Background The United States faces an array of threats to our national security that is nearly unprecedented in its breadth and pace of change. Great power competition from Russia and China, which are both rapidly advancing next-generation warfighting capabilities to leapfrog our legacy systems, presents a dual threat unseen since the military surge of Axis Powers in the 1930s. At the same time, the threat of transnational terrorism that has been the focus of the Department of Defense for the last two decades persists, exacerbated by levels of migration unseen since World War II, the organizing power of social media,…
Author: John Greenewald
Background This Memorandum examines the degree to which chemical warfare (CW) in the Iran-Iraq conflict has been effective and discusses the factors driving decisions to develop and use chemical weapons. Document Archive Impact and Implications of Chemical Weapons Use in the Iran-Iraq War, April 1988 [27 Pages, 16MB] – This document is highlighted where new information was released from my MDR request. The previous release was in 2010. The Black Vault’s release below was in March 2020.
Background The following is a slide presentation made by Michael Melich for the Dec. 12, 2006 DTRA/ASCO High Energy Science and Technology Workshop in Ft. Belvoir Virqinia. Document Archive Is Transmutation Nuclear “Molecular” Physics, 12 December 2006 High Energy Workshop Slides [52 Pages, 2.5MB]
Background The following document is the House of Representatives, Committee on Armed Services, Summary of Progress of Specific Studies and Investigations for March of 2020. This document reveals that on March 11th, 2020, the full Committee received a classified briefing on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena or UAPs, specifically, it was to the Future of Defense Task Force, as confirmed by a House spokesperson. On November 3, 2020, The Black Vault also confirmed that the U.S. Navy was responsible for giving the briefing to the House Armed Services Committee. Also on November 3, 2020, The Black Vault received the following statement from…
Background Operation Vulgar Betrayal was a counterterrorism probe, allegedly targeting Middle Eastern terrorist funds used to finance attacks on U.S. soil. The program also targeted those on U.S. soil planning such attacks. It was an operation through the late 1990s and possibly into the early 2000s. FBI Agent Robert Wright was the case agent of Operation Vulgar Betrayal, who has spoken out extensively about the cancellation of the program, and the fact the FBI did not adequately pursue the many known U.S.-based Middle Eastern terrorists and their financial supporters identified via Vulgar Betrayal. Below, I have archived thousands of pages…