(old found draft post)CyberWar – Ref Links

Apr 26, 2009 @ 12:05
I will return to the topic of CyberWar sometime in the near future.
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(old found draft post) Ralph Peters: “the complexity of counterterror operations comes down to three essential requirements”

Dec 4, 2008 @ 10:17
I am not sure why I didn’t post it. I guess I didn’t feel like going to how to do a counter-terror/counter-4GW 5GW. I should come back to this idea.
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In the NY Post:
All the complexity of counterterror operations comes down to three essential requirements: Superb intelligence, ruthless determination and tremendous patience.
Intelligence [...]

“Forensic Theology” & “Mahdism In The News”

Guest poster Charles Cameron writes at Zenpundit:
Why is eschatological or apocalyptic rhetoric significant?
It is an accelerant. Simply put, it is a force-multiplier, acting on morale via the sphere of religion, by providing divine sanction for violence — zeal with a deadline.
Oh boy. Fun fun fun! Read it all. Sigh.

Congrats My Fellow Americans! Rejoice! The War on Terror is over!

How about that!
The Long War /GWOT must have been one because it it no longer exists. The terrorist threat (really the threat to American way from the Global Islamofascist Movement with assistance from the hardcore Leftists enablers and useless idiots such as Transnational Progressives).
While it is true, that the US may face a few [...]

(Russian) Cyber Militia example

At Danger Room:

A pro-Kremlin youth group has taken responsibility for the network attacks. And that group has a track record of conducting operations on Moscow’s behalf.
Nashi (“Ours”) is the “largest of a handful of youth movements created by Mr. Putin’s Kremlin to fight for the hearts and minds of Russia’s young people in schools, on [...]

The US case for radical energy use efficiency and for switching to alternative energy sources

I have been looking to blog on this for sometime, but it came out in a comment at TDAXP:
The best case for the US to move to radical energy use efficiency and to switch a lot more to alternative energy (while sharing or selling the techniques and technology to the rest of the world to [...]

NORAD is Tracking Santa (Link)

Here is the link.
I remember this as kid (in its pre-web version).
Here is a photo of Santa from the NORAD:

I think he is going over the flight plan or perhaps a security brief.

Merry Christmas Phoenix PD from David Spade (Yes, David Spade)

Phoenix is at the edge of where the Mexican Narco-4GW is spilling over into the US.
Phoenix police having been trying to raise money to buy better weapons for themselves.
David Spade has taken care of that with $100,000 check for 50 AR-15s. Well done, Mr. Spade.
I would have thought the city would have ponied up for [...]

Robot News – 12/11/2008

Danger Room reports that iRobot is “laying off ten percent of its flesh-and-blood workforce”.I am too cheap to buy a Roomba unless they can cut another $100 off the price.
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The Robot Wife story has appeared at Slash Dot and Hot Air. More appropriate would perhaps be to call this a Fembot or a (shudder) ComfortBot. [...]

The “I am too Lazy/Busy to post” Open Thread & Linkspasm

I have been both too busy at work to post or read much and also too tired/lazy in the evenings to post, so here are a bunch of issues that might interesting. I will make updates in the comments.
I will engage in comments here and elsewhere, but I most likely won’t post much if anything [...]

Terrorist Attack on India – Notes

I don’t want anybody to think I am not interest becuase  I didn’t blog on. I just didn’t have anything to add. I watched coverage on Fox, streaming coverage from an Indian New Network (via Fox) and blog coverage (especially Shlok and also Zen’s roundup).
Some notes/thoughts
1) How good does a policy of treating terrorism mostly [...]

Robot News: “Ethical Killing Machines”

From Slash Dot:

“The New York Times reports on research to develop autonomous battlefield robots that would ‘behave more ethically in the battlefield than humans.’ The researchers claim that these real-life terminators ‘can be designed without an instinct for self-preservation and, as a result, no tendency to lash out in fear.

BTW: I think American Killbots would [...]

More Robot News: “Bug-Sized Spies: U.S. Develops Tiny Flying Robots”

At FoxNews:

“The way we envision it is, there would be a bunch of these sent out in a swarm,” said Greg Parker, who helps lead the research project at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton. “If we know there’s a possibility of bad guys in a certain building, how do we find out? We think [...]

Rock On Indian Navy, Rock On!

Hell yeah!

The Indian navy has been given formal approval by the United Nations to go after pirate ships in Somali waters, the BBC has learnt.

Though, I am not sure why UN Approval is needed.

“We can now enter the Somali territorial waters under certain circumstances. It would be only to check piracy,” he said.
India has called [...]

Top USA Security Challenges

Here are my top 5 (in no particular order):
1) Develop a pretty darn good Influence Warfare capability.
2) Finish the win in Iraq. Win in Afghanistan. Prevent a civil war in Pakistan if possible. Take down the Mullahs of Iran – one way or another. Carry on (with the goal of winning) the Long War against [...]

Iraq: “”THE WAR IS OVER AND WE WON”

From Instapundit (the entire post):

“THE WAR IS OVER AND WE WON:” Michael Yon just phoned from Baghdad, and reports that things are much better than he had expected, and he had expected things to be good. “There’s nothing going on. I’m with the 10th Mountain Division, and about half of the guys I’m with haven’t [...]

Death To Pirates (The Economics of Piracy)

It should be simple.
Death to Pirates.
You find them, you kill them. You blow they vessels out of the water or strafe them with .50 caliber machine guns and/or 40mm grenade fire. You set their shore facilities ablaze. You release the video of their destruction on YouTube in two version: straight destruction version, [...]

“Kinetic Fireball Incendiaries”

This from the Danger Room is interesting:

The Pentagon has a new secret weapon to neutralize sites containing chemical or biological weapons: rocket balls. These are hollow spheres, made of rubberized rocket fuel; when ignited, they propel themselves around at random at high speed, bouncing off the walls and breaking through doors, turning the entire building [...]

“Obama Leans Toward Asking Gates To Remain at Pentagon for a Year”

This is good news…and a good signal that Obama may not be the governing Leftist I feared he would be.

“Secret Order Lets U.S. Strike Al Qaeda Anywhere”

WTF?
Wasn’t this always true?
If not why not?
Jeez, what a f@cked up way to run a war.

25 Years Ago…

…the US was attacked by Iranian proxy Hezbollah.
Don’t forget it.
I don’t.

Flickr Photos from CharlieGP

The US Can’t depend upon the EuroCore

Georgia and Ukraine should be integrated into the EuroCore.
European States have other ideas:
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization won’t give Georgia and Ukraine a road map to membership at a meeting later this year, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Thursday.[...]Mrs. Merkel’s rejection of a NATO track for Georgia and Ukraine, at a news conference with Russian [...]

Interesting idea for an affordable 4GW oriented Air Force…

…here.
I would alter the approach off-hand it only a couple of ways:
1) Build  more new updated A-10 Warthogs2) The Air Force should begin staffing up a  Warrant Officer UAV pilot corps
A-10 Warthog

“They need a Mexican Awakening where the people of mexico follow the model of Hidalgo from 1810 and take their country back”

So says Brent Winterable on this episode of covert radio referencing the past on the possible coming (4GW-ish) narco-driven civil war involving Mexico, the narco-gangs, and inevitably the United States.

Update: Jay@Soob is on this too

Using Free WordPress.com Blogs to pass coded messages?

Somebody seems to be doing so.
I have a screencap:

This is an example of secure communication over unsecure mediums. Deadrops are not needed as much anymore. Who knows what this about?
Can anybody recognize the language used in the comments?