Military Operations

CIS Security Services to track Syria mercenaries – FSB

May 15, 2013

Source: Indrus The security services of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) member states will be closely monitoring the movement of mercenaries from CIS nations fighting in Syria, Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) head Alexander Bortnikov said on Wednesday. According to the FSB, some 200 mercenaries from Russia, as well as from CIS member states [...]

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Afghan Special Operation Forces to Start Conducting Spy Flights

May 15, 2013

Source: USN Afghan special operations will start conducting their own spy missions with new fixed wing aircraft, a top U.S. commando in Afghanistan said Wednesday, adding another critical stepping stone to allow the U.S. to withdraw by 2014. The U.S. has begun supplying Afghan forces with Swiss-made PC-12 planes, and training local forces to conduct [...]

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6,000 Algerian troops on the Tunisian border

May 15, 2013

Source: Libya TV The Algerian army is reported to have deployed 8 brigades and special forces, made up of more than 6,000 troops on the Tunisian border to counter the possible infiltration by armed Salafist groups. Ground troops and air monitoring on the eastern border with Tunisia are working with Tunisian troops who are hunting [...]

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Marine rapid reaction unit moved to Italy amid escalating crisis in Libya

May 15, 2013

Source: Stars and Stripes Just weeks after arriving in Spain, a “small element” from a new 550-Marine-strong rapid reaction force has repositioned to southern Italy amid deteriorating security conditions in nearby Libya, where there have been a series of recent evacuations by western diplomats, defense officials said Wednesday. “The unit, which is temporarily deployed to [...]

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U.S. Military ‘Power Grab’ Goes Into Effect: Pentagon Unilaterally Grants Itself Authority Over ‘Civil Disturbances’

May 14, 2013

Source: Long Island Press The manhunt for the Boston Marathon bombing suspects offered the nation a window into the stunning military-style capabilities of our local law enforcement agencies. For the past 30 years, police departments throughout the United States have benefitted from the government’s largesse in the form of military weaponry and training, incentives offered in the ongoing [...]

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Hezbollah Fighters reach Syrian-Jordanian border

May 14, 2013

Source: Ammon News Hezbollah forces fighting in Syria are advancing southwards towards the border town of Deraa on the Syrian-Jordanian borders, a source affiliated with Hezbollah said. Lebanese Shiite movement Hezbollah fighting forces are sent to Syria to fight alongside the Syrian regime’s military, including a comprehensive logistics team from Hezbollah’s Military chiefs of staff [...]

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Energy security, power and technology

May 14, 2013

Editor’s Note: Major U.S. military operations/actions to protect oil Source: Fuel Fix A team of journalism graduate students has published a detailed project on energy security, geopolitics and technology that debunks several national myths about oil. The team of nine graduate students at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism spent three months investigating “vulnerabilities in U.S. [...]

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Asia Is Becoming Israel’s New Frontier

May 14, 2013

Source: Forbes When we think of Israel, we usually think of the Middle East (its neighborhood), North America (its close ally the United States) and Europe (the long history of Ashkenazi Jews). Rarely do we think about Israel and Asia, even less about Asia as Israel’s new frontier. We don’t think of Asia as playing [...]

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Qatar and CIA tighten coordination of arms flows to Syria

May 14, 2013

Source: Chicago Tribune Qatar, which has taken a lead in arming the Syrian opposition, is coordinating with the CIA and has tightened control of the arms flow to keep weapons out of the hands of al Qaeda-linked Islamist fighters, according to rebels and officials familiar with the operation. With Britain and France discussing lifting an [...]

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‘India preparing for a possible two-front war with Pak, China’

May 14, 2013

Editor’s Note: India upgrading weaponry to be able to fight a possible two-front war with China and Pakistan Source: Zee Beijing: India continues to view Pakistan as the “real threat” even though it is adjusting its military strategy to include the possibility of a limited two-front war with both Pakistan and China, the first Blue [...]

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Generals: ‘Human Domain’ Will Dictate Future Wars

May 14, 2013

Source: DoDBuzz The leaders of the Army, Marine Corps and Special Operations Forces have offered their response to the Air Force and Navy’s Air-Sea Battle with an exclusive task force of their own: Strategic Landpower. Army Chief of Staff Gen. Raymond Odierno, Marine Corps Commandant Gen. James Amos and Adm. William McRaven, head of U.S. [...]

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Biometrics: A new intelligence discipline-Identity Intelligence Project Office

May 13, 2013

Source: Defense News The intelligence community is pushing to make biometrically enabled intelligence — the art of identifying people by fingerprints, digital mugshots, iris scans or DNA — a regular part of business. Biometrics has evolved dramatically during the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts, and is used in countless manhunts, but the discipline has not been [...]

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Iran-Iraq-Syria pipeline geopolitics driving Syria conflict

May 13, 2013

Source: Guardian [...] Yet the conflict is fast taking on international dimensions, with unconfirmed allegations that rebel forces might have used chemical weapons following hot on the heels of US-backed Israeli air strikes on Syrian military targets last weekend. But the US, Israel and other external powers are hardly honest brokers. Behind the facade of humanitarian concern, familiar interests are [...]

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The ultra-lethal Special Forces unit few have ever heard of

May 12, 2013

Source: Examiner In the wake of the special congressional hearings on the jihadist terror attacks on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya on Sept. 11, 2012, the American people have become inundated with a bevy of brain-dizzying acronyms such as FEST (Foreign Emergency Support Team), SEAL (Sea, Air, Land), SOF (Special Operations Forces) and FAST [...]

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CIA and MI6 ‘GHOST MONEY’ Fueling Afghanistan’s Opium drug trade and guerrilla warfare in Syria

May 12, 2013

Source: HP Afghan president Hamid Karzai, has recently been criticised for taking ‘ghost money’ from the CIA and MI6. The sums are inevitably unknown, for the usual reasons of ‘national security’, but are estimated to have been tens of millions of dollars. While this is nowhere near the eye-bleeding $12billion shipped over to Iraq on [...]

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AFRICOM Special Operations Forces-trained Congolese Commando Battalion among units accused of rape

May 10, 2013

Source: Stars and Stripes For U.S. diplomats and military officials who were involved in training a Congolese army unit, a troubling question loomed: Would the 391st Commando Battalion serve as protectors of the population or would they revert to acts of sexual violence once on the battlefield? A United Nations report released this week indicates [...]

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Electronic Warfare : IDF’s teleprocessing corps C4i

May 10, 2013

Source: JP “I’m directing EW at the head. This is also a form of psychological warfare. I can engage in this and then deny it. It wrecks the functionality of the enemy,” the source added. These days, the idea of Israel engaging its enemies in a war, whether in near or distant arenas, without its [...]

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Artificial telepathy to create Pentagon’s telepathic soldiers

May 10, 2013

Source: DJ As voice-activated technologies have become reality, including the recent use by Google Glass’ software, what about telling machines to do what we want simply by telepathically thinking about it? Telepathy has long been considered an aspect of psychic phenomena or a super power. Telepathy has commonly been defined as a sort of information [...]

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Pentagon Plans East Coast Missile Defense Sites

May 10, 2013

Source: Military Related: Pentagon, NATO allies witness missile defense test in skies over Central New York The U.S. Missile Defense Agency is evaluating potential missile-defense sites on the East Coast to fortify existing interceptor locations in Alaska and California. “The effort has started in terms of defining criteria and evaluating sites,” Navy Vice Adm. James Syring, [...]

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U.S. Troops Replaced by an Outsourced Army in Afghanistan

May 9, 2013

Source: Fiscal Times The United States is preparing to withdraw the majority of its troops from Afghanistan next year, ending more than a decade of war that has cost this country hundreds of billion of dollars and 2,126 lives to date. But the military withdrawal does not mean the United States is out of the [...]

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Total re-conquest of Mali:Western powers are circling their wagons

May 9, 2013

Source: AT Russia, China grapple with Mali’s future [...] Indeed, the western powers are circling their wagons. The Pentagon disclosed that its C-17 military aircraft have been transferring French troops and equipment and it is considering deploying aerial refueling tankers. The US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said the US is providing intelligence. Italy is sending [...]

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New Algeria: Is Tunisia heading towards its black decade?

May 9, 2013

Source: MEO Press reports warned Thursday that Tunisia was “at war with international terrorism” after the government revealed that jihadists being pursued by the army have ties to Al-Qaeda and the Islamist rebellion in Mali. French-language daily Le Temps raised fears of “a spiral of deadly violence similar to the one that ravaged Algeria” during [...]

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Training for war in a virtual battlespace

May 9, 2013

Source: TPP There is a sandstorm all around, and anything could be hidden up ahead in the haze of central Iraq. As a U.S. Army Humvee edges forward, a burst of gunfire erupts, slamming into the bulletproof glass of the passenger door. For an instant, the world becomes a dizzying mix of frantic steering wheel [...]

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5 Of the World’s Most Elite Mercenary Armies

May 9, 2013

Source: Policy Mic Have you ever wanted to know about the word’s elite mercenary armies? Have you been too afraid to ask because they are the world’s most elite mercenary armies? Well, never fear because we’ve complied a list of some of them right here. These private military contractors are stationed throughout the world in conflicts that [...]

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US wants to keep 9 bases after combat troops finish withdrawal in 2014

May 9, 2013

Source: AP|MG The U.S. wants to keep nine bases in Afghanistan after U.S. combat troops withdraw in 2014 which is fine as long as America makes “security and economic guarantees” in exchange, President Hamid Karzai said Thursday in his first public overture in what have been private talks on a future pact between the uneasy [...]

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US is involved militarily directly or advising in 74 countries

May 9, 2013

Source: Digital Journal While combat troops have been withdrawn from Iraq, and the Afghan war now involves less US troops all the time, the US is still involved in either fighting or helping some struggle thought to be useful in the “war on terror” in numerous countries. Altogether the US is involved in 74 different countries. The [...]

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Major U.S. military operations/actions to protect oil

May 8, 2013

Source: By Kevin Wang and David Kashi -Oil Change America’s role in protecting oil: The U.S. military has used force or the threat of force to protect its energy interests around the world, primarily in the Middle East, for more than five decades, safeguarding foreign oil sources and the sea lanes through which they pass. According to Roger Stern, [...]

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Pentagon announces anti-satellite weapons drive

May 8, 2013

Source: IET The US has announced a “long overdue” effort to develop anti-satellite weapons to protect its own space resources. Deputy Defense Secretary Ashton Carter yesterday said the U.S. military had launched a drive to safeguard US national security satellites and develop ways to counter the space capabilities of potential adversaries. “We have established, really, [...]

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Pentagon now prepared to repel assaults on diplomatic outposts in Africa

May 8, 2013

Source: WT The Pentagon says it’s now equipped to launch the type of rescue mission that could have helped American personnel who came under deadly attack at the temporary diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya, last year. U.S. Africa Command has positioned a 500-strong Marine task force in Moron, Spain and equipped with Osprey aircraft capable of vertical landing along with KC-130 [...]

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