Military Operations

Eager Lion 2013: Jordan plans major exercises with 18 countries

May 25, 2013

Source: Al Arabiya More than 15,000 soldiers from 18 different countries will take part in a joint military exercise in Jordan in the coming weeks, a military official said on Saturday. Jordan’s armed forces will host the exercise, “Eager Lion 2013,” with troops from “friendly countries,” including the United States, taking part, the official Petra [...]

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Full Spectrum Dominance: The entire globe is a battlefield for Pentagon

May 24, 2013

Source: RT Forget it; the Global War on Terror (GWOT) is not becoming more “democratic” – or even transparent. US President Barack Obama now pledges to transfer the responsibility of the shadow ‘Drone Wars’ from the CIA to the Pentagon – so the US Congress is able to monitor it. Until virtually yesterday the Obama administration did [...]

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The Shadow War Behind Syria’s Rebellion: Foreign Backers Jockey for Influence in Turkey

May 24, 2013

Source: Time While the diplomatic grouping known as the Friends of Syria met in the Jordanian capital Amman on Wednesday to discuss a U.S.-Russian plan for peace talks, a low-key yet perhaps equally important gathering was being quietly held in Istanbul between Saudi officials and half of the 30 members of the Free Syrian Army’s Higher Military [...]

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Sunni and Shiite Foreign Fighters Battle for Qusayr

May 23, 2013

Source: WSJ This town on Damascus’s southern fringe, with a shimmering golden-domed shrine at its center and a heavily patrolled perimeter of berms and concrete barriers, has become the first stop for many foreign fighters entering Syria to battle alongside President Bashar al-Assad’s forces. Shiite fighters, primarily from Lebanon, Iran and Iraq, are now flowing [...]

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Israel is fighting a regional war in Syria

May 23, 2013

Source: RT The changing internal situation in Syria is putting a new set of plans into motion, which involve Israeli aggression against Syria. Not only have the US and its allies been trying to militarily buttress the retreating anti-government militias, but now they aim to create a new phase in the conflict where states start [...]

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A bonanza under Mediterranean waters. Another source of conflict?

May 23, 2013

Source: Al Arabiya Jubilant statements by Israeli politicians followed by triumphant newspaper headlines welcomed the first batch of natural gas extracted from the Tamar gas field in the Mediterranean basin last month. The gas field is located in Israel’s exclusive economic zone, around 50 miles west of Haifa. It took four years to construct an [...]

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Syrian Rebels in Trouble: German Intelligence Sees Assad Regaining Hold

May 22, 2013

Source: Der Spiegel Germany’s foreign intelligence agency, the Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND), has fundamentally changed its view of the ongoing civil war in Syria. SPIEGEL ONLINE has learned that the BND now believes the Syrian military of autocrat Bashar Assad is more stable than it has been in a long time and is capable of undertaking successful operations [...]

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General says Israel will smash Syria’s arsenals if Assad falls

May 22, 2013

Source: Reuters Israel is poised to attack Syria to prevent advanced weapons reaching jihadi rebels or Hezbollah guerrillas in Lebanon if President Bashar al-Assad is toppled, Israel’s air force chief said on Wednesday. But Major-General Amir Eshel, addressing a security conference, said his warplanes could be repelled by Syria’s formidable, Russian-supplied anti-aircraft systems – an [...]

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EU gives green light for civilian mission to support border security in Libya

May 22, 2013

Editor’s Note: Civilian Mission = private security forces|mercenaries Source: ENPI The EU today established a civilian EU integrated border management assistance mission in Libya (EUBAM Libya). It will support capacity building for enhancing the security of Libya’s land, sea and air borders and is expected gradually to start deploying in June. EU Foreign Affairs Chief Catherine [...]

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Syrian Army Detains French, British, Belgian, Dutch, Qatari Officers in al-Qusseir

May 21, 2013

Editor’s Note: You can be your own judge. Related Articles: Spy chief: Dutch citizens fighting in Syria ,Libya transporting weapons and fighters to Syria: Americans, Moroccans, Libyans, Egyptians, Bosnians fighting alongside rebel forces , Turkish Intelligence transporting al-Qaeda from Pakistan to fight in Syria, Are Yemeni militants fighting alongside al-Qaeda in Syria?, Yemen Is Sending Thousands Of Young Men To Fight [...]

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Low-flying choppers are ‘conducting surveillance projects’

May 21, 2013

Source: WTVR Helicopter blades are still piercing the air and rattling the nerves of one Chesterfield woman. “It was green, no words on it from what I could see, no special symbols, but, what looked like two guns on the front,” says Mekelle Ford. She continues to see what appear to be military choppers, flying [...]

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Sahel: Algeria’s Proxy War

May 21, 2013

Source: moroccoboard Who is benefiting from recent MUJAO terrorist attacks in the Sahel? What party wants to weaken the resolve of the Touareg people and undermine the Azawadi rights to local rule in a unified Mali? To answer these questions, Western diplomats need to take a closer look at the long-term effects of the MUJAO’s military [...]

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Syria Defending Itself from the Intrigues of Israel: Al-Qaeda, America, Gulf powers and Tel Aviv

May 21, 2013

Source:MTT The nation of Syria is surrounded by many hostile nations which are openly siding with al-Qaeda affiliated terrorist groups and the so-called Free Syrian Army (FSA) which is a proxy of outside nations. In the past Turkey under Prime Minister Erdogan also tried to entangle Syria into a broader conflict because he knows NATO [...]

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Israeli, Syrian troops trade fire in Golan Heights and the strategic battle for Qusair

May 21, 2013

Source: WP Israeli military and Syrian regular army troops exchanged fire early Tuesday along the cease-fire line in the occupied Golan Heights, an area that has become a potential flash point for spillover from the civil war in Syria. After an Israel Defense Forces jeep was hit by small-arms fire from the Syrian military post, [...]

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Killer robots instead of soldiers?

May 21, 2013

Source: DW Increasingly, drones and robots are being used in combat to replace soldiers in high-risk situations. Some researchers and politicians are concerned that, in future, autonomous machines may reign over life and death. A Pentagon video shows a fighter jet taking off from a US aircraft carrier. At first glance, the maneuver is unspectacular. [...]

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The future of propaganda: big data will be a key part of the propaganda campaigns around the wars.

May 21, 2013

Source: Gigaom In 2009, Sean Gourley, an Oxford-trained physicist, gave a TED talk called “The Mathematics of War.” Gourley had been working with the Pentagon, the United Nations and the Iraqi Government to help them better understand the nature of the insurgency in Iraq, and in his presentation he announced something fairly striking: After analyzing the location, timing, [...]

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EU mission seeks to rebuild Mali army after U.S. faltered

May 21, 2013

Source: Reuters A European Union training mission faces a considerable challenge as it seeks to succeed where years of U.S. instruction failed by turning Mali’s rag-tag army into a force capable of facing an Islamist threat stretching across the Sahara. Years of corruption and neglect led the army to a string of defeats against al [...]

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China deploys Su-27 fighters in Tibet, can target key Indian air bases

May 20, 2013

Source: IBN China’s all-weather fighter base in Tibet is now widening its range of options in the event of a conflict with India. Intelligence intercepts and satellite monitoring has confirmed that China may have to some extent overcome Tibet’s extreme altitude and temperatures to operationalise an all-weather airfield near the Tibetan capital Lhasa. The airfield [...]

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Russia to arm Turkey with new military arsenal

May 20, 2013

Source:RBTH As a NATO member, Turkey depends on the supplies of American and European weapons. Moscow has repeatedly tried to get a piece of the action and fascinate the Turkish military with its advanced technology. The first attempt was made at a mid-1990s tender to supply 145 attack helicopters worth $5 billion, when Moscow offered [...]

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Syria’s Low-Intensity Conflict | Hybrid War: A military-strategic assessment

May 18, 2013

Source: JP The overall geostrategic characteristic of the Syrian military picture is a robust armed struggle for supply routes, lines of communication, major highways and key choke points that is somewhat similar to the initial phase of the first Arab-Israeli War in 1947 – a battle for the roads. As a component of the Battle [...]

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Energy Weapons: The Next Gunpowder?

May 18, 2013

Source: NDM Lasers powerful enough for use in war were once a fantastical weapons technology reserved for the sinister and unrealistically complex plots of James Bond villains. In reality, the U.S. military has been investigating and investing in solid-state lasers and other directed energy weapons for half a century. All that work has finally paid [...]

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Expert: Withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan may become pretext for U.S. to establish bases in Caspian region

May 18, 2013

Source: Trends.AZ Withdrawal of coalition forces from Afghanistan could become the pretext for the Americans to establish long-term bases in the Caspian region, Director General of the Caspian Cooperation Institute, Sergei Mikheev believes. “Per se, the withdrawal of troops could become the pretext for the Americans create long-term bases, and for consolidation in the region [...]

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The time has come to consider enabling Japan’s Self-Defense Forces to attack enemy bases

May 18, 2013

Source: Japan News It is essential to reexamine the division of roles between the Self-Defense Forces and the U.S. military, in order to boost the deterrence of the Japan-U.S. alliance. The Liberal Democratic Party has put together a report containing proposals related to the new National Defense Program Guidelines to be compiled by the government [...]

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After Fighting Over Mountains, India and China Lock Horns in the Indian Ocean

May 17, 2013

Editor’s Note: China and India strategic positioning in eastern Ladakh is over mineral resources. The next strategic battle for raw materials and hydrocarbons whether it be diplomacy or conflict will be West/ East Africa, Horn of Africa, Bay of Bengal, south china sea. The powers[Government-Corporations] at play who control the Indo-Pacific sea lines of communication and chokepoints through [...]

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China fires ‘anti-satellite rocket’

May 17, 2013

Source: Australian CHINA has test-fired a new long-range rocket capable of destroying orbiting satellites, according to US intelligence assessments. The launch of the interceptor, which reached an altitude of 10,000km, could pose a serious threat to the US’s military communications in the Asia-Pacific region. Communications and the navigation of carrier strike groups, surveillance aircraft and long-range [...]

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How Qatar seized control of the Syrian revolution

May 17, 2013

Source: FT Related : Qatar bankrolls Syrian revolt with cash and arms A short drive from the rising skyscrapers of Doha’s West Bay, emblems of the once-sleepy Qatari capital’s frenetic growth, the three-starred flag of the Syrian revolution can be seen fluttering over a modern villa guarded by police cars. The villa is the new [...]

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Fearing Afghan instability, Russia mulls border troops

May 17, 2013

Source: Reuters Russia, predicting instability once NATO-led troops withdraw from Afghanistan by the end of next year, is considering deploying border guards on the Tajik-Afghan border, Moscow’s envoy to Kabul told Reuters in an interview. Moscow, still sore from its disastrous, decade-long war in Afghanistan in the 1980s, is increasingly concerned by what it describes as the combined threat [...]

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‘Expect Israeli strikes on Russian arms shipment to Syria-Hezbollah’

May 17, 2013

Source: israel hayom U.S. officials tell The Wall Street Journal: Another round of Israeli airstrikes could target a new Russian transfer of Yakhont advanced anti-ship missiles in the near future • Russia moving more quickly than previously thought to deliver S-300 surface-to-air defense systems to Syria.• CIA Director John Brennan in Israel to coordinate policy. U.S. [...]

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U.S. could use cyberattack on Syrian air defenses

May 16, 2013

Editor’s Note: Electronic Warfare : IDF’s teleprocessing corps C4i , Israel’s high-tech whiz kids, Unit 8200, and W32.Flame and Israel invests millions in drive for elite ‘cyber warriors’: Unit 8200 Source: USA Today The Pentagon has cyberattack capabilities that allow the U.S. military to help blind Syrian air defenses without firing a shot, according to military analysts. “One [...]

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