Five major threats to the U.S., our allies and our interests

Source: HumanEvents.com

by Danielle Pletka 05/25/2012 By decade’s end, the United States will be spending more to service its debt annually than on national defense. At that point, if current plans remain in place, the country will be spending only 2.5 percent ...
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Analysis: Cyberwarriors face a hard truth

Source: GovExec.com

A $200 million budget increase wouldn’t have seemed like much in the thousands of Defense Department line items a few years back. But with long-term cuts totaling $487 billion over the next 10 years, the denizens of cybersecurity wou ...
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Terrorism à la Carte

Source: American Spectator

What makes a terrorist group a global "player"? For any terrorist group, the ability to project destructive power is more important than the power itself. Having a large quantity of explosive, chemical or biological material that ...
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Yemeni troops kill 35 militants

Source: GulfToday.ae

ADEN: Yemeni troops killed 35 Al Qaeda militants in overnight battles in the restive southern Abyan province, a military official said on Thursday as the army pressed ahead with a 13-day offensive to retake extre ...
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Alarming Trend of Cybersecurity Breaches and Failures in the U.S. Government

Source: The Heritage Foundation

Abstract: The number of cybersecurity attacks on, and breaches within, the United States government has been growing. The U.S. Senate is now gearing up to debate cybersecurity legislation—and will have to vote on whether the federal govern ...
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US targeted al Qaeda sites to undermine propaganda: Clinton

Source: Dawn

WASHINGTON: US experts scored a cyberwarfare coup by targeting websites run by al Qaeda’s Yemeni branch and changing the message to undermine their propaganda, according to US officials. In a speech late Wednesday, Secretary of State Hill ...
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Little-known State Department unit targets al Qaeda online

Source: CNN

By Suzanne Kelly and Jamie Crawford Secretary of State Hillary Clinton offered rare insight this week into a little-known unit within the Department of State that aims to counter terror groups like al Qaeda wh ...
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US counterfeit military parts accusation goes far

Source: The Jakarta Post

The US government has found yet another reason to ignore its own problems and bash China, this time accusing the country of compromising national security via the manufacture of counterfeit electronic components used by the US military ...
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US hacked Al-Qaeda to undermine propaganda: Hillary Clinton

Source: NDTV

Washington: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said that US experts scored a cyberwarfare coup by hacking into websites run by Al Qaeda's Yemeni branch and changing the message to undermine their propaganda. In a sp ...
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