With the foreign policies of both the EU and the U.S. directed at Russia as the “new military threat”, the market for weaponry has never been so huge and profitable. Over 33 countries, and Ukraine will be included in the total numbers, want upgrades to their Raytheon Patriot air defense systems or will purchase new state of the art air-defense missile systems.

Flash News GMCStream 5-1-22 NGA’s AI in Ukraine. The “National Geospatial Agency (NGA) will take over Project Maven, the Pentagon’s key artificial intelligence program designed to identify individual objects out of a massive amount of surveillance data.The NGA is commonly understood as the intelligence agency in charge of processing and analyzing satellite imagery, but it also leads the intelligence community’s efforts to map the Earth and process other types of overhead imagery.

Background on “Atlantic Resolve” (2014-2023)

On December 9, 2015 Lieutenant General Ben Hodges, commander, U.S. Army Europe, spoke to an audience that “We have 30,000 American soldiers -- U.S. Army -- that are U.S. Army Europe. And so we work as part of U.S. European Command. We're the land component under U.S. European Command.

 -likely to mount a protest of the award in September 2015

Oshkosh Corporation of Oshkosh Wisconsin, historically a minor player in the U. S. Defense Procurement Industry, gained the $6.75 billion contract to build 16,901 Humvees.  “All told, the Army-led program will provide 49,100 vehicles for the Army and

(GAO) Government Accountability Office contract watchdog now reviewing $6.75 billion dollar contract award.

On September 8, 2015, Lockheed Martin filed an official protest against the U.S. Defense Department’s award of

-The “pitch forks” come out again for the annual “Potomac two-step”

This article in the latest Legislative Insights Series for 2015, and takes a brief review of the Budget Control Act of 2011, Sequestration. National Defense Authorization Act, and the Overseas Contingency Operations OCO (or supplemental war fund).

to mobilize within US Cities.

U.S. Department of Defense has spent millions of budget dollars on the classified “Operation Jade Helm 15.”  The speculation from civil liberty groups is that the Operation known as Jade Helm is designed to nullify the second amendment rights of gun-owners across the U.S.

On December 15, 2011, all U.S. troops left Iraq. In 2015, the U.S. Pentagon will open a new base in Iraq’s Anbar Province, an Islamic State stronghold, with 450 American troops from the 82^nd Airborne and Special Operations. Currently, the U.S. has a typical U.S. Army brigade in Iraq or 3,550 — the size of a typical Army brigade.

After senior U.S. Military leaders and U.S. secretaries (Gen Philip M. Breedlove, General (Marine) Joe Dunford, General Mark Milley, General Ray Odinerno, General Paul Selva, Defense Secretary Ashton Carter, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, Senator John McCain), visited Kiev this year or discussed Ukraine in Senate Hearings chaired by Senator John McCain, new military equipment is flowing into the Ukraine Military.