Retired Army Colonel John Mills
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first heard Nov 2024
last heard Mar 2025
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kritisch für die Infrastruktur weltweit, aber die berühmte Schadenserscheinung zu Subsea-Kabeln nahe Taiwan, was machst du damit?
Are they trying to, I guess what I'm saying, are they trying to send a message or are they testing? Are they looking for response, the extent of potential damage and disruption? I mean, because it would seem odd if they're just doing this as a slow build up to a quarantine.
It's not the first incident either, I mean, of this, and the same methodology used to damage these cables.
Well, I tell you what, I don't know that we've solved any problems here today, John, but I think we've certainly highlighted a number of problems. And like I said, I think 2025 is going to present us with a number of opportunities to have these conversations, because I don't think things are going to suddenly turn calm and peaceful.
Colonel John Mills, as always, thank you very much for your insight, for your willingness to join us here on The Situation Report, and I hope to see you again very soon. Oh, absolut, Mike. Vielen Dank. Auf Wiederhören. Nun, das ist alles, was wir für den BDB Situation Report haben.
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Ich bin Mike Baker und bis zum nächsten Mal, well, you do know the drill, stay informed, stay safe, stay cool.
Well, Mike, I actually happen to have worked this issue for a number of years. I read press releases very closely because I've done a number of press releases in my career. And you have to read every single word because there's so much legal nuance built into those press releases. But And also on metrics, three data points mean a trend line. We now have three data points.
Hampton Roads, Newport News, Virginia Beach in December of 23. Earlier in November, Picatinny Arsenal up in New Jersey. Now we have the UK bases. Now, in the press release, what got my attention... was they used the term that the drones flew over the three UK facilities, which I think was Mildenhall.
I think it was Lake and Heath Mill, Lake Hall and one other, Feltwell, which is a kind of logistics space. I'm not sure that even has a runway, but they flew over the fence line. This is extremely important because in New Jersey and then the 17 nights in December 23, I don't believe they actually ever crossed a DOD or US government fence line.
Very important, especially in the American airspace environment, because it's all about roles and missions between the different departments and agencies. And what I worry about, I believe this was a state actor, is China is not just ripping off our classified stuff. They actually read our laws, policies, and regulations closer than we do and analyze them better than we do.
Now, the running joke on the inside was, well, if they do that, we'll just rip it off through our signals intelligence and then we'll read it and we'll understand it too once they do their analysis. But they understand the gaps and seam lines and who's doing what in the domestic airspace. In the UK, they said they actually flew over the facilities. Not apparently.
Now, in the Virginia Beach area, you got a US government facility you may be familiar with way in the upper left. And then you have Cheetahmanics, then you have Yorktown Naval Weapons Station, then you got Langley, you got all the way down to Damnack Annex, where we have a very sensitive special operations facility. I don't believe they flew for 17 days.
I don't believe they actually flew over a DoD or U.S. government facility, but they were testing us.
Well, without revealing the classified information, there is a smattering of facilities that have approvals to engage through various methods. Okay, and I'll just leave it at that. It can't be a smattering. It has to be pervasive. So, there are a handful. Now, there's four. I think it was the Congressional Research Service did a great piece.
Look up CRS's report on domestic airspace and countering drones. There's four U.S. government agencies that have authority. First is Department of Energy, but it's at very specific locations like the Nevada test site, okay? Then you have the Department of Defense, which has mature procedures and capabilities at a very small number of facilities, okay? And I'm not going to say which ones.
Then you have Department of Justice slash DHS that have legal authorities over special situations, such as the airspace over the White House, which is actually the one airspace sector that is not managed by the FAA, but managed by Secret Service, obviously. But you have national sensitive security events, which are declared such as the State of the Union, the Super Bowl.
And that's where FBI that has a very robust counter drone. But again, they have to be... We don't have a pervasive agreed upon... And this is the domestic airspace. This is not a forward operating base in Iraq or Syria where we set up the Centurion system, which is the Army version of the Navy Gatling gun. That thing works. That thing works awesome.
Yeah, I mean, it works great, but firing 20 millimeter rounds over desert space to zap an incoming mortar round or a small drone or a big drone, no problem. Firing a stream of 20 millimeter rounds over residential area, that's a really bad idea. Okay. That is not going to end well.
So we have to develop a protocol for alerting, alerting, and not just that the government agency is responsible, but also the local civilian population. We might have to bring back the old air raid sirens that used to go off at 12 o'clock noon Wednesday during the Cold War.
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