Monday, December 27, 2010

Military And Intelligence News Briefs -- December 27, 2010

Anna Chapman was one of ten spies expelled from the US in the summer Photo: FACEBOOK

Russia's Biggest Spy Agencies At War -- The Telegraph

Two of Russia's biggest spy agencies are at war with one another as a battle rages to merge them in order to create an intelligence service modelled on the Soviet-era KGB, it has been claimed.

According to Russian experts, the domestic FSB security service is trying to subsume the SVR foreign intelligence service in order to recreate a latter day KGB in all but name.

Supporters of the plan are seeking to capitalise on the SVR's worst post-Soviet failure, the deportation of ten of its sleeper agents from the United States this summer, arguing that the debacle proved that the SVR had lost its way, it is claimed.

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MILITARY AND INTELLIGENCE NEWS BRIEFS

China's Stealth Striker -- Ares/Aviation Week

Is This China’s First Stealth Fighter? -- The Danger Room

China Deploys World’s First Long-Range, Land-Based ‘Carrier Killer’ -- Andrew Erickson

Chinese military capabilities overstated: The Post
-- Deccan Herald

3 women to finish Israel's Air Force cadets' courses -- Ynet News

Iran to launch spy satellite next year
-- Gulf News

India’s Strategic Doctrine of Lapse -- War is Boring

Slash Troops, Old Core Missions -- DoD Buzz

The Great Ranger School Rebellion -- Strategy Page

GI Gets Silver Star for Insurgent Attack
-- Military.com

Army opens probe of its role in WikiLeaks security breach -- McClatchy News

CIA decodes Civil War message in a bottle after 147 years -- The Telegraph

War Takes Deadly Toll on 101st Airborne -- Military.com

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