Wednesday, November 27, 2013

Military And Intelligence News Briefs -- November 27, 2013

Analysis: Enforcing Rules In Air Zone Will Stretch China's Air Force And Navy -- Reuters

(Reuters) - China's military could struggle to cope with the demands for intensified surveillance and interception if it tries to enforce the rules in its new air defense zone over islands at the heart of a territorial dispute with Japan.

Regional military analysts and diplomats said China's network of air defense radars, surveillance planes and fighter jets would be stretched by extensive patrols across its Air Defense Identification Zone, roughly two-thirds the size of Britain.

But some noted that even limited action could still spark alarm across a nervous region - and serve China's desire to pressure Japan.

China published the coordinates of its zone in the East China Sea over the weekend and warned it would take "defensive emergency measures" against aircraft that failed to identify themselves properly in the airspace.

It is already being tested.

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MILITARY AND INTELLIGENCE NEWS BRIEFS

U.S. B-52 bombers buzz China’s expanded airspace as dispute with Japan escalates -- Washington Times

Japanese Flying Through China Air Defense Zone Defiant -- New York Times/Reuters

Why China air zone raises risk -- BBC

New Chinese Air Defense Zone Is Latest Move In Beijing’s Strategy to Dominate East Asia -- Defence Talk/Lexington Institute

How China Plans to Use the Su-35 -- The Diplomat

Taiwan's BMD Radar Gives Unique Data on China -- Defense News

Iran-North Korea Missile Cooperation Undermines Recent Geneva Nuclear Deal -- Washington Free Beacon

Korea: The North Admits Problems In The Military -- Strategy Page

Naval Air: India Finally Gets Its Cursed Russian Carrier -- Strategy Page

Pakistani premier chooses new army chief -- AP

Moscow Air Defenses Get New Short-Range Pantsir-S Systems -- RIA Novosti

Former Israel Air Chief Eyes Dogfighting Drones -- Defense News

NATO Launches Largest-ever Cyber Security Exercises -- Defense News/AFP

Estonia Hosts NATO Cyber Defense Drills -- RIA Novosti

JMRC troops train weapons inspectors for Syria mission -- Stars and Stripes

Navy CNO confirms expanded footprint in Bahrain -- Stars and Stripes

Navy Addresses Problems Found on LCS 1’s Maiden Deployment -- DoD Buzz

Air Force focuses on nuclear security, operations -- US Air Force

Air Force chief wants to slow pay growth -- Stars and Stripes/Grand Forks (N.D.) Herald

Pentagon makes costly foray into biodefense drug business -- Stars and Stripes/L.A. Times

NSA terror over 'doomsday' cache of secrets stashed in online cloud by Edward Snowden -- Daily Mail

Did the NSA target Microsoft too? -- Washington Post

Suspicious of NSA spying, Microsoft moves to encrypt Internet traffic - report -- RT

Microsoft, suspecting NSA spying, to ramp up efforts to encrypt its Internet traffic -- Washington Post

NSA Spying Risks $35 Billion in U.S. Technology Sales -- Bloomberg

UN Committee Calls For End to Excessive Electronic Spying -- Voice of America

Military court questions Marine chief’s tough talk on sexual assault -- McClatchy News

AirSea Battle vs. Offshore Control: Which has a better Theory of Victory? -- Mark Morris, War On The Rocks

America forgetting lessons of Iraq, Afghanistan, general says in Colorado Springs speech -- The Gazette

US military deaths in Afghanistan at 2,153 -- AP

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