Slitherine

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ORIGINAL: kevinkin

Chilling ... or more likely a diversion sent to potential adversaries. Where's my Top Gun DVD?

http://www.military.com/daily-news/2017/04/02/super-seals-elite-units-pursue-brain-stimulating-technologies.html

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ORIGINAL: redcoat


USNI: How the U.S. planned and executed the Tomahawk strike against the al-Shayrat airfield in Syria

https://news.usni.org/2017/04/07/us-planned-executed-tomahawk-strike

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ORIGINAL: raptorx7

Russia was warned about the strike beforehand.

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Unidentified hackers set off all the 156 emergency sirens in Dallas in one of the largest known breaches of a siren warning system waking up city residents in panic.

The sirens most often used to warn about extreme weather conditions like tornadoes were triggered at 11:42 pm CDT on 7 April. It continued for nearly two hours until engineers manually shut down the sirens' radio system and repeaters. Within 15 minutes of the sirens going off, emergency hotline numbers received around 800 panic calls from residents.

-more at link-

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The US has sent warships into waters near the Korean Peninsula in a show of force against North Korea's "reckless" nuclear threat.

It comes days after North Korea condemned America's strike on Syria as an act of "intolerable aggression", claiming the move justified "a million times over" their reasons for developing a nuclear deterrent.

President Donald Trump talked to China's leader Xi Jinping this week about the need for Beijing to encourage Kim Jong-Un to halt his nuclear weapons programme.

Ahead of the meeting, North Korea fired a medium-range ballistic missile into the Sea of Japan.

Now, in the latest sign that tensions are increasing, the US has deployed a Navy strike group led by the USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier from Singapore.
It described the decision to divert the fleet from scheduled calls in Australia as "a prudent measure to maintain readiness and presence in the Western Pacific".

Despite UN resolutions barring North Korea from any use of ballistic missile technology, Mr Kim has been busy developing missile capabilities. So far five nuclear tests have been staged, two of them last year.

-more at link-

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ORIGINAL: kevinkin

http://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/russias-s-400-air-defense-system-super-weapon-or-overhyped-20111\

Small but current opinion on S400 in Syria.

"That said, all types of air defense systems, including the S-400, are still in large part untested as to whether they can resist multiple missile attacks. India and China should take that into account while focusing on the reinforcement of their own air and missile defenses. In this sense, the S-400’s mixed performance in Syria against the US Tomahawks should at least raise some doubt in Delhi and Beijing over the capabilities of this Russian arms system."

Poker on a geopolitical scale.

Kevin