India Beefing Up Border Security, Aimed at Curbing Chinese Incursions

"The new posts . . . will also help reduce the distance between two ITBP locations thereby enabling the patrols to coordinate better and keep a tight vigil in this sector which has seen instances of incursions from the other side in the past."

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/india-to-fortify-defence-along-china-border-54-new-itbp-posts-being-planned-in-arunachal-pradesh/articleshow/36357033.cms

Defending Air Bases in an Age of Insurgency

Col Shannon W. Caudill, USAF, Defending Air Bases in an Age of Insurgency (Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Press, 2014).

This anthology discusses the converging operational issues of air base defense and counterinsurgency. It explores the diverse challenges associated with defending air assets and joint personnel in a counterinsurgency environment. The authors are primarily Air Force officers from security forces, intelligence, and the office of special investigations, but works are included from a US Air Force pilot and a Canadian air force officer. The authors examine lessons from Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, and other conflicts as they relate to securing air bases and sustaining air operations in a high-threat counterinsurgency environment. The essays review the capabilities, doctrine, tactics, and training needed in base defense operations and recommend ways in which to build a strong, synchronized ground defense partnership with joint and combined forces. The authors offer recommendations on the development of combat leaders with the depth of knowledge, tactical and operational skill sets, and counterinsurgency mind set necessary to be effective in the modern asymmetric battlefield.

Project editor: Dr. Ernest Allan Rockwell

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Bergdahl Swap Is an Impeachable Offense

In failing to inform Congress of the prisoner swap, President Obama blatantly disregarded a law, the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), he signed into effect in 2013. This is something he cannot claim to have learned about by watching the news, unless he wants to admit he is a complete imbecile. Moreover, returning the Taliban prisoners to the battlefield--and they will undoubtedly make their way back to theater--is tantamount to aiding and abetting the enemy, which is not only impeachable, it is treasonable.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2646425/Taliban-prisoner-swap-ILLEGAL-claims-GOP-former-federal-prosecutor-claims-lead-Obamas-IMPEACHMENT.html

Australian government concerned over potential for hot conflict in South China Sea

Australian government concerned over potential for hot conflict in South China Sea

Ukrainian Intelligence Agency Claims to Have Intercepted Conversations of Russian Provocateurs

According to Interfax-Ukraine, Vitaliy Nayda, a top counterintelligence official of the Security Service of Ukraine, declared his agency had intercepted conversations proving that Russia “intends to initiate bloodshed in Ukraine.” Ukrainian television broadcasted one of these conversations in which two Russian agents discussed orders to open fire on Ukrainian soldiers.  Moreover, Valentyn Nalyvaichenco, another official with the Security Service of Ukraine, informed a closed session of parliament that the agency had arrested 23 career officers of Russia’s Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU, the successor to the Cold War KGB).

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