Tuesday, July 1, 2014

Military And Intelligence News Briefs -- July 1, 2014

CIA Under Fire For Failure In Iraq -- Bill Gertz, Washington Free Beacon

Critics say agency did not provide adequate warning of Islamic State attack

The CIA failed to provide adequate warning of the recent Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant military incursion into Iraq despite having a significant presence of agency officers in the country, according to U.S. officials and security analysts.

Critics of the agency said the intelligence failure was made worse by a failure of the Obama administration to recognize the threat posed to the country by the ISIL, which last week renamed itself simply the Islamic State (IS) and declared its captured territory in Syria and Iraq is now a “caliphate.”

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Military And Intelligence News Briefs -- July 1, 2014

U.S. Continues Military Aid to the Iraqi Government -- US Department of Defense

Iraq cobbling together makeshift air force to fight ISIS -- Washington Post

Russia's Military Bid in Iraq -- US News and World Report

US general: Russian arms likely used in shootdowns in Ukraine -- AP

Russian Navy sailors dock in France for Mistral warship training -- RT

Thirty Minesweepers to Join Russian Navy by 2050 -- RIA Novosti

Russia in Continued Military Overhaul – Putin -- RIA Novosti

Japan’s Cabinet Agrees to Allow Military to Help Defend Allies -- Bloomberg Businessweek

China’s Corruption Crackdown Snares Retired Military Chief -- Bloomberg

India's Defense Spending Boost Won't Be As High, Sources Say -- Defense News

All eyes on China as RIMPAC exercise opens -- Stars and Stripes

How Air Force One's communications are 'hardened' -- CNET

Terrifying Navy Destroyer Runs On Modified Jet Engines, Is Terrifying -- Jalopnik

Court gave NSA broad leeway in surveillance, documents show -- Washington Post

Where the walls have ears: former CIA safe house for sale -- The Telegraph

U.S. unveils more export control changes, for military electronics -- Business Insider/Reuters

New Pentagon Plan For Countering WMD -- DoD Buzz

Pentagon Releases New Counter-WMD Report -- Defense News

AFPS, Pentagon Channel, Social Media to Merge as ‘DoD News’ -- US Department of Defense

Pentagon to Escalate Global Warming Preparations -- US News and World Report

New Evidence: Climate Change Is Disrupting U.S. Military Operations -- Mark Strauss, io9

Report: Nearly half of combat veterans complain of chronic pain -- Stars and Stripes

Procurement troubles still dog Defense Department -- Walter Pincus, Washington Post

Why Old-School Airships Now Rule Our Warzones -- Bill Sweetman, Daily Beast

1 comment:

Unknown said...

There is only so much you can do with elint as opposed to humint. If human couriers are used as well as Islamic banking, where none of it is electronic, what can the CIA know?

There is only so much you can do with 1 drone flight a month. If the political le grande fromages in the Obama administration and the state department cannot negotiate for more than 1 drone flights don't fracking blame the CIA.

The political establishment is not serious. the holiday in Martha's Vinyard and the Hamptons. They are safe or think they are.