The Wire - June 21, 2024

this is the wire for 2330 Zulu June 21st 2024 president's routine information cut off is 2230 bottom line of front houie targeting continues to adapt in Red Sea DOD fails to account for funding sent to Chinese Laboratories researching pathogens beginning with international events in the Middle East growing concern has been expressed by various world powers regarding the increasing potential for an Israeli invasion of Lebanon analyst comment while the Israeli military claims that the military and logistical preparations have been completed for a military operation within Lebanon a political decision as to such has not yet been released to the public in the Red Sea Horn of Africa region following the successful strike on the merchant vessel tutor houi forces have increased attempts to Target commercial shipping via unmanned watercraft over the past few days sycom has claimed to have destroyed several such unmanned surface vehicles or usvs though it is not clear as to if this targeting was successful or if it was conducted as an immediate defense against operationally deployed craft analyst comment of note the strike carried out on the tutor did not involve the more advanced Weaponry known to be within the houthi order of battle the houthis have at least several different variants of USV purpose-built for attacking commercial shipping however the first successful use of a USV by the houthis during this conflict was via the conversion of a standard fishing skiff complete with the deception tactic of using mannequins by which to close with the intended target undetected this may pose a unique unque challenge for American forces who may not easily discern such usvs from legitimate fishing vessels whereas the dedicated usvs are very easily identifiable military targets even from a considerable distance on the home front in the United States car dealerships around North America continue to suffer the Widing impacts of a Cyber attack that occurred a few days ago cdk Global the provider of the software used by most car dealerships to manage inventory conduct sales Etc was rendered ineffective by a ransomware Cyber attack which resulted in the company taking most of their systems offline in Washington DC the Department of Defense office of Inspector General publicly released their report dated June 18th regarding the limitations of DOD systems to track the funding allocated by the dod to Chinese Research Laboratories conducting research on quote pathogens of pandemic potential analyst comments for this wire it is not clear as to if the Pentagon failing to provide funding data for how much taxed Revenue was sent to Chinese research Labs was done out of malice incompetence or both but the end result is a lack of surprise on the part of the American taxpayer in any case this concludes the wire for 2330 Zulu June 21st 2024