by Editorial Staff The US National Security Advisor, Jake Sullivan, writes the WP, flew yesterday, in great secrecy, to Ukraine to reiterate the full support of the United States, despite the fact that the US Congress is still deadlocked on additional funds to support the Kyiv's war effort. Sullivan reached Ukraine at a time […]
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by Editorial Staff A predictable twist casts more and more shadows on the future of the Russian-Ukrainian war. The news is disruptive and in some ways worrying. The spokesperson of the US Security Council, John Kirby, warned the allies and Ukraine directly, who explicitly said in a press conference that the financing approved by [...]
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The number two of the Press Office of the Pentagno Sabrina Singh thus commented in a note on the story of the dissemination of high-ranking documents and images via social networks and the interagency efforts to unwind the knot of the tangled skein: "The Department of Defense continues to examine and evaluate the validity of the photographed documents […]
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Classified Pentagon documents leaking online reveal inconvenient details such as those about Ukraine's air defenses and Israel's Mossad spy agency – it would emerge that the Israeli spy agency encouraged its staff and the public to participate in the protest movement against the reform of the judiciary and the weakening of the powers of the […]
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The United States has carried out new tests on its hypersonic missiles launched from the air and from the ground, thus confirming the first after the previous three failures. The acceleration of the Department of Defense, in the hypersonic technology sector, to recover the worrying capacitance gap with respect to Russia and China. Last Tuesday he was taken to his destination [...]
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The US Department of Defense is almost certain that Putin has given up on conquering Kiev, even if he does not slow down arms supplies to Ukraine, sending another 134 troops to favor a partial replacement of the soldiers who have already fought for over 40 days. US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said yesterday at the conference [...]
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(by Andrea Pinto) Moscow has announced that for the first time in Ukraine it has used the Kinzhal, hypersonic ballistic missiles with nuclear or conventional capability that are launched by a modified Mig-31. It is one of the six "next generation" weapons cited by Putin in his speech on March 1, 2018. A demonstration to the world that hypersonic technology [...]
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The Washington Post, after interviewing some senior American military officials, has raised the alarm of a possible civil war following the results of the next presidential elections in 2024. The terrible prediction, after the internal crisis among the American defense apparatuses, to following the attack on Capitol Hill a year ago. To report it to [...]
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According to a Newsweek report, the US Department of Defense has a "secret army" of over 60.000 agents, many of whom work underground around the world with false identities, the staffing, by comparison, is 10 times the number of CIA agents. According to William Arkin, author of the report, the Pentagon's secret agents are part of [...]
read moreIn the midst of the alleged Israeli cyber attack against the Natanz plant, there is the resumption, albeit feeble, of talks to resume the nuclear deal between the US and Iran. In Vienna in recent days there are "indirect" talks between the US and Iran to consider a possible approach on the issue. The Iranian Atomic Agency reported that [...]
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(by Andrea Pinto) Asia Nikkei website reported that the United States plans to spend $ 27,4 billion on weapons over the next six years to bolster its conventional deterrence against China by establishing a long-range precision missile network. the so-called first island chain in the Indo-Pacific theater. The need [...]
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"I deeply believe in the principle that a US military is apolitical", wrote General Mark A. Milley, president of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (equivalent to our Chief of Defense Staff, General Enzo Vecciarelli), in the written answers to the questions posed by the parliamentarians of the House. Gen. Milley added: "In the event of a dispute over [...]
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(by Francesco Matera) How much can private individuals contribute to national security? A good question but also a prospect that can be the turning point for those programs whose exorbitant costs can no longer be supported by governments. Especially with the ongoing economic crisis due to the CoViD-19 pandemic. If the most powerful country [...]
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The United States said the Russian military flew over Libya, with a dozen unidentifiable planes, in an attempt to provide air support to Russian mercenaries fighting in Tripoli. What happened shows an important escalation of the Russian military intervention in the Libyan civil war. The war has been raging in Libya since 2011, [...]
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Yesterday, US President Donald Trump spoke about the F-35's global supply chain and the possibility of bringing more jobs to the United States. Trump spoke to Fox Business Network's Maria Bartiromo about the F-35. The journalist asked the President if he had thought of a program to incentivize the main US industries - such as [...]
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The Pentagon will close its doors, starting Monday, to all unofficial visitors and restrict entry to international guests and large groups of people, this is just the latest in a series of restrictions that will apply to military personnel and on access to US bases throughout the country. Last night the Department [...]
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In order not to compromise military readiness, military forces around the world are taking all possible measures to try to contain the spread of COVID-19 among defense personnel. The virus continues to infect troops and commanders at an alarming rate. On Tuesday, the Polish government announced that General Jaroslaw Mika is […]
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The US Department of Defense has announced that it is able to function continuously, despite some media claiming that US military readiness may soon begin to lose effectiveness following the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. Yesterday, during a press conference, US Secretary of Defense Mark Esper stated that he was [...]
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A possible peace agreement between the US government and the Taliban will favor the Islamic State in Afghanistan, so some sources on the ground reported. After nearly two decades of war, the United States is close to concluding a peace agreement with the Taliban, the Sunni group of Pashtuns that had [...]
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An American judge blocked the 10 billion dollar maxi order that the Pentagon had entrusted to Microsoft for the creation of iCloud services. The giant led by Jeff Bezos had resorted to denouncing political interference by the White House aimed at ousting Amazon from the game. The stop to the contract called Jedi [...]
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NBC News reported that the Pentagon spokesman revealed that as many as thirty-four US military personnel suffered concussions and brain injuries following the Iranian missile attacks on Ain al-Asad airbase in Iraq earlier this month. Iran has launched more than a dozen ballistic missiles against two Iraqi airbases [...]
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The New York Times reported that Russian military announced last Friday that it had deployed a hypersonic weapon that manages to escape American missile defense systems, kicking off a new chapter in the long arms race between the two most important nuclear powers. in the world. American officials are hesitant about [...]
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With $ 10 billion, the Pentagon relies on Microsoft for cloud computing services. A slap that the Trump administration wanted to give to Amazon which, sure of the order, was already working on the project, had also bought premises and apartments near the Pentagon. The hostility between Donald seems to have won this time [...]
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Former Republican Senator from Arizona, Jon Kyl, has turned down offers from the White House, saying he is not interested in the position of Chief of the Pentagon. A great expert on foreign policy and security issues, Kyl left the Senate in 2012 after three terms, to return for a few months last year nominated after his death [...]
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After the US Air Force's estimate of $ 13 billion last September, which included the costs of President Donald Trump's Space Force, Pentagon officials have promised a reduction in "official" costs. Patrick Shanahan, Deputy Secretary of Defense, in fact, speaking to reporters stated that the initial estimate of his team [...]
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Passwords that are easy to guess in seconds as they are not changed from those set by the factory. Known cyber vulnerabilities, but never fixed. These are the major problems encountered and which afflict some of the most recent weapons development systems of the US Department of Defense, according to the Government Accountability Office which presented them in a [...]
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James Mattis, American Defense Minister, wants to ban the use of cell phones in the Pentagon, in analogy with what was decided for the West Wing of the Biancan House. What worries the US Minister of Defense are the reports on security, which would have been put at risk by a fitness application in which the [...]
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The Pentagon has also been working for years on a mysterious program to study UFO sightings to spend $ 22 million a year from 2008 to 2011. The Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program, the so-called Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program was led by an intelligence officer, Luis Elizondo, who [...]
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The 'Italian Pentagon', a single center for the Armed Forces in Rome-Centocelle is an ambitious project that the Ministry of Defense believes in and for which it is aiming a lot. The activities and projects have always been shared with Roma Capitale and the municipalities to reconcile the needs of rationalization of the Defense with [...]
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The Pentagon said Friday that it is examining, more broadly, measures to counter Iran after President Trump said he would review the American stance on the nuclear deal signed by the Obama administration. In a statement, Pentagon spokesman Maj. Adrian Rankine-Galloway said the overall strategy review includes […]
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According to the Nova Agency, the US Department of Defense said the theft of a large number of classified military documents suffered by Seoul, including the latest version of the plan for joint South Korea-US operations in wartime and an emergency plan of the two countries to "behead" the leadership of Pyongyang, [...]
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US Navy Laser Weapons Video The Pentagon is testing new technologies, such as laser weapons and large high-tech networks, to combat drones used with increasing frequency and effectiveness by terrorists. The NYT writes, revealing that the defense department has launched a $ 700 million program, overseen by [...]
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