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Military Cites Broad Failures In Deadly Niger Ambush, But Assigns No Direct Blame

May 11, 2018 · by · in Africa, Air Force, Army, CIA, counterinsurgency, Covert OIperations, Department Of Defense, DIA, espionage, spying, Intelligence Community, Marines, military history, national security, Navy, niger, POTUS, Special Operations, targeted killing, terrorism, US Military · Leave a comment

Military Cites Broad Failures in Deadly Niger Ambush, but Assigns No Direct Blame The New York Times · by Helene Cooper, Thomas Gibbons-Neff and Eric Schmitt May 10, 2018·  WASHINGTON — A Defense Department investigation of a Special Forces mission in Niger released Thursday found widespread problems across all levels of the military operation, but concludes that […]

Leaders Of U.S. Soldiers Killed In Niger Filed Misleading Mission Plan, Say Officials

May 8, 2018 · by · in Africa, Air Force, Army, CIA, counterinsurgency, Department Of Defense, DIA, espionage, spying, Europe, foreign policy, France, Hybrid War, Intelligence Community, military history, national security, niger, POTUS, Special Operations, terrorism, US Military · Leave a comment

Leaders of U.S. soldiers killed in Niger filed misleading mission plan, say officials By Ken Dilanian, Courtney Kube, www.nbcnews.com View Original May 8th, 2018 From left, Staff Sgt. Bryan C. Black, Staff Sgt. Jeremiah W. Johnson, Sgt. La David Johnson and Staff Sgt. Dustin M. Wright were killed in Niger when a joint patrol of American and Niger […]

Classified Report Slams Military Over October Deaths In Niger

April 26, 2018 · by · in Africa, Air Force, Al Qaeda, Army, CIA, counterinsurgency, Covert OIperations, Department Of Defense, DIA, espionage, spying, Europe, foreign policy, Hybrid War, Intelligence Community, Marines, military history, national security, Navy, niger, Special Operations, targeted killing, terrorism, US Military · Leave a comment

Classified Report Slams Military Over October Deaths in Niger Culture of excessive risk is faulted in ill-fated mission against Islamists in West Africa https://www.wsj.com/articles/classified-report-slams-military-over-october-deaths-in-niger-1524698730 A team of soldiers carried the transfer case of Staff Sgt. Dustin M. Wright at Dover Air Force Base, Del., on Oct. 5. He was killed in Niger the day before. PHOTO: LANE […]

A Shadowy War’s Newest Front: A Drone Base Rising From Saharan Dust

April 22, 2018 · by · in Afghanistan, Africa, Air Force, Army, artificial intelligence, CIA, counterinsurgency, Covert OIperations, Cyber War, Cybersecurity, Department Of Defense, DIA, Drones, espionage, spying, foreign policy, France, Germany, Hybrid War, Intelligence Community, ISIS in Iraq, Islam, Marines, military history, national security, Navy, niger, North Africa, Pakistan, POTUS, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Special Operations, Syria, terrorism, Unmanned aerial systems, US Military, Yemen · Leave a comment

Excerpts: Later this summer, workers will lay five inches of asphalt atop the rock bed. In all, commanders say they will pave some 39 acres of airfield. While built mainly for the Reaper drones, the runway and adjoining taxiways and ramps must be able to handle much heavier C-17 cargo planes. Three huge hangars capped […]

Soldier In Bloody Niger Mission Had Warned Of Gaps, Defense Officials Say

March 20, 2018 · by · in Africa, Air Force, Al Qaeda, Army, CIA, Department Of Defense, DIA, Drones, espionage, spying, Hybrid War, Intelligence Community, ISIS in Iraq, Mali, Marines, military history, national security, Navy, niger, NSA, POTUS, Special Operations, Syria, targeted killing, terrorism, US Military · Leave a comment

Soldier in Bloody Niger Mission Had Warned of Gaps, Defense Officials Say By Eric Schmitt, Helene Cooper, Thomas Gibbons-neff, www.nytimes.com View Original March 19th, 2018 WASHINGTON — The leader of an ill-fated team of American soldiers in Niger last fall warned before the mission that his troops did not have the equipment or intelligence necessary to carry out a kill-or-capture raid […]

U.S. Kept Silent About Its Role in Another Firefight in Niger

March 15, 2018 · by · in Africa, Air Force, Al Qaeda, Army, CIA, Department Of Defense, DIA, Hybrid War, Intelligence Community, Mali, Marines, military history, national security, niger, North Africa, Special Operations, terrorism, US Military · Leave a comment

Excerpts: The Pentagon appears ready to scale back military operations in West Africa even further. A draft of the investigation, parts of which were described to The Times in February, called for the military to reduce the number of ground missions, and to strip commanders in the field of some authority to send troops on […]

Militants Release Propaganda Video Of Deadly Niger Ambush

March 6, 2018 · by · in Africa, Air Force, Al Qaeda, Army, CIA, Department Of Defense, DIA, Intelligence Community, ISIS in Iraq, Mali, Marines, military history, national security, niger, Special Operations, targeted killing, terrorism, US Military · Leave a comment

Excerpts: “We don’t know exactly where we’re at in the world militarily and what we’re doing,” Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” after the attack. There are about 800 American troops in Niger.   AFRICOM, expected to wrap up its investigation in the coming weeks, condemned the video.   “The release […]

Threat Assessment #Fail: al-Qaeda Quietly Growing, By Design

February 15, 2018 · by · in Afghanistan, Africa, Al Qaeda, CIA, counterinsurgency, Denial & Deception, DIA, espionage, spying, Europe, FBI, foreign policy, Hybrid War, Intelligence Community, Iran, ISIS in Iraq, Mali, military history, national security, niger, North Africa, Pakistan, POTUS, Saudi Arabia, Special Operations, Syria, Taliban, targeted killing, terrorism, US Military · Leave a comment

Conclusion: A critical concern for the coming year is that terrorists could export battlefield tactics to populated urban centers far from war zones. Examples of this include ISIS’s use of drones for attacks and the potential for chemical weapons attacks. So when I look at the threat picture over the next year, I see one […]

Inside France’s Secret War Against Jihadists Of Mali

February 14, 2018 · by · in Al Qaeda, CIA, DIA, Europe, France, Intelligence Community, ISIS in Iraq, Mali, national security, niger, Special Operations, Syria, terrorism, US Military, Yemen · Leave a comment

Inside France’s Secret War Against Jihadists Of Mali By Alidad Vassigh, www.worldcrunch.com View Original February 12th, 2018 BANDIAGARA — The Twin Otter plane flies full speed over the battlefield, though low enough to almost scrape the tops of acacia trees. At one point its wingtips seem dangerously close to smashing into the jagged cliffs. But there’s a reason […]

36 Black Swans, Gray Swans, And Pink Flamingoes To Watch In 2018

December 30, 2017 · by · in Afghanistan, Africa, Al Qaeda, Arctic, artificial intelligence, big data, Britain, China, CIA, counterinsurgency, Critical Infrastructure Protection, Cyber War, Cybersecurity, Department Of Defense, DIA, Drones, espionage, spying, foreign policy, France, Germany, Greece, Hezbollah, Hybrid War, hypersonic weapons, Improvised Explosive Device, Information Operations, Intelligence Community, Iran, Iraq, ISIS in Iraq, Islam, Israel, Japan, Lebanon, military history, national security, NATO, Navy, niger, North Africa, North Korea, NSA, Nuclear, OPEC, Pakistan, Palestinians/Occupied Territories, Philippines, POTUS, Qatar, quantum computing, Robots In War, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Science & Technology, social media, Somalia, South Korea, space, Special Operations, Syria, Taiwan, Taliban, targeted killing, technology & innovation, terrorism, threat of next pandemic, Turkey, U.S. Cyber Command, Ukraine, unmanned, US Military, Venezuela, Weapons Of Mass Destruction, Weapons of Mass Disruption, Yemen · Leave a comment

36 Black Swans, Gray Swans, and Pink Flamingoes to Watch in 2018 mwi.usma.edu View Original December 28th, 2017 While driving along the shore of Lake Wanaka on New Zealand’s South Island in September 2011, I saw them for the first time. Black Swans. My wife and I pulled over, jumped out, and spent a half […]

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