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BorneoAlliance	Nov 12 2016, 09:51 PM Return to original view \| Post #341
New Member Newbie 0 posts Joined: Dec 2014	China secretly building new military facility near North Korea border – Report The Chinese military is reportedly expanding its base to prepare for 'collapse' of Kim Jong-un's regime. QUOTE China is reportedly expanding its military facilities along the border it shares with North Korea amid ongoing tensions in the Korean peninsula following Pyongyang's missile launches and nuclear tests. Chinese military authorities began evacuating local residents at Kaishantunzhen in Longjing city in the north of the border with North Korea to another area, according to a source who told the US international broadcaster Radio Free Asia. It is to reportedly accommodate heavy equipment for construction at the site. The work to move people reportedly began in August in order to prepare for the construction of a large-scale military base in the region. Although China has built and expanded its military facilities in other parts of the regions in Asia and the Asia Pacific, raising regional tensions and widespread concerns from the international community, the current base expansion near North Korea is thought to be an unprecedented measure by Beijing. North Korea has reportedly responded to the Chinese activities by deploying around 20 soldiers and has also built an observation post at the top of a mountain across the border to monitor the activities of the Chinese military personnel. "The Chinese leadership seems to preparing for the collapse of the North Korean regime," a Korean-Chinese source from Longjing was quoted as saying by UPI news agency. Another source reportedly said a barbed wire fence along the border in Yanbian prefecture was also erected. International business times
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BorneoAlliance	Nov 12 2016, 10:03 PM Return to original view \| Post #342
New Member Newbie 0 posts Joined: Dec 2014	Anti-ISIS Forces Already Lost 3,500 Fighters in Mosul Offensive According to preliminary data, Iraqi troops and their allies have already lost 3,000-3,500 fighters during their offensive on Iraqi city of Mosul. The storm of the city of Mosul is not so successful: Iraqi troops and their allies approach the city from the north and south, but on the eastern outskirts of the city the same tendencies remain – it is obviously that the operation failed in the form, in which it was being conducted. According to preliminary data, since the beginning of the operation, the coalition, fighting against the Islamic State (IS) terrorist group, has lost about 3,000-3,500 fighters (mainly members of the Iraqi Army and the Shia militias), who were killed or wounded in clashes with terrorists, as well as 17-22 tanks (T-72, T-62, T-55, Abrams), more than 120 pieces of light armored vehicles (infantry fighting vehicles, high mobility multipurpose wheeled vehicles (Humvee), mine-resistant ambush protected vehicles (MRAP), bulldozers) and an unspecified number of vehicles, equipped with machine guns. Losses of IS terrorists are about 1,500-2,000 killed and wounded, about 15 armored vehicles and an unspecified number of vehicles, equipped with machine guns, and bomb-laden vehicles for suicide attacks. So, in general, the situation turned out to be like in Fallujah, though there was an attempt to avoid this scenario. A military operation to liberate Mosul from IS terrorists was started in the morning of October 17. A few days before the start of the land operation, the US-led coalition began to carry out airstrikes. The IS terrorist group captured Mosul, the second largest city in Iraq, in June 2014. Reportedly, there are between 5,000 and 6,000 IS terrorists in the city. SouthFront Analysis and Intelligence
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BorneoAlliance	Nov 13 2016, 07:02 PM Return to original view \| Post #343
New Member Newbie 0 posts Joined: Dec 2014	Slavic Brotherhood 2016: Paratroopers, drones & quadbikes deployed in anti-terror drills (VIDEOS) fh6YRWxjYMs DMSfNkq9Pgc VEoJ29RhCTw BWPzKszo2lg RT
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BorneoAlliance	Nov 14 2016, 07:03 AM Return to original view \| Post #344
New Member Newbie 0 posts Joined: Dec 2014	Russia’s Foreign Policy Scenarios: Evaluation By Lithuanian Experts – Analysis QUOTE This article, based on a recent study done by a Vilnius think tank called Eastern Europe Studies Centre (EESC), highlights select Lithuanian experts’ predictions of Russia’s foreign policy over the next three to five years. The study used the well-known Delphi Method of forecasting, originally developed by the RAND Corporation, to find a consensus on the most probable scenarios of Russian behavior in the international arena. QUOTE The experts’ dominant belief is that Russia seeks to gain superpower status and to reshape the rules of the international system so that Western domination ends and a multipolar world order emerges. QUOTE the experts predicted that confrontation with the U.S. would be in areas of “soft” power only, such as trying to gain more influence in Eastern and Central Europe QUOTE some of the experts indicated a possibility of Russia challenging certain NATO members in order to test NATO’s reliability and stability. The Lithuanian experts also see the Baltic States as the most probable target for such military provocations from the Russian side. QUOTE the EESC study participants believe that while Russia regards the EU as a competitor, it does not see Europe as a unified or even a sovereign actor in the international system. QUOTE The experts also asserted that Russia’s dominant tactic is to exploit divisions among EU member states and to use every opportunity to diminish US influence in Europe. QUOTE Russia would likely seek pragmatic cooperation with the EU in economic relations, but would not tolerate the EU expanding its political influence in Eastern Europe. QUOTE Russia will try to increase its influence in the international arena by exploiting divisions inside the EU, promoting radical groups in European countries, and finding opportunities to involve itself in international conflicts like Syria. Together, all these methods could create favorable conditions for Russia to exert more influence at regional and global levels and to increase its status as a global power. QUOTE conflicts or disagreements inside the current ruling elite in Russia as the internal factors which could be most significant in shaping Russia’s foreign policy. QUOTE Russian society and the political opposition are not capable of creating the conditions for a domestic transformation or “revolution.” QUOTE Support for radical political groups inside the EU, tactical involvement in the Syrian conflict that increases refugee flows to Europe, political influence in some southern EU countries such as Greece and Italy, are just a few examples of the Russian activities. Russia may also use the ideology of Pan-Slavism in the Balkans, creating yet another line of separation in Europe. It may also seek a “special relationship” with Turkey, which is a crucial partner of the EU in dealing with migration crises. In this scenario, Russia may exploit crises in the EU, such as Brexit to increase the pace of disintegration of the EU and NATO. According to this scenario, the priority of Russian foreign policy may shift from confrontation with the U.S. to that of promoting the breakup of the EU. Eurasia Review
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BorneoAlliance	Nov 14 2016, 07:23 AM Return to original view \| Post #345
New Member Newbie 0 posts Joined: Dec 2014	During the Cold War, the UK designed nuclear land mines that were reliant on chickens QUOTE In the 1950s, the UK designed a nuclear landmine that would be placed in West Germany to stop a hypothetical Soviet assault on the rest of Europe, the BBC reports. The landmine, dubbed Operation Blue Peacock, would be operated remotely so that it could be detonated at the moment when it could inflict maximal damage on the invading Red Army. But the weapon had a major hitch. Buried underground, it was possible that the mine would become cold to the point that the detonator would be unable to trigger a nuclear blast. In 1957, British nuclear physicists found a solution: chickens. “The birds would be put inside the casing of the bomb, given seed to keep them alive and stopped from pecking at the wiring,” the BBC notes. The chickens’ body heat would be enough to maintain the triggering mechanism’s working temperature. In all, the chickens would be estimated to survive for a week, after which time the bomb would return to a possibly cooled and inoperable state. In all, the landmines designed in Operation Blue Peacock were thought to yield a 10-kiloton explosion which would produce a crater 375 feet in diameter, according to the American Digest. Such destructive potential ultimately led to the abandonment of the project as the British realized that there would be an unacceptable amount of nuclear fallout from such a blast — never mind the complicated issue of burying nuclear weapons within the territory of an allied nation. By 1958, after the production of only two prototypes, Operation Blue Peacock was abandoned. Business insider
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BorneoAlliance	Nov 14 2016, 07:29 AM Return to original view \| Post #346
New Member Newbie 0 posts Joined: Dec 2014	Islamic State uses wooden tanks and bearded mannequins in decoy attempts QUOTE Islamic State (IS) is using wooden replicas of tanks and Humvees in a bid to subvert an air campaign by the US-led military coalition supporting Iraqi forces in the Mosul operations, even using bearded mannequins to simulate militants. The Iraqi army captured a handful of the mockups last week at a training site it retook from the group north of Mosul, IS's last major stronghold in the country, which government forces have almost surrounded but only breached so far from one direction. QUOTE Baghdad-based spokesman US Air Force Colonel John Dorrian said the coalition had been tracking IS's use of such decoy vehicles for a while. "We call it tactical deception. Daesh has been doing it and that's certainly a tactic that enemies like to use," he said. "It is actually not as troubling as a lot of the other things we've seen," he said, like setting fire to a sulphur plant and igniting oil wells south of Mosul. Also found at the training site were two large armoured vehicles the militants had used for assaulting enemy positions, and the blown out remains of more than a dozen vehicle-borne explosive devices that Iraqi forces had disabled. Middle East Eye
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BorneoAlliance	Nov 14 2016, 07:34 AM Return to original view \| Post #347
New Member Newbie 0 posts Joined: Dec 2014	The Navy's $12.9B Next Gen Aircraft Carrier Is Almost Ready Construction was supposed to be completed by September 2015, with a cost cap of $10.5 billion. QUOTE The Navy refers to its newest aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald R. Ford, as "4.5 acres of sovereign U.S. territory." The $12.9 billion warship — the first of the Navy's next generation of aircraft carriers — is in the final stages of construction after cost overruns and a delay of more than one year. This carrier and those that will follow, including the USS John F. Kennedy and the USS Enterprise, will replace the Nimitz-class carriers, which were first commissioned in 1975. Construction on the Ford started in 2009 and on the Kennedy in 2015. Construction is scheduled to start on the Enterprise in 2018, but that could be pushed back. The Ford — sitting now at Newport News Shipbuilding, the giant Navy contractor in Virginia — will house about 2,600 sailors, 600 fewer than the Nimitz-class carriers. The Navy says that will save more than $4 billion over the ship's 50-year lifespan. The air wing to support the Ford could add more personnel to the ship, which is designed to house more than 4,600 crew members. The Navy had hoped to begin testing the Ford's systems and equipment during sea trials this fall. But those tests and a delivery date have been delayed as work continues on some of the vessel's new technology, such as its power generation system, aircraft landing equipment and advanced weapons elevators. Construction was supposed to be completed by September 2015, with a cost cap of $10.5 billion. The Navy has attributed delays and cost overruns to the ship's state-of-the-art systems and technology. Popular mechanics
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BorneoAlliance	Nov 15 2016, 12:14 AM Return to original view \| Post #348
New Member Newbie 0 posts Joined: Dec 2014	Russia's New Electronic Warfare System Capable of Disrupting NATO Communications This system is expected to be a part of the national strategic electronic warfare (EW) system, which is currently being developed in Russia. It can be viewed as an asymmetrical response to the Pentagon's doctrine of a network-centric warfare, the adviser of KRET's first deputy general director Vladimir Mikheev said. The Russian strategic EW system applies a similar approach to defense. "It is meant to disrupt information environment and prevent an adversary from receiving and sending command and goal-oriented information," he explained. A prototype of the KRET's subsystem has successfully passed state trials. It will enter mass production in the near future, the defense contractor noted. KRET's press service did not provide information on when the new EW system will enter service with the Russian Armed Forces, telling Sputnik that it will be unveiled later. The Murmansk-BN complexes, which the new system will control, are aimed at disrupting radio communications at a maximum range of more than 3,000 kilometers (1,864 miles). The jammer is specifically geared at tackling high frequency communications systems, including the High Frequency Global Communications System. The HFGCS is a worldwide network of transmitters which provides command and control communications between ground agencies and US military aircraft and ships. Washington's military partners in NATO are said to have access to this network. Sputniknews
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BorneoAlliance	Nov 15 2016, 12:22 AM Return to original view \| Post #349
New Member Newbie 0 posts Joined: Dec 2014	Sweden's Super Stealth Submarines Are So Lethal They 'Sank' a U.S. Aircraft Carrier Khaa3y0i87s QUOTE In 2005, USS Ronald Reagan, a newly constructed $6.2 billion dollar aircraft carrier, sank after being hit by multiple torpedoes. QUOTE this did not occur in actual combat, but was simulated as part of a war game pitting a carrier task force including numerous antisubmarine escorts against HSMS Gotland, a small Swedish diesel-powered submarine displacing 1,600 tons. Yet despite making multiple attacks runs on the Reagan, the Gotland was never detected. QUOTE How was the Gotland able to evade the Reagan’s elaborate antisubmarine defenses involving multiple ships and aircraft employing a multitude of sensors? And even more importantly, how was a relatively cheap submarine costing around $100 million—roughly the cost of a single F-35 stealth fighter today—able to accomplish that? QUOTE the two-hundred-foot-long Swedish Gotland-class submarines, introduced in 1996, were the first to employ an Air Independent Propulsion (AIP) system—in this case, the Stirling engine. A Stirling engine charges the submarine’s seventy-five-kilowatt battery using liquid oxygen. QUOTE With the Stirling, a Gotland-class submarine can remain undersea for up to two weeks sustaining an average speed of six miles per hour—or it can expend its battery power to surge up to twenty-three miles per hour. QUOTE The Stirling-powered Gotland runs more quietly than even a nuclear-powered sub, which must employ noise-producing coolant pumps in their reactors. QUOTE It mounts twenty-seven electromagnets designed to counteract its magnetic signature to Magnetic Anomaly Detectors. Its hull benefits from sonar-resistant coatings, while the tower is made of radar-absorbent materials. Machinery on the interior is coated with rubber acoustic-deadening buffers to minimize detectability by sonar. QUOTE The Gotland is also exceedingly maneuverable thanks to the combined six maneuvering surfaces on its X-shaped rudder and sail, allowing it to operate close to the sea floor and pull off tight turns. QUOTE China has two diesel submarine types using Stirling engines. Fifteen of the earlier Type 039A Yuan class have been built in four different variants, with more than twenty more planned or already under construction. Beijing also has a single Type 032 Qing-class vessel that can remain underwater for thirty days. It believed to be the largest operational diesel submarine in the world, and boasts seven Vertical Launch System cells capable of firing off cruise missiles and ballistic missiles. The National Interest
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BorneoAlliance	Nov 15 2016, 12:30 AM Return to original view \| Post #350
New Member Newbie 0 posts Joined: Dec 2014	Report: Russian Navy MiG-29K crashed returning to aircraft carrier from Syria A report from Combat Aircraft states that the Russian navy lost a MiG-29K fighter into the Mediterranean as it returned to the Admiral Kuznetsov aircraft carrier after operating over Syria. Combat Aircraft reports that the plane’s wreckage has been recovered and the pilot survived. Recent reports and videos suggest that Russia began the Kuznetsov’s first combat deployment last week in the Mediterranean to support Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad. Experts agree that the Kuznetsov’s deployment to Syria doesn’t meaningfully increase Russia’s capabilities in the area, and that the deployment was done more for propaganda purposes and to showcase Moscow’s military hardware, like the MiG-29K which displayed prominently in a flashy video of the operations aboard the Kuznetsov. The news of the crash could potentially hurt Russia’s prospects to export the plane to nations like India, Thailand, and China, who also operate MiGs and ski-slope style aircraft carriers. Business insider
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BorneoAlliance	Nov 15 2016, 12:33 AM Return to original view \| Post #351
New Member Newbie 0 posts Joined: Dec 2014	First flight for new jet-powered Avenger UAV SAN DIEGO, Nov. 14 (UPI) -- A turbojet-powered unmanned aerial vehicle by General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. has successfully completed its first flight. The aircraft is called the Avenger Extended Range, a variant of the company's jet-powered Predator C Avenger, which has accumulated over 13,000 flight hours to date. GA-ASI said the flight occurred late last month at its Gray Butte Flight Operations Facility in Palmdale, Calif. "The first flight of Avenger ER is a significant achievement in the evolution of Predator C's proven performance and multi-mission capability," said Linden Blue, GA-ASI's chief executive officer. "The increased endurance and high payload capacity will deliver tremendous capability to our customers, who need persistent situational awareness and strike mission affordability." The aircraft has a wingspan of 76 feet and carries 2,200 pounds of additional fuel. Its flight endurance is 20 hours, five more than the legacy Avenger. The remotely piloted aircraft also features a wide array of sensors and weapons payloads to perform ISR and ground support missions. UPI
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BorneoAlliance	Nov 15 2016, 12:39 AM Return to original view \| Post #352
New Member Newbie 0 posts Joined: Dec 2014	Revealed, the NATO slackers: Why Trump is so infuriated by countries spending less than half their fare share on European defence (and we should be too) QUOTE Data has revealed the NATO countries who are not spending enough on defence to warrant Donald Trump using US forces to protect them from an attack. The President elect caused alarm during his election campaign by suggesting Washington would think twice about coming to the aid of an endangered NATO ally if it had not paid its dues. The alliance has set a target for its members of spending 2 per cent of GDP on defence - but the likes of France, Germany and Canada are among more than 20 members not meeting the objective, figures show. The Daily Mail UK
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BorneoAlliance	Nov 15 2016, 12:47 AM Return to original view \| Post #353
New Member Newbie 0 posts Joined: Dec 2014	Two submarines added to Bangladesh armada AaBouv4u8j4 QUOTE Bangladesh navy chief Admiral Nizamuddin Ahmed received the submarines during a ceremony at Liao Nan Shipyard in Liaoning province’s Dalian city, according to a Inter Services Public Relation Directorate release. The release, signed by ISPR spokeswoman Syed Taposhi Rabeya, reads the type 035G class submarines will become part of the country’s naval fleet at the beginning of next year. The submarines will be named BNS Nabajatra and BNS Joyjatra respectively. Bangladesh paid a reported $203m for the two submarines, a deal that reflects the country’s growing economic and defence ties with Beijing, reports AFP. Type 035G-class submarines area, also known as Ming-class, is a class of diesel-electric submarines of the People’s Liberation Army Navy. QUOTE Type 035G Ming-class is the most numerous variant. A total of 12 were built and commissioned between 1990 and 1999.They were built with further improvements, especially in terms of noise reduction, weapons, sensors and crew living standards. The primary weaponry for Type 035G is Yu-3 torpedo, and French sonar DUUX-5 and its Chinese-built version were used on later units, 12 of which were completed between 1990 and 1999. Dhaka Tribune
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BorneoAlliance	Nov 15 2016, 07:05 AM Return to original view \| Post #354
New Member Newbie 0 posts Joined: Dec 2014	Russia’s Most Feared Air-to-Air Missile Is Actually Kind of a Dud The Russians may never have acquired production-model R-77s QUOTE The Artem company in Ukraine manufactured most of the K-77M’s parts. Vympel had produced only around 200 pre-series rounds by the time the USSR dissolved. The Russians tested the missiles at the Akhtubinsk Test Center but never distributed any to operational squadrons. Financing by potential export customers enabled some work to continue and thus the Izdeliye-190 — a.k.a. the RVV-AE — came into being. Manufactured in Russia and equipped with the Agat 9B-1348E seeker head, the RVV-AE was acquired by Algeria, China, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Sudan, Syria, Uganda and Venezuela. QUOTE It’s not clear whether the Russian air force actually bought any. The same can be said for an entire host of variants reported as “undergoing development” — ranging from the passive-homing R-77P to the infrared-homing R-77T to the ramjet-powered R-77-PD and the K-77M variant supposedly under development for Russia’s T-50 stealth fighter. Indeed, the main variant the Russian air force wanted — the Izdeliye-170-1 or R-77-1, is still not in service. Reportedly fitted with a streamlined nose covering the new 9B-1248 or Izdeliye-50-1 active radar seeker head, plus new fin fittings, it was test-fired from a Sukhoi Su-27SM-3 at Akhtubinsk in September 2010. QUOTE In the last six years, the Russian defense ministry has made only one official statement related to the R-77. On Aug. 26, 2015, the ministry announced a potentially $200-million tender for R-77-1 missiles. Notable is that the statement in question is not an order, as such. It’s a call for companies interested in manufacturing the missiles to submit proposals. The outcome of this tender was never officially announced and thus it remains unclear whether series production has begun and if any have R-77–1 missiles have entered Russian service as of late 2016. QUOTE However, because Moscow never officially announced the results of the tender from August 2015, and because there is no evidence of series production of the Izdeliye-170-1, the origin of missiles in question remains opaque. They might be from the original stock of Izdeliye-170s manufactured in Ukraine. They could be Izdeliye-190s manufactured in Russia for export. They could even be Syrian Izdeliye-190s that the Russians borrowed. War is boring
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BorneoAlliance	Nov 15 2016, 07:19 AM Return to original view \| Post #355
New Member Newbie 0 posts Joined: Dec 2014	Trump Backer Pushes for New CIA ‘Enhanced Interrogation’ Jose Rodriguez destroyed tapes of interrogations during the Bush years and he says the next president should go further than waterboarding terrorist suspects. QUOTE “We have to be able to capture terrorists. We have to be able to interrogate them. We don’t do that anymore,” QUOTE But he does want to bring back some form of now-illegal interrogation measures, like waterboarding, sleep deprivation, and other so-called “enhanced interrogation methods” QUOTE “Enhanced interrogation techniques are well known to the enemy and we would have to come up with something else,” QUOTE He also wants the Trump administration to block current cases against CIA employees who carried out the program. QUOTE "These savages are chopping off heads, drowning people. This is medieval times and then we can't do waterboarding?” QUOTE “We tortured some folks,” after 9/11, Obama told reporters shortly after taking office. “We did some things that were contrary to our values.” QUOTE “A repeal of the 2005 Detainee Treatment Act and the 2015 amendment—or a replacement of those laws—would require the compliance of the Senate, specifically the 60 votes required to overcome a possible Democratic filibuster,” QUOTE A landmark Senate Intelligence Committee report into the program detailed stomach-churning methods such as instances of force feeding hunger-striking detainees rectally, and concluded that no actionable intelligence was produced by the methods. QUOTE “They worked. Of course they worked,” Rodriguez countered. “That Senate report is a farce. It’s a lie, it’s like Obamacare, it’s not true.” QUOTE Rodriguez himself was investigated by the Justice Department for three years for destroying video tapes of CIA interrogations of two Al Qaeda detainees, but not prosecuted. Rodriguez said the “ugly visuals” of the interrogations, if ever made public, would endanger American lives. The Daily Beast
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BorneoAlliance	Nov 15 2016, 08:00 AM Return to original view \| Post #356
New Member Newbie 0 posts Joined: Dec 2014	Trump’s New Navy: Does the US Really Need 350 Warships? Defense hawks are embracing Donald Trump’s idea of expanding U.S. naval power. QUOTE Defense hawks are also pleased that Randy Forbes, an advocate for a 350-ship navy and $20 billion annual shipbuilding programs, is allegedly being considered for secretary of the navy – the Department of the Navy’s top civilian job. QUOTE Policymakers affected by the Gathering Storm Syndrome have embraced Churchill’s dictum laid out in the first volume of his history of World War II, called The Gathering Storm, as a universal principle applicable at all times under any circumstances and against any adversary: Appeasement (i.e. disarmament paired with political compromise) makes the aggressor only more aggressive; and restraint in international politics is more often than not a mistake to be paid for at a later stage with “blood, toil, tears, and sweat.” QUOTE Perhaps, [policy makers affected by Gathering Storm syndrome] should heed Margaret Thatcher’s saying that “being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren’t.” Also as George Smiley notes in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, fanatics (i.e. defense hawks) are always prone to uncompromising attitudes, yet “the fanatic is always concealing a secret doubt.” Thus, signaling strong resolve may actually have the reverse effect. QUOTE Whether the U.S. Navy will have 272 or 350 ships, it will remain the most powerful naval force in the world for decades to come. No naval force in the world can even remotely militarily challenge U.S. naval supremacy. And this is not likely to change any time soon. Furthermore, defense hawks have a tendency to provide analyses that do not take into account that military power is always relative and in flux, QUOTE For example, how does an increase in the number of warships precisely affect the overall national security of the United States save the obvious deterrence factor? Is there, in fact, a direct correlation between the number of ships and U.S. national security? What are the opportunity costs of spending money on warships rather than investing it in other technologies or military hardware? At what moment precisely, can we expect China and Russia to take advantage of U.S. naval weakness? Will Beijing and Moscow automatically switch to a more aggressive posture if the number of warships falls below 250? Or is it 260? TheDiplomat
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BorneoAlliance	Nov 15 2016, 10:29 AM Return to original view \| Post #357
New Member Newbie 0 posts Joined: Dec 2014	Trump could nix Obama's women in combat military policy QUOTE The Obama administration's move last year to integrate women into front-line combat roles may get reversed by the next Pentagon head selected by President-elect Donald Trump. The Republican Party's 2016 official platform, drafted over the summer, seeks to exempt women from "direct ground combat units and infantry battalions." Last month, Trump was asked about the women in combat issue at an event hosted by the Retired American Warriors in Virginia. In his response, Trump vowed to do "away with political correctness" in the U.S. military. CNBC
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BorneoAlliance	Nov 15 2016, 06:58 PM Return to original view \| Post #358
New Member Newbie 0 posts Joined: Dec 2014	Russian MIG-29 Crashes in Med After Takeoff From Aircraft Carrier The pilot of the MIG-29 fighter jet ejected, his life is not in danger, the Russian Defense Ministry said. According to the ministry, technical fault was the reason for the incident during a training mission. "An aviation accident with carrier-based fighter MIG-29K occurred during exercise flights as a result of a technical fault during the approach landing a few kilometers from the Admiral Kuznetsov aircraft-carrying cruiser." The Russian group of warships in the Mediterranean continues scheduled activities after the incident. "The Russian aircraft carrier group continues its activity in the Mediterranean Sea as planned. The flights of sea-based aviation continue." On November 12, the commander of the Admiral Kuznetsov said that aea-based jets of the aircraft-carrying cruiser Admiral Kuznetsov which arrived in the Syrian coast heading a group of the Russian Northern Fleet's squadron started training flights. On October 15, Russia's Northern Fleet’s press service said that a group of warships headed by the aircraft-carrying cruiser Admiral Kuznetsov accompanied by the Pyotr Veliky battle cruiser, the Severomorsk and Vice-Admiral Kulakov anti-submarine destroyer, and support vessels was sent to the Mediterranean to hold drills. MiG-29K (NATO reporting name: Fulcrum-D) is Russia's new carrier-based fighter jet designed for destroying surface and ground targets. The jet has been modernized to 4++ generation. Sputniknews
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BorneoAlliance	Nov 15 2016, 07:01 PM Return to original view \| Post #359
New Member Newbie 0 posts Joined: Dec 2014	This Marine tweaked his body armor to instantly treat a gunshot wound QUOTE A Marine corporal may have come up with a brilliant way to treat a gunshot wound the moment a bullet pierces body armor. Cpl. Matthew Long, a motor transport mechanic, designed a tear-proof package filled with a cocktail of blood clotting and pain-killing agents that sits behind body armor, which would be released instantly if pierced by a bullet. Though Marine body armor, called “flak” jackets, come with small arms protective insert (SAPI) plates to stop bullets, they can have trouble stopping multiple rounds. Long’s invention, if fielded, would render first aid immediately, without a Marine having to do anything. The seemingly-simple tweak could save lives when a medic is not immediately available. The corporal was selected as a winner for his invention in September during the Corps’ Logistics Innovation Challenge. Business insider
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BorneoAlliance	Nov 15 2016, 07:23 PM Return to original view \| Post #360
New Member Newbie 0 posts Joined: Dec 2014	ISIS Car Bomb Attacks on Iraqi Forces near Mosul in November 2016 (Video) The video below shows a series of ISIS car bomb attacks on Iraqi forces, backed by the US-led coalition, in the area of ISIS-controlled city of Mosul in November 2016. The terrorist group has been successfully harassing the Iraqi army and the Kurdish Peshmerga with car bombs despite all US efforts to train, to equip and to assist the Iraqi forces. uJlerhV3Lhs SouthFront Analysis and Intelligence
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