Crooked Bough News Round-up

+ Trump Wills White House and Presidency to Daughter Ivanka— Sources close to President Donald Trump report that in updating his ...

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+ Iraq Daily Roundup: Diyala Province Focus of Attacks; Eight Killed in Iraq—An ISIS cell is likely behind multiple attacks across Diyala province....

+ Jewish Settlers Rule the Roost in Israel, But at What Price?—Israeli Jewish settlers are on a rampage in the occupied Palestinian W...

+ NPR Mocks Cancer Survivor in Drumbeat of Syria Propaganda—It may be a new low in propaganda. National Public Radio (NPR) used th...

+ America’s Interventionist Middle East Policy Started 66 Years Ago—As the late-summer date of August 20th passes stateside, very few Amer...

+ The Deeper Meaning in a Lost War—It’s pretty clear. Saudi Arabia has lost, and, notes Bruce Riedel, “th...

+ Iraq Daily Roundup: Another Ammo Dump Explosion; 13 Killed in Iraq—Another ammunition dump caught fire or was bombed. The post <I>...

+ Iraq Daily Roundup: Another Ammo Dump Explosion; Eight Killed in Iraq—Another ammunition dump caught fire or was bombed. The post <I>...

+ When, If Ever, Can We Lay This Burden Down?—Friday, President Donald Trump met in New Jersey with his national sec...

+ As Naval Arms Race Heats Up, It Threatens Sea Life—Remember The Hunt for Red October? Tom Clancy’s first novel (198...

+ Iraq Daily Roundup: Turkish Strikes Wound Civilians; Eight Killed in Iraq—An uptick in Turkish strikes against the PKK wounded and terrified var...

+ War Party Hates Putin – Loves al-Qaeda—In both Yemen and Syria, the War Party has found an ally that they can...

+ What Fareed Zakaria Gets Wrong About Afghanistan: Everything.—Since when does a (mostly) respected press pundit sound just like an a...

+ Mr. President: Send Sam Nunn to Moscow—Nowadays it is hard for anyone much under the age of 50 to imagine, bu...

+ Iraq Daily Roundup: New Anti-ISIS Operation in Nineveh; 14 Killed or Found Dead in Iraq—Iraqi forces launched a new operation south of Mosul. The post <I&...

+ President Moon Loses the Trust of North Korea as Prospects for Peace Look Grim—"His shameless talk of dialogue between the North and South [at a ...

+ Iraq Daily Roundup: Random Attacks on Militia; Four Killed in Iraq—Attacks on militiamen occurred. The post <I>Iraq Daily Roundup&l...

+ Ex-Blackwater Guard Nicholas Slatten Sentenced to Life for Nisour Square Massacre—Former Blackwater USA guard Nicholas Slatten was sentenced on Wednesda...

+ Iraq Daily Roundup: Ammo Depot Casualties Rise; 15 Killed in Iraq—The number of casualties from an ammo depot fire and explosion was rev...

+ The US Government Doesn’t Care About Afghan Women—This article originally appeared at TruthDig. In once, and to some ext...

+ Americans Oppose Israel Lobby Junkets—Seventy members of the U.S. Congress (16% of the total membership) are...

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+ US and Russia trade barbs at UN over ‘new arms race’—Russia and the US traded accusations at the United Nations on Thursday...

+ UN experts urge India to end ‘collective punishment’ in Kashmir—A group of UN human rights experts on Thursday urged India to end the ...

+ Genocide Watch issues alerts for occupied Kashmir and India’s Assam state—Genocide Watch, a global organisation dedicated to the prevention of g...

+ Russia and China blast US missile test—Russia and China warned Tuesday that a new US missile test had heighte...

+ US State Dept approves sale of 66 F-16 fighters to Taiwan—Washington: The US State Department on Tuesday approved the sale of 66...

+ US urges India to free detainees, restore rights in occupied Kashmir—The United States called on India on Tuesday to quickly release detain...

+ Pakistan to take Kashmir dispute with India to International Court of Justice—The government announced on Tuesday it would take the Kashmir dispute ...

+ Hypersonics Remain Top Priority for Pentagon—A hypersonic weapon moving at five times the speed of sound can travel...

+ US Army Futures teaming with industry on advanced robotics, sensors—ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND: Army Futures Command is soliciting industry f...

+ ‘World must seriously consider safety, security of India’s nuclear arsenal in control of fascist Modi’—Prime Minister Imran Khan on Sunday expressed concern about the “...

+ India says may rethink ‘no first use’ policy on nuclear weapons—India has stuck to its commitment of ‘no first use’ of nuc...

+ North Korea fires missiles, rejects further talks with South—North Korea fired what appeared to be two short-range missiles into th...

+ UNSC set to hold Kashmir meeting after 50 years—UNITED NATIONS: The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) holds a con...

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+ A Defining Moment for Trump’s Foreign Policy—A nation that itself broke free from colonial control has, under Trump...

+ Trump Told the VA to Order ‘a Lot’ of Ketamine for Vets—The president wants to make a controversial new nasal spray available ...

+ Pacific tensions rise; Israel bombed Iraq in July; Turkey is surrounded in Syria; 2 USSOF KIA in Afghanistan; And a bit more.— [Category: News]

+ The Biggest Winner Of the Japan-South Korea Dispute? China—The Pentagon is on edge after Seoul ends an intelligence-sharing agree...

+ Stockpiling missiles; Interceptor project axed; F-35’s new EW gear; and more...— [Category: Business]

+ The Pentagon Is Almost Two Years Late On Efficiency Reforms—Little progress have been made on various requirements ordered in the ...

+ Esper’s Foot-Dragging on Mega-Cloud Doesn’t Pass the Smell Test—The new defense secretary needs to stand up to his boss, who is inappr...

+ The Pentagon Is Turning to Nature to Solve Its Most Complex Problems—DARPA is exploring ways to harness chemical reactions, biological proc...

+ Two more Americans die in Afghanistan; SecDef: China is top priority; CNO, departing; Trump threatens to release ISIS fighters; And a bit more.— [Category: News]

+ The A-10 Warthog Is Sticking Around for At Least Another Decade—After years of trying to retire the much-in-demand attack jet, the Air...

+ Ep. 54: Defense Intelligence Agency’s Lt. Gen. Robert Ashley—The general answered 10 questions about Afghanistan, China, North Kore...

+ Trump Threatens to ‘Release’ ISIS Fighters into France, Germany—The president wants European governments to repatriate and try citizen...

+ Trump Has Defected from the Free World—The president crossed an important line when he canceled a meeting wit...

+ DHS is Collecting Biometrics on Thousands of Refugees Who Will Never Enter the US—Most refugees who apply for asylum never set foot in the United States...

+ It’s Time for a NATO-China Council—Such a group would help to collectively engage Beijing, which prefers ...

+ Houthis down Reaper drone; US troops shuttle into Syria; Space Command launch date; Military AI vs. opioids; And a bit more.— [Category: News]

+ Military Scientists Harness AI To Fight Synthetic Opioids —A DIA group that scans millions of websites is overwhelming law enforc...

+ US Army: No Afghanistan Withdrawal Plans Yet —“We have not received any direction to do anything at this point,” say...

+ The US Military's AI Can't Find Targets On Its Own — Yet, Top USAF General Says—The Air Combat Command leader says the tools are still learning. [Cate...

+ Which US Cities Are Least Prepared for Climate Disaster?—New studies find cities most vulnerable to climate change disasters—he...

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+ IDF Protects Eitan APCs and D9 Bulldozers With Iron-Fists—Israel’s Ministry of Defense announced today the selection of Elbit Sy...

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+ U.S. to “Drown the World” in Oil—The U.S. could “drown the world in oil” over the next decade, which, a...

+ Syrian Rebels Cannot Hold Northern Hama Pocket for Long Time—The Syrian army has managed to make significant progress in clashes wi...

+ Our Vanishing World: Melting Glaciers—Something is causing the worlds glaciers and mountain ice fields to me...

+ Bolivia Orders World’s Largest Air Tanker to Combat Amazon Fires—Bolivia’s President Evo Morales announced on Wednesday that Bolivia ha...

+ The “Lungs of the Earth” Are Literally Being Burned Away as Unprecedented Wildfires Absolutely Ravage Our Planet—We have never seen anything quite like this.  This week the skies abov...

+ Lawsuit Challenges Trump Administration Attack on Endangered Species Act—Environmental and animal protection groups today sued the Trump admini...

+ Eighty Years Ago… The Hitler-Stalin Pact of August 23, 1939: Myth and Reality— In a remarkable book, 1939: The Alliance That Never Was and the Comin...

+ Risks to Health and Well-Being from Radio-Frequency Radiation (RFR) Emitted by Cell Phones and Other Wireless Devices—We bring to the attention of our readers this important scientific rep...

+ Trump Fine-tunes Peace Deal with Taliban—The US President Donald Trump’s remarks at the Oval Office in the Whit...

+ “New Detente” Between Russia and The West? Impacts on the Russia-China Strategic Partnership—Macron’s Mediation The dynamics of the New Cold War might underg...

+ US Navy “Ready” to “Restore Democracy” in Venezuela through Military Means?—“I’m not going to detail what we’re planning and what we’re doing, but...

+ Indigenous People’s Rights and Canada’s ‘Vampire’ Pension Plan—Wet’suwet’en people have never ceded their land through treaty; like m...

+ Selected Articles: The Geopolitics of the Kashmir Crisis—Online independent analysis of US-led wars, rampant corruption, corpor...

+ Selected Articles: The Geopolitics of Kashmir Crisis—Online independent analysis of US-led wars, rampant corruption, corpor...

+ Imperial Sentiments: Donald Trump, Greenland and Colonial Real Estate— Haven’t the critics worked it out yet?  US President Donald Trump chu...

+ Why a Defense Agreement with Israel Would be a Disaster for Americans. Lindsey Graham’s Blank Check—Two world wars began because of unconditional pledges made by one coun...

+ Giant 5G Drones in Hawaii Skies? Pushback Is Growing…—As we approach the 5G Crisis: Awareness & Accountability online su...

+ World Watching the Fate of Iranian Tanker—At 11:30pm on Sunday, August 18, the Iranian tanker Adrian Darya-1 lef...

+ Video: Khan Shaykhun Liberated, Northern Hama Pocket – Next—On August 21, the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) and the Tiger Forces liberate...

+ Trump Regime Threatens Illegal Sanctions on Nations Legally Buying Iranian Oil—The US under both extremist right wings of its war party is a rogue st...

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+ Russia proposes new railroad battalions in each military district—Russia is proposing that additional new ‘emergency’ railro...

+ US Air Force develops plan for restoring F-22 low observability maintenance capacity—Key Points The US Air Force is determining how to improve the low obs...

+ Admiral Gilday takes over as USN CNO—Admiral Mike Gilday relieved Admiral John Richardson as the 32nd Chief...

+ Russian exercise ‘Centre 2019’ to involve 128,000 troops from seven nations—The ‘Centre 2019’ exercise scheduled by Russia for 16–21 September is ...

+ Moscow stages comprehensive Arctic exercise—Russia staged a 30-vessel exercise with ships from three of its four f...

+ Pentagon kick-starts weapons’ portfolio review—Legacy weapon systems are on the chopping block as newly minted US Sec...

+ Serbian government approves new defence, security strategies—The Serbian government on 8 August approved drafts of the new national...

+ Belgium signs contract with Saab for combat training centre—The Belgian Ministry of Defence has signed a contract with Saab for de...

+ Malaysia enhances naval, coastguard interoperability with US—Key Points Malaysia and the US have concluded a maritime exercise tha...

+ Iraq imposes restrictions on coalition air operations—Coalition flights over Iraq now have to be pre-approved by the Baghdad...

+ Assassination attempt against Afghan Taliban leader indicates factional conflict and greater Islamic State capability after US withdrawal—On 16 August, at least four people were killed in an improvised explos...

+ Moldovan action plan addresses future of armed forces—Moldova is discussing and receiving feedback on a draft government act...

+ India hints at change in nuclear weapons doctrine—India’s defence minister has suggested that Delhi could change its nuc...

+ Kim continues to let his missiles do the talking—Key Points North Korea has continued to mount a series of weapon test...

+ Myanmar military academy comes under rebel attack—Myanmar’s Defence Services Technological Academy (DSTA), the military’...

+ Taiwan proposes record-high defence budget for 2020—Taiwan’s Executive Yuan has approved a national defence budget of TWD4...

+ US THAAD task force returns home from Romania—The US 32nd Army Air and Missile Defense Command’s 69th Air Defense Ar...

+ USAFE prepares for F-35—US Air Forces in Europe (USAFE) has been preparing to base F-35 Joint ...

+ Indonesia receives two more upgraded Su-30s—The Indonesian Air Force (Tentara Nasional Indonesia – Angkatan Udara:...

+ New Russian divisional base to be ready by end of year—Construction of a permanent garrison for the 150th Motor Rifle Divisio...

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+ Russian Military Ordered Blueprint of “New” Medical Armored Vehicle—The Russian defense ministry announced a closed auction for the resear...

+ Russian Corvette Gremyaschy Kicked Off State Trials—On Tuesday, August 20, at 10:00 (Moscow time), the lead Project 20385 ...

+ Experts in Marine Robotics Commented on UK’s Ban on Submersibles Exports to Russia—The British government adopted an amendment to the export control act ...

+ MAKS-2019: UAV Berta Gets Turbojet —The ground-launched overhead platform E08M Berta designed and produced...

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+ Your History Book Failed You: Why Okinawa Was the Worst Battle of World War II—Warfare History Network History, Asia Here is the story. To the Am...

+ Russia's Su-57 Stealth Fighter Has One Target In Its Sights: The U.S. Navy—Michael Peck Security, Coming to airspace near you. The Su-57 is ...

+ European Integration is in America’s Interests; Brexit Isn’t—Paul R. Pillar Security, Europe Americans and their government cann...

+ Glock 19 and Sig Sauer P226: Why Gun Owners Can't Stop Talking About Them—Kyle Mizokami Security, They won't go away. Adequately powerful a...

+ This Old Tank was Israel's Secret Weapon to Win War After War—Warfare History Network History, How? On the Jordanian front, the...

+ Kamikaze: Japan's World War II Terror Weapon That Terrified the Allies—Warfare History Network Security, Asia But would not win the war fo...

+ Did Russia Steal Its Hypersonic Missiles From America?—Michael Peck Security, Europe Or did America steal from Russia? Di...

+ How U.S. Sanctions Drive America's Enemies Together—Daniel R. DePetris Security, Americas By placing Iran and Venezuela...

+ The G7 Should Pressure China but Find a Solution with Russia—Doug Bandow Security, Global Governance Trump should pursue ‘Americ...

+ Could Iran Crush Great Britain in a War? —Michael Peck Security, "A shadow of its former glory." Which leav...

+ G7 Offers a Chance for a Truce in the Tariff Wars—James Roberts Security, Global Governance The one thing the G7 coun...

+ G-7 Offers a Chance for a Truce in the Tariff Wars—James Roberts Security, Global Governance The one thing the G7 coun...

+ That Time a Russian Pilot Ejected Two Seconds Before the Crash of his MiG-29—Dario Leone Security, And we have the video.  Taken on Jun. 8, 19...

+ The Man Who Helped Test Both the F-15 Eagle and F-117 Stealth Fighter Has Passed Away—Dario Leone Security, A true legend.  On Aug. 15, 2019 Norman “Ke...

+ Blue Angels F/A-18 Hornets “Scared to death” New York Residents —Dario Leone Security, “Anyone know why two fighter jets flew loud ...

+ Is This the Navy China Should Fear? (Not America, Japan or Taiwan)—Bahauddin Foizee Security, Any guesses?  A tiny yet wealthy city-...

+ The U.S. Army Is Going All in On Deadly Laser Weapons: What You Need To Know—Kris Osborn Secuity, High-tech killers or no big deal?  (Washingt...

+ Russia to China: You Shouldn't Have Copied Our Jet Fighter Design—Michael Peck Technology, Europe And now Beijing might pay the price...

+ Flying Failures: These 5 U.S. Warplanes Were Total Flops—David Axe Security, In the 1950s and ‘60s, American plane-makers w...

+ Does China Know Why an Indian Aircraft Carrier Went Ablaze?—Michael Peck Politics, Asia No, but they think they do. The Indian...

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+ US and Russia trade barbs at UN over 'new arms race'—United Nations, United States (AFP) Aug 22, 2019 Russia and the US ...

+ South Korea to scrap military intel-sharing pact with Japan—Seoul (AFP) Aug 22, 2019 South Korea said Thursday it will terminate...

+ Iran unveils home-grown missile defence system—Tehran (AFP) Aug 22, 2019 Iran unveiled its new home-grown air defe...

+ US raps China for 'escalation' in South China Sea—Washington (AFP) Aug 22, 2019 The United States on Thursday sharpen...

+ India's Anti-Satellite Test Debris Still in Space - NASA—New Delhi (Sputnik) Aug 23, 2019 In its latest assessment on debris...

+ Macron to host Iran top diplomat for nuclear talks Friday: France—Paris (AFP) Aug 22, 2019 President Emmanuel Macron will on Friday h...

+ S. Korea says will share military intel with Japan through US—Seoul (AFP) Aug 23, 2019 South Korea said Friday it will share milit...

+ Australia urges 'sovereignty' as S. China Sea tensions rise—Hanoi (AFP) Aug 23, 2019 Australia's prime minister on Friday urged...

+ Macron backs month of Brexit talks as Johnson visits—Paris (AFP) Aug 22, 2019 French leader Emmanuel Macron backed the i...

+ Report: China's military could overwhelm U.S. forces in Indo-Pacific region—Washington (UPI) Aug 20, 2019 China has the military strength to ov...

+ China hosts Japan and South Korea in show of regional unity—Beijing (AFP) Aug 21, 2019 Foreign ministers of China, Japan and So...

+ Beijing hits back after Trudeau vows to stand up to China—Beijing (AFP) Aug 22, 2019 Beijing on Thursday accused Ottawa of wo...

+ Raytheon awarded $190.5M for Evolved Sea Sparrow Missile production—Washington (UPI) Aug 22, 2019 Raytheon has been awarded a contract ...

+ Quantum signs for 26 electric airplanes from Bye Aerospace—Englewood CO (SPX) Aug 22, 2019 Bye Aerospace announced that Quantu...

+ Air Force certifies first field unit for 3D printing of aircraft parts—Washington (UPI) Aug 19, 2019 The U.S. Air Force announced its firs...

+ Pentagon axes troubled $1 bn contract for missile defense—Washington (AFP) Aug 22, 2019 The Pentagon announced Wednesday that...

+ Space Command, National Reconnaissance Office to form joint command—Washington (UPI) Aug 21, 2019 A joint concept of operation will all...

+ N. Korea dismisses nuclear talks if US 'hostile military moves' continue—Seoul (AFP) Aug 22, 2019 North Korea said Thursday it has "no inter...

+ GPS 3 satellite ready for launch aboard Delta 4—Cape Canaveral AFB FL (SPX) Aug 22, 2019 The Air Force's newest Glo...

+ 'I am the Chosen One': Trump defends China trade war—Washington (AFP) Aug 21, 2019 US President Donald Trump proclaimed ...

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+ Skyfront Perimeter Drone Performs The First Beyond-Line-of-Sight Flight under FAA Part 107— Fairbanks AK (SPX) Aug 15, 2019 - Skyfront's Perimeter 4 long-range...

+ Teams Test Swarm Autonomy in Second Major OFFSET Field Experiment— Washington DC (SPX) Aug 12, 2019 - During the second field experime...

+ General Atomics to build parts, equipment for MQ-1C Gray Eagle drone— Washington (UPI) Jul 31, 2019 - General Atomics Aeronautical Systems...

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+ Syria Situation Report: August 7 - 21, 2019—By ISW's Syria Team The following Syria Situation Report (SITREP) Map ...

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