BIDEN RESTORES LANDMINE BAN: In a roll-back of a Trump-era policy, President Joe Biden has ordered the U.S. military to eliminate anti-personnel landmines from its arsenal, with the exception of mines used in the demilitarized zone separating North and South Korea. THE KOREA EXCEPTION: The U.S. has an estimated three million anti-personnel landmines in its inventory, and most would be destroyed under the new Biden policy. Ukraine is a signatory to the 1997 Ottawa Convention , which bans the production, stockpiling, use, or transfers of landmines. While the U.S. has supplied Ukraine with Claymore anti-personnel landmines, they are “command-detonated with a person in the loop,” and so they are “Ottawa-compliant,” says Brown. 10:30 a.m. — Hudson Institute virtual discussion: “The Future of the U.S. Air Force,” with Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Charles Q.

Source: Washington Post June 22, 2022 14:10 UTC