This OE Watch contains 20 foreign article reviews spanning over 30 different regions and countries covering Operational Environment topics from the foreign perspective for the US Army leader, development, training and education community, as well as others in governmental, analytic, and academic communities.
This issue can be downloaded at FMSO’s website: https://community.apan.org/wg/tradoc-g2/fmso/
This particular issue can be downloaded directly at: https://community.apan.org/wg/tradoc-g2/fmso/m/oe-watch-past-issues/395287/download
Its Table of Contents is here:
CHINA
3 China Reports on New Anti-Communication System Missile in the Event of Taiwan Conflict
4 China: Central Military Commission Publication Examines Battlefield Victory Through Cognition
6 UAV Used to Provide Communication Services to Flood-Stricken Areas of Central China
7 China Promoting Peacekeeping Agenda to Improve Image
8 India’s Scrutiny of Chinese Actions
RUSSIA
10 Russia’s Lessons Learned from Syria: Reinforced Companies
12 Details of Russia’s Palantin Electronic Warfare System
15 Recent Russian Conscript Shares His Largely Negative Experience
16 Russia Digitizing the Military Commissariat
17 Experts Question Whether Robots and Mercenaries Can Fill Russian Military’s Manpower Needs
IRAN
18 Iran, Russia, and China Planning Joint Naval Drill in the Persian Gulf
20 IRGC and Defense Ministry to Cooperate on Enhancing Iran’s Missile Power
TERRORISM AND TRANSNATIONAL CRIME
22 Violent Non-State Actors in Africa Increasing Their Use of Drones
23 Syria’s Hayat Tahrir al-Sham Seeks to Use Taliban’s Success
25 Turkish Expert Warns of ISIS-Khorasan Terror Threat
26 Israel Claims Iran Training Terrorists to Operate Drones at Kashan Airbase
GLOBAL OE
27 Armenia’s Military Reforms after the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh War
28 Pakistan Providing Border Security Assistance to Azerbaijan
29 Rising Hostility Between Algeria and Morocco
31 Algeria Concerned with Mounting Insecurity in Mali and Niger amid France’s Withdrawal from the Sahel
33 India Puts a Priority on Countering UAVs
For more information on this product, please contact:
Mr. Paul (Kent) Baumann (paul.k.baumann2.civ@army.mil); Foreign Military Studies Office, Fort Leavenworth, KS