398: Israel Strikes Targets Amid Hezbollah Threat + Russia Transferring Materiel from Syria to Libya + After GAO Protest Ruling - US Army Restarts Work on Fixed-Wing ISR Program + More

For review:1. Israel Strikes Targets Amid Hezbollah Threat.Israel says that before the strikes, it made the threats known to an international mechanism set up as part of the ongoing ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah, but “the threats weren’t addressed.”Israel struck several Hezbollah targets, including a rocket launcher, an unspecified military site, and “routes along the Syria-Lebanon border used to smuggle weapons to Hezbollah.”2. Governance row between two main Palestinian groups- Hamas and Fatah- plays out in West Bank.3. Russia Transferring Materiel from Syria to Libya.On December 18- the Wall Street Journal, citing Libyan and American officials, said there had been a transfer of Russian radars and defense systems from Syria to Libya, including S-300 and S-400 anti-aircraft batteries.4. Russia claims advances in the Donetsk and Kharkiv Regions.5. Ukraine claims that it has captured two wounded N. Korean Soldiers in Russia's Kursk Region.6. After GAO Protest Ruling - US Army Restarts Work on Fixed-Wing ISR Program.7. US Army Launched Effects (LE) program.Launched Effects is the Army's term of art for an unmanned segment among its aerial platforms, capable of delivering a wide range of capabilities such as targeting, reconnaissance, surveillance, network extension or kinetic strike.