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To confront complex challenges associated with organized crime like drug abuse, money laundering and elite corruption.

The majority of that will come in special operations, with just $84 million planned for other projects.

Though using plasma bombs may be unconventional and even controversial, the science behind the Air Force’s plan is sound. By releasing plasma bombs into the atmosphere, the Air Force would increase the quantity of ions in the layer of the atmosphere known as the ionosphere, which starts at an altitude of approximately 60 kilometers.

Chemical-energy munitions, shaped charges, etc., like that — is that the cost curve as well as the physics is working against us.

Soon she’d been dispatched to the Adriatic coast to analyze aerial photographs of concentration camps and plan troop drops. She was 21.

Al-Shabaab leader, Abu Ubeida is suspected to be either killed or captured during the operation. Three of his deputies including the spokesman of the group, Abu Mus’ab and another identified as Abu Omar were among those killed.

Of Blackwater’s involvement in the development and execution of such a plan, Erik Prince said that something would be “fully baked by the time the next administration comes on board.”

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) describes them, as perhaps, “the most technologically advanced, sophisticated, and violent of these paramilitary enforcement groups.”

CENTCOM established an intelligence “fusion center,” a specially equipped JIC facility staffed around-the-clock, to serve as a “focal point” for Daesh-related intelligence. Interviewees recalled only informal communications noting the center’s establishment, and some were also uncertain about the center’s organizational structure, responsibilities, and how it was determined which JIC analysts would participate.

Rear Adm Ugurlu was named by prosecutors in the western Turkish city of Izmir, according to Anadolu, as part of a military espionage case involving the leaking of information.

As U.S. munitions hit extremists’ military vehicles and mobile ammunition depots, the militants have adapted by reducing their visibility and hiding remaining tanks, armored personnel carriers and rocket launchers.

17 U.S. intelligence agencies, including those of the armed services, and involves human intelligence, spy satellites, electronic eavesdropping, and cyber and social media monitoring.