Military Operations

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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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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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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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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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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Hezbollah fighters head to strategic Aleppo town as fighting rages

May 18, 2013

Source: Al Arabiya Battles raged in Qusayr between fighters from the Lebanese Shiite militant group Hezbollah and the rebel Free Syrian Army (FSA), as activists reported the killing of at least 10 Hezbollah members. Sources told Al Arabiya early Sunday morning that Hezbollah fighters are reportedly heading to Qusayr, located in the central Homs province. [...]

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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