|
|||||
|
ADMISSION: SPECIAL FORCES WERE ONLY HOURS FROM BENGHAZI Joint chiefs chairman confirms whistleblower account JERUSALEM – In a bombshell admission that has until now gone unreported, Martin Dempsey, chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff, conceded that highly trained Special Forces were stationed just a few hours away from Benghazi on the night of the attacks but were not told to deploy to Libya. In comments that may warrant further investigation, Dempsey stated at [...] Counter Pivot China has been quietly taking steps to encircle the United States by arming western hemisphere states, seeking closer military, economic, and diplomatic ties to U.S. neighbors, and sailing warships into U.S. maritime zones. The strategy is a Chinese version of what Beijing has charged is a U.S. strategy designed to encircle and “contain” China. It is also directed at countering the Obama administration’s new strategy called the pivot to Asia. [...] A top GOP critic pushed back Sunday on charges that Republican efforts to investigate last year’s Benghazi attack are designed to inflict political damage on former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. “Hillary Clinton’s not a target,” said House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa on NBC’s Meet the Press. “President Obama is not a target.” Issa, who heads a panel probing the assault on the diplomatic outpost that killed four [...] The State Department’s Office of Inspector General is investigating the special internal panel that probed the Benghazi terror attack for the State Department, Fox News has confirmed. The IG’s office is said by well-placed sources to be seeking to determine whether the Accountability Review Board, or ARB — led by former U.N. Ambassador Thomas Pickering and former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Mike Mullen — failed to interview [...] feedNL Nieuws – News ?@feedNL6h #Breaking: North Korea constructing anti-tank barricades on its border with South Korea – @YonhapNews, @RIA_Novosti China’s PLA chief: North Korea may be about to conduct 4th nuclear test North Korea may proceed with a fourth nuclear test, according to Fang Fenghui, chief of the general staff of China’s People’s Liberation Army. The 62-year-old general made the comment following a meeting with Martin Dempsey, chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of [...] BEIJING—Cyberattacks could be “as serious as a nuclear bomb,” according to a top Chinese general, who rejected suggestions that the Chinese military is behind cyberspying aimed at Western companies. Gen. Fang Fenghui, chief of staff of the People’s Liberation Army, made the comments after meeting with his U.S. counterpart Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Cybersecurity was one of a number of sensitive issues covered. The Obama administration is [...] WASHINGTON — In what is believed to be the first time since the 1940s, the entire British defense staff will be here March 25 to discuss long-range strategy and the impact of budget cuts with their U.S. counterparts, according to U.S. and British sources. The meeting is reminiscent of the Combined Chiefs of Staff, when British and American military leaders joined forces during World War II. Both nations are undergoing significant [...] South Korea has deployed cruise missiles on the North Korean border, missiles that can hit targets anywhere in North Korea. This came in a statement for journalists by an official of the South Korean Defence Ministry, Kim Min Sok. According to him, Seoul will also speed up the development of ballistic missiles with an effective range of 800 kilometres and will set up a national missile defence system. The statement came in the [...] S. Korea ready to launch preemptive strike against N. Korea South Korea’s chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said the military would launch a preemptive attack if “signs of an imminent nuclear weapon launch against the South were detected.” Read more: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/feb/8/s-korea-ready-launch-preemptive-strike-n-korea/#ixzz2KPHmJrG1
South Korea will launch a pre-emptive strike against Pyongyang if the antagonist to its north moves to test a nuclear weapon. Seoul said a first strike would be preferable to North [...] The tension is rising in Asia, with worrying signs that conflict could break out at any point. In the Koreas, fallout over a prospective North Korean nuclear test has South Korean troops on the border receiving orders to return fire immediately against DPRK forces. In South Korean press, there’s worrying, though non-conclusive, talk of a “pre-emptive” strike. According to the Hankyoreh, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Jung Seung-jo was called to [...] U.S. intelligence agencies monitoring North Korea for signs of a third underground nuclear test recently reported that the isolated communist state appears set to conduct the first test launch of a new road-mobile ICBM built with Chinese technology. U.S. officials with access to intelligence reports said the North Koreans are expected to test fire either a new KN-08 road-mobile ICBM—capable of reaching parts of the United States—or a new medium-range advanced [...] Women in all branches of the military soon will have unprecedented opportunities to serve on the front lines of the nation’s wars. Leon Panetta, in one of his last acts as President Obama’s defense secretary, is preparing to announce the policy change, which would open hundreds of thousands of front-line positions and potentially elite commando jobs after more than a decade at war, the Pentagon confirmed Wednesday. The groundbreaking move recommended by [...] Excerpt; (CNSNews.com) – The U.S. may be troubled by Russian support for Syria’s Assad regime, freedom of expression violations and politically motivated prosecutions, but military-to-military cooperation continues, in line with the administration’s so-called “reset” of relations with the Kremlin. For the third summer in a row, Russian Air Force personnel will join their American and Canadian counterparts in a joint counter-terror exercise beginning Monday, simulating a cooperative response to an aircraft hijacked by [...] Debt is Biggest Threat to National Security, Chairman Says WASHINGTON, Sept. 22, 2011 – Debt is the biggest threat to U.S. national security, Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said during remarks to business executives today. “I’ve said many times that I believe the single, biggest threat to our national security is our debt, so I [...] A North Korean soldier defected to the South on Saturday through the heavily militarised border, apparently shooting dead two superior officers in the process, the South Korean military said. It is only the fourth such defection reported in the last 10 years, with none of the past incidents involving fatal shootings, and could raise already heightened tensions ahead of the South’s presidential election in December. “Six gunshots were heard and our guards [...] The financial and banking industries are on high alert tonight as a massive cyberattack continues, with potentially millions of customers of Bank of America, PNC and Wells Fargo finding themselves blocked from banking online. “There is an elevated level of threat,” said Doug Johnson, a vice president and senior adviser of the American Bankers Association. “The threat level is now high.” “This is twice as large as any flood we have ever seen,” said [...] A group of purported hackers in the Middle East has claimed credit for problems at the websites of both banks, citing the online video mocking the founder of Islam. One security source called that statement “a cover” for the Iranian government’s operations. The attack is described by one source, a former U.S. official familiar with the attacks, as being “significant and ongoing” and looking to cause “functional and significant damage.” Also, one [...] But Obama-supporting lobby group is not interested in real threats like GMOs Paul Joseph Watson In a move that will undoubtedly annoy those who feel the Obama administration has become smothering in its nanny state efforts to control people’s diets, ex-military leaders have been enlisted to declare war on junk food by declaring it a “national security threat.” With one in four military age males in the United States [...] he Thomas More Law Center announced today that it is representing U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel Matthew Dooley, a 1994 Graduate of the U. S. Military Academy at West Point. In April 2012, LTC Dooley, a highly decorated combat veteran, was publicly condemned by General Martin Dempsey, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and relieved of his teaching assignment because of the negative way Islam was portrayed in an elective course [...] Coming in on multiple MSM feeds. Stayed tuned for updates. https://twitter.com/AlArabiya_Eng Flash: Explosion heard near the officers’ club inside Damascus Loud explosion shakes Damascus, hearing the explosion was at air-force headquarters. https://twitter.com/omarsyria A car bomb blew up near a Palestinian refugee camp in a suburb of Damascus, killing at least 15 people, Syria’s state news agency said Sunday. The blast came hours after the new U.N. envoy to Syria started his peace mission by telling the [...] Two new signs point to the deepening rift between the Obama administration and the Israeli government over how to stop Iran’s nuclear weapons efforts: a reported confrontation between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the U.S. ambassador to Israel and a statement by Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Martin Dempsey that he doesn’t want to be “complicit” in an Israeli strike on Iran. The Israeli newspaper Yediot Ahronot headlined [...] KABUL (Reuters) – Insurgents fired two rockets at the main NATO airbase in Afghanistan, damaging an aircraft used by U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Martin Dempsey, a NATO spokesman said on Tuesday. The general was not on board at the time. http://ca.news.yahoo.com/top-u-generals-aircraft-damaged-rockets-afghanistan-081309091.html “Plan to Close Hormuz Strait Ready, Leader Has Final Word” Iran said on Monday that the plan to close the Strait of Hormuz was ready, noting that the final decision on closure to be taken by the Supreme Leader Imam Sayyed Ali Khamenei. The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of Iran’s Armed Forces said that the implementation of the plan devised for the blockade of Hormuz strait required an order [...] Kurt Nimmo Dominique de Kevelioc de Bailleul of Beacon Equity Research predicts that the coming conflict with Syria will be the trigger event that takes down the U.S. dollar. A military response to Syria and Iran would likely draw in Russia and China, he warns, and the result would be a conflagration the world has not witnessed since the Second World War. “Cold War-like comments made at the ‘Friends of Syria’ [...] Kurt Nimmo The U.S. Navy’s “mothership,” the USS Ponce, will serve as staging platform in the Persian Gulf. Following a move by Iran to blunt an EU-imposed oil import embargo that went into effect on Sunday, theNew York Times reports that the Pentagon has moved “significant military reinforcements” into the Persian Gulf to send a message to Iran’s leadership. The Pentagon announced the new influx of military hardware after Iran responded [...] Reuters) – The instructor of a college course that taught top military officers the United States was at war with Islam has been relieved of teaching duties and the course ordered redesigned to reflect U.S. policy, a military spokesman said on Wednesday. The elective course at the National Defense University’s Joint Forces Staff College included a slide that asserted “the United States is at war with Islam and we ought to [...] (Reuters) – The instructor of a college course that taught top military officers the United States was at war with Islam has been relieved of teaching duties and the course ordered redesigned to reflect U.S. policy, a military spokesman said on Wednesday. The elective course at the National Defense University’s Joint Forces Staff College included a slide that asserted “the United States is at war with Islam and we ought to [...] (Reuters) – The instructor of a college course that taught top military officers the United States was at war with Islam has been relieved of teaching duties and the course ordered redesigned to reflect U.S. policy, a military spokesman said on Wednesday. The elective course at the National Defense University’s Joint Forces Staff College included a slide that asserted “the United States is at war with Islam and we ought to [...] Infowars.com CNN reports this afternoon that the Pentagon has finalized plans to attack Syria and forcefully depose its leader, Bashar al-Assad, under the cover of securing weapons of mass destruction and preventing “sectarian violence” it has fomented by supporting and training the Free Syrian Army. “The U.S. military has completed its own planning for how American troops would conduct a variety of operations against Syria, or to assist neighboring countries in the event [...] A conservative South Korean newspaper said on Monday it had been the victim of a major cyber attack, less than a week afterNorth Korea threatened the paper and other Seoul media over their reports. Police are investigating Pyongyang’s possible involvement in the hacking of the Internet news site and database server at theJoongAng Ilbo and sister paper the Korea JoongAng Daily, the Daily reported. The English-language Daily said both papers lost the databases for articles and photos. The [...] SEOUL, June 11 (Yonhap) — South Korea’s military warned Monday that it would “immediately punish the core forces of provocations” if provoked again by North Korea, as the North vowed to attack major South Korean media for insulting its top leader. The South’s warning came after its Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) held an unscheduled readiness exercise earlier in the day to check out its defense posture involving its ballistic missile [...] |
Custom Search
    |
||||
|
Copyright © 2013 InvestmentWatch - All Rights Reserved |
|||||
