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Japan moves to buy Tomahawk missiles in unprecedented shift to offensive weapons
Japan will move forward on the Tomahawk decision as a part of the rollout of its new national security and defense strategies this month, along with a major hike in Japan’s defense budget — to the NATO benchmark of 2 percent of gross domestic product, which would make it the third-largest in the world. Together, these steps signal a Japan moving to shed its longtime pacifist constraints.
“Japan wanted to limit its defense spending and try not to acquire second-strike capability. But the situation surrounding us does not permit us to do that,” said Ichiro Fujisaki, former Japanese ambassador to the United States. “Many people thought [war] was a 20th-century issue, but we are now seeing that again.”
The missile acquisition and the growing defense budget have the support of the Biden administration, which views Japan as a pivotal partner in the western Pacific. Officials see a deepening alliance with Japan as part of a broader strategy of regional cooperation to enhance security, including a deal involving the United States and Britain helping Australia develop nuclear-powered submarines, and the United States lifting limits on South Korea building ballistic missiles.
“The United States is not just taking unilateral steps, but is seeking to empower allies and partners in ways that are deeply significant and magnify our capacities in the region,” said a U.S. official who, like several others interviewed, spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss plans that are not yet public.
The decision to buy hundreds of Tomahawks — 400 to 500 by some accounts — will put China and North Korea on notice that Japan is serious about self-defense, and that the bilateral alliance — arguably the most significant militarily in the region — is growing stronger in the face of threats from Beijing and Pyongyang, officials said.
“The introduction of this system will symbolize a major positive change regarding counterstrike capabilities,” a Japanese official said. The Tomahawk missiles, with a 1,000-mile-plus range, would put military targets on mainland China within reach.
While Japan has gradually been shifting away from self-defense-oriented policies — a 2014 reinterpretation of its constitution allowed for military action in the event an ally was attacked — change had been incremental.
Russia’s February invasion of Ukraine was “absolutely” a pivotal factor in creating the political climate that allowed the ruling Liberal Democratic Party to push a strong national security agenda over anti-militarist public sentiment, a second Japanese official said.
Polls show that post-Ukraine, public support for what the Japanese government calls “counterstrike” capability has clearly risen, from 37 percent in July 2020 to over 60 percent in June.
For the Japanese, the war in Ukraine has made a Chinese invasion of Taiwan appear much more possible, deepening the public’s concern over Japan’s military readiness in the event of a regional conflict.
In August, after U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) visited Taipei, an outraged Beijing carried out aggressive military drills near Taiwan, including the launch of a ballistic missile that landed in Japan’s exclusive economic zone. And over the past year, North Korea has tested an unprecedented number of ballistic missiles as it pursues its nuclear weapons program, even sending one over Japan.
“This represents a significant evolution in Japan’s strategic thinking,” said Jeffrey Hornung, an expert in Japanese security and foreign policy at the Washington-based Rand Corp. “China’s behavior over the last 10 years has really put Japan on a trajectory of thinking more seriously about its defense.”
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has pushed a more assertive foreign policy agenda since February. Late last month, he took the extraordinary step of saying he wanted to grow the defense budget to 2 percent of GDP by 2027 — a move long considered controversial and implausible. If he succeeds, Japan in five years likely would have the world’s third-largest defense budget after the United States and China.
Japan views the Tomahawk missiles as a “stopgap” weapon that could be delivered within five or so years, as it works to extend the range of its own Type 12 cruise missiles to have a similar ability to attack military targets on land from a distance. But that project is likely to be a 10-year effort, experts said.
Japan plans to reconfigure existing vertical launch systems on its destroyers to accommodate the Tomahawks, officials said. The Tomahawks were a top choice because they are “combat proven long-range fires,” the first Japanese official said.
The Tomahawk Land Attack Missiles, or TLAMs, are built by Raytheon. They were notably used in the 1991 Persian Gulf War, demonstrating that targets could be struck at long range with precision. They would give Japan the ability to strike bases on Chinese or North Korean soil, unlike its current array of missiles, which are geared for invaders closer to Japanese territory.
Possessing Tomahawks would “add a lot” to Japan’s conventional deterrent, said the former head of U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, retired Adm. Phil Davidson. “You’ve got to have some offensive capability,” said Davidson, who retired last year. “You can’t win the World Cup without scoring a goal. You can’t just play defense all the time. If you’re going to have a deterrent capability, your adversary has to feel they’re at risk.”
The benefits would accrue to partners in the region as well, said Christopher B. Johnstone, Japan chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies: “A Japan that is capable of striking back on its own would make a significant contribution to deterrence in East Asia.”
Japan and the United States already cooperate closely in military technology, former officials noted. The Japanese fly the F-35 fighter jet and use the Aegis missile defense system, both built by U.S. contractor Lockheed Martin. They run joint ballistic missile defense exercises at sea, including a successful one last month off Hawaii.
Japanese officials say the move would also deepen U.S. confidence in Japan’s will and ability to shoulder its defense burden.
“We are backing our intention with the budget and security strategy,” said the second Japanese official. “And that should elevate U.S. confidence in Japanese capability. That kind of confidence is important for the alliance.”
To date only Britain has been sold the Tomahawks, noted Hornung, from Rand. The United States selling to Japan “sends a message that you are in our top tier of really trustworthy countries as allies,” he said.
China has bristled at Japan’s shift. At a briefing this month, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning called Japan’s plans a “very dangerous” development.
“Japan needs to earnestly reflect on its history of aggression, respect the security concerns of Asian neighbors, act prudently in the field of military security, and do more things that are conducive to regional peace and stability,” Mao said.
In May, Japan’s national security adviser, Takeo Akiba, met in Washington with his White House counterpart, Jake Sullivan, and broached the idea of buying Tomahawks, according to people familiar with the matter. Sullivan, they said, was receptive.
“We’ll start a process to look at it,” he told Akiba, according to the people. “And we’ll stay in touch with you.”
Tokyo has not yet made a formal request to purchase the weapons, officials said.
The government is still sensitive to domestic antiwar sentiment and is steadfastly framing the weapons in terms of self-defense. “It’s defensive-offensive — not offense-offense,” said the second official. “We still consider it defensive.”
But, the official conceded, “this [move] is quite extraordinary. The Tomahawk is very significant.”
Japan was the first Asian nation to join the West in imposing sanctions on Russia over its invasion, leading Russia to label it an “unfriendly” country and to increase its military activity in the vicinity.
Officials in Tokyo saw how NATO support for Kyiv increased after it demonstrated a will to fight in the face of long odds, said Johnstone, until June a White House director for East Asia: “They concluded the best way to ensure the United States and others are in their corner in a crisis was to show they had invested in their own defense and were prepared to fight. That is the central lesson of the Ukraine war for Japan.”
Indeed, Japan is poised to take a remarkable turn in its defense posture in many ways beyond just new hardware and increased spending. This month, the Defense Ministry is also expected to announce an increase of its cybersecurity team to 20,000 by 2027, up from the current 800, staffing up the government to close major gaps in its cybersecurity capabilities.
Japan is also considering making it easier for the Self-Defense Forces to use civilian ports and airports in peacetime, a further reflection of its concerns over readiness in case of conflict.
Nakashima reported from Washington. Julia Mio Inuma in Tokyo contributed to this report.
Donald Trump does tomahawk chop with Braves fans at World Series
ATLANTA — Months after calling for a boycott of Major League Baseball, former President Donald Trump did the tomahawk chop with Atlanta Braves fans at Game 4 of the World Series on Saturday night.
Trump stood beside his wife, Melania, as he chopped away with fans before the game between the Atlanta Braves and Houston Astros from a private suite.
Trump was expected to be joined by political allies, including U.S. Senate candidate Herschel Walker.
Trump released a statement in a mass email to his supporters Saturday about his planned World Series appearance:
“Looking forward to being at the World Series in Atlanta tonight. Thank you to the Commissioner of Baseball Rob Manfred, and Randy Levine of the New York Yankees, for the invite. Melania and I are looking forward to a wonderful evening watching two great teams!”
MLB denied making the invitation and said in a statement, “He requested to attend the game.”
Levine is the Yankees president.
The visit to Truist Park provided Trump an opportunity to be seen with Walker, the former University of Georgia Heisman Trophy winner and running back with the Dallas Cowboys, Minnesota Vikings and USFL New Jersey Generals.
Trump was an owner of the Generals when Walker played for the team in the now-defunct league, and they have maintained a relationship. Trump has encouraged Walker to run for Senate.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell endorsed Walker on Wednesday. Walker is seeking to unseat Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock.
Trump encouraged a boycott of MLB games after Manfred removed the All-Star Game from Atlanta. The game instead was held in Denver.
President Joe Biden supported moving the game, though some Braves fans and businesses near Truist Park complained they were being unfairly punished.
Manfred’s decision announced in April followed a protest of Georgia’s new voting law, which includes an ID requirement for mail-in votes. Critics say the law will negatively affect communities of color.
Trump may have selected Atlanta in hopes of a more positive reception than he received in his last World Series appearance. When still in office, he was booed when he sat in the stands at Game 5 of the 2019 World Series between the Astros and Washington at Nationals Park.
Trump was not shown on the Truist Park video board before the game.
Liberal sports writers look to cancel ‘Braves,’ Tomahawk Chop as World Series heads to Atlanta
Liberal sports writers and corporate media members will be glued to the television on Friday night when the Atlanta Braves host the Houston Astros in Game 3 of the World Series, but many of them won’t be focused on the game.
Instead, woke members of the press have been busy decrying the Braves’ nickname and iconic Tomahawk Chop as everything from racist to an act of violence.
“A sport that helped define America and American men for more than 100 years has been taken over by those who hate the sport, the fans and our country,” Media Research Center vice president Dan Gainor told Fox News Digital.
Cancel culture has hit professional sports in recent years, specifically for teams named after Native Americans, and many have set their sights on the Atlanta Braves as the team hosts its first Fall Classic game in 22 years.
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The NFL franchise formerly known as the Washington Redskins dropped its longtime moniker after years of pressure and have simply gone by the Washington Football Team. Major League Baseball’s Cleveland Indians initially ditched its popular Chief Wahoo logo and has scrapped the name altogether, planning to take the field as the Cleveland Guardians beginning next season.
The Atlanta Braves, whose name goes back to 1912 when they played in Boston and later in Milwaukee, have hung onto the moniker and famed chant. Now, with the World Series heading to Atlanta’s Truist Park tied up at one game apiece, everyone seems to have an opinion on anything other than the action on the field.
The Associated Press published a column by Paul Newberry headlined, “Pull the plug on the chop — and Braves name, too.” The column admits the Tomahawk Chop “will be impossible to ignore now that the World Series has shifted to Atlanta,” adding that viewers will have “unfortunate” visuals.
ATLANTA, GA – AUGUST 20: Atlanta Braves fans doing the “Tomahawk Chop” during the game against the Washington Nationals at Turner Field on August 20, 2016 in Atlanta, Georgia.
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“Simply put, the Braves and their co-conspirator are on the wrong side of history, not unlike those who continue to defend the Confederate flag and statues as nothing more than peaceful symbols of Southern heritage,” Newberry wrote.
Liberal CNN published an article with critics calling the Braves’ chant “racist” and “dehumanizing,” Mic complained the “racist Tomahawk Chop is here to stay,” and MSNBC’s Joy Reid slammed the chant as “portraying hatred of Native American people.”
Sports Illustrated asked, “Why Does MLB Still Allow Synchronized, Team-Sanctioned Racism in Atlanta?,” in a piece that claimed “a nationwide television audience will see a largely white crowd mocking a people its ancestors tried to erase.”
The Braves have played dozens of nationally televised games over the years before the World Series however, whether during their recent string of playoff appearances or occasionally during the regular season on ESPN and FOX.
ESPN’s Jeff Passan has called on MLB to “stop the chop” and mocked anyone who disagrees with him.
“The best part of writing about the tomahawk chop is the reams of grown adults bleating on about how unfair and wrong it would be for a baseball team to stop encouraging them to wave their arms up and down and cosplay natives and they want to make it seem like you’re the soft one,” Passan tweeted.
“It wouldn’t fix any of those generational problems that affect American Indians. But it would, to plenty, return at least a modicum of dignity to a people that have already had so much taken from them,” he wrote in a column.
USA Today’s Bob Nightengale declared he won’t even use the term “Braves” in his work, despite being employed as the paper’s baseball columnist.
“While I can’t stop the tomahawk chop or make Atlanta change its name, what I can do is not acknowledge the nickname,” Nightengale wrote. “In recent years, I have tried to avoid using Atlanta’s nickname in columns. I find it offensive.”
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USA Today was even caught stealth-editing multiple pieces to remove the “offensive” name from old stories, but chalked it up to an “oversight.”
A fan holds a sign stating “the chop is racist” during the ninth inning in Game One of the World Series during the ninth inning at Minute Maid Park on October 26, 2021 in Houston, Texas.
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“Of course, baseball is suddenly freaking out about Atlanta fans doing the Tomahawk Chop that they’ve been doing for about 30 years. And the infinite number of sports writer leftists — like USA Today’s Bob Nightengale — won’t even dare use the team name,” Gainor said. “It’s like Atlanta’s named after Voldemort or something.”
Fox News contributor Joe Concha, an avid sports fan, also mocked Nightengale’s stance.
“Nightengale should no longer refer to the New York or Winnipeg Jets as the Jets, either. Because Jets are harmful to the atmosphere, thereby accelerating the depletion of the ozone layer,” Concha told Fox News Digital. “This cannot be advocated any further, nor can the Tomahawk Chop. Just ask Bob Nightengale – the Pope of sports scribes.”
The Atlanta Braves have a long and storied history, dating back to their move from Milwaukee to the Georgia capital in 1966. It’s long been one of the south’s most popular franchises, and it set a major league record with 14 straight division titles from 1991 to 2005, although it won just one World Series in that time in 1995.
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The Associated Press published a column by Paul Newberry headlined, “Pull the plug on the chop — and Braves name, too.” (Photo by David J. Griffin/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)
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The Chop, which is also done by fans of Florida State University’s football team and the NFL’s Kansas City Chiefs, has been the team’s signature gesture since the early 1990s. Thousands of fans “chop” the air in unison while doing the famous chant during exciting moments in the game.
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The chant had its critics long before woke culture infiltrated America, and CBS announcer Pat O’Brien even reported that Native American and civil rights activists objected to it during a telecast of the 1991 World Series, but calls for the Braves to cancel it have grown louder. The 30-year-old footage was unearthed this month by a baseball-related Twitter account that urged MLB to “Stop the chop” before the Fall Classic kicked off.
St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Ryan Helsley, a member of the Cherokee Nation, criticized the Tomahawk Chop in 2019. As a result, the Braves stopped distributing the red foam tomahawks used by fans doing the chop during their Division Series matchup against the Cardinals that year.
The team also, temporarily, stopped playing the accompanying music that encourages the chant. The Braves even removed a “Chop On” sign from its ballpark ahead of the 2020 season and but fans continued to “Chop On” without being directed by a wooden sign.
The chant was fully revived during the 2021 season and Braves management has stood its ground, largely refusing to ditch their imagery despite other sports franchises bowing to critics. Drumbeats and images to encourage the chant are prevalent around Truist Park. During opposing pitching changes and scoring opportunities, the Chop roars in the park. As they wrapped up the National League Championship Series last week, the Chop could be heard roaring in the park even before the final out.
Braves chairman Terry McGuirk discussed controversies surrounding the team’s name and imagery in 2020 and didn’t sound like someone who planned to make additional changes.
“We are so proud of our team’s name, and our expectation is that we will always be the Atlanta Braves,” McGuirk told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
“I would say unequivocally the Atlanta Braves’ name will stay the Atlanta Braves,” he added. “The tomahawk logo on the jersey as a big piece of our iconography is here to stay. We are proud of it. We think our constituencies hold it in an equally high level of esteem.”
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The Braves also told the paper the franchise would examine criticism of the Tomahawk Chop and continue an open dialogue about it, but additional measures to retire the chant have never been announced and there has been no indication any changes are coming.
Atlanta, Georgia, USA; Atlanta Braves first baseman Freddie Freeman (5) bats during the first inning of their game against the Philadelphia Phillies at Truist Park on May 9, 2021.
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MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred has, so far, supported the Atlanta franchise on the matter. He cited support of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, based in North Carolina about three hours from Atlanta, as his rationale.
“The Native American community in that region is wholly supportive of the Braves program, including the chop,” Manfred said Tuesday. “For me, that’s kind of the end of the story. In that market, we’re taking into account the Native American community.”
ESPN’s Clinton Yates has an issue with Manfred’s stance, writing a column headlined, “Manfred misses the mark with Braves,” which calls the Chop “deplorable” and a “form of violence” against minorities.
“Without getting too far into a battle of right or wrong, and, quite frankly, in 2021, people of color are tired of having to explain how things like representation correlate to violence and harm in communities. Basically, when people are caricatured routinely, it’s a form of violence that manifests itself in other ways that go far beyond dignity,” Yates wrote.
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It appears that even in 2021, not everyone has an issue with the Braves or the team’s chant.
“I’m not offended by somebody waving their arm at a sports game,” principal chief of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians Richard Sneed told The Associated Press on Tuesday. ” We’ve got bigger issues to deal with.”
However, if liberal sports writers don’t want Braves fans to partake in the Chop, they really won’t like Outkick founder Clay Travis’ suggestion.
“I’m hoping Braves fans continue the Tomahawk Chop while chanting ‘Let’s Go Brandon,’” Travis told Fox News Digital.
Game 3 of the 2021 World Series airs on Friday at 8:09 p.m. ET on FOX. The Astros and Braves will try to take a 2-1 lead in the best-of-seven series after they split their first two games in Houston.
The Associated Press and Fox News’ Joseph A. Wulfsohn and David Rutz contributed this report.
Rob Manfred defends Braves’ name, use of tomahawk chop; Native American group responds
The Atlanta Braves and the Houston Astros kicked off the 2021 World Series on Tuesday night. Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred was at Minute Maid Park for Game 1, and, prior to the game, he defended the Atlanta franchise’s continued use of the “Braves” name and imagery. Manfred was responding to questions about whether the league would pressure them to change identities, the way other teams with Native American monikers have in recent years (including the Cleveland franchise, which will soon be known as the Guardians instead of the Indians).
“The Native American community in that region is wholly supportive of the Braves program, including the chop,” Manfred said, according to Chelsea Janes of the Washington Post. “For me, that’s kind of the end of the story. In that market, we’re taking into account the Native American community. …In Atlanta, they’ve done a great job with the Native Americans. The Native American community is the most important group to decide whether it’s appropriate or not.”
The “chop” is the gesture Braves fans make throughout games that mimics the use of a tomahawk. The gesture has been criticized by Native Americans, including St. Louis Cardinals reliever Ryan Helsley, who reason that it portrays Native Americans as caricatures. “It kind of devalues our Cherokee heritage and the Native-American history,” Helsley said during the 2019 postseason. “Us as Cherokee native people went through a lot in this country.” (The Braves responded by discouraging fans from doing the chop whenever he pitched during that series.)
Here’s video of Manfred addressing reporters on the field in Houston:
Manfred’s point about the region’s Native Americans being supportive of the name and the chop should be scrutinized. As baseball scribe Craig Calcaterra noted in his newsletter, the Braves often point to the support they have from the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians as irrefutable evidence that all Native Americans are on board with their identity. What tends to go unnoted is that the Eastern Band is technically a business partner of the Braves, as their casino serves as a corporate sponsor of the team. (And even the Eastern Band has criticized the franchise’s use of stereotypical “war music.”)
On Wednesday, the National Congress of American Indians released a statement, as shared by The Athletic’s Evan Drellich. Within the release, the NCAI criticized Manfred’s comments and called upon FOX to refuse to air fans performing the chop. Here’s the statement in whole:
There’s no inherent reason why the Braves name or the chop should be viewed as sacrosanct properties. The “Braves” moniker has been used since 1941, but the franchise has also gone by names like the “Bees” and the “Doves.” (Our Dayn Perry opined in January that Atlanta should change its name to the “Hammers” as a tribute to the late Hank Aaron.) The chop, meanwhile, is a relatively new addition to the franchise’s identity, having grown in popularity during the 1991 season, per the New York Times.
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You can buy Razer’s tiny Tomahawk gaming PC starting today
Razer’s small form factor Tomahawk gaming desktop is finally available for sale — mostly. The PC’s main appeal, apart from its size, is that you only need to worry about two parts: the NUC and the graphics card. Razer has a listing for a version that comes with just the NUC, which would allow users to slot in a graphics card they already own, but it seems to be marked as out of stock. The version that’s available for sale today comes with an otherwise extremely hard-to-get RTX 3080 Founder’s Edition.
If you have the $3,199.99 to spend on the version with the 3080, today’s launch seems like the real deal — you can add it to your cart, and Razer’s site says it will ship the next business day. As for the NUC-only version, it’s still listed as out of stock, just like both versions were when they (kind of, sort of, maybe not actually) became available for preorder in December. We’ve reached out to Razer about the availability of the NUC-only version but haven’t received a response.
The computer uses Intel’s NUC, or Next Unit of Computing, as its brain, meaning the actual PC part is just a card that slots in next to the GPU. It seems like there’s only one version of the Tomahawk so far, and it’s got some decent specs:
- An Intel Core i9-9980HK eight-core CPU
- A 512GB NVME SSD and 2.5-inch 2TB HDD
- 16GB DDR4 SO-DIMM RAM
- RGB, of course
At the price point, though, a CPU that is two generations out of date is a bit rough, but that can probably be blamed on Intel. So far, Intel hasn’t released a NUC Extreme Compute Element, like the Tomahawk uses, with its new 11th Gen processors. And because of the design, you can’t upgrade the CPU yourself, though it is worth noting that the RAM and storage can be swapped.
Still, it’s important to emphasize how small this PC is and how packed it is with features — it fits Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5, two Thunderbolt 3 ports, and four USB-A ports inside a 10-liter case. But if you’re thinking of buying it, you should just be sure you’re happy with how it is today: the graphics card can be upgraded, but the NUC is going to stay the same, unless Intel releases a new one. If you’re put off by the NUC element, though, Razer does sell a similar Tomahawk-branded Mini-ITX case that fits standard PC hardware for $229.99 — but it’ll probably be hard to find a CPU and GPU to put in it.