https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2019/10/07/trumps-syria-withdrawal-impacts/3896713002/ Critics condemned President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw U.S. troops from northeastern Syria as an abandonment of U.S. commitments that could further destabilize a volatile region.
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https://warontherocks.com/2019/10/a-striking-new-vision-for-the-marines-and-a-wakeup-call-for-the-other-services/?utm_source=WOTR+Newsletter&utm_campaign=9761da972d-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_10_30_2018_11_23_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8375be81e9-9761da972d-83039793 https://www.hqmc.marines.mil/Portals/142/Docs/%2038th%20Commandant%27s%20Planning%20Guidance_2019.pdf?ver=2019-07-16-200152-700 So What’s New for the Marine Corps? The Marines Will Focus on Naval Operations Once Again The Marines Will Focus Primarily on the Pacific The Marines Will Fight Differently The Marines Need Fewer Amphibs, More Unmanned Systems, and Possibly Fewer Marines Marines Should Have More Freedom to Do…
https://www.csis.org/programs/cybersecurity-and-governance/technology-policy-program/other-projects-cybersecurity This timeline records significant cyber incidents since 2006. [CSIS] focus[es] on cyber attacks on government agencies, defense and high tech companies, or economic crimes with losses of more than a million dollars.
CGTN is funded in whole or in part by the Chinese government. The U.S. has launched a new digital offensive against Russia. A New York Times report reveals that the U.S. has allegedly launched cyber-intrusions into Russia’s power grid. Are we witnessing the start of a digital “cold war”? Could…
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kateoflahertyuk/2019/05/06/israel-retaliates-to-a-cyber-attack-with-immediate-physical-action-in-a-world-first/#3b4b9631f895 The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has launched a physical attack on Hamas in immediate response to an alleged cyber-assault. The IDF hit a building in the Gaza Strip with an airstrike after claiming the site had been used by Hamas cyber operatives to attack Israel’s cyber space.
The Admiral John S. Jenkins Prize for Excellence in Military Studies is an essay contest for students of military law sponsored by the National Institute for Military Justice (NIMJ). Students may nominate their own work, including work that has been published in a law journal. Faculty may also nominate deserving…
North Korea has called for US secretary of state Mike Pompeo to be removed from nuclear talks because of his “reckless” and “immature” behavior, according to reports. The official KCNA news agency quoted Kwon Jong-gun, a senior foreign ministry official, as accusing Mr Pompeo of “fabricating stories like a fiction writer.” https://kcnawatch.org/newstream/ Kwon concludes:…
https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2019/03/30/tweeting-trump-injects-white-house-into-seal-war-crimes-case/ With a Saturday morning Twitter message, President Donald J. Trump ordered the Navy to modify the detention of Special Warfare Operator Chief Edward “Eddie” Gallagher, who is behind bars awaiting a court-martial trial in San Diego for allegedly stabbing to death an Islamic State prisoner. “In honor of his…
(United States. Navy Dept. Bureau of Navigation. [1941] https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc495/) “It’s so much money, I don’t know what to do with it … But on the wall, they skimped…I could do the wall over a longer period of time, I didn’t need to do this, but I’d rather do it faster. I…
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/new-mexico-governor-withdraws-national-guard-border-slams-trump-s-n968336 The governor of New Mexico ordered the state’s National Guard to withdraw a majority of its troops from the southern border, slamming what she called President Donald Trump’s “charade” shortly before his State of the Union address on Tuesday.
