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		<title>A New Way of War</title>
		<link>http://nation.time.com/2013/02/22/a-new-way-of-war/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2013 17:38:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Thompson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For more than a decade, we’ve been getting somber Pentagon emails telling us the name, hometown and age of every U.S. troop killed in the war zones of Afghanistan and Iraq. Noticed something new, at least to us, in Friday’s release from the International Security Assistance Force in Kabul detailing recent action in Afghanistan. It reports on two enemy dead, which may be insignificant in the overall scheme of things. But what’s interesting is that both men are named, and that each was killed in what ISAF called a “precision strike.” Talk about having a bullet with your name on it.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nation.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=108135&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Iran Unplugged: Preview of Coming Attractions?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Sep 2012 14:31:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Thompson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Iran’s nuclear-energy chief said Monday that his nation’s most heavily defended nuclear-enrichment plant had been unplugged with extreme prejudice last month. Actually, Fereydoun Abbasi-Davani said the electrical lines powering the buried plant at Fordow from the nearby city of Qom had been blown up by unknown saboteurs. The same thing happened at Iran’s Natanz plant at an unspecified earlier date, he told the annual member-state session of the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna. The world fears Tehran – which says it wants to develop nuclear power solely for peaceful purposes – is seeking nuclear weapons. Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu warned Sunday that Iran was six to seven months away from being able to build an atomic bomb. &#8220;It should be recalled,” Abbasi-Davani told the IAEA, “that power cut-off is one of the ways to break down centrifuge machines.” No kidding. For years, U.S. war planners looking for ways to attack such sites have focused on their so-called “umbilicals” – the power, air and water links that any major industrial facility requires to operate. With those destroyed, any industrial site becomes very expensive pile of scrap. Hardening such systems against such ancillary attacks could prove daunting. “A functional defeat may be achieved by various means: closing ingress/egress portals, destroying umbilicals such as electrical power lines, phone line and radio antennas, or by denying life-support systems relating to air and water supplies,” a 2004 Air Force study noted. Emphasis added.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nation.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=85287&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Thar She Floats!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Aug 2012 10:59:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Thompson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Army has finally got its football-field-sized Long Endurance Multi-Intelligence Vehicle (LEMV) airborne over the Jersey coast. The huge unmanned spy platform is designed to give the U.S. military “more than 21 days of unblinking stare,” contractor Northrop Grumman says. Not all of its numbers are so stupendous: it boasts a loiter speed of 30 knots, and a dash speed of 80. Price tag: $517 million for “up to” three of the craft — $172 million a pop. The contractor boasts that its relatively simple design “means we will fly in theater in 2012,” but testing has dragged on. Glancing at the calendar, not sure if that refers to Afghanistan or one of the local cinemas near its home base at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nation.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=80338&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Rebels: We Need Intel More Than Arms</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jul 2012 10:54:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Newton-Small</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It took Twitter five years to hire a Washington lobbyist. That was quick compared to Apple, which took 25 years to begin paying someone to represent its interests in the capital. Violence had been raging in Syria for 14 months before the Free Syrian Army, the largest force in opposition to Bashar al-Assad’s regime, hired Brian Sayers to represent their interests in Washington. Of course, their needs are much more dire. By United Nations estimates some 10,000 people have died since the Arab Spring reached Damascus and the violence has only increased in recent months with arms flowing in to both sides (as Simon Shuster explores from Moscow in this week’s print edition, and here). But, while Moscow arms Assad’s regime – though they’ve pledged no new sales, some $4 billion in contracts are outstanding – the opposition is not seeking the same from the U.S. The FSA is getting plenty of arms and cash from the Qatari, Saudi Arabian and, to a lesser extent, the Emirati governments, according to U.S. sources. What they want from Washington is a smarter way to use these weapons. “Everyone says, just give them a bunch of weapons. Well, rocket propelled grenades are fine but ultimately what they need is intelligence support in order to bring down the regime,” says Sayers, “because ultimately the regime has more sophisticated weaponry. The FSA has nowhere near that kind of capacity. And so here’s where the U.S. could do a huge amount of support and it could be done very covertly.” Currently, the U.S. is only providing Syrian political groups – not armed ones like the FSA –humanitarian aid, communications equipment and training. The State Department is carefully vetting these opposition groups to ensure they have no terrorist links. The U.S. stamp of approval then opens the floodgates for other countries such as Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the UAE to provide lethal aid as well. Some say that’s not nearly enough. “If the U.S. is only going to be a facilitator of arms flows into the country,<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nation.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=78184&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New Air Force Mission: Cyberwar Belongs to Us</title>
		<link>http://nation.time.com/2012/07/11/new-air-force-mission-cyberwar-belongs-to-us/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jul 2012 10:28:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas P. M. Barnett</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Wall Street Journal noted last Friday about how the &#8220;Pentagon digs in on cyberwar front.&#8221; Bit misleading, as it&#8217;s really the Air Force that&#8217;s desperate to corner that market. You know the general story of Big War Blue (Navy, Air Force) feeling disrespected and underfunded across the &#8220;war on terror&#8221; era, and you&#8217;ve been treated ad nauseum to their budgetary counter-revolution in the form of the AirSea Battle Concept (whose combined Air-Navy motto should be: &#8220;It&#8217;s China&#8217;s turn &#8212; as well as ours!&#8221;). Well, the Air Force has it far worse than the Navy in terms of existential fears, primarily due to the rapid rise and unbelievable dissemination of drones, where seemingly now every military unit has their own miniature air wing of what would have recently passed as toys. Amidst all that, the Air Force has clearly decided that its institutional salvation lies in convincing Congress and everybody else that &#8211; somehow &#8211; cyberspace is the natural domain of their service and their service alone.  It reminds one of the Navy feeling lost in the post-WWII drawdown and eventually finding its purpose in nuclear-missile-launching subs. I have personally seen one hilariously over-the-top briefing by the Air Force&#8217;s top futurologists that paints a Tomorrowland where individual bad actors can destroy  the human race with a stroke of the keyboard and . . . if the U.S. government were smart, it&#8217;d basically dump the entire Defense Department budget into the Air Force&#8217;s coffer to allow it to monitor every byte of the WorldWideWeb 24/7 in a groovy, &#8220;trust us&#8221; Skynet sort of way. Without realizing it, I actually blurted out &#8220;bullshit&#8221; halfway through the presentation.  It was a bureaucratic jump-the-shark moment I will never forget. Is there anything about cyberspace that particularly screams Air Force?  Not really.  If cyber warfare is going to be as all encompassing as it&#8217;s made out to be by its vigorous proponents, then it will disseminate throughout the services even more than the drone phenomenon has. Having said that, it&#8217;s not hard to imagine a future where the Pentagon gives<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nation.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=77949&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Courage Services, Inv. (as in, Invisible)</title>
		<link>http://nation.time.com/2012/07/03/courage-services-inv-as-in-invisible/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jul 2012 10:03:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Thompson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The outsourcing of what used to be thought of as vital governmental functions continues. Public Intelligence posted this last week on its website. It’s basically a 2009 intelligence report done for the Marine Corps Intelligence Activity by an outfit calling itself Courage Services, Inc. Its nifty corporate logo appears on the report’s cover, as well as on maps appearing throughout the study. This is what happens when you have too much money: you contract out the work that can’t be done in-house. It allows the government – in this case, the Marine Corps &#8212; to keep its body count down. But what’s distressing is the fact that it is so difficult to determine just who, or what, runs Courage Services, Inc. It’s a subsidiary of Centra Technology, whose parentage and people are just as elusive. Their websites are scant on such details, and a search of public databases reveals little about them. But Centra and its constellation of subsidiaries apparently are quite busy, according to its self-published list of clients: Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Department of Defense, including: Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) US Air Force US Army US Marine Corps Office of Naval Research (ONR) Ballistic Missile Defense Organization (BMDO) Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Department of Energy (DOE) National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Federally Funded Research and Development Centers Major Defense Contractors State and Local Government Agencies Private-Sector Clients It appears to be one of those companies with a long list of unnamed retired U.S. military and civilian personnel that it can hire to work on specific contracts: Our staff of over 560 professionals includes specialists with backgrounds in national security analysis, the military, homeland security, engineering, research and development, and many areas of the social sciences and humanities. Our managers have run large-scale programs advising US Government agencies on what the future may hold, including programs examining a host of transnational issues, homeland security, the long view of<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nation.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=77471&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cyber Warfare Treaty: DOA, Thanks to President and Pentagon</title>
		<link>http://nation.time.com/2012/06/25/cyber-warfare-treaty-doa-thanks-to-president-and-pentagon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jun 2012 14:55:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas P. M. Barnett</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Misha Glenny making a smart case in the New York Times for a cyber arms control treaty, but it won&#8217;t happen. Why? For the same reason why the U.S. has refused &#8211; for many years now &#8211; to engage other great powers on a treaty banning space weaponry: our Pentagon wants to dominate that imagine conflict space like any other. This fantasy lives on despite the great private-sector forays into space transport and travel. The lines have already been drawn in the defense budget by the Pentagon and this Administration: &#8211; Cyber has been declared &#8211; in leaked headline after leaked headline &#8211; the latest and greatest future warfare domain. &#8211; We recently got our new Cyber Command (after a blitzkrieg of Bush-like fear-mongering news stories &#8211; also leaked to the press). &#8211; Finally, there&#8217;s our recently unveiled national cyber warfare strategy (which, absurdly enough, provides a rationale for Iran to go kinetic on us after Stuxnet and Flame). Per the reality of our budgetary woes and the Pentagon&#8217;s inability to control spiraling personnel costs (healthcare, pensions), the U.S. military needs to be able to cut bodies while adding capabilities . . . in space and cyber warfare. Yes, our efforts in both instances will tremendously widen the opportunities for great-power war in the 21st Century, making us &#8212; arguably &#8212; the most dangerous great power on the planet. Best part: we&#8217;re being sold this misguided nonsense by a President whose public line is a &#8220;world without nuclear weapons.&#8221; Does it have to be this way?  Of course not. We can partner with China and India &#8211; two rising great powers with million-man armies &#8211; to deal with the world&#8217;s remaining security concerns, which are overwhelmingly concentrated along globalization&#8217;s rapidly moving frontier. Neither space nor cyber are particularly essential to that path.  Settling the frontier matches Woody Allen&#8217;s definition of a success: 80% is accomplished simply by showing up. But we have chosen a different path: to monger warfare in the cyber and space realms because those domains represent our<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nation.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=77088&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fans of the Terror Hunters</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jun 2012 10:23:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Thompson</dc:creator>
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		<title>&#8220;Mapmaker, Mapmaker, Make Me a Map!&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jun 2012 10:24:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Thompson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Army Major Michael Yeager has deployed three times to Afghanistan and Iraq, most recently to Afghanistan in 2010 as a special operations planner for the Combined Forces Special Operations Component Command. But in this recently-posted March interview with the Combat Studies Institute at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, he spoke mostly about his initial deployment to Iraq in 2004 – and what surprises awaited him there. Highlights: When we arrived in January of 2004, it was no doubt that there was &#8212; well, there might have been an official doubt &#8212; but for us there was no doubt that there was insurgency. Improvised explosive devices were a big issue. An Iraqi with a cell phone was the most dangerous thing that we could imagine seeing, just given the environment and the threat at the time. I know that it became a much bigger deal later but the lack of armor; we were running around in high mobility multi-purposed wheeled vehicles (HMMWVs). We took the doors off of the HMMWVs because they were canvas and they weren&#8217;t going to protect you from anything. We figured our own real defense was having as many guns sticking out of the side of these HMMWVs. We became very MacGyver like in that we were stringing things across the doorways so that we could hang light machine guns off of the sides. It had to have looked like something from a movie scene, watching us drive through because we would be wearing goggles, elbow pads and kneepads with rifles hanging out. It probably looked like we were driving around to take somebody down. That was how we would drive for 16 hours a day or something like that. It was interesting because a couple of times we got into areas where we thought, &#8220;This is a really bad idea. We shouldn&#8217;t be here.&#8221; [Laughter]… I will say what surprised me the most was how &#8212; I don&#8217;t want to say that we were unprepared but I think that would be the best way to explain it. Getting<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nation.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=76590&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Powers That Be</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jun 2012 11:45:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Thompson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This Friday, the Air Force will award Francis Gary Powers – the pilot of the ill-fated U-2 spy plane shot down by the Soviets in 1960 and held captive for 21 months – a posthumous Silver Star. It&#8217;s the latest in a series of sorrys the U.S. has offered Powers&#8217; family following his poor treatment at the hands of the the government he risked his life to serve. His grandchildren are slated to accept the medal, more than 50 years after their grandfather came home to a national cold shoulder amid the chilliest days of the Cold War. General Norton Schwartz, the service&#8217;s chief of staff, will honor Powers for his &#8220;exceptional loyalty&#8221; while enduring tough interrogations in Soviet custody from May 1960 to February 1962. A Soviet SA-2 surface-to-air missile downed his U-2 while he was flying a secret spy mission over Soviet territory. He ultimately was released in a spy swap. Aviation historian Walter Boyne wrote of the shameful way the nation greeted Powers when he finally made it home: By all rights, Powers deserved to be decorated at the White House—he had earned the honors. His many previous overflights had gathered incredibly important information, and he had shown his steadfast heroism in withstanding the torments of the Soviet system. Instead, he was badly treated by the government for which he had risked life and freedom. Powers resented that, upon his return, he was smeared by a rash of ill-founded commentary. Writers and commentators complained righteously that Powers had not blown up his aircraft, not committed suicide, and even that he had managed to survive the Soviet imprisonment. Far worse were the official positions taken by the very men who had backed the program, especially the CIA. The pilot had obeyed his orders exactly and defended himself and his country ably while on trial. The CIA failed to support him publicly or provide an adequate cover story for an event they knew was inevitable—a downed U-2. Powers died in 1977 when the news-gathering helicopter he was flying near Los<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nation.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=76113&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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