The terrorist events of 11 September 2001 dramatically illustrated the importance of SIGINT relationships with our Second Parties (the U.K., Canada, Australia, and New Zealand). Although we have tracked and reported worldwide terrorism for decades, its intelligence magnitude flared to an unprecedented brilliance within hours.
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Aaron Brown was working as a CIA case officer in 2018 when he wrote a post for an agency blog warning about what he called “gait recognition.” He cautioned his fellow officers that computer algorithms would soon be able to identify people not just by their faces, or fingerprints, or DNA — but by the unique ways they walked.
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In 2006, while operating in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea, the INS Hanit (Sa’ar V) was struck by an Anti-Ship Cruise Missile (ASCM).
The use of high-quality Communications Intelligence (COMINT) was crucial in aiding the decision making process for military operations in New Guinea in July 10, 1944. New Guinea was a critical battleground in the Pacific Theater of World War II and the outcome of the conflict there would greatly impact the overall war effort.
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As a former Strategic War Planner for the Joint Chiefs of Staff, student at the United States Army War College, and Professor of Strategy at the National War College, I spent my formative years on active duty reading and analyzing both the theory and practice of some of the world’s theorists and practitioners of the art of warfare. Among them were Sun Tzu the great Chinese general and strategist whose seminal work “The Art of War” has endured from its inception 600 BC until today and Carl Von Clausewitz a Prussian general and military theorist who stressed the psychological and political aspects of waging war in his “On War” in which contains his maxim “war is the continuation of politics by other means.”
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Polish researchers have finally told the world where Russia is wreaking havoc in the skies and at sea in the Baltic region. Using a network of monitoring stations, they have tracked down the locations of satellite navigation jamming (GNSS) and pointed the finger at Kaliningrad and the St Petersburg area. The resourceful military uses both signal jamming and spoofing, a more sophisticated technique of coordinate spoofing that can make aircraft or ships think they are in a different location on the map altogether.
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