LIGNET.com The Malaysian government reportedly is investigating the possibility that missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 avoided radar detection and landed in Pakistan near the Afghanistan border inside Taliban-controlled territory, according to the UK Independent . . . Pakistan dismissed the idea that a Boeing 777 could land undetected inside the country but promised to work […]
Ben Stein, American Spectator Whatever one may think of Richard Nixon, even his harshest critics usually would concede his foreign policy genius. By opening up China, surrounding the Soviet Union, making peace possible between Israel and Egypt, signing the first significant arms control treaty with the Soviets, and ending the war in Vietnam, Nixon made […]
Bill Gertz, Washington Free Beacon A cyber espionage operation by China seven years ago produced sensitive technology and aircraft secrets that were incorporated into the latest version of China’s new J-20 stealth fighter jet, according to U.S. officials and private defense analysts. The Chinese cyber spying against the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II took place […]
Two weeks ago, 34 people were killed and 130 injured in a mass stabbing attack at the Kunming railway station in Yunnan, China. Reports said as many as 10 black-clad assailants wielding knives and machetes attacked people at random. The event caused shock in China and around the world, with many referring to it as […]
Bill Gertz North Korea has developed advanced offensive cyberwarfare capabilities that were used in recent attacks and are now part of Pyongyang’s asymmetric war-fighting methods. Details of the North Korean cyber war efforts were disclosed for the first time in a Pentagon report to Congress last week. The effort was described as a “military offensive […]
Bill Gertz, Washington Free Beacon North Korea has deployed an indigenous unmanned aerial vehicle capable of attacking ground targets based on stolen U.S. target drones, the Pentagon revealed in a report to Congress. Images of the North Korean drone in flight were shown as part of a March 2013 military drill, the Pentagon report said. […]
LIGNET.com Russia’s military incursion into Ukraine is aimed at restoring the government of ousted pro-Russia President Viktor Yanukovych and annexing the strategically important Crimean Autonomous Region. The developing crisis seemingly presents the United States and NATO with limited response options, but some form of action is vital to prevent Moscow’s moves from setting a destabilizing […]
Bill Gertz, Inside the Ring, The Washington Times U.S. intelligence agencies are stepping up their spying on Russia’s military amid concerns that Moscow is preparing to use force against Ukraine in the wake of the pro-democracy revolution in Kiev. Earlier this week, intelligence agencies reported that two Ural-4320 trucks full of armed Russian troops were […]
Bill Gertz, Washington Free Beacon President Barack Obama will sharply cut ships, aircraft, and troops as part of a major reduction of U.S. military forces that … would reduce U.S. ground forces to their lowest level since World War II at a time when world threats are increasing. … The military cutbacks have been a […]
Reuben F. Johnson, Washington Free Beacon Observers of Pyongyang in China say the North Korea is becoming a “closed box” in terms of understanding who is in charge and how decisions are being made by the leadership. “No one here really knows what is going on in the DPRK,” said one analyst. “And there is […]