Special to WorldTribune.com Bill Gertz, Washington Free Beacon Chinese military hackers are conducting cyber attacks on the Pentagon’s Missile Defense Agency networks on a daily basis and will soon shift to hacking into networks of missile defense contractors, the admiral in charge of the agency told Congress on Thursday. Vice Adm. James D. Syring, the […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Morgan Chalfant, Washington Free Beacon The Marine Corps could undergo an overhaul at all levels over the next decade to prepare for future conflicts in which information warfare will play a critical role. … A roughly 300-person operational planning team developed the plans in response to a order from Gen. Robert Neller, […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Sizuo Kakutani sees no great mystery in the things that wash ashore in Monzen, his quiet fishing village on the Sea of Japan — the fishing boats ravaged by fierce winter storms, the Chinese garbage carried to land by the strong winds …. The ghost ships, however, are harder to explain. On […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Bill Gertz, Washington Free Beacon Russia deployed 153 strategic nuclear warheads over the past year under the New START arms treaty while the U.S. military pared its nuclear forces by 57 warheads, according to State Department figures released last week. The increase in warheads by Moscow appears to be part of Moscow’s […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Bill Gertz, Inside the Ring, Washington Times Defense Secretary Ashton Carter was scheduled to travel to China next week, but the visit was put off, according to defense officials. Instead, he will visit India, where closer defense relations are developing amid growing regional tensions in Asia over Chinese military activities. … An […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Michelle Malkin It’s not over. It’s never over. After last week’s deadly airport and subway bombings in Brussels, the Belgian government remains on high alert for jihad attacks and espionage at its nuclear facilities. One Belgian nuke plant security guard was murdered recently and his ID is missing. Two of the […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Bill Gertz, Washington Free Beacon Six months after China pledged to halt cyber espionage against the United States, Beijing’s hackers continue to conduct cyber attacks on government and private networks, the commander of U.S. Cyber Command told Congress. Despite a formal pledge made by Chinese leader Xi Jinping in September, “cyber operations […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Bill Gertz, Washington Free Beacon Escalating threats from North Korea’s communist regime are indicators of a future military attack or another nuclear test in the coming days, according to a recent U.S. intelligence assessment. … The unclassified assessment circulated within government states that the intense language suggests North Korea is preparing for […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Bill Gertz, Inside the Ring, Washington Times The commander of the U.S. Cyber Command warned last week that he expects a major cyberattack on critical infrastructure in the United States in the future. “It is only a matter of the ‘when,’ not the ‘if’ we’re going to see a nation-state, group or […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Bill Gertz, Washington Free Beacon China’s military buildup on disputed islands in the South China Sea is nearly finished and supports Beijing’s plan to rapidly project power in the region, according to intelligence made public this week. Director of National Intelligence James Clapper stated in an intelligence analysis for Congress: … ““Once […]