Military And Intelligence News Briefs -- May 2, 2014

U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel delivers remarks on NATO expansion and European security at the Wilson Center in Washington May 2, 2014. Credit: Reuters/Jonathan Ernst

Hagel Urges European Allies to Increase Military Spending -- New York Times

WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel made a forceful case on Friday for European members of NATO to increase their military spending, calling Russia’s intervention in Ukraine a “clarifying moment” for the alliance.

“In recent years, one of the biggest obstacles to alliance investment has been a sense that the end of the Cold War ushered in an end of history, an end to insecurity, at least in Europe, and the end of aggression by nation-states,” Mr. Hagel said in a speech at the Woodrow Wilson Center. “But Russia’s actions in Ukraine shatter that myth.”

Mr. Hagel’s comments, referring to Russia’s recent annexation of the Crimea region of Ukraine and efforts by pro-Russian forces since then to take control of more of the country, came as violence intensified between Ukrainian forces and pro-Russian militants in eastern Ukraine.

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Military And Intelligence News Briefs

Ukraine crisis highlights NATO defense spending problem: Hagel -- Reuters

Hagel: NATO Members Must Step Up -- US News and World Report

Hagel: NATO to rethink relations with Russia -- AP

Germany's Eurofighter jet costs to double to 60 billion euros: auditors -- Reuters

Building Somalia's Army in the Middle of War -- Voice of America

Images suggest N. Korea testing ICBM engine: US think-tank -- Space Daily/AFP

North Korea Replaces Top Army Official Amid Nuclear Warnings -- Bloomberg

Bangladeshi navy ships search Bay of Bengal for traces of Flight 370 -- CNN

Israeli Military Officials Caught Off Guard by a ‘Digital Rebellion’ -- New York Times

Israel's fighter jets spying on enemy targets without having to leave country -- Jerusalem Post

U.K. Military Drinking to Point of Oblivion Minister Warns -- Ben Farmer, The Telegraph

F-35 is Liaoning's worst nightmare, says Global Times -- Want China Times

Philippines to give U.S. forces access to up to five military bases -- Reuters

Pacific Pathways: Army prepares new tack for deploying forces in Pacific -- Stars and Stripes

Dempsey Arrives in Afghanistan for Meetings, Consultations -- US Department of Defense

Lawmaker Says Sequester Could Force Navy to Drop to Eight Carriers -- Sea Power

Carrier Abraham Lincoln marks overhaul milestone -- AP

Navy Weighs Speeding up Tomahawk Modernization -- DoD Buzz

Problems with Army’s battlefield intel system unresolved after two years -- Washington Times

Cost of Pentagon weapons systems up a half trillion dollars; delays of more than two years -- Washington Post

Congress Presses Pentagon For Details On Future Of Nuclear "Doomsday Plane" -- Forbes

Report: Pentagon Mishandling Hazardous Material Shipments -- Washington Free Beacon

Commandos’ New Stealth Bike Has Drone Origins -- Matthew Galt, War Is Boring

The Military's Top Spy Will Be a Woman -- Shane Harris, Foreign Policy

U.S. and Germany Fail to Reach a Deal on Spying -- New York Times

Reports of military sexual assault rose 50 percent, Pentagon finds -- PBS Newshour/AP

The military's sexual assault response is a catastrophic blight on our service -- BriGette McCoy, Protect Our Defenders and Women Veteran Social Justice/The Guardian

Lawmakers Defend F-22 Whistleblowers -- Military.com

Guardsman sues over Army's new tattoo rules -- Stars and Stripes/AP

Navy SEAL and his wife smuggled ten kilos of cocaine worth $350,000 into Miami -- Daily Mail

Navy Dolphin Trainer Drowns in San Diego Bay -- AP

Soldier who lost leg in Afghanistan vowed ‘I will return.’ This is what it took to get back. -- Washington Post

As the World Warms, Navy Strategists Plan for an Arctic Rush -- Max Strasser, Newsweek

How the Iraq War Crippled U.S. Military Power -- Nathan Freier, Defense One

Is a warming Arctic a national security threat? -- Navy Times

Are America’s most senior military intel officers being forced out? -- Ian Allen, Intel News