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Lt. Cmdr. Edward C. Lin
Investigators with the Navy have submitted their preliminary report and recommendation for prosecution on accusations that a U.S. Navy officer passed secrets to China and Taiwan, service officials told USNI News on Wednesday. Read More
Gen. Lori Robinson. US Air Force Photo
North Korean Infantry parade in Pyongyang. Korean Central News Agency Photo
North Korea is “moving in the wrong direction” with its escalating approach to crisis on the peninsula and in the region while voicing threats of nuclear attack on the United States and its allies and partners, the Army four-star general nominated to take command of U.S. forces in Korea told the Senate Armed Services Committee on Tuesday. Read More
Lt. Cmdr. Edward Lin
The sensitivity of the classified information accused spy Lt. Cmdr. Edward Chieh-Liang Lin passed to China and Taiwan could make the case difficult to prosecute by military litigators and could lead to a plea deal on lesser charges, two former military lawyers told USNI News. Read More
The following is the March 30, 2016 Congressional Resarch Service report, A Shift in the International Security Environment: Potential Implications for Defense—Issues for Congress. Read More
Then-Lt. Edward C. Lin
The investigation into a naval flight officer suspected of giving secrets to China and Taiwan triggered a potential national security incident alert to senior leadership in the Navy and Pentagon, two Navy officials confirmed to USNI News late Tuesday. Read More
Adm. Michael Rogers before the Senate Armed Services Committee on April 5, 2016. CSPAN Photo
The Senate Armed Services Committee’s version of the defense authorization bill will call for making U.S. Cyber Command a functional combatant command and also recommend consolidating some geographic commands, the panel’s chairman and ranking member said Tuesday. Read More
Vice Adm. Jan Tighe, commander of U.S. Fleet Cyber Command/U.S. Tenth Fleet in 2015. US Navy Photo
The Pentagon is set to nominate the head of the Navy’s operational cyber arm to lead the service’s intelligence community, a person familiar with the nomination process told USNI News on Friday. Read More
U.S. Capitol on July 31, 2015, NASA Photo
Unlike Russia and China, the United States needs “to be in three places at once”—a rationale that lies behind some of the thinking on Capitol Hill that goes into building the thousand-page U.S. defense bill each year. Read More
Vice Chief of Naval Operations (VCNO) Adm. Michelle Howard speaks to students and faculty at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College (CGSC) in 2015. US Army Photo
What it came down to for senior service leaders in a Senate Armed Services Readiness and Management Support subcommittee hearing was having more missions than money, and what resources had to be moved around to pay for current operations. Read More
