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Jul 21 14 tweets 10 min read
Helping #Somalia-"We get it by, with & through" partnerships, LtGen Michael Langley, nominated to lead @USAfricaCommand, tells SASC

"It's the best thing that will thwart the great power competition that's coming w/these false value propositions" from #Russia, #China
US working w/#Africa|n countries to help them establish maritime exclusion zones - "That's going to be the biggest deterrent, or assurance actions... that's going to deter #China from trying to take over the West Coast of the African continent" per LtGen Langley
"#AFRICOM needs more resources, not less" per SASC Ranking Member @JimInhofe, saying he's heard rumors support to @USAfricaCommand is going to be downgraded
Terrorism in #Africa, especially in #Sahel, #LakeChad Basin "is more of a problem today" per LtGen Langley, nominated to lead @USAfricaCommand
"We have to address this & we have to train to those standards of combatting a violent extremism organization"

#alShabaab #ISIS #AQ
Involvement of #Russia's #Wagner Group in Africa, "It just brings on fragility" per LtGen Langley

"We are still the partner of choice" in Africa, he adds "If confirmed we will reengage & reset" in West Africa
Countering terrorism threats from #Afghanistan - "That is a challenge, that is harder, but it is absolutely doable" w/"over-the-horizon" strategy, LtGen Bryan Fenton, nominated to lead @USSOCOM, tells SASC
"Absolutely we have to keep the pressure on" #ISIS #alQaida & other terror groups in #Afghanistan, per LtGen Fenton

"And do it through all the means we have available"
Information Warfare-"Information operations is a domain we absolutely need to be a part of...key terrain" per LtGen Fenton

"The speed of relevance continues to be a challenge, getting it in a timely manner to the proper audiences..."
"Our adversaries are putting out a malign, disinformation" per LtGen Langley "They do it at the speed of relevance"

Says US is looking at how to speed up its efforts to counter the #disinformation by adversaries
Special Ops lessons - #Russia-#Ukraine

Early training for #Ukrainian forces "now being seen in the asymmetric,atypical way Ukraine is blunting the Russian invasion" per LtGen Fenton

Galvanizing of @NATO "shows an aggressor what the int'l rules-based order will not tolerate"
#China military base in #Djibouti-"They have it there bcs probably in the future they want to have the ability to affect free flow of commerce" via #BabElMandeb Strait, per AFRICOM-nominee LtGen Langley

"That's a strategic chokepoint...that we need to be really concerned about"
#Wagner Group, those like it are "proxies of the #Russia|ns" per LtGen Fenton

"They spread Russian aggression. They are ill-disciplined...As the Russians, they are acute threats" he says "Vicious & brutal"
"The #Wagner Group, the exacerbate instability" per LtgGen Langley "That just spells trouble for the overall stability across the [#Africa|n] continent"
"#alShabaab has increased capacity" per LtGen Langley, nominated to lead @USAfricaCommand

"They have aspirations for external operations, transnational operations" he says "If confirmed I will need more ISR. ISR is an active deterrent..to keep alShabaab from metastasizing more"

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Jul 22
NEW: #Ukraine unleashing "very precise, very accurate" targeting of #Russia , per senior defense official

"They're paying a high price" official says of #Russia, saying its forces suffering "low morale"
On the new $170 million drawdown/aid package -"The capabilities in this package are going to be useful on the battlefield immediately" per senior US defense official

That include the #Himars, more artillery ammo
580 #PhoenixGhost drones that will be procured - "steady deliveries" will begin in August, per senior US defense official
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Jul 22
NEW: #Ukraine-"It was the assessment of the American intelligence community...#Russia would be significantly more capable & significantly more successful on the battlefield" White House Nat'l Security Adviser @JakeSullivan46 tells #AspenSecurity
"In fact, #Russia was not able to acheive the basic strategic objectives that Pres. #Putin set out" per @JakeSullivan46

#Ukraine "won the battle of #Kyiv, they beat Russia back from #Kharkiv, they stopped Russia from being able to make a bum's rush to #Odesa"
"Now we're in a circumstance where #Russia is facing significant difficulties constituting th kind of force necessary for them to achieve the objectives which have not fundamentally changed" per @JakeSullivan46
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Jul 22
BREAKING: US announces new, $270 million security package for #Ukraine, per @WHNSC's John Kirby

Includes 4 more #HIMARS "which the #Ukrainians have been using very effectively", 36k rounds of artillery ammo, some anti-armor systems

Also includes 580 #PhoenixGhost drones
"We'll have more packages of aid [for #Ukraine] to announce in the weeks and months to come" per @WHNSC's John Kirby
White House praises grain deal signed Friday but cautions "success of course is going to depend on #Russia's compliance w/the agreement" per @WHNSC's John Kirby
Read 6 tweets
Jul 22
"We used to always talk about super powers & I think we now live in a world where we need to talk about cyber powers" @Microsoft President & Vice Chair @BradSmi tells #AspenSecurity

"2 of the great #cyber powers in the world are #Russia & #China..."
"The United States is the strongest #cyber power of all" per @Microsoft's @BradSmi

"But what we're fundamentally seeing is #Ukraine in particular is Russia use its very sophisticated cyber capabilities to do 3 things..."
"One is support an invasion, including w/destructive cyber attacks" per @Microsoft's @BradSmi

"The 2nd is do what the #Russian gvt does year-in, year-out, which is very broad-based espionage & hacking, both of gvt & pvt sector"
Read 10 tweets
Jul 22
#Drone threat to the US - "We [US] have to think abt whether or not humans will remain in the kill chain bcs some of our adversaries have decided they will not & that the targeting will be done much quicker" House Intel Comm.'s @RepJasonCrow tells #AspenSecurity
Threat to US from drones-"How do we stop those drones before they ever launch?" asks @USSOCOM Commander Gen. Richard Clarke tells #AspenSecurity

"The cost for entry...is very very low" he says, adding there also needs to be discussion of norms for use of drones
#Chemcial-#Biological threat to US significant, even from non-state actors - "It's pretty simple to do" per @USSOCOM's Gen Clarke
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Jul 21
"#Iran is threatening the other countries as much as it is threatening the State of #Israel" Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz tells #AspenSecurity

"Iran is a global challenge. You can see it in #Venezeula. You can see it in South #Africa, in South America... #Nigeria"
#Israel-#Ukraine - "Israel is definitely on the Western side. Israel is definitely on the #Ukrainian side" per DefMin Gantz

"We are supporting it in all the diplomatic measures. We are supporting it w/all the humanitarian aid...We have opened a field hospital"
Why not more for #Ukraine? "We do have our operational considerations" per #Israel's Gantz

"We are sharing an aerial border w/the #Russia|ns above #Syria ... so we have other calculus that we have to take into mind"
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