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NATO Faces About Ten Serious Cyber Incidents Each Month

Jorge Benitez | May 23, 2013
NATO prepares Rapid Reaction Team to fight cyber attacks

From Paul Ames, Global Post:  The Boolea attack is fiction, the center-piece of operation Locked Shields, a "live fire" cyber exercise run by the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defense Center of Excellence in late April, to test the rapid response capabilities of allied cyber units.

Those Muscular Poles

Jorge Benitez | May 23, 2013
The Poles already have the Continent's seventh-largest army and are adding to it

From Wall Street Journal:  Britain plans to mothball its single aircraft carrier and shrink its standing army to a size last seen by Napoleon. France is cutting its rapid deployment forces almost in half.

Germany’s Botched Drone Policy

Jorge Benitez | May 23, 2013
The cancellation of the Euro Hawk project may be the undoing of German Defense Minister Thomas de Maizière

From Judy Dempsey, Strategic Europe: [A] botched and expensive project to produce a drone system for the Bundeswehr could be [Defense Minister Thomas] de Maizière’s undoing.

Hagel Discusses F-35, Afghanistan, and Syria with Dutch Minister of Defense

Jorge Benitez | May 23, 2013
Hagel hails Netherlands as strong US, NATO partner

From American Forces Press Service: Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel hosted the Netherlands’ Minister of Defense Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert at the Pentagon today, Pentagon Press Secretary George Little said.

US Lawmakers Seek to Block Sharing of Missile Defense Data with Russia

Jorge Benitez | May 23, 2013
An Aegis cruiser fires an SM-3 missile

From Desmond Butler, AP:  Republicans are trying to block Obama administration overtures to Russia on missile defense, creating a potential obstacle to arms control talks.

Slow Growth Could Delay Russia Military Spending

Jorge Benitez | May 23, 2013
Russia may postpone for two or three years its planned weapons purchases

From Alexander Kolyandr, Wall Street Journal:  Russia could postpone its ambitious military spending program as an economic slowdown forces the government to review its spending plans, the country's finance minister indicated Wednesday.

Kerry: 'Thousands of Hezbollah Militia' in Syria

Jorge Benitez | May 23, 2013
Kerry: "Just last week, obviously, Hezbollah intervened very, very significantly"

From Arshad Mohammed and Suleiman Al-Khalidi, Reuters:  Washington threatened on Wednesday to increase support for Syria's rebels if President Bashar al-Assad refuses to discuss a political end to a civil war that is spreading across borders.

NSA Deputy Warns Against Cyber Vigilantes

Jorge Benitez | May 22, 2013
Deputy Director of the National Security Agency Chris Inglis

From Colin Clark, Breaking Defense:  The private sector — and the government — must “exhaust” the use of traditional responses such as public shaming, criminal charges, diplomatic demarches, and sanctions “before we contemplate the dangerous possibility we might encourage vigilantism

Report Recommends US Permit Private Counterattacks Against International Hackers

Jorge Benitez | May 22, 2013
Should the US allow companies to wage cyber warfare?

From David E. Sanger, New York Times:  With President Obama preparing for a first meeting with China’s new president, a commission led by two former senior officials in his administration will recommend a series of steps that could significantly raise the cost to China of the theft of American industrial secrets.

Iranian Soldiers Fighting for Assad in Syria, Says State Department Official

Jorge Benitez | May 22, 2013
The two-year-old Syrian conflict has become a regional war

From Anne Gearan, Washington PostIran has sent soldiers to Syria to fight alongside forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad

 

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