Electric grid compounds across the country have faced an uptick in unauthorized intrusions by unknown individuals, causing concern that the U.S. grid is “inherently vulnerable” to widespread sabotage, according to a recent oversight report issued by New Jersey’s Regional Operations Intelligence Center (ROIC), which monitors the threat level. Following at least eight “reports of intrusions […]
By Bill Gertz, Washington Free Beacon Russian military forces continued massing within six miles of Ukraine’s western border regions as tensions increased over Moscow’s so far bloodless attempt to take control of the country by force under the pretext of protecting ethnic Russians. In Kiev, Ukrainian Foreign Ministry spokesman Yevhen Perebiynis said the massing of […]
Washington Free Beacon JERUSALEM—Israel has unveiled a laser defense system that it says will be able to shoot down rockets and artillery shells with a high-energy beam. The system, known as Iron Beam, was shown yesterday for the first time at the annual Singapore Air Show. The Israeli defense company that developed Iron Beam, Rafael, […]
Bill Gertz, Washington Free Beacon Software developed in the former Soviet state of Belarus is part of networks used by U.S. medical and insurance companies that are now part of President Barack Obama’s health care reform program, according to a senior official of a government technology park in Minsk. However, Alexander Martinkevich, deputy director of […]
Bill Gertz, Washington Free Beacon A member of the House Intelligence Committee said Tuesday she is investigating whether an intelligence report warning about risks to Americans who posted data on the Obamacare website was suppressed for political reasons. Rep. Michele Bachmann (R., Minn.) said she plans to write to President Barack Obama and Health and […]
By Bill Gertz, The Ring, The Washington Times President Obama has dialed back his earlier optimistic assessment of global efforts to defeat Al Qaida. Instead of nearing defeat, the terrorist group is planting new roots in North Africa and the Middle East…..In his fifth State of the Union address to Congress on Tuesday, Mr. Obama […]
By Bill Gertz, Inside the Ring, The Washington Times The dovish commander of U.S. Pacific Command recently played down China’s stunning test of a new, ultra-high-speed strategic strike vehicle that many other military and national security officials say represents a quantum leap in Chinese strategic capabilities. Navy Adm. Samuel R. Locklear said during a recent […]
By Park Geun-Hye, President of South Korea On February 12, 2013, North Korea carried out its third nuclear test in the run-up to the inauguration of a new administration – my own – in the South. Around that time, the Presidential Transition Committee adopted the “Trust-Building Process on the Korean Peninsula” as a key policy […]
By Bill Gertz, Washington Free Beacon U.S. strategic military satellites are vulnerable to attack in a future space war and the Pentagon is considering a major shift to smaller satellites in response, the commander of the Air Force Space Command said Tuesday. Gen. William Shelton said in a speech that China currently has a missile […]
By Bill Gertz, Washington Free Beacon China has ordered foreign fishing vessels to obtain approval from regional authorities before fishing or surveying in two thirds of the South China Sea, setting up the potential for new confrontations between Beijing and its neighbors over maritime sovereignty claims to disputed islands. The new orders went into effect […]