Friday, August 16, 2019

Military And Intelligence News Briefs -- August 16, 2019



The Hill: Trump to meet with national security team on Afghanistan peace plan

President Trump will meet with his national security team Friday afternoon to discuss a pending peace agreement with the Taliban, according to multiple reports.

A senior administration official confirmed to reporters that Trump will meet with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo at his resort in Bedminster, N.J., but would not give details on the meeting’s topic.

Multiple news outlets reported that the topic will be the 18-year-old war in Afghanistan. The official did not dispute that.

The official added that Trump has “been pretty clear” about his desire to withdraw from Afghanistan.

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Military And Intelligence News Briefs -- August 16, 2019

Trump meeting advisers on Afghan peace plan -- Reuters

Exclusive: Shared Afghanistan interests create opening for U.S.-Iran back channel - sources -- Reuters

Tension between South Korea and Japan could hurt US goals in the Pacific — and China is watching -- Defense News

Navy requests proposals for Large Unmanned Surface Vehicle -- UPI

The Army is getting a $130 million playground for hypersonics -- Business Insider/Task & Purpose

The Pentagon's Research Arm Wants AI to Help Design More Secure Tech -- NextGov

Plane Carrying U.S. Military Personnel Catches Fire on Runway Before Take Off -- Newsweek

The Navy Is Dropping Bean-Bag Messages onto Ships Like It Did to Evade WWII Enemies -- Military.com

Air Force Tests Contraption That Can Turn Any Plane Into a Robot Plane -- Defense One

Pentagon’s $10 Billion Brain Is Frozen by a Contracting Scandal -- Bloomberg

Trump's purge of his own national security team is almost complete -- CNN

Plans for a new base closing round may be running out of time: Report -- Military Times

Pentagon says US can defend against Russian and Chinese missile threats — if it's willing to invest -- Washington Examiner

The Myth of American Military Dominance -- Justin Lynch, War On The Rocks

The Pentagon’s Fighter Jet of the Future Is Causing a Whole Lot of Problems in the Present -- Mother Jones

The U.S. Navy SEALs: Why are They Falling Apart? -- Jeff Schogol, National Interest

Germany charges army staffer with spying for Iran -- DW

Report to US Congress on Russian Nuclear Weapons -- USNI News

WATCH Latest military video of Russia’s new heavy combat drone on its maiden flight -- RT

Putin Reserves Key 5G Frequency for Military Use, Media Reports -- Moscow Times

Russia, Mongolia kick off Selenga-2019 joint military drills -- TASS

Russian fighter jets scrambled 19 times on interception missions in past week -- TASS

Top North Korean military official visiting China this week: reports -- NK News

U.S., South Korea burden-sharing talks spur worries of widening rift -- UPI

US: Taiwan defense spending to rise with China threat -- Military Times/AP

India says it is committed to ‘no first use’ of nuclear weapons for now -- Global News/Reuters

An Indian facility that makes Su-30MKI jets may shut down, toppling 400 local suppliers -- Defense News

Why Israel's Military Might Have Better F-15s Than the U.S. Air Force -- Charlie Gao, National Interest

Analysis On Women, Israeli Army Could Learn From U.S. Military -- Haaretz

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

THIS MAY COME UP

Anonymous said...

Israeli minister: Tlaib's 'hatred for Israel' stronger than 'her love for her grandmother'

Anonymous said...

Border Patrol agents arrested a previously deported Mexican child rapist who illegally re-entered the U.S. in Arizona. In a separate incident, Border Patrol agents in Texas arrested a French citizen wanted in his home country for murder.

So many unhappy Democrats when they hear this news.

Anonymous said...

"Sierra Blanca Border Patrol Station agents operating an inland border security checkpoint encountered the man on a bus. During an immigration interview, the agents discovered 30-year-old Marouana Bah, a French citizen, presented a passport that did not belong to him,"

Give us your welfare cases, your murderers, your rapists, your pedophiles yearning to rampage freely.


Give these scum to America and make a liberal's day.

Anonymous said...

"SUNY Women’s Studies Staffer: Milking Cows Is ‘Sexual Assault’"

Liberalism is a mental disorder.

Anonymous said...

SUNY IS A MARVELOUS UNIVERSITY STATE WIDE SYSTEM THAT HAS GIVEN OUR NATION MANY OUTSTANDING PEOPLE. THAT ONE COURSE OF STUDY ANNOYS YOU IS HARDLY 1. a reason to label the system liberal, since the Regents controlling the system are hardly liberal. To attack a huge very sucessful system on the basis of a fairly minor slightly enrolled subject is truly to show how little you really know about higher education

Anonymous said...

"BTW, did you know that in Muslim countries like Qatar, women can legally be forced to have IVF if they're not pregnant within 6 months of marriage and if they're not pregnant within a year, hubby has the option to discard her? I wonder how Miss April would feel about that."


"Interesting their hatred of America and Christianity "trumps" their ignoring the actualities of the Muslim faith." - Yup, that explain diseased liberals in a nutshell.

Anonymous said...

Lapides,
You need to work on the coherency and grammar, the pomposity is too ingrained.

Anonymous said...

Another faulty link, got to be Lapides.