National Composite Adversary Force
The National Composite Adversary Force (NCAF) is a unique special operations unit in the sense of its organization and mission. NCAF sits under the United States Department of Energy, and its main goal is probing security risks at nuclear power plants and test sites. NCAF is the DOE’s equivalent to the Department of Defense’s various special operation teams and is similar to France's DGSE Action Division, which sometimes tests the security of France’s nuclear power plants.
The NCAF’s main mission is to probe for weaknesses in the US’s nuclear power infrastructure system. However, NCAF does not guard these facilities. Agents are sent to a site without the site knowing, and agents are given 3 days to devise a plan to compromise the security of the plant. (Source) After the mission is completed, evaluators from the DOE and Nuclear Energy Commission compile a report of the successes and failures of the plant. (Source)
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Delta Force aka the CAG or simply “the Unit” operators of C-Squadron during operation “Ghotic Serpent” the mission that would sadly turn into the Black Hawk Down event.
Today marks the 29th anniversary of that day where 18 U.S. soldiers were killed (of which six Delta operators) in action during the battle, and another 73 were wounded in action.
Over a 1000 Somalis were killed according to some sources.
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#Deltaforce #theunit #CAG #blackhawkdown #SMU #specialforces #battlenofMogadishu
Project 404: United States Air Force Advisory Mission and the CIA's Secret War in Laos
In 1966, the United States Air Force was tasked with providing the military forces of the Kingdom of Laos with covert air support through a series of clandestine operations in conjunction with the CIA. Perhaps the most famous air unit of the Vietnam War, the Raven Forward Air Controllers, were born out of this covert effort.
1. Why Does it Matter:
Numerous misconceptions, misnomers and misattributions are prevalent over the nature of Project 404. The US Air Force and CIA are partly to blame for this confusion. The project and operations changed codenames in a seemingly arbitrary fashion. The scope of the project ballooned and contracted year by year. The detailed specifics of operations are not well circulated or fully recorded. As such, this chapter of the US Air Force’s history is difficult to unpack and assess.
Nonetheless, this chapter is an excellent case study in the birth of modern counterinsurgency (COIN) air operations as we recognize them today.
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#AirAmerica #CIA #COIN #COINAircraft #Laos #MACVSOG #Ravens #SecretWar #USAF #vietnamwar
Another interesting Ukrainian pickup mounted multiple launch rocket system (MRLS) with a rudimentary Fire-control system.
We wrote earlier about the l3harris VAMPIRE system being delivered to Ukraine, however, they have not been spotted in the wild yet.
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Via @war_noir
#rocket #rocketlauncher #ukraine #technical #tactical
Ukrainian aligned Chechens running CQB drills. Interesting to see the AR platforms instead of AKs.
#ukraine #CQB #Tactical #tacticool #Chechnya
Coup d'Etat in Burkina Faso: A Situational Assessment
Summary:
Soldiers in Burkina Faso carried out a coup against the military government of Lt. Col. Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba on 30 September, 2022. Troops were observed along the main thoroughfares of Ouagadougou and inside key infrastructure points across the city. Army Captain Ibrahim Traore seized control of the capital and subsequently, armed men took to the country’s airwaves to read a statement declaring a suspension of the constitution and the overthrow of Damiba’s regime. The government is in the process of combating a brutal insurgency which presently controls large swathes of the country.
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#BurkinaFaso #Coup #Geopolitics #Intelligence #militarycoup #Russia #Security
Update: please the link in bio if you want learn more about the development of Chinese Exoskeletons. PLA video with soldiers and unmanned systems. It is interesting to see the evolution of the Chinese exoskeleton.
Wonder how many technologies you guys can see on this short clip.
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#robot #robotics #unmanned #UGV #exoskeleton
Breaking: Another day another coup in Burkina Faso. Captain Ibrahim Traoré is the new leader after dissolving the the government and constitution. The last government came to power through a coup.
Report incoming on the outlook for Burkina which is battling terrorism and vigilante violence.
#burkinafaso #coup #army
Episode 8: Corporate Intelligence, Global Risk and OSINT Tips with Gareth Westwood
In this episode of the Grey Dynamics Podcast, I spoke with Gareth Westwood. Garrett is an 11 year veteran of the intelligence community in the uk. He served in different roles in the military as well as in the foreign service. In the last two years, He spent his time building and running an internal global corporate intelligence team in a large pharmaceutical company as the head of Global Intelligence.
We Spoke about:
- Gareth’s career starting as Music teacher
- The intersection of complex musical composition and technical intelligence analysis
- The value of joining the military and foreign service
- Why it is crucial to focus on accuracy, brevity and clarity in your briefings to intelligence consumers
- Keeping lists and prioritisation to combat burnout as an intelligence analyst
- How the take over of Afghanistan was predicted but still shocking (Read
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