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The Hill
April 29, 2018
The Reserve Officers Association was contacted last month by the family of an Army Reservist from Georgia who served in World War II and the Korean War, and had recently died. As an infantry officer, he had received the Purple Heart and Silver Star — the nation's third-highest decoration for valor.
The Fayetteville Observer
April 28, 2018
Her father, Thomas Galloway Fergusson recently retired from military intelligence, and service in the armed forces goes back generations. A grandfather, Thomas Taylor Galloway, was a pilot who was killed in the Normandy invasion in World War II. "As much as the actor and artist that I am, my family isÃâà...
smallwarsjournal
April 28, 2018
One of the key tasks for a theater army is to set the theater, briefly described in FM 3-94 as a task to “set conditions in the theater for the employment of landpower.”[6] INSCOM's Military Intelligence Brigades (Theater) (MIB(T)s support theater army/ Army Service Component Command (ASCC), and, in turn, GCC and alignedÃâà...
smallwarsjournal
April 27, 2018
Beginning with the fundamentals of the ASCC and Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM) Military Intelligence Brigade (Theatre) (MIB-T) relationship, flowing into the requirements process, organizational structure, training and certification, and finally employment of the DISE. The discussion will begin at a generalÃâà...
Elon News Network
April 25, 2018
The next minute, they were tossed into the back of a pick-up truck and taken to military intelligence in Aleppo. In 2011, the Syrian Civil War broke out. Some Syrians were forced out of their homes and into camps, some fled the country and others were kidnapped and conscripted. Since then, more than 11Ãâà...
NPR
April 25, 2018
... counsel Robert Mueller against 13 Russians and three Russian companies charged with the social media agitation. Other open evidence includes a leaked report by the National Security Agency that documented a cyberattack on an elections vendor by Russia's military intelligence agency, the GRU.
New York Times
April 19, 2018
The military intelligence report, put out less than three days after the attack, said the allied airstrikes likely set back Mr. Assad's production of sarin gas. But it found that the Syrian president is expected to continue researching and developing chemical weapons for potential future use, according to anÃâà...
Colombia Reports
April 19, 2018
Colombia's defense minister announced he would dismantle a military intelligence unit that is accused of being used by top military officials to embezzle defense funds. The so-called Joint Regional Strategic Military Intelligence unit reportedly funneled defense funds meant for informants to front companiesÃâà...
Hiru News
April 18, 2018
Former Director of Military Intelligence, Retired Major General Amal Karunasekara has been further remanded until 2nd of May. He was arrested over the abduction and assault of journalist Keith Noyahr. Noyahr was the Deputy Editor of The Nation newspaper when he was abducted and assaulted on 22ndÃâà...
Madison.com
April 18, 2018
As one of the children of our 23 fathers who served together in WWII in military intelligence — SS-DD Signal Security Detachment D, field cyphers (code breakers) in numerous countries, England, Omaha Beach, France Germany, Battle of the Bulge, Belgium, Luxembourg and several others — KooyengaÃâà...
Quartz
April 9, 2018
Facebook shut down accounts tied to Russian military intelligence before the 2016 election ... This included activity by a group called APT28, that the US government has publicly linked to Russian military intelligence services. But while our primary focus was on traditional threats, we also saw some newÃâà...
Just Security
April 4, 2018
On April 25, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in Trump v. Hawaii, the case testing the statutory and constitutional validity of President Donald Trump's travel ban. Two amicus briefs, which were both filed last week, squarely address the administration's attempt to invoke U.S. national securityÃâà...
TASS
April 3, 2018
The UK government believes that Russia views former intelligence officers as targets, a UK Government spokesperson told TASS on Tuesday, commenting on reports that a military lab at Porton Down was unable to trace the origin of the substance used to poison former Russian military intelligence (GRU)Ãâà...
WIRED
April 3, 2018
After sailing through two friendly Senate hearings—one so uncontroversial that only six senators tops bothered to even show up at any given point in the hour—Lieutenant General Paul Nakasone seems set for confirmation as the next director of the National Security Agency. That means he'll soon lead notÃâà...
TASS
April 2, 2018
MOSCOW, April 2. /TASS/. The poisoning of former Russian military intelligence Colonel turned British spy Sergei Skripal could have been carried out for various reasons and was beneficial to Britain's special services or the government, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Monday. Read alsoÃâà...
Jefferson City News Tribune
April 2, 2018
During her early years abroad, she acquired proficiency in seven languages to include German, French, Dutch and Chinese. She also worked for companies in Holland before returning to the United States, where she was hired in 1941 by the Military Intelligence Division of the War Department in New YorkÃâà...
Iraqi News
March 29, 2018
Mosul (IraqiNews.com) Four Islamic State members were arrested in a security operation carried out in Mosul, the Iraqi military intelligence said on Thursday. In a statement, the department said, “military intelligence personnel managed to arrest four terrorists in Mosul Old City, al-Shura and Hammam al-AlilÃâà...
i24NEWS
March 28, 2018
Maj. Gen. Tamir Heiman was appointed head of the Military Intelligence Directorate in an official ceremony on Wednesday, replacing Maj. Gen. Herzl Halevi who now serves as Commander of the IDF's Southern Command. The new appointments to the 2018 General Staff were approved in November lastÃâà...
Paste Magazine
March 28, 2018
There's enough smoke here for a ten-alarm fire. Not to mention, Manafort isn't the only high-level member of the Trump camp connected to Russian military intelligence this week. Roger Stone admitted that he spoke to Guccifer 2.0 during the 2016 campaign, and the Twitter account was just revealed to be aÃâà...
Iraqi News
March 28, 2018
Baghdad (Iraqinews.com) – Iraqi Military Intelligence announced on Wednesday arresting two terrorists and destroying five tunnels used by Islamic State (IS) militants in Iraq, a move which comes as part of security efforts to completely eliminate terrorism in the country. In a statement, a copy of which wasÃâà...
Slate Magazine
March 27, 2018
The FBI is investigating a string of suspicious packages sent to military and intelligence sites across the greater Washington, D.C. area Monday. The packages, some of which contained traces of explosive material, were delivered by mail, but were later rendered safe. The first package was discovered atÃâà...
U.S. News & World Report
March 26, 2018
Sisi kept a low profile as Mubarak's head of military intelligence, and became the youngest member of the military council that ruled Egypt for 18 months after Mubarak resigned in February, 2011. Mursi appointed him army chief and defense minister in August 2012, mistakenly calculating that the militaryÃâà...
AllGov
March 25, 2018
Ashley's first assignment was as a platoon leader in a military intelligence battalion in Fort Bragg, North Carolina. He worked his way up the chain of command, mostly in intelligence units. As a colonel, he led the 525th Battlefield Surveillance Brigade in a 15-month deployment to Iraq in 2007-2008.
Vanguard
March 25, 2018
Tarfa is a former Director of Military Intelligence (DMI). The new Director of Military Intelligence is Major General SA Adebayo. Adebayo was until his new appointment the Director of Foreign Liaison at the Defence Intelligence Agency. Major General AT Hamman, formerly the Provost Marshal, Nigerian ArmyÃâà...
Haaretz
March 25, 2018
Halevi also had words of warning for the Shi'ite group Hamas, cautioning against the terror group positioning itself in Iran's embrace, saying that "running to Iran will worsen its situation." Israeli Military Intelligence chief Maj. Gen. Herzl Halevi addresses the Herzliya Conference in June 2016.David Bachar.
Paste Magazine
March 24, 2018
Guccifer 2.0, the “lone hacker” who took credit for providing WikiLeaks with stolen emails from the Democratic National Committee, was in fact an officer of Russia's military intelligence directorate (GRU), The Daily Beast has learned. It's an attribution that resulted from a fleeting but critical slip-up in GRUÃâà...
MarketWatch
March 23, 2018
The hacker who took credit for providing WikiLeaks with hacked emails from the Democratic National Committee in 2016 has been linked to Russian military intelligence, according to a report by The Daily Beast late Thursday. The hacker, known as Guccifer 2.0, had claimed to be a Romanian "hacktivist,"Ãâà...
Vox
March 23, 2018
The Daily Beast's Spencer Ackerman and Kevin Poulsen reconfirmed what US intelligence had conjectured: that Guccifer 2.0 was not the lone Romanian hacker he claimed to be, and was instead a front for the Russian military intelligence agency known as GRU. But Ackerman and Poulsen add to thisÃâà...
Task & Purpose
March 21, 2018
“In much of this troubled world,” the retired lieutenant colonel and military intelligence vet wrote, “only blood persuades.” Peters argued in dozens of lucid essays and columns that the United States was beset by savagery abroad and squishy tolerance at home. It was spicy stuff, perhaps a bit myopic, butÃâà...
Haaretz
March 21, 2018
The former heads of the Mossad and Military Intelligence at the time of the attack are now warring over which intelligence organization deserves the most credit for uncovering the Syrian nuclear program. Tamir Pardo, who was the head of the Mossad in 2007, said on Wednesday that it was only because ofÃâà...
CyberScoop
March 21, 2018
“The military kept CNOS in JSOC 'because we want it to operate in areas that are not necessarily … where we're currently at war' … we want it to operate around the globe [pursuing] national objectives,” a passage in Naylor's book, citing an unnamed military intelligence officer, reads. “[CNOS] was how theÃâà...
Haaretz
March 21, 2018
At the same time, the former head of the IDF's Military Intelligence, Maj. Gen. (res.) Amos Yadlin, rejected the criticism of an intelligence failure, saying MI pointed out the possibility of a Syrian nuclear program in late 2006. Yadlin responded to the claim and Barak's statement that then-Prime Minister OlmertÃâà...
ReliefWeb
March 19, 2018
Mogadishu, 19 March 2018 - The third intelligence and information sharing conference, aimed at forging closer working ties between various intelligence actors in Somalia, opened in the capital Mogadishu today. The Deputy Force Commander of the AU Mission in Somalia, Maj-Gen Charles Tai Gituai isÃâà...
Iraqi News
March 19, 2018
Mosul (IraqiNews.com) The military intelligence department has announced arresting an Islamic State terrorist cell in south of Mosul. In a statement on Monday, the department said military troops “depended on accurate intelligence information to arrest members of a terrorist cell in al-Qayyarah, south ofÃâà...
Napa Valley Register
March 17, 2018
The poisoning of former Russian military intelligence officer Sergei Skripal and his daughter in southern England, most likely by Russian intelligence agents, highlights the role of espionage in Russia's relations with the West. Skripal had been a double agent for the British from the 1990s until he wasÃâà...
Washington Examiner
March 16, 2018
Put simply, I think it's because the Turkish military's intelligence and targeting, and command and control capabilities are well below par for this kind of operation. Erdogan is learning that it's not enough to send a load of tanks into an enemy-held area. You've got to know what the enemy is planning next,Ãâà...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
March 15, 2018
The sanctions, which U.S. officials had hinted would be announced this week, were not directly linked to the poisoning in Britain of a retired Russian military intelligence officer and his daughter, though Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin cited the case as an example of what he called was Russia's recklessÃâà...
New York Times
March 15, 2018
WELLINGTON, New Zealand — The police in New Zealand said on Thursday that they were looking into a claim that a man who said he once worked for Russian intelligence was poisoned in Auckland more than a decade ago. The man, Boris Karpichkov, who said he worked for the K.G.B. beforeÃâà...
The Hill
March 15, 2018
Nakasone was commissioned as a military intelligence officer 31 years ago, rising through the ranks to serve in several key roles at the NSA and Cyber Command. He has a wealth of experience in what is called signals intelligence, a form of foreign intelligence collection that is at the center of NSA'sÃâà...
The Drive
March 15, 2018
With its own prior experience with unmanned aircraft, the Predator was in many ways a natural fit for Military Intelligence Battalion (Low Intensity), even though it was primarily flying manned surveillance aircraft, including specialized versions of the four engine de Havilland Canada DHC-7 and twin-engineÃâà...
CBS News
March 10, 2018
The latest victims near death's door are 66-year-old Sergei Skripal -- a former colonel in Russia's military intelligence service, then a turncoat helping British agents -- and his 33-year-old daughter Yulia. Both were found comatose on a public bench Sunday in the medieval English city of Salisbury.
World Socialist Web Site
March 10, 2018
The fight against the assault on free speech and a free internet is at the same time a fight to overthrow the capitalist system, abolish the military-intelligence agencies and transform the giant telecommunications companies and other major corporations into publicly-owned and democratically-controlledÃâà...
telegraphherald.com
March 10, 2018
A police officer who helped investigate was in serious condition, and a total of 21 people have received medical treatment. Skripal, a former Russian military intelligence officer, was convicted in 2006 of spying for Britain and released by Moscow in 2010 as part of a spy swap. The 66-year-old former agentÃâà...
Voice of America
March 10, 2018
U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to sit down for talks with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un came as no surprise to top U.S. military officials, though they are wary of setting any expectations. The Pentagon said Friday that Defense Secretary Jim Mattis was in contact with the White House andÃâà...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
March 10, 2018
Skripal, a retired Russian military intelligence colonel, was convicted by a Moscow military court in 2006 of "high treason" for passing the identities of Russian intelligence agents to Britain's Secret Intelligence Service, or MI6, in return for $100,000. He was one of four Russian prisoners released in 2010 inÃâà...
The Drive
March 7, 2018
The head of the Norway's main military intelligence arm says his agency has watched as Russian military aircraft flew a number of simulated attacks on key military installations in his country and NATO warships in the region. The incidents offer yet more evidence that the Kremlin is taking an increasinglyÃâà...
World Socialist Web Site
March 7, 2018
An extraordinary number of former intelligence and military operatives from the CIA, Pentagon, National Security Council and State Department are seeking nomination as Democratic candidates for Congress in the 2018 midterm elections. The potential influx of military-intelligence personnel into theÃâà...
Iraqi News
March 7, 2018
Mosul (IraqiNews.com) An Islamic State emir was arrested in an operation in south of Mosul, the military intelligence department announced on Tuesday. In a statement, the department said, “an operation was carried out depending on an accurate information that enabled the military intelligence to arrestÃâà...
CapitalGazette.com
March 6, 2018
“It was very educational,” said Sgt. 1st Class Warren Bennett, the Equal Opportunity adviser for the 902nd Military Intelligence Group. “A lot of them sure paved the way.” Bennett said Moseley-Brown's presentation inspired him to learn more about early black warriors. “I hope she comes back for Women'sÃâà...
Military Times
March 6, 2018
Spencer pushes for a Megacities Unit, a brigade combat team of 5,000 soldiers with three battalions of mobile infantry and one battalion each of the following: armor, fires, engineer, aviation, support, military intelligence, cyber electromagnetic activities, and explosive ordnance. He sees the new unit as theÃâà...
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