Thursday, May 9, 2013

Military And Intelligence News Briefs -- May 9, 2013



Victory Day: Vladimir Putin Says Russia Is 'Guarantor Of World Security' -- The Telegraph

President Vladimir Putin says Russia will "do everything to enforce safety on this earth" as the country celebrates Victory Day with fanfare and a military display in Moscow's Red Square.

Speaking at the annual military parade, President Vladimir Putin claimed that Russia was the guarantor of world security.

His short speech came at the culmination of the Victory Day parade which marks the defeat of Nazi Germany 68 years ago.

It is Russia's most important secular holiday, honouring the huge military and civilian losses of World War II and showing off the country's modern arsenal.

Mr Putin told 11,000 servicemen standing in tight formation on the square and the war veterans in the spectator stands that "we'll do everything, everything in order that no one ever dare unleash [war] again."

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MILITARY AND INTELLIGENCE NEWS BRIEFS

Moscow military parade marks WWII Victory Day -- Deutsche Welle

Victory Day in Moscow (Photo Gallery) -- The Telegraph

Decades of distrust restrain cooperation between FBI and Russia’s FSB -- Washington Post

Israel asks Russia not to sell Syria advanced S-300 air shield: officials -- Reuters

Russia Plans To Sell Sophisticated Missile Systems To Syria -- Business Insider/AFP

South Korea: KAI mass producing FA-50 fighters -- UPI

Nigeria Military Helicopter Crashes in Oil Delta -- AP

Iraq to by new explosive detections instruments, Premier Maliki -- Aswat Al-Iraq

Canada said to be aiming for precision weaponry -- Space Daily/UPI

British Reapers Can Now Call Home -- Strategy Page

Arms Exports: Berlin Approves Huge Tank Deal with Indonesia -- Spiegel Online

Navy Leaders Temper China Rhetoric -- Defense Tech

Top US Admiral Says Shift to Asia on Track Despite Budget Cuts -- Defense News/AFP

LCS: Navy Pushes Back Against Criticisms -- Breaking Defense

Navy Defends LCS from Damaging Internal Report -- Military.com

Air Force Crisis: Sex, Nukes And Leadership -- Breaking Defense

Senators Question Air Force Brass on Nuclear Safety -- Defense News

Hagel Presses Air Force for Details on Discipline of ICBM Staffers -- Global Security Newswire

KC-46 Base Decision Coming This Month -- Defense News

Special Report: Precision Strike: US Army Expanding Soldier Attack Options -- Defense News

Army Defends GCV, Keeps Lakota Stateside -- DoD Buzz

With 10 patterns, U.S. military branches out on camouflage front
-- Washington Post

Super Binoculars -- Strategy Page

Republican senator's bill to target 'political intelligence' firms -- Reuters

Odierno: Strengthen Ties Between Special Operators, Big Army -- National Defense

Nonchalance About Sequester Causing Frustration in Defense Industry -- National Defense

Soldier says she faced harassment over Muslim name -- AP

Marine Corps message: Wanted, a few good Asian-Americans -- Washington Times

U.S. Air Force sexual assault case to be handled by civilian court -- Reuters

Fear of Reprisal: The Quiet Accomplice in the Military’s Sexual-Assault Epidemic -- Nick Schwellenbach, Time

America’s Military Injustice -- Maureen Dowd, New York Times

Whales Should Not Have to Suffer and Die for Military Practice -- Pierce Brosnan, Huffington Post

The sequester is here to stay -- now the military needs to get to work -- Mackenzie Eaglen, FOX News

Tomorrow's Army Shouldn't Have to Rely on Yesterday's Technology -- Genevieve Syverson, Real Clear Politics

Navy SEAL Team 6 families 'to reveal government's culpability' in sons' deaths. -- National Press Club

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