From Doug Stanglin, USA Today: “Some 3,000 U.S. troops, under a NATO banner, are arriving in Poland and six other Eastern European countries in what a Kremlin spokesman calls a threat to Russia's interest and security. The deployment, which includes more than 80 main battle tanks and hundreds of armored vehicles, is part of NATO's Operation Atlantic Resolve, which was launched in response to Russia's annexation of Crimea in 2014.”
U.S., SOMALIA: U.S. Launches "Self-Defense Strike" During Raid Against Shabaab
From Bill Roggio, FDD's The Long War Journal: “U.S. Africa Command announced that it launched an airstrike against Shabaab, al Qaeda’s branch in Somalia, while U.S. advisors accompanied Somali and African Union forces in a counterterrorism exercise on Jan. 7. AFRICOM described the offensive under the guise of a “self-defense strike,” as it did on nine other occasions in 2016, when it was really another skirmish in a decade-long military operation against Shabaab.”