Friday, October 5, 2012

Military And Intelligence News Briefs -- October 5, 2012



The US Is Sending Three Deadly Weapons To The DMZ Border -- Business Insider

When North Korea rained down a barrage of artillery on South Korea in the fall of 2010, killing four people and causing untold damage, neither the South nor the U.S. did much at all. It looks like that type of response is not going to happen again if reports from Yonhap News Agency are correct.

The South Korean media outlet reports the U.S. Army is sending its terribly effective M982 Excalibur artillery shells to the South Korean peninsula for use against North Korean artillery batteries.

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MILITARY AND INTELLIGENCE NEWS BRIEFS

Report: US to field GPS-guided artillery shells in South Korea -- Stars and Stripes

Iran Has Changed US Drone Development Forever -- Business Insider

Information Warfare: The Russian Mob Shows Chinese Hackers How It's Done -- Strategy Page

Taiwan Grounds Jet Fighters After Crash in France -- Defense News

Russian Air Force Accepts First Yak-130 -- RIA Novosti

Russian Defense Ministry Signs Multi-billion-dollar Plane Contract -- RIA Novosti

Russia to Keep Tajik Military Base Until 2042 -- RIA Novosti

Russia denies 'spy ring' was working for Kremlin -- The Telegraph

Accused Spies Charged With Smuggling Semiconductors for Russian Military -- the Danger Room

Everything You Want to Know About Japan’s Marines
-- Japan Security Watch

U.S. keeps mum on missile talks with S. Korea -- Korea Herald

General has no plans to end year-old curfew for troops in South Korea -- Stars and Stripes

Pentagon Says US Has Resources for Strategic Asia Shift -- Voice of America

First Marine deployment to Australia generally positive, study shows -- Stars and Stripes

U.S. military official: Special Ops helping gather intel on Libyan militia
-- CNN

U.S. military airlifts FBI into Benghazi -- Foreign Policy

State Department delay cited in seeking Pentagon protection for FBI agents in Libya -- McClatchy News

US Navy cargo ship completes acceptance trial
-- UPI

Exclusive: Army turned down Afghanistan-bound troops' preferred anti-IED system
-- CNN

U.S. Needs Offensive Weapons in Cyberwar: General
-- Defense News/AFP

NSA's Alexander Courts Chamber Of Commerce On Cybersecurity -- Aol Defense

HPSCI Chair Thinks New Threat May Rekindle Cyber Bill; Slams White House On Executive Order -- Aol Defense

Joint Chiefs chairman visits local military, Boeing, Microsoft -- Seattle Times

New Index Ranks Defense Firms’ Anti-Corruption Efforts -- Defense News

Top military officer opposes general's demotion -- CBS/AP

Pentagon delays McChrystal memoir -- Washington Post

General: ‘My Career Was Done’ When I Criticized Flawed Warplane -- Danger Room

Pentagon Looks to Diagnose PTSD… With Video Games -- Danger Room

Slideshow: Military wives go topless for PTSD -- FOX News

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