Military And Intelligence News Briefs -- January 31, 2018

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The Hill: Top general: US would have 'minutes' of warning time if North Korea launched missile

The U.S. would likely only have a warning time of a "dozen minutes or so" if North Korea launched a missile in its direction, the military's second highest-ranking official said Tuesday.

Joint Chiefs of Staff Vice Chairman Gen. Paul Selva said Pyongyang had cut the warning time down from an hour thanks to its use of mobile launch trucks, so much so that the U.S. would likely not be able to get an early warning "other than if we got lucky and saw the movement of the launch mechanism to the launch platform."

Yet Selva said North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is still unable to strike the U.S. with an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) as far as the Pentagon has observed.

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Military And Intelligence News Briefs -- January 31, 2018

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Israel Leaning Toward F-15 Purchase, Away from F-35 - Report -- Sputnik

Canada auditor general prepares new fighter jet report -- Defense News

‘Furious’ program could lead to combat robots for French Army -- C4ISRNet

Top secret Australian government files found in secondhand shop -- The Guardian

US Military Blames 'Human Error' for Refusal to Share Key Data on Afghanistan -- VOA

US military says it didn't mean to hide data showing Taliban's strength, cites 'human error' -- Washington Examiner

Blackhawks Undermining Afghan Air Force Development? -- Alexandra Gutowski, RCD

Air Force Predator crash blamed on crew error, datalink failure -- Air Force Times

The Air Force's struggling tanker program is facing questions about its ability to withstand electromagnetic pulses -- Business Insider

Army Introduces New Night Vision Goggles -- National Defense

Future Vertical Lift poised to get Army out of the acquisition dark ages -- Defense News

Flights In The Western U.S. May Get Delayed By Massive Military GPS Blackout -- Foxtrot Alpha

The latest on the Pentagon’s space warfare center -- C4ISRNet

Cyber Attack Wouldn't Merit Nuclear Strike: Joint Chiefs Vice Chairman -- Military.com/Oriana Pawlyk

Stopping the Next Cyber Conflict -- Dmitri Alperovitch, The Cipher Brief

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What a Pentagon Report from the Year 2000 Got Right About Cyber War -- NextGov

CIA director Pompeo met top Russian spies -- CNN

Russia's Spy Chief Visited Washington Amid Publication of 'Kremlin List' -- Moscow Times

Strava CEO responds after the company's heatmap may have compromised secret US military bases worldwide -- Business Insider

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Trump Nuclear Plan Requires Big Fixes In Decaying Warhead Industrial Complex -- Loren Thompson, Forbes

Trump, in State of the Union, seeks full military funding. But how? -- Joe Gould, Defense News