Posts Tagged ‘Intelligence’
Pakistan to US: You secure your weapons, We’ll secure ours!
According to Dan Rivers of CNN, Maj. Gen. Athar Abbasof the Pakistan Army has said that: "many of the Taliban's arms are coming across the border from Afghanistan." When Rivers asked him "if that includes NATO weapons, as suggested in recent reports," he agreed. According to Rivers, "He says Washington is too focused on the safety of Pakistan's [...]
More on the US Army Counterinsurgency Field Manual
Robert Haddick of Small Wars Journal, a former U.S. Marine Corps officer, who writes at Westhawk and The American, has posted a long article (reproduced in full below), that provides important information on the US Army Field Manual on Counterinsurgency (see earlier post with a summary of the Manual, and another post with critical remarks on its [...]
New Greater Balochistan Map
A May 2009 article, mainly on Gwadar, by Robert D. Kaplan, Pakistan's Fatal Shore, in The Atlantic, that is referenced on Baloch separatist websites (see here, for example), provides a map of "Greater Balochistan" that is probably reflective of the thinking of the "Balkanise Pakistan" lobby that is increasingly coming out into the [...]
French Military Base in Abu Dhabi to Facilitate Israeli Attack on Iran
Taking Israel's threat seriously, Iran had declared its intention to block the Gulf oil transit lanes in retaliation. In a major shift in foreign policy, France has not only entered the New Great Game, as it is being called, by establishing a military presence in the Middle East, but has increased the cost of retaliation to Iran. See the story in [...]
New Hardware for the “Af-Pak” Theatre
Posted at DoD Buzz: ISR Gunships to Target Taliban By Greg Grant Monday, May 18th, 2009 The ever expedient Marine Corps plans to send field modified A/KC-130J transport-tanker-gunships to Afghanistan by the end of the year, to provide Marines fighting a resurgent Taliban there with much needed over-watch and precision close air support, [...]
US Defence “Black” Budget for FY 2010 Crosses $50 billion Mark
In Ares, a defence technology blog hosted by Aviation Week, Bill Sweetman writes that the US Defence Department's "Black" Budget for FY 2010 rises over the $50 billion mark: "In the R-1 (research and development), P-1 (procurement) and O-1 (operations) budgets for 2010, just over $50 billion is listed for classified programs, the largest-ever [...]
