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www.stripes.com December 23, 2022 | View in browser   No alien life discovered on Earth, Pentagon says, but search deepens The Defense Department’s new All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office is evaluating recent reports of unexplained phenomena and accounts that date back decades. Read more >   North Korea launches two missiles after US, South Korean airpower drills North Korea fired at least one ballistic missile into the East Sea, or Sea of Japan, according to South Korea’s military. Read more >   US, UK troops wage digital war in Call of Duty tournament U.S. and British troops stepped into an intense digital battleground last week, but their adversaries weren’t Russian trolls or Chinese hackers. They were fellow service members with names like Redninjaturtle, Naz3re and Acquiesce. Read more > Missile plan gives Japan, US clout over Chinese navy, expert says New Japanese and U.S. missiles have the potential to overwhelm China’s powerful and rapidly growing navy in a conflict, according to a U.S. security expert. Read more >   Japan approves its largest-ever defense budget for 2023 Citing concern over its challengers’ growing military might, Japan approved its largest-ever defense budget for next fiscal year, a drastic increase over this year’s budget. Read more >   Military bases had $260M in damages from Afghan evacuation Military bases that housed tens of thousands of Afghan refugees in the U.S. incurred almost $260 million in damages that in some cases rendered buildings unusable for troops until significant repairs to walls and plumbing are made, the Pentagon's inspector general found. Read more >   Sting operation: Nighttime scorpion hunts at Kuwait base so popular with US troops that there’s a waitlist People stationed at Ali Al Salem have gone on some 100 hunts since the spring. The nighttime journeys into the desert attracted hundreds seeking to bag a scorpion or a camel spider during their tour to Kuwait. Read more >   Congress approves new election rules in Jan. 6 response Congress on Friday gave final passage to legislation changing the arcane law that governs the certification of a presidential contest, the strongest effort yet to avoid a repeat of Donald Trump's violence-inflaming push to reverse his loss in the 2020 election. Read more >   This year, US military families count holiday blessings at home This year, with the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic over and America’s military no longer involved in the post-9/11 conflicts that kept it occupied for 20 years in Iraq and Afghanistan, more service members are spending the final days of December with their families. Read more >   FOLLOW US STRIPES.COM | EUROPE | JAPAN | KOREA | OKINAWA | GUAM © 2022 Stars and Stripes · 633 3rd St. NW Suite 500, Washington, DC 20001-3050