ambitious undertaking,” McKeown said.

Ensuring that work will large ly be the responsibility of Ran dy Resnick, who serves as the di rector of the Zero Trust Portfolio Management Office.

“With zero trust, we are as suming that a network is already compromised,” Resnick said. “And through recurring user au thentication and authorization, we will thwart and frustrate an adversary from moving through a network and also quickly identi fy them and mitigate damage and

the vulnerability they may have exploited.”

Resnick explained the differ ence between a zero trust archi tecture and security on the net work today, which assumes a level of trust for anybody already inside the network.

“If we compare this to our home security, we could say that we traditionally lock our windows and doors and that only those with the key can gain ac cess,” he said. “With zero trust, we have identified the items of

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Capt. Sarah Miller and Tech. Sgt. Carrol Brewster, 834th Cyber Operations Squadron, discuss options in response to a staged cyber attack during filming of a scene for an Air Force Reserve Command mission video at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas, June 1, 2019.

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value within the house and we place guards and locks within each one of those items inside the house. This is the level of se curity that we need to counter so phisticated cyber adversaries.”

The Zero Trust Strategy and Roadmap outlines four high-lev el and integrated strategic goals that define what the department will do to achieve that level of se curity. These include:

n Zero Trust Cultural Adop tion – All DoD personnel under stand and are aware, trained, and committed to a zero trust mindset and culture to support integration of zero trust.

n DoD information Systems Secured and Defended – Cyber security practices incorporate and operationalize zero trust in new and legacy systems.

n Technology Accelera tion – Technologies deploy at a

pace equal to or exceeding indus try advancements.

n Zero Trust Enablement –Department- and component-lev el processes, policies and funding are synchronized with zero trust principles and approaches.

Resnick said the development of the Zero Trust Strategy and Roadmap was done in collabo ration with the National Security Agency, the Defense Information Systems Agency, the Defense Manpower Data Center, U.S. Cy ber Command and the military services.

The department and its part ners worked together to develop a total of 45 capabilities and more than 100 activities derived from those capabilities, many of which the department and components will be expected to be involved in as part of successfully achieving baseline, or “target level” com pliance with zero trust architec ture within the five-year timeline, Resnick said.

“Each capability, the 45 ca pabilities, resides either within

what we’re calling ‘target,’ or ‘ad vanced’ levels of zero trust,” he said. “DoD zero trust target level is deemed to be the required min imum set of zero trust capabili ty outcomes and activities necessary to secure and protect the department’s data, applications, assets and services, to manage risks from all cyber threats to the Department of Defense.”

Across the department, every agency will be expected to com ply with the target-level implementation outlined in the Zero Trust Strategy and Roadmap. Only a few might be expected to achieve the more advanced level.

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Staff Sgt. Jacob Osborne photo illustration Marines with Marine Corps Forces Cyberspace Command pose for a photo in the cyber operations center at Lasswell Hall aboard Fort Meade, Maryland, Feb. 5, 2020.

JB Charleston hosts largest medal ceremony in decades

Event recognizes 51 airmen for heroic efforts during Afghanistan evacuation

Flying Cross in the 96-year history of the award.

BASE CHARLESTON, S.C. — U.S. Air Force Gen. Mike Minihan, commander of Air Mobility Command, awarded 51 Dis tinguished Flying Crosses to mo bility airmen for their actions in Operation Allies Refuge, during a ceremony Nov. 21 at Joint Base Charleston, South Carolina. Not only was the Distin guished Flying Cross ceremony the largest of its kind in decades, but also, according to the Distinguished Flying Cross Society’s president and board, Capt. Rhea McFarland, 14th Airlift Squad ron C-17 pilot, and Capt. Leslie Green, 375th Air Expeditionary Squadron flight nurse, are the first female African Americans to be awarded the Distinguished

“The men and women from this installation were ready to do whatever it took to deliver the forces needed to secure the Ka bul airport and then to evacuate and save as many lives as possible,” Minihan said. “It’s what they did next that displayed hero ism and selfless devotion to duty –the reason for today’s ceremony.”

The Distinguished Flying Cross recipients consisted of pi lots, loadmasters, flying crew chiefs and a flight nurse.

Most of the day’s Distin guished Flying Cross recipients were aircrew from the 437th Air lift Wing, recognized for their participation in the final U.S. flights in and out of Afghanistan on Aug. 30, 2021. As they entered the airspace surrounding Hamid Karzai International Airport, crews observed air defense ar tillery, flares and heavy machine gun fire, as well as reports of roof top snipers in the area.

Despite the dangerous condi tions, crews successfully landed

their aircraft without lighting and executed mission maneuvers to minimize time on the ground. A compromised airfield meant a risky departure, but they took off in formation with all remaining U.S. military forces accounted for and safely on board.

During the ceremony, Minihan also presented Distinguished Flying Crosses to a 315th Airlift

Wing aircrew for successfully delivering a baby while in flight. With limited medical equipment and only one trained medic on board, the team delivered the baby and cared for the mother and child while also evacuating 456 vulnerable Afghans.

The remaining Distinguished Flying Cross recipients, from the 437th Airlift Wing, executed

Operation Allies Refuge missions despite multiple danger ous and chaotic breaches of Ha mid Karzai International Airport. During one mission, when thou sands of people breached the air field, they were ordered to depart immediately. As aircrew quickly prepped the aircraft for departure, they discovered an

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electrical malfunction. The quick and decisive maintenance actions taken by the flying crew chief got his crew out of a perilous situ ation.

During Operation Allies Ref uge, the largest noncombatant evacuation in American histo ry, each of these 51 airmen went into a dangerous environment to evacuate tens of thousands of ref ugees in just 17 days. The Distin guished Flying Cross, authorized by Congress on July 2, 1926, is the fourth-highest award for extraor dinary achievement and is the highest award for heroism while

participating in aerial flight.

“I’m honored to have received the Distinguished Flying Cross alongside my crew, and to have played a role in a team of ser vice members and allies to evacu ate over 124,000 people,” McFar land said. “I’m grateful to help showcase what mobility warriors bring to the fight.”

Most of the Distinguished Fly ing Crosses were awarded with the “C” device, which was es tablished in 2016 to symbolize that the medal was earned for ex ceptionally meritorious service or achievement performed under combat conditions.

“Today is a powerful day to honor the giants among us. It’s been 15 months since our nation’s sons and daughters displayed

their selfless duty,” Minihan said. “To the warriors of the front rows today, and to the families whose pride has always swelled for your airman, who instantly recognize their heroism and valor, this rec ognition is long overdue.”

The awards presented by Minihan on Nov. 21 are among 96 Distinguished Flying Crosses and 12 Bronze Star Medals ap proved in a September awards board held by U.S. Air Forc es Central Command. A total of 57 Joint Base Charleston airmen are being recognized with the Distinguished Flying Cross. The remaining Distinguished Flying Cross recipients who were un able to attend this ceremony will be recognized at a subsequent ceremony scheduled Jan. 4.

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U.S. Air Force Gen. Mike Minihan, commander of Air Mobility Wing Command, speaks to 51 Distinguished Flying Cross recipients during a ceremony at Joint Base Charleston, South Carolina, Nov. 21.

BELOW LEFT: Distinguished Flying Cross medals are lined up prior to the DFC ceremony at Joint Base Charleston, South Carolina, Nov. 21.

BELOW RIGHT: Distinguished Flying Cross recipients stand in formation after receiving their medals from U.S. Air Force Gen. Mike Minihan, commander of Air Mobility Wing Command, during a ceremony at Joint Base Charleston, South Carolina, Nov. 21.

Space Force presents forces to U.S. Indo-Pacific Command

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CAMP H.M. SMITH, Ha waii — The U.S. Space Force offi cially activated and assigned U.S. Space Forces, Indo-Pacific to the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command in a ceremony Nov. 22 at Camp H.M. Smith under the leadership of Brig. Gen. Anthony Mastalir.

U.S. Space Forces, Indo-Pacif ic is the service’s second compo nent to present forces to a com batant command and the first to stand up at an overseas combat ant command. The component is directly subordinate to the Chief of Space Operations for the exe cution of responsibilities under Title 10 for service-specific ad ministration and support func tions.

“This is truly an historic moment for the Space Force,” said Chief of Space Operations Gen. B. Chance Saltzman. “This is an important step as we normalize Space into the joint force. Given today’s multidomain char acter of war, Space must be deep ly integrated with the joint team.”

Having field components ded icated to Space Force removes layers of bureaucracy and aligns with how other services provide forces to the commander. Addi tionally, activating the U.S. Space Force component to U.S. IndoPacific Command provides clar ity to command relationships, roles and responsibilities.

“Our approach requires the joint force to think, act and oper ate differently by synchronizing our operations, re-aligning our posture and advancing our warf ighting capabilities,” said Adm. John Aquilino, commander, U.S. Indo-Pacific Command. “Today’s ceremony represents a tangible progression in accomplishing our mission of deterrence, while si multaneously increasing our abil ity to defend the homeland, pro tect the joint force, operate in contested space and provide alldomain battlespace awareness.”

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Adm. John C. Aquilino, Commander of U.S. IndoPacific Command, left, passes the United States Space Forces, Indo-Pacific, command flag to Brig. Gen. Anthony J. Mastalir, commander of U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, officiating his assumption of command during the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command activation ceremony hosted by U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, Nov. 22.

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commander, organic space planning and employment expertise, and space command and control that is focused on the joint force’s operational warf ighting priorities and requirements.

U.S. Space Forces, Indo-Pacific will provide U.S. Indo-Pacific Com mand a cadre of space experts who can work with allies and partners to integrate space activities into shared operations, activities, and in vestments. By doing this, U.S. Space Forces, Indo-Pacific enhances secu rity stretching from the Indian Ocean across South and East Asia to the West coast of the United States. Fur thermore, U.S. Space Forces, IndoPacific promotes regional stability and advances U.S. partnerships in the region.

“Today we double down on our commitment to integrate space across all components, all domains,” said Brig. Gen. Anthony Mastalir, commander of U.S. Space Forces

Pacific. “Our task is simple: ensure that warfighters in (U.S. Indo-Pacif ic Command) maximize the combat effects available from space capabil ities – capabilities across all servic es, U.S. Space Command, the intel ligence community and commercial space.”

U.S. Space Forces, Indo-Pacific will have its headquarters at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam in Ha waii to maximize synergy with U.S. Indo-Pacific Command headquarters and the existing Air Operations Cen ter with U.S. Pacific Air Forces.

The stand up at U.S. Space Forces, Indo-Pacific is the U.S. Space Force’s blueprint for presenting forces to the other combatant commands. The na tion’s newest service plans to estab lish two additional component field commands and present them to U.S. Central Command and U.S. Forces Korea by the end of the calendar year. Planning is also underway to establish U.S. Space Force service components at each of the remaining combatant commands.

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Adm. John C. Aquilino, commander of U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, speaks during the United States Space Forces, Indo-Pacific, activation ceremony hosted by U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, Nov. 22.

Ukraine presses NATO on membership

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BUCHAREST, Romania — NATO nations must swiftly ad vance Ukraine’s proposed entry into the Western military alli ance, a top Ukrainian official said Wednesday, calling the past deci sion to defer the country’s mem bership a “strategic mistake.”

Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba spoke during a meeting of NATO foreign ministers held this week in the same massive Roma nian state palace where NATO leaders, 14 years prior, declared they would support Ukraine’s membership but deferred it in definitely until a host of condi tions could be met.

“It is somehow unfortunate that it was exactly here in this palace in 2008 when, in our view, a strategic mistake was made by delaying Ukraine’s membership to NATO,” Kuleba told reporters as the meeting concluded. “We believe . . . that the discussion on Ukraine’s application should begin. And we believe that mis takes made in the past can be cor rected.”

Although top NATO officials and diplomats reiterated their support for the 2008 declaration, they consistently dodged ques tions about when Ukraine might join the alliance, saying the fo cus for now is getting Ukraine through the winter and the war. Accession, officials suggested, is a discussion for another day.

“It is important now that we take it step by step,” NATO

Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said Wednesday. “The most important and urgent step is to ensure that Ukraine prevails, and that is exactly what we are do ing.”

“Allies are continuing to reaf firm their commitment to what happened in this city in 2008,” Julianne Smith, the U.S. ambas sador to NATO, said in a press briefing ahead of the meetings.

“We also have said many times that our focus collectively right now is on practical support to Ukrainian military forces and to the Ukrainian people.”

The summit in Bucharest comes more than nine months into the war in Ukraine, as Rus sia lashes out amid battleground setbacks and as the prospect of peace appears to be distant.

Russia on Monday announced that it was postponing a technical meeting with U.S. officials about the New Strategic Arms Reduc tion Treaty, calling into question the future of the sole remaining strategic nuclear arms control treaty between Washington and Moscow.

The New START accord, which built on Cold War deals to limit nuclear arms, is not due to expire until February 2026, but regular inspections mandated by the treaty have not been held for about three years, first because of the pandemic, then because rela tions were poisoned by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova

explicitly linked the decision to postpone this week’s meeting to Washington’s weapons supplies to Ukraine, demanding that the United States “create conditions” for a meeting to go ahead next year.

The European Union on Wednesday proposed options for setting up a specialized court to try Russia’s alleged crimes in Ukraine, a potential step toward a broader, international effort to hold the country accountable for the war - but only if the United Nations is on board.

The plan, announced by Euro pean Commission President Ur sula von der Leyen, is a response to Ukraine’s calls for the creation of a special tribunal to prosecute Russian leaders for the invasion. “Russia must pay for its horrific crimes, including for its crime of aggression against a sovereign state,” she said in a statement.

In Bucharest, the United States and its NATO allies are fo cused on Ukraine’s urgent mili tary and civilian infrastructure

needs.

Kuleba said he received new promises of military assistance, including air-defense equipment, armored vehicles and ammuni tion, but provided no details.

In a meeting with Kuleba, Sec retary of State Antony Blinken discussed the United States’ “en during commitment to Ukraine’s defense and deterrence capa bilities, especially the provision of air-defense options to com bat Russia’s escalating missile strikes against civilian infra structure in Ukraine,” according to Ned Price, spokesperson for the State Department.

Securing additional air-de fense systems has emerged as a top priority for Ukraine since Moscow in October began to regularly barrage Ukrainian cities with missiles and Iranian-made drones, taking a particular toll on civilians and the country’s vulnerable electricity grid. Au thorities have said that at least a quarter of the power grid is now damaged, requiring scheduled

blackouts and repeated attempts to repair affected stations.

The Biden administration used the NATO gathering to un veil a plan to spend as much as $53 million on purchasing ener gy equipment to replace items such as transformers and cir cuit breakers that have been de stroyed by Russian strikes.

The government of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has elevated energy security as a key issue in talks with foreign supporters as winter deepens the effects of those attacks.

Speaking after the alliance talks, Blinken said the Pentagon was working with Ukraine with the goal of ensuring that energy infrastructure was protected, something Kuleba called para mount for his country, but the top U.S. diplomat made no new pledges of air-defense systems.

Pressed on why the alliance has not moved more swiftly on the matter of Ukrainian ac cession, Stoltenberg said that,

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“If you’re a national security system, we may require the ad vanced level for those systems,” McKeown said. “But advanced really isn’t necessary for liter ally every system out there. We have an aggressive goal getting to ‘targeted’ by 2027. And we want to encourage those who have a greater need to secure their data to adopt this advanced level.”

Resnick said achieving the tar get level of zero trust isn’t equiv alent to a lower standard for net work security.

“We defined target as that lev el of ability where we’re actual ly containing, slowing down or stopping the adversary from ex ploiting our networks,” he said. “Compared to today, where an adversary could do an attack and then go laterally through the net work, frequently under the noise floor of detection, with zero trust that’s not going to be possible.”

By 2027, Resnick said, the de partment will be better poised to prevent adversaries from attack ing the DoD network and mini mize damage if it does occur.

“The target level of zero trust is going to be that ability to con tain the adversary, prevent their freedom of movement, from not only going laterally but being able to even see the network, to enumerate the network, and to even try to exploit the network,” he said.

If later on more is needed, he said, the requirements for meet ing the target level of compliance can be adjusted.

“Target will always remain that level to which we’re seeing and stopping the adversary,” he said. “And for the majority of the DoD, that’s really our goal.”

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NATO

without urgent aid, there would be no country to join the alliance.

“If Ukraine does not prevail as an in dependent, sovereign state, then of course the membership issue is not at the table at all, because then we have no candidate member anymore in Ukraine,” he said.

“Whatever you think about when Ukraine can become a member, a

precondition for that issue to be at the ta ble at all is that Ukraine prevails,” he continued. “And we are helping Ukraine to do so.”

Stoltenberg hinted that political ties between NATO and Ukraine could be strengthened, but that, for now, the alli ance is focused on practical matters, such as bringing Ukraine’s Soviet-era equip ment up to NATO standard.

Officials also discussed prospective members Finland and Sweden, who have made it past final hurdles in all alliance nations except two, Hungary and Turkey.

Ankara has accused Sweden of harbor ing Kurdish militants who pose a threat to Turkey. In recent remarks, however, Stol tenberg has made it clear that such con cerns have been addressed and that it is time to move forward.

Blinken downplayed differences among NATO nations over Finland’s and Swe den’s memberships, and those over a pro posed plan to cap the price of Russian oil.

“Sometimes it’s easy to miss the for est for the trees,” he said. “The forest is dense, strong, substantive, and that is con vergence among allies and partners on all

of the critical issues.”

He said the ratification in 28 of 30 member nations had happened in “record speed” and said Sweden and Finland were engaging with Turkey to address its con cerns.

“I’m very confident, and again, based on what I’ve heard these last couple of days, that Finland and Sweden will soon be formally new members of the alliance,” he said.

U.S. officials have suggested that the two countries’ accession processes might be completed by early next year.

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up for Travis Exchange’s gift wrap program

Army & Air Force Exchange Service Public Affairs

TRAVIS AIR FORCE BASE — Local volunteer groups looking to raise money and holiday spirits can join with the Army & Air Force Exchange Service to provide gift wrapping for military shoppers.

The Travis Exchange will provide wrapping paper, tape and oth er supplies for volunteer groups to set up their stations. Groups can seek donations for the gift wrapping.

“The Exchange is pleased to bring back this great program that benefits the whole community,” Travis Exchange General Manag er Phonda Bishop said in a press release. “Our local groups have a chance to fundraise, and shoppers save valuable time and effort get ting ready for the holidays.”

Groups can sign up to wrap gifts now through Dec. 24 and can sign up at the main Exchange customer service desk. For more informa tion, call 785-784-2026, Ext. 206.