Gunnar Sønstebys Pris 2017 tildelt Forsvarets veteraner
Gunnar Sønstebys Pris 2017 ble fredag 13. januar tildelt Forsvarets veteraner. Erling Lorentzen delte ut prisen til 10 representanter for de over 100 000 som har tjenestegjort for Norge i internasjonale operasjoner. Gjennom sin tjeneste har landets veteraner lagt ned en markant innsats på vegne av oss alle. Vi skylderContinue Reading
Fra Tuzla til Zagreb
Mandag den 7. mars 1994 møtte jeg opp på Onsrud leir for tjeneste ved UNPROFOR Military Police Company. Her ble det gjennomført et forkurs for oss tre som skulle nedover. Vi hadde daværende kaptein Kristin Lund som instruktør og med sin erfaring fra UNPROFOR fikk vi en god innføring iContinue Reading
Lockheed Martin Receives $1.45 Billion Contract for PAC-3 Missiles
The United States and allied military forces will upgrade their missile defense capabilities under a new $1.45 billion contract for production and delivery of Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] Patriot Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3) and PAC-3 Missile Segment Enhancement (PAC-3 MSE) interceptors. The contract includes PAC-3 and PAC-3 MSE missile deliveries for theContinue Reading
Bring Jobs to America – Trump is right on!
While traveling in Silicon Valley, I noticed the old Lockheed Martin sign. It stood next to Amazon, Microsoft, HP among other technology unicorns. By Managing Editor Intelligence Technology; Michael Fayerman Lockheed makes a number of sophisticated military components for our military. As our President elect outlined two most important vision statements “making AmericaContinue Reading
En politimann på vakt
UNEF 1 1966/1967 kontingent XX, XXI og XXII Norske FN-soldater hadde allerede vært til stede på Gaza i noen år da Arne Gerrit Halvorsen troppet opp til førstegangstjeneste i Flyvåpenet 6. april 1959. Senere, som ferdig utdannet politimann, rettet han en henvendelse til Hærens overkommando med forespørsel om tjeneste vedContinue Reading
How the Master Narratives Are Impacting the Meta Narratives on Syria
The Saturday morning announcement that the US and Russia have agreed to join forces to pound ISIS in Syria starting Monday is evidence that the Assad regime’s strategic narrative is dominating the narrative space through which the international community views the conflicts. The regime’s narrative paints ISIS as the centerContinue Reading
Managing the Boundary Zone – a Swedish Perspective on Intelligence in the Balkan Wars [1]
This article is written by; Dr Per Arne Persson, LtCol (Ret), prev. Swedish National Defence College Prof (em) James M Nyce, Ball State University, Muncie, IN, USA Jan-Inge Svensson, Col (Ret), Folke Bernadotte Academy, Stockholm Abstract New types of conflicts and wars trigger development of new technologies, toolsContinue Reading
No Coincidences in Terrorist Attacks
ISIS is claiming credit for inspiring the latest terrorist attacks in Nice, France and on a train in southern Germany as well as a machete attack in Belgium. We don’t know what was in the attackers’ minds or whether ISIS’ claim is false bravado or true, but a video obtainedContinue Reading
The Responsibility to Protect in the Context of State-Sponsored Terror
As a result of the Rwandan genocide, the United Nations broadened the definition of “The Responsibility to Protect” from State responsibility to protect its citizens, to the responsibility of the international community to intervene to protect civilian populations in cases wherein their own government is unable, or worse, actively engagedContinue Reading
China is ahead on Supercomputer Front!
Sunway TaihuLight became the fastest supercomputer in the world. The previous champion came also from China. What used to be an arms race for supercomputing primacy among technological nations has turned into a major failure by USA By Michael Fayerman Managing Editor/ Intelligence Technology Expert The Sunway TaihuLight is indeedContinue Reading