Monthly Archives: July 2017

U.S. Special Operations Commander Says LEAKS To New York Times Are The Reason Islamic State Leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi Escaped U.S. Forces And Is Likely Still Alive

July 23, 2017 · by · in CIA, Covert OIperations, Department Of Defense, DIA, Encryption, espionage, spying, identity management, Intelligence Community, Iraq, ISIS in Iraq, national security, NSA, Open Source Intelligence, social media, Special Operations, Syria, targeted killing, terrorism, US Military · Leave a comment

U.S. Special Operations Commander Says LEAKS To New York Times Are The Reason Islamic State Leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi Escaped U.S. Forces And Is Likely Still Alive http://www.fortunascorner.com      General Raymond ‘Tony’ Thomas, Commander, U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM), told an audience at the Aspen Security Forum last week, that Islamic State leader Abu […]

How ISIS Nearly Stumbled On The Ingredients For A ‘Ddirty Bomb’

July 23, 2017 · by · in Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, CIA, DIA, Hybrid War, Intelligence Community, Iran, Iraq, ISIS in Iraq, Israel, national security, Science & Technology, Special Operations, Syria, terrorism, US Military, Weapons Of Mass Destruction · Leave a comment

How ISIS Nearly Stumbled On The Ingredients For A ‘Ddirty Bomb’ By Joby Warrick, Loveday Morris, www.washingtonpost.com View Original July 22nd, 2017 A classroom at the University of Mosul after the city’s liberation in June. Islamic State occupiers tried to use labs to build weapons.Photo by: Mohamed El-Shahed/AFP/Getty Images On the day the Islamic State overran the Iraqi […]

Project Maven To Deploy Computer Algorithms To War Zone By Year’s End

July 23, 2017 · by · in Air Force, Army, artificial intelligence, big data, CIA, Department Of Defense, DIA, espionage, spying, Intelligence Community, Marines, military history, national security, Navy, quantum computing, Science & Technology, Special Operations, technology & innovation, US Military · Leave a comment

Project Maven To Deploy Computer Algorithms To War Zone By Year’s End By Cheryl PellerinDoD News, Defense Media Activity By Contact Author, www.defense.gov View Original July 21st, 2017 WASHINGTON, July 21, 2017 — Winning wars with computer algorithms and artificial intelligence were among the topics that Defense Department intelligence officials discussed during a recent Defense One Tech Summit […]

CIA Director: The North Koreans Would Love To See Kim Jong Un Go

July 23, 2017 · by · in China, CIA, Department Of Defense, DIA, espionage, spying, foreign policy, Intelligence Community, Japan, national security, North Korea, Nuclear, POTUS, Russia, South Korea, Special Operations, US Military · Leave a comment

The comments highlighted in blue below are by/from Col. (Ret.) David Maxwell; and, his contact info is at the bottom of this page.  RCP, fortunascorner.com David Maxwell:  With all do respect to the Director we do need to be careful of mirror imagining or assessing things from what we believe is the logical view point […]

China’s Strategy In Asia Is Simple: Kick America Out

July 23, 2017 · by · in Asia/Pacific Pivot, China, CIA, Department Of Defense, DIA, foreign policy, Intelligence Community, Japan, military history, national security, North Korea, Nuclear, Philippines, POTUS, Russia, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, US Military, Vietnam · Leave a comment

Excerpts:   Six Concerns Complicating Accommodation   Behavior: China is a republic but not a democracy, and its government’s behavior toward its own citizens and toward foreigners and neighboring states, including Australia, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, the Philippines and Vietnam, reminds Americans that bilateral relations cannot yet be normal and cooperation cannot yet be close.   Collision: The […]

Secretary Of Defense Mattis Says ISIS Leader al-Baghdadi Likely Alive

July 22, 2017 · by · in CIA, Department Of Defense, DIA, espionage, spying, Intelligence Community, Iran, Iraq, ISIS in Iraq, Libya, national security, POTUS, Syria, targeted killing, terrorism, US Military, Yemen · Leave a comment

Jim Mattis On ISIS Leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi: ‘I Think He’s Alive’ Washington Examiner · by Travis J. Tritten · July 21, 2017 Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said Friday that he believes Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is still alive following weeks of speculation over his death. Mattis said he has seen no evidence that Baghdadi is […]

Moscow’s Cyber-Defense How The Russian Government Plans To Protect The Country From The Coming Cyber War

July 22, 2017 · by · in CIA, Covert OIperations, Cyber War, Cybersecurity, Defense Industrial Base, Denial & Deception, Department Of Defense, DIA, espionage, spying, Information Operations, Intelligence Community, Internet, national security, NSA, Russia, Science & Technology, social media, technology & innovation, U.S. Cyber Command, US Military, Weapons of Mass Disruption · Leave a comment

Very long, but interesting read.  Definitely worth the time.  RCP, fortunascoirner.com Excerpt: “This is just the demo version of a future large-scale cyberwar,” concludes Group-IB’s report on WannaCry. “It’s become clear how vulnerable the modern world is to digital weapons from the arsenals of intelligence agencies and cyber-armies, when they fall into other hands. Unfortunately, […]

The Generals Can’t Save Us — And We Shouldn’t Want Them To

July 22, 2017 · by · in Afghanistan, Air Force, Al Qaeda, Army, Department Of Defense, Hybrid War, Intelligence Community, Iraq, ISIS in Iraq, Marines, military history, National Guard, national security, Navy, Special Operations, terrorism, US Military · Leave a comment

Excerpts: But relying on generals to determine questions of war and peace creates unrealistic — and troubling — expectations for those same generals to craft policy and oversee, unchecked, a military that was intentionally designed to follow the command of a civilian.   Nowhere were these civil-military relations issues more evident than in the aftermath […]

What The Demise Of The CIA’s Anti-Assad Program Means

July 22, 2017 · by · in CIA, Department Of Defense, DIA, espionage, spying, foreign policy, Hybrid War, Intelligence Community, ISIS in Iraq, military history, national security, POTUS, Russia, Syria, terrorism, US Military · Leave a comment

What The Demise Of The CIA’s Anti-Assad Program Means By David Ignatius, www.washingtonpost.com View Original July 20th, 2017 Members of the Syrian Democratic ForcesPhoto by: SDF What did the CIA’s covert assistance program for Syrian rebels accomplish? Bizarrely, the biggest consequence may be that it helped trigger the Russian military intervention in 2015 that rescued President Bashar […]

The Privatization Of Security Is Coming. The U.S. Must Start Preparing For It

July 22, 2017 · by · in Air Force, Army, Department Of Defense, foreign policy, military history, National Guard, national security, US Military · Leave a comment

Excerpt: With a long tradition of citizen soldiers, the United States has normally been skeptical of mercenaries. But the idea of outsourcing security operations has cropped up in the past. In the early 1990s, Rod Paschall, a retired U.S. Army colonel and former Delta Force commander, argued that the United States should hire former special […]

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