Intel

The Pentagon’s decision to make it easier for political appointees and congressional staffers to gain access to the Defense Department’s most secretive programs is being criticized as a major policy shift with consequences for U.S. interests. Read More.

On Sept. 15, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and American President Joe Biden announced the formation of a new defense organization, the Australia-United Kingdom-United States or “AUKUS” defense alliance. Read More.

Former U.S. officials say the Trump administration’s approach to China would have been “completely undermined” by Gen. Mark Milley’s unauthorized phone calls to China’s top general in which, according to a new book by Bob Woodward and Robert Costa, Milley said he would inform China of any U.S. attack. Read More.

Conventional wisdom in America's political-media establishment holds that, like the JFK assassination, the 2020 presidential election will forever remain an unsolved mystery. Read More.

At least 10,000 mostly Haitian migrants (joined by Cubans and other nationalities) have crossed the Rio Grande and occupied "a massive beachhead" near Del Rio, Texas, a report said, adding that hundreds more are pouring across the open border on an hourly basis amid an "obvious" Border Patrol "stand down order." Read More.

China’s rapid advancement on the conventional and nuclear fronts, in space, in cyber warfare and especially in influence operations have led to a major retooling of U.S. intelligence agencies, the chief of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) said. Read More.

Joe Biden's disastrous handling of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan has "breathed new life" into the worldwide Islamic terrorist movement and U.S. intelligence officials will not know the damaging extent of Biden’s actions for “a long, long time to come,” former Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe said. Read More.

There are 17 agencies that make up the U.S. intelligence community. An intelligence assessment of where Covid-19 originated was ordered by President Joe Biden three months ago. Read More.

China’s widespread and surprisingly effective global influence activities have gone largely unchallenged by the U.S. government despite the creation several years ago of the State Department’s Global Engagement Center, a unit in charge of countering foreign influence campaigns. Read More.

For the United States and China it is not enough simply to send people to the Moon, they must be supported by a network of lunar satellites to assure constant, reliable communication, navigation and very likely, surveillance. Read More.

Russia seeks to pursue a balanced strategic relationship with its major partners Communist China and democratic India. Read More.

It is evident from the Taliban's quick takeover of Afghanistan and China's uninterrupted drive for world supremacy that the United States has suffered unforgivable intelligence failures, the former chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence said. Read More.

On Aug. 13, billionaire Jeff Bezos notified a federal court that he will soon sue the National Aerospace and Science Administration (NASA) over its April 16 decision to award $2.9 billion in funding for the next United States Moon lander to the SpaceX Corporation of Billionaire Elon Musk, over that proposed by Bezos’ company Blue Origin. Read More.

America’s nuclear crisis with China has become worse in the last week with the revelation of a third People’s Liberation Army Rocket Force (PLARF) intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) silo field, raising the prospect that total PLA deployed warhead levels could exceed 4,000 later this decade. Read More.

A document circulating on Chinese state-controlled social media which claims to contain remarks then-U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo made in June 2020 about the U.S. planning to defeat China in a war "without shedding blood" is a fake, Pompeo has said. Read More.