Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff Martin Dempsey said Tuesday that the United States can successfully attack Iran, if necessary. His biggest worry is that Iran will “miscalculate our resolve. Dempsey, speaking to CNN during a worldwide tour, spoke one day after Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta warned that the American government will […]
IDF Radio’s commander has instructed the station’s reporters to prefer the term “Judea and Samaria” (Yehuda veShomron) to “the West Bank.” The latter phrase dates from the 19-year interval between 1948 and 1967 during which the Biblical heartland was under Jordanian control. The decision was reported in the military radio station’s response to a complaint […]
Iran’s Intelligence Ministry said Saturday that its agents have arrested a person of Iranian origin on suspicion of spying for the United States, the Associated Press said. Iran’s Foreign Ministry taunted the US Saturday, saying any espionage activity against his country would lead to humiliation. In a statement broadcast on state TV, the ministry said […]
A key U.S. lawmaker denied on Tuesday Iran’s claims that its military brought down a U.S. drone last week, and said technical problems pulled the UAV from the sky and into Tehran’s hands. “I will say without hesitation that this is not something that anyone had anything to do with coming down with, other than […]
The Sentinel drone that was downed or malfunctioned over Iran has become a topic of political controversy. Former U.S. Vice President and Defense Secretary Dick Cheney attacked President Obama for failing to protect American technology that could be learned from the drone downed in Iran. In an interview with CNN’s Erin Burnett, Mr. Cheney said the drone should never have been allowed […]
Turkish president Abdullah Gul on Sunday said Israel should take advantage of the changes in the Middle East to achieve peace with the Palestinian Authority and the entire Arab world, the Turkey-based Today’s Zaman reported. Speaking upon his return from Vienna, where he snubbed an official lunch on Friday because of the presence of Defense […]
Although the postelection demonstrations in Russia came as a surprise, if I were a betting man (without offering a $10,000 wager a la Mitt Romney), I would still put my money on Putin and company in the intermediate term. Some analysts point to the rise of a Russian middle class that seeks to achieve participation […]
The Washington Post castigated President Barack Obama in an editorial Friday for sending Iran “the wrong signals” in the showdown over its nuclear weapons program. “Iran has been showing signs of increasing nervousness about the possibility that its nuclear program will come under attack by Israel or the United States,” the editorial opined. “From the […]
Following the old dictum that “loose lips sink ships,” IDF Information Security officers are seeking to keep soldiers from divulging sensitive operational information on the Internet. The most recent example involved soldiers posted in Israel’s north uploading autobiographical videos documenting their experiences to YouTube. According to IDF officials the videos, which were described as having […]
(Los Angles Times) The Sentinel drone has cutting-edge stealth and surveillance technology that other nations could exploit. One of the aircraft crashed in Iran, and a U.S. official says it was on a CIA mission. Photographs of the Sentinel first surfaced online in 2009 at a remote airfield in Kandahar, Afghanistan. The drone received the […]
