Wednesday, August 14, 2019

Military And Intelligence News Briefs -- August 14, 2019

Military vehicles gathered in the soccer stadium at the Shenzhen Bay Sports Center Associated Press

Business Insider: Satellite photos show more than 100 Chinese military vehicles massed at a soccer stadium near the Hong Kong border

* Satellite photos taken over Shenzhen, China, close to the border with Hong Kong, show amassed military vehicles being held in a football stadium.
* The photos, first published by The Associated Press, come just one day after Chinese state media published videos of military police massing in Shenzhen.
* The readying of Chinese military vehicles and troops comes as mass protests in Hong Kong continue into their 10th week.
* Military forces are being readied in Shenzhen as a warning to Hong Kong of China's combat readiness, Adam Ni, a researcher on Chinese security policy tweeted Tuesday.

Satellite photographs taken close to mainland China's border with Hong Kong appear to show amassed military vehicles being held inside a football stadium.

Chinese security forces have been gathering in the city of Shenzhen in recent days, an apparent show of force as mass protests continue to roil Hong Kong.

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Military And Intelligence News Briefs -- August 14, 2019

Satellite photos appear to show Chinese APCs near Hong Kong -- AP

China’s Army May Miss Some of Its Modernization Goals -- Defense One

Two U.S. Warships, Marines Denied Port Visits to Hong Kong Amidst Protests -- USNI News

Navy Prefers Fielding ‘Revolutionary’ Combat Capability Through New Weapons Rather than New Hull Designs -- USNI News

US Marine Corps F-35B Carries Out First ‘Hot Reload’ at Sea -- Sputnik

The Army's next infantry assault buggy might be a classic 'G.I. Joe' battlewagon -- Task & Purpose

The U.S. Army Wants To Microwave Drones in Midair -- Popular Mechanics

The US Army is developing AI missiles that find their own targets -- New Scientist

Pence press secretary expected to move to Pentagon -- CNN

Tulsi Gabbard Pauses 2020 Campaign to Participate in National Guard Training Exercises -- Time

Five takeaways from Pentagon chief's first major trip -- The Hill

This Navy captain fled Iran as a child. Now he's preparing to return at the helm of an aircraft carrier -- Task & Purpose/Virginia Pilot

Role of aircraft carriers questioned -- Jeff Martin, Defense News

3 things not to bring to the Pentagon: a loaded shotgun, a rusted machete, and Jim Beam Vanilla -- Task & Purpose

Military Spending: Ignoring the $738 Billion Elephant in the Room -- David Nelson, American Conservative

What does US-Turkey military deal really entail? -- Cengiz Candar, Al-Monitor

How The U.S. Army Can Play A Much Bigger Pacific Role Deterring China -- Loren Thompson, Forbes

An explosion. A radiation spike. Evacuations planned and canceled. What’s happening in Russia? -- Defense News

NATO official accuses Russian fighter jet of acting in 'unsafe manner' -- The Hill

Merkel promises to meet defense spending target amid U.S. criticism -- Reuters

S. Korea to acquire anti-missile radars, interceptors to counter N.K. threats -- UPI

North Korea warns South against deploying U.S. midrange missiles -- UPI

How North Korea Became a Military Powerhouse: Blame the Soviet Union -- Mark Episkopos, National Interest

Billions going into Defence for new weapons and armour for Australia's special forces soldiers -- ABC News Online

Bahrain solidifies Patriot buy -- Defense News

Israelis Test Classified Tunnel Tech To Stymie Terrorists; US Watches -- Breaking Defense

Cyprus among the 10 countries present at largest Israeli Navy exercise -- Cyprus Mail

Iran's Rouhani says Gulf countries can protect region’s security -- Reuters

FACT: Iran's Navy Has Always Lost Every Fight It Ever Faced -- National Interest

Turkey Building Second Base in Qatar Amid Gulf Tensions - Reports -- Sputnik

13 comments:

Anonymous said...

"Directly, the sector is expected to contribute 2.9 percent to China’s gross domestic product (GDP) in 2006, reports WTTC. (If indirect contributions are included, the share could be as high as 13.7 percent.) "

http://www.worldwatch.org/node/3920

Make China take a hit. If Americans and Europeans boycott, Xi would be in trouble.

Getting the Europeans to boycott will be hard. Merkel-butt and flamer Macron would boycott the boycott.

Anonymous said...

On the Home Front the propaganda war expands.

Left-Liberals find a new target set.


Students Sign Petition To Ban "Offensive" White Man In Crosswalk-Signs


Federal Aviation Administration
William J. Hughes Technical Center
Atlantic City International Airport, NJ 08405

Human Factors Criteria for Displays:
A Human Factors Design Standard
Update of Chapter 5


"Contrast detection is the basic task from which all other visual behaviors are derived."
- Illuminating Engineering Handbook


It is arguable that many college graduate are more stupid after being educated at college. These would by your Women Studies, Black Studies, Latino Studies, Art, English, Sociology and other 'disciplines'.

Anonymous said...

anon
'you know little or nothing about colleges...my son a history major. Now in charge of marketing for cutting edge start up that has offices in three cities in US and one in London.
spend more time reading and less time badmouthing

Anonymous said...

Aaaaaah, it came out of the woodwork.

I never mentioned the history discipline, but we all know that you are not playing with a full deck and are functionally illiterate.

I felt a little guilty including English, Sociology and art into the list, but not much. I have English majors in the family. What Is should have said is many (but not all) graduate of those programs have been mis-educated. It is not that they are not worthwhile disciplines, but that those disciplines have been bastardized by Left-liberals. You know who I am talking about,

An English major earned in a non-Western country is probably worth much, much more than one 'awarded' in a Western country. Just saying.

"spend more time reading and less time badmouthing"

Obviously, the idiot students at Washington University in Washington DC have not read enough decent material or they would have known that contrast is very important in visual communication. You might learn this in a decent school or a manufacturing environment. The Washington University students probably have seen neither a decent school nor a manufacturing environment.

Anonymous said...

I wonder who it is that always brags about his sons as if it proves his argument. If I could just remember, oh wait they never had an argument to start with, now I remember!

Bob Huntley said...

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Anonymous said...


The elderly codger keeps to his 5 Never Trumper(Never Republican) links.

Can't teach an old nay an elderly dog new tricks.

Anonymous said...

President Trump's approval is "underwater among suburban residents" in key states |
-- Trump Gushed About Teamsters... Who ‘Walked All Over Him’
-- NRA's Wayne LaPierre warns Trump against enhanced background checks for gun purchases
-- Trump defended spreading a conspiracy theory that the Clintons played a part in Jeffrey Epstein's death, which enraged FBI agents
-- Trump jacks up his Fed bashing as the markets plunge -
-- Iowa Trump Voter Says Anti-White 'Racism' is Reason He Plans to Re-Elect Trump in 2020
-- El Paso: a GOP senator puts forward a bill to criminalize domestic terror

Anonymous said...

Obama refuses to disown controversial pastor - The Guardian

Anonymous said...

Squirt squirt squirt

Anonymous said...

"-- El Paso: a GOP senator puts forward a bill to criminalize domestic terror"

It was already against the law to murder people.

Well not in the mind of sick and twisted liberals. They think you can kill a baby after it is born or at 8 or 9 months and it is not murder. So they need extra reminders to not hurt other people and commit crimes.

All this is going to do is impose more penalties. Does that makes sense? It does.


It does in a world completely and utterly fucked over by liberal/progressives. If you murder 3 or 4 people, you should get the DP. So what does extra charges for the same crime do or mean? They serve 50 years in prison after being executed?

Like I wrote it makes sense in a world royally screwed by liberals. A Liberal judge or lawyer would try to free this guy is he is simply convicted of 1st degree homicides. So the idea is to bury a perp with so many charges that even a well funded liberal lawyers with nothing better to do would take several decades to free such a perp. You know they want to.

All the perp has to do is say the right things and the poor lib lawyer will feel sorry for him and try to spring him from prison.

Liberalism is a mental disorder.

Anonymous said...

Obama does not disown pastor! wow...cutting edge news!! what will happen if he runs for presidentcy? But Trump tells us Obama a Muslim...Muslims doe not have pastors? Is Trump wrong?

Anonymous said...

Muslims practicing taqiya have pastors.

It went over your head didn't it.

Just comparing what the current and last presidents did about racism and their comments.

The news about Obama is not breaking, but is of interest and is germane to the discussion.