http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3135242/Army-reveals-armoured-trucks-fitted-LASERS-blast-mines-ground-explode-stray-bombs.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490 Army reveals armoured trucks fitted with LASERS to blast mines out of the ground and explode stray bombs. Uses a laser to detonate bombs up to 300 meters away. Interrogator arm and manipulator claw can move 50 pounds of debris. Could be used instead of bomb disposal experts in body armour. Please do…
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Studying Intelligence Tradecraft: The One Time Pad
Along with the Study of Insurgent Tactics series, I will be adding this series, which will focus on field Intelligence Skill-Sets/Tradecraft that would be practical for the Modern Guerilla to know. Since my knowledge of this is limited, I will be depending on certain friends to help me along. Thanks to Mr. A for this…
Intel Overwatch News Synopsis: 6-16-15
The future belongs to those who prepare for it today http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/06/15/former-cia-operative-bergdahl-was-high-when-captured-in-afghanistan/?intcmp=latestnews Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl was apparently “high” with a small group of Afghan soldiers when they were picked up by nomads in 2009, according to a former CIA operative who was running a network of informants on the ground. CYBER WARS http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/israel-thought-to-be-behind-new-malware-found-by-kaspersky-a-1037960.html Several of the…
Intel Overwatch News Synopsis: 6/8/15
by Bill Powell http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/446911/nuclear-bomb-Russia-explosion-panic-mushroom-clouda wee bit paranoid – just a cloud, not the nuclear kindhttp://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/nazi-sympathiser-and-former-king-the-duke-of-windsor-wanted-england-to-be-bombed-international-archives-reveal-10306121.htmlSoviet intelligence services were certain that the Duke of Windsor was a Nazi sympathiser when war broke out, and reported in 1940 that he and Hitler had discussed forming a new English government, and striking an alliance with Germany based on having…
Learning From History: The Russian Caucasian Campaigns 1801-1864
Much can be learned and applied to the struggle many modern armies face today when we examine when the first Conventional Armies of the 19th Century Russian Empire sought to subjugate the Islamic tribes of the Caucusus’ http://usacac.army.mil/CAC2/cgsc/carl/download/csipubs/LP20_Russian-SovietUnconventionalWars.pdf (Note: The USACAC CSI Pubs are free and open to the public. Visit their site HERE.) Stay…
Lessons from Custer
By John S. Farnam, Defense Training International The Little Big Horn, Saturday, 25 June 1876 The biggest problem American Indians faced with European immigrants was that they kept allying themselves with the losing side! During the French and Indian War, Indians allied themselves with the French. The French lost. During the Revolutionary War, Indians allied…
Intel Overwatch News Synopsis: 6/2/15
**Don’t forget to tune into The Outlaw Dave Show on KPRC FM Radio ever Tuesday Night at 8pm CST for Intel Overwatch with Bill Powell.** http://sputniknews.com/europe/20150530/1022760101.html According to some reports, German and US intelligence agencies were spying on Belgium by monitoring data passing through 15 cables, mostly used by Proximus, the largest of Belgium’s three mobile telecommunications companies. Allegedly, Germany’s Deutsche Telecom could have collaborated with the BND. Belgium and the Netherlands have launched an investigation into alleged espionage by Germany, blaming Berlin for assisting the United States in spying on its EU allies CHINA http://atimes.com/2015/05/china-to-invest-900-billion-in-new-silk-road/ China Development Bank (CDB) unveiled plans Thursday to invest more than $890 billion in the project which goes by the official moniker of “One Belt, One Road.” Funding from new Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank and the Silk Road Fund- more than 900 projects involving 60 countries. These projects include coal and gas, mining, electricity, telecommunications, infrastructure, agriculture, and people-to-people exchanges that will help trade and capital flow. Six corridors would be China-Mongolia-Russia, New Eurasian Land Bridge, China-Central and West Asia, China-Indo-China Peninsula, China-Pakistan, and Bangladesh-China-India-Myanmar with no travel restrictions and overseas with Latin America http://www.wantchinatimes.com/news-subclass-cnt.aspx?id=20150531000044&cid=1101&MainCatID= China declared that overseas military bases will be necessary to carry out the New Economic Silk Road Belt and the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road (“Belt and Road”) initiatives, China’s economic development is now deeply tied in to the global economy. China’s oil industry relies on natural resources from the Middle East and Central Asia, while Chinese construction companies need materials from Southern Africa and Latin America, which is why China is so keen to press ahead with the Belt and Road plan. http://www.wantchinatimes.com/news-subclass-cnt.aspx?id=20150531000045&cid=1101 China has more fighters than the United States – and they know it however their limitation was about 350 miles from the coast. Not now with islands in the s china sea http://ausairpower.net/APA-NOTAM-170209-1.html interesting piece from 2009 I agreed with back then and the US has even less fighters now , even with older, crappier fighters China wins through attrition …