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Version 3.520. September 2005, 22. September 2005
09/21/2005
Russia Scraps Old Topol ICBM Launchers
The Russian Defense Ministry said yesterday it has completed
destruction of aging
Topol missile launchers at its Pibanshur scrapping base in the
Udmurt Republic, ITAR-Tass reported.
“The elimination, which began 5 September in keeping with the
procedures envisaged by the START treaty, was carried out under the
control of a U.S. inspection group. Nine Topol launchers at the end
of their useful life were eliminated during this period,” the
Defense Ministry said. “In all, 18 Topol launchers have been
eliminated since the start of the year.”
09/21/2005
ConPlan 0400
By: William Arkin, Defensetech
Today, somewhere in the DC metropolitan area, the military is
conducting a... Top Secret and compartmented [exercise of] the
military's extra-legal [response to] weapons of mass destruction,"
writes William Arkin, on his extremely awesome new blog, Early
Warning. "It allows for emergency military operations in the United
States without civilian supervision or control."
A spokesman at the Joint Force Headquarters-National Capital Region
(JFHQ-NCR) confirmed the existence of Granite Shadow to me
yesterday, but all he would say is that Granite Shadow is the
unclassified name for a classified plan.
That classified plan, I believe, after extensive research and after
making a couple of assumptions, is CONPLAN 0400, formally titled
Counter-Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction. [It's] a
long-standing contingency plan of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs
of Staff (CJCS) that... lays out national policy and priorities for
dealing with WMD threats in peacetime and crisis -- from far away
offensive strikes and special operations against foreign WMD
infrastructure and capabilities, to missile defenses and
"consequence management" at home if offensive efforts fail...
U.S. Northern Command (NORTHCOM), the military's new homeland
security command, is preparing its draft version of CONPLAN 0400
for military operations in the United States, and the resulting
Granite Shadow plan... include[s] deployment of "special mission
units" (the so-called Delta Force, SEAL teams, Rangers, and other
special units of Joint Special Operations Command) in Washington,
DC and other domestic hot spots...
Further, Granite Shadow posits domestic military operations,
including intelligence collection and surveillance, unique rules of
engagement regarding the use of lethal force, the use of
experimental non-lethal weapons, and federal and military control
of incident locations that are highly controversial and might
border on the illegal.
09/21/2005
DOD’s reporting on the costs of Global War on Terrorism
Unknown
GAO: GLOBAL WAR ON TERRORISM:
DOD Needs to Improve the Reliability of Cost Data and Provide
Additional Guidance to Control Costs
http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-05-882 .
Following the terrorists attacks of September 11, 2001, the United
States began military operations to combat terrorism both in the
United States and overseas. Military operations to defend the
United States against further attacks are known as Operation Noble
Eagle. Ongoing military operations in Afghanistan and Iraq are
known as Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom,
respectively. Together, these three military operations are
identified as the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT). Since the
attacks, the Department of Defense (DOD) reports that it has
obligated $191 billion through May 2005 for conducting the war.
Congress has enacted a series of supplemental appropriation acts to
fund the war beginning in September 2001.
GAO found numerous problems in DOD’s processes for recording
and reporting costs for GWOT, raising significant concerns about
the overall reliability of DOD’s reported cost data. As a
result, neither DOD nor Congress can reliably know how much the war
is costing and details on how appropriated funds are being
spent.
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