Archive for the 'War' Category
Pentagon ‘Three-Day Blitz’ Plan for Iran
September 3rd, 2007Via: Times Online: THE Pentagon has drawn up plans for massive airstrikes against 1,200 targets in Iran, designed to annihilate the Iranians’ military capability in three days, according to a national security expert. Alexis Debat, director of terrorism and national security at the Nixon Center, said last week that US military planners were not preparing […]
Iraq: Most Goals for “Surge” Missed
August 30th, 2007The primary goal of the war is to keep the multi billion dollar give-a-way to criminal corporations going. That goal is being met. Via: Yahoo / AP: The Iraqi government has failed to meet the vast majority of political and military goals laid out by lawmakers to assess President Bush’s Iraq war strategy, congressional auditors […]
China and Asymmetric Warfare
August 29th, 2007Cut the fiber, turn out the lights and the monster will die. China knows this. Actually, anyone who takes an objective look at America’s astonishing dependence on undefended electricity and data communications infrastructures knows this. But there’s lots of other treachery afoot. Via: Tribune Democrat: All eyes in Washington are focused on the Middle East […]
Saudis Set Up 35,000 Strong Force to Guard Oil Infrastructure
August 27th, 2007Support the Troops! Via: Financial Times: Saudi Arabia has begun setting up a 35,000-strong security force to protect its oil infrastructure from potential attacks. The move underlines the kingdom’s growing concern about its oil installations after threats from al-Qaeda to attack facilities in the Gulf, as well as rising tensions between Iran and the US. […]
Pentagon’s New Drug Weapons: “Calmatives”
August 26th, 2007It sounds like they’re looking for drugs to create more docile Americans. Will it make enemy forces want to watch TV and shop at WalMart, too? Via: Wired: In fact, it looks like the military are all set to start deploying a new generation of – well, as the report points out, they carefully avoid […]
Florida Army National Guard Air Defense Artillery Unit Deploys to Washington DC
August 26th, 2007Routine shifting of the Noble Eagle chess pieces, or something else? Via: WESH: Members of the 1st Battalion 265 Air Defense Artillery have mobilized and are on a plane headed first to Ft. Bliss, then for federal active duty in the capital region. The troops will be deployed for a year. … The 265th is […]
Military Whistleblowers on Fraud Facing Penalties: “It Was a Wal-Mart for Guns”
August 25th, 2007I post a lot of stories on Cryptogon, but read this one a bit slower than usual and let this sink in. Then check out the related stories below. Via: Forbes: One after another, the men and women who have stepped forward to report corruption in the massive effort to rebuild Iraq have been vilified, […]
More War on the Horizon
August 24th, 2007Via: Antiwar: No pullout from Iraq while I’m president, declares George W. Bush. On to Iran, declares Vice President Cheney. Israel is a “peace-seeking state” that needs $30 billion of US taxpayers’ money for war, declares State Department official Nicholas Burns. The Democratic Congress, if not fully behind the Iraqi war, at least no longer […]
Semper Fi in His Eye
August 21st, 2007Via: SF Gate: Semper fi in his eye: There’s no mistaking which branch of the military Nicholas Popaditch served with — his prosthetic eye is embedded with the Marine Corps emblem. Popaditch, a retired gunnery sergeant and tank commander from San Diego, was wounded by a rocket-propelled grenade in Fallujah, Iraq. He lost his right […]
Russia: Putin Orders Strategic Bomber Patrols
August 17th, 2007Via: AP: President Vladimir Putin said Friday that he had ordered the military to resume regular long-range flights of strategic bombers, news agencies reported, returning to a practice that ended with the collapse of the Soviet Union. Speaking as Russian and Chinese forces held major war games exercises for the first time on Russian territory, […]
