Weapons

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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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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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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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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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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US smuggling weapons to Syrian rebels: The real Benghazi story

May 15, 2013

Source: Asia Tribune There is a ‘side story’ going on in the American media – both the electronic and print about the Islamist jihadists lethal attack on the American ‘post’ in Benghazi, Libya last September 11 which killed American ambassador Christopher Steven and three others; The emphasis and the debate is on why the event [...]

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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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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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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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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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Disastrous Libyan situation: the controlled destabilization of sovereign nations

May 5, 2013

Source: Gulf News ‘Liberation’ of Libya was actually an invasion led by the US Special Forces and was part of a similar philosophy that Bush had for Iraq invasion Is Libya still a country? A former colonial geographical unit, maybe yes. But little more: There is no state apparatus, no authority other than that of [...]

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U.S. Bulks Up to Combat Iran

May 2, 2013

Source:WSJ The Pentagon has redesigned its biggest “bunker buster” bomb with more advanced features intended to enable it to destroy Iran’s most heavily fortified and defended nuclear site. U.S. officials see development of the weapon as critical to convincing Israel that the U.S. has the ability to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear bomb if [...]

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We tried to weaponize the weather

April 27, 2013

Source: Salon The years between the ﬁrst hydrogen bomb tests and the Limited Test Ban Treaty in 1963 saw more than just increased anxiety about the eﬀects of nuclear testing on weather. They also saw increased interest in large-scale, purposeful environmental modiﬁcation. Most climate modiﬁcation enthusiasts spoke of increasing global temperatures, in the hopes that [...]

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Blowback: Qatar faces backlash among rebel groups in Syria

April 24, 2013

Source: TDS In a war-battered suburb of Damascus, a commander for one of the smaller nationalist brigades fighting to topple Syrian President Bashar Assad grumbles about the lack of ammunition for his men. He blames Qatar, saying the oil-rich Gulf state directs its backing to rebels with a more Islamist ideology. Tiny, U.S.-allied Qatar has emerged as one of [...]

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China deploys anti-ship missile off Taiwan

April 19, 2013

Source:FT China has deployed near Taiwan a powerful missile designed to take out US aircraft carriers as Beijing strengthens its ability to prevent US forces from aiding Taiwan during potential conflict. The deployment of the DF-21D anti-ship ballistic missile comes as China’s army develops greater long-range and offensive capabilities. Those advances pose a challenge to US forces as [...]

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Israel ‘set to hit Syria rebels over arms’

April 18, 2013

Source: UPI Tension is rising on the Israel-Syria cease-fire line on the Golan Heights and Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu says he’s ready to launch military operation to prevent the weakening Damascus regime’s chemical and other advanced weapons falling into Islamist hands. That heightens fears that the Jewish state is edging closer to getting dragged into the [...]

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Israel and the electronic war

April 18, 2013

Source: Middle East Monitor Despite the wide scale reaction caused by recent electronic attacks on Israel which targeted ministry websites and government facilities on the internet, it may be asserted that this attack is far from being electronic warfare of significant concern to the government and its strategic think tanks which work around the clock [...]

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Libyan arms controlled by non-state actors

April 15, 2013

Editor’s Note: Part of the CIA Syria Operation? US and Europe in ‘major airlift of arms to Syrian rebels through Zagreb’, Libya transporting weapons and fighters to Syria: Americans, Moroccans, Libyans, Egyptians, Bosnians fighting alongside rebel forces and Largest Shipload of Libyan Weapons Heading to Armed Groups in Syria Source: Ahram The proliferation of weapons from [...]

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Clandestine Warfare:Syria’s war to get dirtier than ever

April 14, 2013

Source: HS From small clandestine offices in countries as far flung as Qatar, Jordan, Turkey and Croatia, US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officers have acted as brokers and overseers of a massive arms shipment programme to Syria’s opposition rebels. With the operation shrouded in secrecy, the CIA declines to comment publicly on the arms supply. [...]

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US missile destroyers, anti-ballistic missile system in position

April 14, 2013

Source: mvariety THE United States continues to remain vigilant in the wake of North Korea’s ratcheting up its threats against U.S. allies and territories in the Pacific. The Pentagon has maintained its proactive approach in dealing with the North Korean war rhetoric as it deploys missile destroyers and a anti-ballistic missile defense system to the region. [...]

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Syria’s Proxy War heats up as endgame inches closer

April 12, 2013

Source: BBC As Syria’s fragmentation gathers pace and the demise of the regime apparently inches ever closer, competition between outside powers backing one side or the other is heating up, and proxy wars over the country’s future are intensifying. The latest example is the attempt by al-Qaeda to put its stamp publicly on the Nusra [...]

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Covert Assassinations | Turf Wars : Man With Ties to Karzai Dies in a Military Raid

April 11, 2013

Related Articles: Bodyguard who killed Karzai’s brother was trusted CIA contact, Senior adviser to Afghan president Hamid Karzai, murdered in Kabul and Karzai’s Brother Dies A Gangster’s Death in Kandahar Source: NYT A special operations raid meant to disrupt aTaliban arms operation in southern Afghanistan ended in the death of a man with family ties to the [...]

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Libyan arms that went missing under Gaddafi ‘fuelling multiple conflicts’

April 10, 2013

Source: Telegraph The country’s revolutionary authorities were warned of the loss of control of Gaddafi’s huge arms stockpiles at the end of the conflict, but the extent to which they had been ferried to insurgencies across the region became clear during recent fighting in Mali. Then, weapons and explosives believed to be from Libya were [...]

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Horn of Africa Security and Strategy: US clears way to arm, train Somali forces

April 8, 2013

Editor’s Note: Department of Defense military strategy to arm and train Somali forces has absolutely nothing to do with combating the franchise called Al Qaeda. Horn of Africa Security and Strategy is aimed at controlling sea lines of communication. A Military/Corporate management of trade and oil routes, securing strategic maritime geographic locations against China, Iran, Pakistan, Russia. [...]

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Countering China: Hypersonic Missiles, Sensors, Stealth, & Speed

April 8, 2013

Source: AOL Defense We have heard much about the anti-access/area denial threat China poses to American and allied forces in the Pacific. We have read much about new Chinese missiles such as the DF-21, which supposedly can destroy maneuvering ships at sea — especially US aircraft carriers. We have read that Pacific allies wish to deploy substantial fleets of [...]

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Battle for Syria : A “master plan” for the rebels to seize Damascus

March 27, 2013

Source: Time/AP The Arab official said there was a “master plan” for the rebels to seize Damascus. He and the diplomat spoke to the AP on condition that their identities and their nationalities not be disclosed because the operation was covert. Officials: Arms Shipments Rise to Syrian Rebels Mideast powers opposed to President Bashar Assad have dramatically [...]

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Jordanian International Air Cargo, the secret airline that’s reportedly flooding Syria with weapons

March 25, 2013

Source: FP Today’s New York Times uncovers the clandestine effort by the CIA and Arab governments to deliver military aid to rebel fighters in Syria through an airlift involving more than 160 flights of military-style cargo planes owned by Arab governments. Perhaps the most intriguing aspect of the story is a flat denial from the [...]

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