Military And Intelligence News Briefs -- October 29, 2010

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Sinking Royal Navy Shifts Burden To U.S. Fleet -- The Danger Room

The U.K.’s new Conservative government is ruthlessly cutting spending in an effort to close the country’s roughly 100-billion GBP annual deficit. For the Ministry of Defense, that means a gradual 8-percent reduction in its 40-billion GBP yearly budget. As laid out in the Strategic Defense and Security Review, published on Oct. 19, the British military will lose thousands of soldiers, airmen and civil servants plus more than a third of its tanks, artillery and fighter jets. But the deepest cuts, by far, will fall on the Royal Navy. The implications are huge for the U.K., and for the U.K.’s number-one ally, the U.S., which is struggling to balance its own finances and military ambitions. That’s the subject of my two-part story just out in World Politics Review.

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MILITARY AND INTELLIGENCE NEWS BRIEFS

Air tankers eyed in UK, France cooperation talks -- Reuters

Russian military test-fires 3 ballistic missiles -- AP

China naval fleet expansion -- AFP

Information Warfare: China Builds The Fastest Supercomputer -- Strategy Page

MI6 Wants You to Know its Secrets -- Defense Tech

Innovative Designs Appear at Euronaval -- Defense News

Northrop Navy Ships `Not Survivable' in Combat, Official Says -- Bloomberg

USS Enterprise: The Beginning of the End for the “Big E” -- Defense Industry Daily

Probe Into ICBM Glitch To Take Months -- Global Security Newswire

Pentagon Nuke Revue Launched -- DoD Buzz

Army’s New Combat Vehicle Contract Is ‘Imminent’ -- The Danger Room

Information Sharing: Feast or Famine -- Secrecy News

U.S. Army expanding its Special Operations force -- Defence Professionals

DoD Study: Most Troops, Families OK With Gays -- Military.com