“We’re gonna keep them for awhile,” in the wake of a deadly rocket attack on Camp Taji in Iraq which killed two American troops and one British service member earlier this week, the head of Central Command said today.
By Paul McLearyModernizing military simulation with open systems architecture
Best-of-breed common models and architecture enable virtual training and testing with the same data in a cyber-resilient posture.
Hours after the Defense Secretary and Joint Chiefs Chairman promised action, the US struck five Kata’ib Hizbollah “weapons storage” sites — but the militia’s Iranian backers are likely off the hook, for now.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
In an “unfunded priorities” list sent to Congress, the Centcom chief points in the direction of an expanding US footprint in the region.
By Paul McLeary
Getting problem-plagued ballistic missile defense site online is an ever-higher-priority for the Pentagon as Iran and Russia move out on new missiles.
By Paul McLeary
We do not know what caused the missile’s explosion. Israel has taken steps to foil such launch attempts in the past. No one here was prepared to speak on the record about the explosion.
By Arie Egozi
Israeli experts say the U.S realized withdrawing from Iraq would leave policymakers and the military with greatly reduced influence in a region that has seen rapid and extensive Russian penetration into the region.
By Arie Egozi
Future inevitability of quantum computers is a security problem today
‘Store Now, Decrypt Later’ attacks must be thwarted now with Zero Trust cybersecurity.
If you’re looking for an exigesis of the politics of the conflict between the United States and Iran, read elsewhere. This is an authoritative analysis — based on open source material– of the implications of the Iranians’ use of a Scud missile in the strike against the Al Asad Air Base in reaction to…
By Ralph Savelsberg
Moscow is making sure no one forgets the role it has played in the Middle East, while Beijing searches for inroads in a region President Trump has pledged to leave.
By Paul McLeary
A Special Forces vet returns to the Pentagon to help fill a key commando office that has been without permanent leadership for months
By Paul McLeary
Experts warn that Iran almost certainly now has the cyber tools to inflict physical damage on US critical infrastructure.
By Theresa Hitchens
We asked some of Washington’s best informed and smartest people about the likely consequences of the killing of Iran’s Qassem Soleimani.
By Colin Clark, Theresa Hitchens and Paul McLeary TEL AVIV: The Iranian secret service is busy trying to put its hands on the person or persons that leaked the information that allowed the US to kill Maj. Gen Qassem Soleimani minutes after he got off a plane from Syria. If it was a leak… Middle Eastern sources say that the Iranians are totally bewildered…
By Arie Egozi
As President Trump threatens strikes on Iranian military and civilian targets, British warships and a US Marine MEU head to the Middle East.
By Paul McLeary
PRELUDE: Early morning, 0240 Baghdad time on January 17, 2020 (1840 EST 16 Jan 2020), marked the 29th anniversary of the start of Operation Desert Storm. It was a turning point in the conduct of warfare and set the conditions for modern warfare. The recent hostilities between Iran and the United States reinforce the importance…
By David Deptula