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Ever since the US used F-117s in 1991 to rock Baghdad, at the time one of the world’s most defended cities, Soviets and other potential US adversaries have been studying up on how to counter stealth jets. Later, over Serbia, an F-117 was shot down, forever souring the image of so-called invisible aircraft that have […]
On Friday, the world was hit by one of the biggest cyberattacks in recent history. The culprit was “ransomware” known as WanaCryptOr 2.0, or WannaCry. It operates by encrypting a computer system and demanding a ransom to release it. This money would be paid in the digital currency bitcoin to an unknown source, who would — in […]
The White House says President Donald Trump “cannot imagine that Russia is pleased” with North Korea’s latest missile test because the missile landed so close to Russian soil. In a statement issued Saturday night, the White House press secretary points out that the missile landed closer to Russia than to Japan. Read the whole […]
BEIJING — When President Trump withdrew from the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal in January, critics said he was leaving a vacuum at the heart of the Asia-Pacific region, ceding the United States’ role as regional economic leader. On Sunday, China plans to show how it is filling that vacuum. At a major set-piece event in […]
Read Part 19 HERE “I’ve worked with a lot of different nations and Korea is one of the best in Asia. Singaporeans are pretty good, Japanese are good, but Koreans are well structured, disciplined, and well equipped,” Tae said. With American help the damage caused by the war would be minimized however. The North Korean […]
The Syrian ambassador to China claimed on Monday that 5,000 ethnic Uighurs, members of a Muslim minority in western China, are fighting with jihadists in the Syrian Civil War. The Chinese government has previously warned of the growing Muslim insurgency within its own borders, blaming the Uighurs for a number of terrorist attacks inside China. […]
The U.S. House of Representatives voted almost unanimously to approve legislation aimed at placing increased sanctions on North Korea, as part of a larger effort to curb the nation’s nuclear ambitions. These new sanctions target North Korea’s shipping industry and third party companies that do business with Kim’s regime. The legislation, which passed by a […]
Warren Buffett sees cyber attacks as a bigger threat to humanity than nuclear weapons. “I’m very pessimistic on weapons of mass destruction generally although I don’t think that nuclear probably is quite as likely as either primarily biological and maybe cyber,” Buffett said during Berkshire Hathaway’s annual shareholders’ meeting on Saturday. “I don’t know that much about […]
Iran’s recent failed ballistic missile launch from a submerged “midget” submarine has once again drawn attention to Iran’s military ties with another of America’s most outspoken opponents, North Korea. The failed missile test is said to have been Iran’s first with the Jask-2 underwater cruise missile, a missile design intelligence experts believe to be a […]
Read Part 13 HERE In the bloody aftermath of the Munich massacre of Israeli athletes, the raid on Entebbe, and Germany’s GSG-9 storming of an aircraft in Mogadishu, the western world had to take a hard look at their military capabilities and figure out how they would address the growing threat of terrorism. The United […]
China has begun to adopt a more critical stance on North Korea in recent weeks, while being careful not to appear too friendly to Western opponents like the United States. Instead of serving as a political barrier to progress regarding Kim Jong Un’s regime as they could once be accused of doing, China has begun […]
NORFOLK, Va. (Tribune News Service) — A naval flight officer accused of spying by selling secrets to China and Taiwan pleaded guilty to illegally mishandling and communicating defense information at his court-martial Thursday, but maintained his innocence of other espionage counts against him. Lt. Cmdr. Edward C. Lin originally faced two counts of espionage, three […]
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