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Ian Ellis @www.iejmedia.com · 14/09/2025

🚨 Marine F-35B stealth fighter aircraft landed in Puerto Rico yesterday, as the U.S. significantly bolsters its airpower in the Caribbean following one of the largest naval deployments ever to the region. New SOUTHCOM report with a closer look at the air combat element: @vcdgf555.bsky.social

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Ian Ellis @www.iejmedia.com · 01/09/2025

U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM): Air and Naval Assets + Potential strike package with a TLAM (Tomahawk Land Attack Missile) loadout via @vcdgf555.bsky.social

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Ian Ellis @www.iejmedia.com · 24/06/2025

One pager on Op. Midnight Thunder, the largest B-2 strike in U.S. history, which targeted three key Iranian nuclear facilities. - 125+ aircraft + 1x guided-missile sub - Main strike package: 7x B-2 bombers - Employed decoy + deception tactics - 75+ precision-guided munitions (MOP, TLAM, HARM)

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Ian Ellis @www.iejmedia.com · 12/04/2025

Dual U.S. carrier coverage in the Middle East 🇺🇸 - Carl Vinson Carrier Strike Group (CSG) arrived in CENTCOM AOR, operating off the coast of Oman - In the Red Sea, Truman CSG continues non-stop 24/7 strike ops against the Houthi + Nimitz CSG chopped into U.S. 7th Fleet & heading west

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Ian Ellis @www.iejmedia.com · 16/03/2025

🚨 The U.S. launched large-scale precision strikes against the Houthi in Yemen yesterday: Map The Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike Group, on station in the Red Sea, & USAF participated in the operation, which hit “dozens & dozens” of targets. ~20% of the fleet in theater:

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Ian Ellis @www.iejmedia.com · 11/03/2025

U.S. Navy Assets + Pacific Force Posture: New map The Carl Vinson Carrier Strike Group, America Amphibious Ready Group, Expeditionary Mobile Base USS John L. Canley, DESRON 15, + at least 4x fast-attack subs have been operating in the Indo-Pacific. ~1/3 of the fleet in theater.

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Ian Ellis @www.iejmedia.com · 08/03/2025

Balloon barrage: China launched 11 balloons toward Taiwan yesterday, the most ever recorded in a single day. I recently asked RADM (Ret) Mike Studeman, former commander of Naval Intelligence, about their capabilities 👇 - Electronic warfare - Surveillance - Comms - Decoys + The list goes on…

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Ian Ellis @www.iejmedia.com · 05/03/2025

TL;DR - Increasing intensity - More forces - More forward - Expanded joint ops

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Ian Ellis @www.iejmedia.com · 05/03/2025

China intensified its military presence & activity near Taiwan in Feb, significantly outpacing previous years - 362 PLA aircraft entered Taiwan’s ADIZ (4x more than 2024 & 5th highest on record) - 223 navy warships tracked (+42%) - Deployed 2x surface action groups - 5x joint combat patrols

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Ian Ellis @www.iejmedia.com · 02/03/2025

Breaking today: SECDEF deploys U.S. Army Stryker Brigade Combat Team to Southern Border 🇺🇸 - Mechanized infantry force of ~4,400 soldiers - 300+ Stryker 8-wheeled armored vehicles + General Support Aviation Battalion w/ 650 troops, UH-60 Black Hawks & CH-47 Chinooks Composition:

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Ian Ellis @www.iejmedia.com · 01/03/2025

China’s Defense Ministry spox warns Taiwan: “We will come & get you, sooner or later.” “We make no promise to renounce the use of force, which is targeted at the ‘Taiwan independence’ separatist forces & external interference.” “We warn the US: playing sneaky tricks on Taiwan would only backfire.”

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Ian Ellis @www.iejmedia.com · 28/02/2025

🚨 Major Chinese military activity in the Indo-Pacific - Launched snap live-fire drills 40 nautical miles from Taiwan - Conducted unannounced live-fire drills between Australia & New Zealand - Deployed 2x surface action groups led by Type 075 amphibious assault ships - Carrier Liaoning (16) underway

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Ian Ellis @www.iejmedia.com · 16/02/2025

U.S. and allied partners kicked off the new year with military exercises around the world 🇺🇸

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Ian Ellis @www.iejmedia.com · 15/02/2025

New: Aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) is fully mission capable and back conducting flight ops in the Med following a collision with merchant vessel Besiktas-M while operating near Port Said, Egypt, on 12 February. (U.S. Navy photos)

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Ian Ellis @www.iejmedia.com · 14/02/2025

“We’re very close to that [point] where on a daily basis the fig leaf of an exercise could very well hide operational warning. Their aggressive manoeuvres around Taiwan right now are not exercises as they call them, they are rehearsals. They are rehearsals for the forced unification of Taiwan.” (FT)

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Ian Ellis @www.iejmedia.com · 12/02/2025

"The work that #USAID does is essential for national security success," a former Sr. USAID Official told us on @indopacpodcast.bsky.social "It's my belief that the incoming administration has chosen USAID to curb-stomp it to death as a way to send a message to the rest of the federal bureaucracy.”

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Ian Ellis @www.iejmedia.com · 11/02/2025

Quick look @ Chinese PLA military activity around Taiwan in 2025 • +250% incursions into Taiwan’s ADIZ • +38% naval warships operating nearby • 17x bomber sorties (most since 2022) • 28x balloons (10x direct overflights) • 6x joint combat readiness patrols • 5x drone circumnavigations

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Ian Ellis @www.iejmedia.com · 27/01/2025

Snapshot: 2025 U.S. military activity in the Indo-Pacific - 200 National Guard Airmen + F-35A fighters deployed to Kadena - Elevated recon sorties; additional ISR assets moved into theater - First exercise with the Philippines involving a U.S. carrier - USAF B-1B Lancer bombers deployed to Guam

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Ian Ellis @www.iejmedia.com · 23/01/2025

DOD + U.S. Coast Guard announce immediate action in support of Presidential Executive Orders - USCG surging assets (cutters, aircraft, boats, + deployable specialized forces) to increase presence - DOD augmenting forces at the SW border with additional ~1,500 ground personnel

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Ian Ellis @www.iejmedia.com · 18/01/2025

U.S. Navy force posture ahead of the presidential transition of power 🇺🇸 8 of America’s 11 aircraft carriers are active or working up, and 3 are currently deployed: Truman in the Middle East (5th Fleet), Vinson + Washington in the Indo-Pacific (7th Fleet)

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Ian Ellis @www.iejmedia.com · 05/01/2025

🚨 Record-breaking Chinese PLA military activity around Taiwan in 2024 - 3,069 incursions into Taiwan’s ADIZ (+80% yoy) - 5,110 PLA aircraft detected nearby (+8%) - 2,501 PLAN warships tracked (+32%) - Most sorties in a single day (153) + 3x major military drills Quick thread:

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Ian Ellis @www.iejmedia.com · 03/01/2025

“As the Lunar New Year of 2025 ushers in the Chinese Year of the Snake, U.S. officials must engage in better strategic communications about foreign threats in American grasslands. Speaking openly and ‘getting real’ with the public is overdue…” Read more: www.thecipherbrief.com/straight-tal...

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Ian Ellis @www.iejmedia.com · 03/01/2025

“Like it or not, the CCP has engineered the equivalent of a silent invasion of the U.S., as it has done in so many other countries... For decades, the world’s premier Eastern power has been stealthily influencing the world’s top Western power on its home turf.” —Mike Studeman

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Ian Ellis @www.iejmedia.com · 27/12/2024

🚨 China launches world’s largest amphibious assault warship; first of its kind with electromagnetic catapult The Type 076 landing helicopter dock (LHD), CNS Sichuan (51), made its debut in Shanghai on Friday & features “significant technological upgrades that place it in a class above its peers.”

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Ian Ellis @www.iejmedia.com · 18/12/2024

U.S. Navy Carrier Updates 🇺🇸 1. Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike Group transited the Suez southbound & entered the Red Sea/CENTCOM AOR 2. Carl Vinson CSG in the Philippine Sea/WESTPAC 3. Elements of Abraham Lincoln CSG arriving home 4. George Washington CSG @ homeport in Japan

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Ian Ellis @www.iejmedia.com · 16/12/2024

China quietly carried out a sweeping military operation last week in the Western Pacific — its largest naval deployment in decades. Taiwan defense officials called the unannounced exercise staggering, unprecedented, and extremely rare. Here’s everything you need to know 🧵

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Ian Ellis @www.iejmedia.com · 11/12/2024

USMC Commandant Gen. Smith: “The advantage lies with us because our last combat was captured on somebody’s iPhone 14... The Chinese’ last combat was captured on oil and canvas, and they should not forget that... I would not undersell the value that our combat experience brings to this fight.”

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Ian Ellis @www.iejmedia.com · 10/12/2024

Adm Paparo: “I remain confident that we’d prevail in a conflict with the PRC over Taiwan... And the PRC also doubts their own ability to prevail in such a conflict... Our concern is that the margin—expressed in risk of succeeding, lost lives, lost capability, lost money, and lost time—is eroding.”

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