Up Close & Personal! Now Russian Jets are Buzzing US Spy Planes at 20 Feet!

Up Close & Personal! Now Russian Jets are Buzzing US Spy Planes at 20 Feet!

Earlier this week an armed Russian Su-27 intercepted a US P-8A Poseidon surveillance plane flying as close as 20 feet according to reports.  The P-8A was flying in international airspace in the Black Sea region. This incident occurred the day before President Trump met with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. The Russian jet came as close as […]

US Intelligence Chief warns of deteriorating security in Afghanistan

US Intelligence Chief warns of deteriorating security in Afghanistan

For the Trump Administration, facing a question whether to increase the US troop levels in Afghanistan, this can’t be good news. US National Intelligence Director Dan Coats said on Thursday that even if the US and its allies increase their military aid to the war-torn country, the security situation there is still likely to deteriorate. […]

US Intelligence Chief Warns of Deteriorating Security in Afghanistan

US Intelligence Chief Warns of Deteriorating Security in Afghanistan

For the Trump Administration, facing a question whether to increase the US troop levels in Afghanistan, this can’t be good news. US National Intelligence Director Dan Coats said on Thursday that even if the US and its allies increase their military aid to the war-torn country, the security situation there is still likely to deteriorate. […]

Turkey warns U.S. of blowback from decision to arm Kurdish fighters in Syria

Turkey warns U.S. of blowback from decision to arm Kurdish fighters in Syria

Turkey warned the United States on Wednesday that a decision to arm Kurdish forces fighting Islamic State in Syria could end up hurting Washington, and accused its NATO ally of siding with terrorists. The rebuke came a week before President Tayyip Erdogan is due in Washington for his first meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump, […]

Mike Flynn’s appointment as National Security Advisor: Too many red flags ignored

Mike Flynn’s appointment as National Security Advisor: Too many red flags ignored

Mike Flynn, former head of the Defense Intelligence Agency and short-lived National Security Advisor under President Trump, has found himself at the center of allegations levied at the Trump Administration regarding Russian collusion in the 2016 Presidential election.  Recent revelations regarding payments totaling more than a half million dollars given to Flynn by companies representing […]

Trump fires FBI Director Comey, prompting questions about Russia investigation

Trump fires FBI Director Comey, prompting questions about Russia investigation

President Donald Trump set off a chain reaction throughout Washington on Tuesday, after making the sudden announcement that he had fired FBI Director James Comey. As the head of the FBI, Comey had been leading the investigation into potential ties between Trump’s campaign staff in the 2016 Presidential election and officials within the Russian government believed […]

Insiders say Trump keeps clashing with his national security adviser

Insiders say Trump keeps clashing with his national security adviser

President Donald Trump has repeatedly clashed with his national security adviser, H.R. McMaster, in front of his staff, according to a column by Eli Lake at Bloomberg published Monday. The three-star Army general increasingly is being sidelined in favor of other advisers because Trump has become “disillusioned” with him, according to Lake. Three White House […]

Trump transition officials tried to warn Michael Flynn about his conversations with a Russian ambassador

Trump transition officials tried to warn Michael Flynn about his conversations with a Russian ambassador

Donald Trump’s transition team did not believe former national security adviser Michael Flynn appreciated the risks of his communications with Russia ahead of Trump’s inauguration,The Washington Post reported on Friday. Flynn had apparently been warned about contacts he had with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak — communications that were certain to have been monitored by US […]

Trump hints that the US may be sabotaging North Korea’s nuclear program

Trump hints that the US may be sabotaging North Korea’s nuclear program

It happened again — a North Korean missile launch exploded in the air, over land, just a few minutes after launching on Friday. While North Korea can still learn a lot from a failed missile test and use those lessons to advance their program, they’ve failed to demonstrate capability with missile types the US perfected […]

Marines take over advising mission in Helmand

Marines take over advising mission in Helmand

CAMP SHORAB, Afghanistan — For the first time since the drawdown of U.S. troops in Afghanistan in late 2014, U.S. Marines returned to Helmand province en masse Saturday as the 300-person Task Force Southwest took over the training and advising mission there. Unlike its Marine predecessors in the region, Task Force Southwest is not a […]

In Yemen conflict, a window into deepening U.S.-Gulf ties

In Yemen conflict, a window into deepening U.S.-Gulf ties

When U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis greeted Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister at the Pentagon last month, the first thing he did was joke about the time “the Iranians tried to murder you.” Mattis’ reference to a foiled 2011 plot, denied by Iran, was a telling sign of how much more aligned President Donald Trump’s administration […]