Bill Gertz, Washington Free Beacon The U.S. military command in South Korea voiced concerns this week that a Chinese telecommunications deal with South Korea could undermine the security of communications on the tense Korean peninsula. Chris Bush, a spokesman for the U.S. Forces Korea said the command is concerned that a deal between China’s Huawei […]
Bill Gertz, Commentary For the past five and a half years, the United States military has suffered the devastating effects of hundreds of billions of dollars in budget cuts. At the same time, China’s armed forces—both conventional and nuclear—have made dramatic gains. … The new Chinese military is armed with highly sophisticated weaponry. They include […]
Rowan Scarborough, The Washington Times Elite Russian troops are displaying a new arsenal of body armor, individual weapons, armor-piercing ammunition and collar radios — a menu of essential gear that gives them a big tactical advantage against a lesser-equipped Ukrainian army. If President Vladimir Putin orders an invasion, the new-generation body armor, in particular, […]
Bill Gertz, Washington Free Beacon The Russian government this week canceled a planned U.S. surveillance flight over Russian territory in a bid to limit spying on massed troops facing off against Ukraine and Eastern Europe, according to U.S. officials. The overflight mission was scheduled for April 14 to April 16 under the 1992 Open Skies […]
Bill Gertz, Inside the Ring, Washington Times The U.S. electrical power grid is vulnerable to cyber and physical attacks that could cause devastating disruptions throughout the country, federal and industry officials told Congress recently. Gerry Cauley, president of the North American Electric Reliability Corp., said that several — if not all — other critical U.S. […]
Bill Gertz It is common wisdom in the cyber security world that the Internet is a lawless environment. The Heartbleed bug announced last week reveals why. A widely used Internet security encryption system known as OpenSSL wasn’t attacked or had its security code broken by the Chinese or Russian intelligence services. Instead sophisticated computer hackers likely […]
Bill Gertz, Washington Free Beacon Russia’s military carried out a flight test of a new multi-warhead intercontinental ballistic missile on Monday amid growing tensions with the United States over the crisis in Ukraine. The SS-27 Mod 2 road-mobile ICBM was launched around 2:40 a.m. EST from Russia’s Plesetsk launch facility, located about 500 miles north […]
Bill Gertz, Inside the Ring, The Washington Times U.S. intelligence agencies are closely watching North Korea for signs that Pyongyang’s next military provocation will be a long-range missile flight test. Recent pronouncements from the North indicate the regime has decided to conduct a long-range flight test, the timing of which is unknown, said U.S. officials […]
Bill Gertz, Washington Free Beacon China’s military has allowed the public release of the first photographs of a warplane variant deployed on the Liaoning — the aircraft carrier that saw its first visit by U.S. officials this week. The new Shenyang J-15, also known as the Flying Shark, is based on the Russian SU-33 design […]
Miles Yu, Washington Times On April 1, Chinese defense officials converged at La Paz, Bolivia, for a grand ceremony to deliver the ground station for a Chinese-launched communications satellite. … China is marching on in Latin America, accompanied by a few ideological fellow travelers, such as Venezuela and Cuba. In the past decade, China has […]