Intel

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.

August is military exercise season, and China is conducting two simultaneous high-profile exercises, one with Russia and the other in the South China Sea. Read More.

Using its nonstop cyber attacks on widespread U.S. targets, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has stolen enough data to produce a "dossier" on every adult in America, a former national security official said. Read More.

Just as China’s People’s Liberation Army Rocket Force (PLARF) was found to be building about 236 new silos for nuclear-armed intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), the China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation (CASIC) revealed on Aug. 2 that “The final assembly test of the two types of rockets has been fully launched.” Read More.

American civilian and military leaders in Iraq and Afghanistan have repeated the same mistakes made during the Vietnam War and there is no guarantee those mistakes will not be made again, said John Sopko, the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction. Read More.

Key U.S. security agencies have for the first time directly sounded the alarm about Chinese government hacking operations. Read More.

It has been a long while since the biannual Moscow Airshow at Zhukovsky airfield outside Moscow has grabbed global attention. But this week’s show did so with the surprise introduction of the “Checkmate” 5th generation light fighter from the Sukhoi design bureau. Read More.

Despite a pledge by supreme leader Xi Jinping not to militarize South China Sea islands, China has stepped up military activity at its island bases in the sea, satellite imagery shows. Read More.