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Strained US-Sino ties loom at Asia security forum
Hanoi: Strained US-China military relations will be the elephant in the room as Asia’s largest security forum meets in Vietnam on Friday amid tensions over North Korea, Taiwan and the South China Sea. A US-South Korea naval drill in the Sea of Japan (East Sea) next week is exacerbating tensions ahead of the Hanoi meet, [...]
Afghanistan eyes 2014 security handover
KABUL: The international community on Tuesday endorsed sweeping Afghan government plans to take responsibility for security by 2014, forge peace to end nine years of war and take greater control of aid projects. UN chief Ban Ki-moon and US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton led about 80 organisations and countries at a key conference in [...]
Saab Upgrades Finnish Navy Vessels
STOCKHOLM: The defence and security company Saab is upgrading the combat and fire control system for the Finnish Navy’s Rauma class missile boats. The contract also includes an industrial cooperation agreement. The order is valued at approximately MSEK 220. “With this order, we are extending our already firm and long partnership with the Finnish Navy, [...]
New UK Minister Promises ‘Clean Break’ from ‘Cold War Mindset’
In a speech to the Royal United Services Institute in London this morning Defence Secretary Dr Liam Fox has said that the Strategic Defence and Security Review (SDSR) will make a clean break from the thinking of the past and will be ‘ruthless and without sentiment’. Dr Fox began by saying that the SDSR would [...]
Cyber Command to Unite Network Defense Efforts
WASHINGTON: A new Army command will soon be responsible for defending Army information networks from threats around the globe. The new Army Forces Cyber Command will be responsible for defending all of the Army’s information networks, said Maj. Gen. Steven W. Smith, director of the Army Cyberspace Task Force. The new command will reach full [...]
Air Force security transfers authority to Army
KIRKUK REGIONAL AIR BASE, Iraq: Members of the 506th Expeditionary Security Forces Squadron here transferred authority for base security to Soldiers from the 1st Special Troops Battalion during a ceremony here May 28. In addition to the transfer of authority, the 506th ESFS was officially inactivated. 506th ESFS Airmen ensured the overall security of more [...]
New Security Strategy Touts Partnership Efforts
WASHINGTON: Military-to-military contacts are a “critical component” of global engagement and support the nation’s security, according to the new National Security Strategy presented to Congress May 27. “Our ability to sustain these alliances, and to build coalitions of support toward common objectives, depends in part on the capabilities of America’s armed forces,” the strategy states. [...]
New Obama security strategy dumps Bush anti-terror doctrine
WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama dumped George W. Bush’s “war on terror” doctrine Thursday when he unveiled a national security strategy that calls for using America’s still “unmatched” power less overtly. Obama also put new constraints on the former president’s concept of pre-emptive war and cited national security implications of economic meltdowns, global warming, cyberwarfare, [...]
Major Step Ahead For Cryptography
Bristol, UK: Imagine you could work out the answer to a question, without knowing what the question was. For example, suppose someone thinks of two numbers and then asks another person to work out their sum, without letting them know what the two numbers are. However, they are given an encryption of the two numbers [...]
