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The US Army is the world’s most powerful conventional force and had extensive military means at its disposal, from M1 Abrams tanks to Apache helicopters and Gray Eagle reconnaissance drones, as well as a million soldiers.

UNITED STATES 08/02/2007

Special Operations Man at Commerce Department 

The White House has just named an American special forces [...]

Spotlight UNITED STATES 11/01/2007

Cut-Throat Competition on Translation Market 

To make up for a shortage of linguists, the American military intelligence agencies are devoting huge sums to recruiting translators and interpreters in the private sector, and those contracts represent not only a financial bonanza for the Pentagon's sub-contractors but [. [...]

UNITED STATES 21/12/2006

Translation a Rich Niche Market 

Dyncorp and McNeil have won a long battle with L3 to land a huge, $4.6 billion contract to provide translation for the American army in Iraq. [...]

UNITED STATES 21/12/2006

SOS the Army's Private Analyst 

A former translation company, SOS International has managed in less than a year to become one of the key subcontractors to the U.S. army in analyzing information. [...]

UNITED STATES 07/12/2006

A Touch of Suspicion Between Friends 

The French army’s liaison officers in the United States have been suspected by Washington of working on behalf of French defense groups. [...]

UNITED STATES 23/11/2006

Clearing House for Arab Intelligence 

Suffering from a chronic shortage of Arabic-speakers, the Pentagon is depending on private sub-contractors to analyze information gleaned in the Middle East. [...]

UNITED STATES 02/11/2006

James Clapper 

Less than six months after stepping down as chief of [...]

Spotlight UNITED STATES 07/09/2006

The Coming Open Sources Revolution 

When he began his campaign 18 years ago to promote the structured use of open sources by intelligence agencies, the former Marine Corp officer and ex-CIA operative Robert Steele was considered a dreamer at best and a dangerous troublemaker at [. [...]

UNITED STATES 20/07/2006

Pentagon Puts its Money on Electronic Interpretation  Free

The U.S. Army is presently testing the prototype of an electronic interpreter in Iraq and financing major automatic translation programs. [...]

FRANCE 20/07/2006

Paris- Musical Chairs at EADS? 

Officially, Louis Gallois and Thomas Enders, the two co-chairman of [...]

UNITED STATES 06/07/2006

UAV Traffic Jam? 

There are so many unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and helicopters operated by the U.S. Army's Brigade Combat Teams deploying the [...]

UNITED STATES 20/04/2006

Bankers for the Defense Market 

Giuliani Capital Advisors, a financial services company headed by the former New York mayor, has hired two bankers specializing in the defense and security branches. [...]

UNITED STATES 06/04/2006

Darrell Issa 

One of the rare Americans of Arab origin to be [...]

UNITED STATES 23/03/2006

Washington Forms World Network 

The U.S. has launched a new training program in order to form a world-wide network of special forces. [...]

IRAQ 09/02/2006

US Woos Sunni Insurgents 

For some weeks now the U.S. ambassador to Iraq, Zalmay Khalilzad, and the deputy director for planning and strategy at [...]

UNITED STATES 09/02/2006

GlobalOptions Buys Out SafirRosetti 

Founded in 2001 by the former New York police commissioner Howard Safir and the ex-vice chairman of Kroll, Joseph Rosetti, [...]

UNITED STATES 26/01/2006

Blimps an Alternative to UAVs? 

Blimps are coming into wider use in civil and military surveillance operations because they are cheap and easy to carry around. [...]

UNITED STATES 12/01/2006

U.S. Army in Blog Business 

The American army has signed a contract with a small Detroit public relations company, Haas MS&L, that specializes in publishing [...]

Spotlight UNITED STATES SYRIA 22/12/2005

Back-Door Diplomacy Starts the Ball Rolling 

The American administration and the Syrian government have been relying in recent weeks on back-door diplomacy deployed by powerful political and financial networks to help them negotiate an agreement on Iraq that bypasses the crisis over the assassination of former [. [...]

TURKEY 22/12/2005

Thaw with Washington 

Visits by FBI director Robert Mueller and CIA chief Porter Goss to Turkey in the space of 48 hours this [...]