Sunday, June 25, 2017

Military And Intelligence News Briefs -- June 25, 2017



Business Insider: CIA Director Pompeo: Trump asks me about North Korea every day

CIA Director Mike Pompeo addressed the imminent nuclear threat from North Korea during an interview with MSNBC's Hugh Hewitt which aired Saturday, saying the topic was "at the top" of President Donald Trump's mind.

Pompeo said he and Trump talk for almost an hour every day, and that "I hardly ever escape a day at the White House without the President asking me about North Korea and how it is that the United States is responding to that threat."

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Military And Intelligence News Briefs -- June 25, 2017

Bannon: Trump’s strategy is ‘let the warfighters fight the war’ -- The Hill

Trump and His Generals -- Victor Davis Hanson

Trump's Great Faith In the Military Does Not a Strategy Make -- TIME

As White House defers to Pentagon, Congress mulls new checks on military power -- CNN

Russia to Take Retaliatory Measures in Case of US Withdrawal From INF Treaty -- Sputnik

Why Russia's Armata Tank May Never Be a Threat to NATO -- Dave Majumdar, National Interest

Expert: Russian Military Industrial Complex Struggling to Develop New Technology -- USNI News

How China's cyber command is being built to supersede its U.S. military counterpart -- Cyberscoop

Japanese warship takes Asian guests on cruise in defiance of China -- Reuters

Israeli F-35s to be declared operational in December -- Alert 5

Bulgaria to start talks with Sweden over warplane purchase -- Reuters

No More Giveaways: US Wants Ukraine to Pay for Its 'Assistance' -- Sputnik

Murphy's Law: Do Not Underestimate Ukrainians -- Strategy Page

Air Force unimpeded by Qatar tensions -- The Spokesman Review

The U.S. Air Force Almost Rented a Squadron of A-10 Warthogs to Colombia -- The Drive

How the U.S. Army counters North Korea threats -- CBS News

US Military: Islamic State Problem 'Not Getting Better' in Afghanistan -- VOA

US Army Chief Wants Vladimir Putin to Let Russia's Nervous Neighbours Watch His War Games -- Newsweek

The Navy's New Mini-Carriers Balance Air Power and Beach Assaults -- War Is Boring

The Navy's new powerhouse of the seas: US military shows off its new 99,000 ton aircraft carrier that can make hairpin turns at high speeds with 6,000 sailors on board -- Daily Mail

Naval Air: U.S. Carriers Disabled By Friendly Fire -- Strategy page

House subcommittee adds 5 Navy ships to Trump request -- Washington Examiner

Navy Taps Admiral To Lead Investigation Into USS Fitzgerald Collision -- Task & Purpose

Pentagon May Replace Its Doomsday Planes And "Air Force Two" With One New Type -- The Drive

The future of the Air Force is fighter pilots leading drone swarms into battle -- Popular Science

Air Force Announces Who's Eligible for New 'R' Device -- Military.com

US Preps for Limitless War With Proposed New ‘Space Corps’ -- Sputnik

Air Force B-2 to Get New Digital Nuclear Weapons & Air-Ground Missiles -- Scout Warrior

Los Alamos lab improperly sent ‘special’ nuke material by air -- Albuquerque Journal

A disturbing broken link in the nuclear weapons chain -- Washington Post editorial

Five Myths About a Controversial Nuclear Weapon -- Frank A. Rose, War on the Rocks

Why There Are No Military Solutions to North Korea: A conflict with chemicals and nukes would be unacceptably terrible -- Geoff Wilson, War Is Boring

Information Warfare: The Cell Phone Revolution -- Strategy Page

Are We In A New Cold War? -- Tom Porter, Newsweek

Why America loses wars it starts -- Harlan Ullman, Observer

21 All Too Real Plot Ideas For ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ -- Jared Keller, Task & Purpose

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