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Why a decades-old border dispute just sparked tank battles and airstrikes and has Russia and a NATO member picking sides
Fighting between Armenia and Azerbaijan entered its third day Tuesday around Nagorno-Karabakh, a territory the two countries have long disputed, but this clash is the most intense in decades and could draw in the region's major powers.
The clashes have largely been along the line of contact, an unofficial border between Azerbaijan and Nagorno-Karabakh (known as Artsakh to Armenians), which lies within Azerbaijan but has been controlled by ethnic Armenian forces, backed by Armenia's government, since 1994.
Within hours, Armenia and Azerbaijan published videos of tank battles and airstrikes as well as frontline combat and its aftermath.
Both sides have made grand claims of enemy casualties. Azerbaijan claimed it killed 500 Armenian soldiers, while Armenian sources claimed to have killed over 200 Azeri troops. Armenia also said it destroyed 33 tanks and infantry fighting vehicles, four helicopters, and 27 drone aircraft.
https://www.businessinsider.com/armenia-azerbaijan-fight-over-nagorno-karabakh-may-draw-russia-turkey-2020-9
Army Cyber Command is ‘evolving’ beyond cyber operations
Army Cyber Command is expanding its mission to include more than just traditional cyber operations, its commanding officer said Tuesday.
Cyber operators within the command will take on additional duties in “information advantage” and “decision dominance,” to include helping kinetic operations extend their impact, collecting information that helps feed battlefield decisions and working to influence adversaries, Lt. Gen. Stephen Fogarty, Army Cyber Command’s leader, said during an Association of Old Crows webinar.
The evolution is part of a journey the command has been on spanning its decade of existence, including previous ideas to change its name to reflect its added emphasis on information operations. Fogarty added that the command will continue to evolve from simply defending DOD networks and improving the service’s cybersecurity to meet the changing electronic environment.
“Over the course of a year … we started to understand the problem is much greater than cyber,” Fogarty said.
He said the new direction for the command is “pre-decisional” and that the details of what exactly “information advantage” and “decision dominance” mean are still being worked out. The command recently published a redesign of its force to prepare for “information warfare.” The pivot to combating foreign influence operations and launching its own appear to be a part of the concept of information advantage the general outlined Tuesday.
Fogarty said the most immediate impact is the command’s new work will extend beyond the traditional boundaries of disrupting radio frequency signals, cybersecurity and working purely in an electronic environment.
https://www.fedscoop.com/army-cyber-command-mission-cyber-information-advantage/
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JPMorgan Chase to pay $920M for illegally manipulating bond, metals markets
NEW YORK — JPMorgan Chase admitted Tuesday to manipulating the markets for precious metals and U.S. Treasuries, agreeing to pay $920 million in fines and penalties for the illegal behavior.
U.S. financial regulators and the Department of Justice said traders at JPMorgan used a tactic known as “spoofing” over an eight-year period. Spoofing is when traders send trading signals into a market, with no intention of buying or selling at those prices, in order to move a market in one direction or another.
In the case of the U.S. Treasury market, the Securities and Exchange Commission said JPMorgan traders submitted both trades they intended to act upon as well as spoof trades. The goal was to use the spoof to nudge the market in a certain direction, and then activate the intended trade to profit from the move.
“J.P. Morgan Securities undermined the integrity of our markets with this scheme,” said Stephanie Avakian, director of the SEC’s Division of Enforcement, in a prepared statement. “Their manipulative trading of Treasury cash securities created a false appearance of activity in the market and induced other market participants to trade at more favorable prices than J.P. Morgan Securities would have otherwise been able to obtain.”
https://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-jpmorgan-chase-precious-metals-fines-20200929-jrzrc3wbhfffzclhxvnzmabwb4-story.html
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