USA
Defense News – (National) U.S. Army moves forward on JLTV. The U.S. Army insists it plans to go forward with its open competition for Joint Light Tactical Vehicle following completion of its 2-year technology development phase even as many defense analysts have the program pegged for cancellation. The director of Sustainment Systems said in a July 28 statement the program has taken steps forward, refining the requirements during the technology development phase to "meet the designated capability gaps." A program that could be worth up to $20 billion already has a host of defense companies, including BAE Systems, General Dynamics Land Systems, Lockheed Martin, AM General, and General Tactical Vehicles, all vying to build the next-generation light vehicle. Source: http://www.defensenews.com/story.php?i=7244124&c=AME&s=LAN
EUROPE
NOTHING SIGNIFICANT TO REPORT
ASIA
NOTHING SIGNIFICANT TO REPORT
RUSSIA
Russia: Privatization Plans Announced August 3, 2011
The Russian government announced plans to expand privatization of large companies and banks, a spokesman for the administrative office of First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov said Aug. 3, RIA Novosti reported. The plans were prepared following instructions from Russian President Dmitri Medvedev, and by 2017 the state will retain only a nominal share with the right of veto power in certain situations, the spokesman said.
Russia: New S-400 Missile Batteries In Baltic Fleet By 2011
August 2, 2011
Russia’s Baltic Fleet air defenses in the Kaliningrad Region will receive their first S-400 Triumf surface-to-air missile batteries as early as December 2011, an unnamed source said, Interfax reported Aug. 2. The source said two batteries should be operational in the region by the end of 2011, adding that the performance of the S-400s will allow the fleet to provide air cover along the Russian borders with Poland and Lithuania as well as the Baltic coast.
IRAN
Syria: Iran Orders Iraq To Support Saleh With $10 Billion - Report August 2, 2011
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Commander General, Brig. Gen. Qasem Soleymani, said the Iraqi National Alliance (INA) must support Syrian President Ali Abdullah Saleh with $10 billion, according to a source in the alliance, Al-Sharq al-Aswat reported Aug. 2. According to the report, the source said Iranian Ambassador to Iraq Hassan Danayeefar conveyed the message to the alliance. The demand came in the form of orders that Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki accepted in his capacity as the leader of the Iraqi government, the report added.
Iran: Revolutionary Guard Corps Commander Appointed Oil Minister August 3, 2011
Iranian lawmakers voted Aug. 3 to confirm Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s nominee for oil minister, Rostam Qasemi, Reuters reported. Of the 246 lawmakers present, 216 voted in favor of Qasemi’s confirmation. Qasemi, an Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps commander and head of Corps’ engineering and construction company Khatam al-Anbia, is on an EU sanctions list that prevents him from traveling or holding assets in the European Union, and he is on a similar list in the United States
IRAQ
NOTHING SIGNIFICANT TO REPORT
ISRAEL
Israel: Regular Troops Not Enough In September August 2, 2011
Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee Chairman Shaul Mofaz said on Aug. 2 that Israel Defense Forces (IDF) will need to draft reservists in September in anticipation of reactions to an expected United Nations vote on Palestinian statehood, The Jerusalem Post reported, citing Army Radio. Mofaz said IDF is getting ready for a situation in which regular troops would not be enough to handle an aftermath.
AFGHANISTAN
Afghanistan Weekly War Update: Security Forces Targeted in Helmand
Afghanistan: Intelligence Chief Killed In Explosion August 3, 2011
Afghanistan’s intelligence chief was killed in an explosion in Kunduz Province on Aug. 4, Australian Broadcasting Commission reported.
MIDDLE EAST
Libya: The Perils of Humanitarian War
Italy: Libya Fires Missile At Ship Enforcing Blockade August 3, 2011
Libya shot a missile at Italian ship Bersagliere on Aug. 3 that was enforcing the U.N.-mandated blockade of Libya, Italian government sources said, ANSA reported. The sources said the missile fell short of the missile-equipped patrol ship.
Turkey's Long Road to a New Military Culture
SOUTH OF THE BORDER
Mexico Security Memo: La Linea Leader Captured
Examining Venezuela's Prison System
Mexico: 21 Federal Prosecutors Resign August 2, 2011
The federal prosecutors of 21 out of 32 Mexican states have resigned as part of a purging within the Mexican Attorney General’s Office designed to deliver results to citizens’ demands, Mexican Attorney General Marisela Morales said in a statement, AFP reported Aug. 2. The federal prosecutors for Mexico City, Michoacan, Tamaulipas and Coahuila states are among those who resigned. Mexican state office coordinator Rosa Elena Torres said the resignations were submitted on July 29.
MISC
Intelligence Guidance: Week of July 31, 2011
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