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We used to be known as the silent service during the Cold War, (we) never let anybody know where we were operating, in today’s submarine force, we operate extensively with the rest of the United States services and with our allies. So the adversary knows we can operate in international waters anywhere on the world. – Rear Adm. Jeff Jablon	Found on CNN 1 year ago
This is part of this government’s agenda to give the ADF the best possible capability, to give it greater ability to provide long-range strike and keep any potential adversary at bay, this is how we promote peace and stability by putting question marks in any potential adversary’s mind. – Pat Conroy	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The president has said we see China as the adversary it is. We are prepared to compete with the Chinese, and we are [prepared], when necessary, to confront the Chinese. And that’s what we’re doing. And that’s what we will continue to do to ensure that our national interests are always at the forefront. – Linda Thomas-Greenfield	Found on CNN 1 year ago
UAP events continue to occur in restricted or sensitive airspace, highlighting possible concerns for safety of flight or adversary collection activity, we continue to assess that this may result from a collection bias due to the number of active aircraft and sensors, combined with focused attention and guidance to report anomalies. – The Thursday	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Donald Trump was a difficult president to support in terms of trying to give Donald Trump the information Donald Trump needed while still protecting the way we collected it so that Donald Trump wouldn't accidentally or otherwise speak off-the-cuff and mention something that an adversary could use to track down where we had an agent. – Douglas London	Found on CNN 1 year ago
That's why I can be friends with Justice Clarence Thomas and still continue our daily battle over our differences of opinions in cases, you really can't begin to understand an adversary unless you step away from looking at their views as motivated in bad faith. – Sonia Sotomayor	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The NRA believes the NYAG's pursuit was fueled by her opposition to the Association and its First Amendment activities in support of the Second Amendment, there is an extraordinary public record that the NYAG, as a candidate, vowed to target the Association -- chilling evidence of her motivations toward a political adversary. – William Brewer III	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Opportunity thrives best in adversity. They are simultaneous, not adversary. – Goa Kerle	added by Goa_ 2 years ago
It's like raising the cost for the adversary... if I make it a little harder, they go on to the next victim. – Karen Evans	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The other side of (psyops) is that you can unintentionally cause your adversary to overreact. So, it’s the kind of thing that you have to be super accurate. And that requires a deep understanding of your adversary. – Rebekah Koffler	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
If an adversary has a specialized plane aloft, it can detect [ a satellite ] signal and home in on it, it isn't necessarily easy, but the Russians have a lot of practice on tracking various signal emitters in Syria and responding. Starlink may work for the moment, but anyone setting a [ Starlink ] dish up in Ukraine needs to consider it as a potential giant target. – Nicholas Weaver	Found on CNN 2 years ago
When the Russians fight a war, they fight as a ‘whole of nation’ and they attack the adversary as a ‘whole of nation,’ as well. – Rebekah Koffler	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Under the Washington Treaty, Article Five, an attack on one will be regarded as an attack on all, cyberattacks can trigger Article Five, but we have never gone into the position where we give a potential adversary the privilege of defining exactly when we trigger Article Five. – The NATO chief	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
We look at Russia as a pure adversary [now], i am very impressed and concerned with the development of Russia's electronic warfare capability. You know, the last 20 years, we were focused correctly, on cellphones, and terrorist networks and in trying to intercept and crack into those. – Ben Hodges	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Cyber is an ideal tool for Russia to use prior to an invasion, you can use( cyber operations) to be aggressive, to signal( intent) and potentially erode the influence of your adversary before bullets fly or without necessary escalating the situation to war. – John Hultquist	Found on CNN 2 years ago
This adversary has aggressively targeted organizations in the United States and elsewhere in defense, technology and other critical sectors, while we're still learning more about the impact of these attacks, we urge United States to quickly patch vulnerable systems and follow recommendations for determining whether United States've been compromised. – Ryan Olson	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The SolarWinds incident, I think, was really a turning point for our nation, we were able to expose a significant intrusion by a foreign adversary that was trying to do our nation harm. – Paul Nakasone	Found on CNN 2 years ago
We have an administration that does not know how to confront an adversary, understanding that they do not respect weakness, they only respect strength, and it is so greatly unfortunate, the consequences, and I believe that you, sir, should resign. That would be leadership. – Lee Zeldin	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
We should approach these questions without preconceptions to encourage a thorough, systematized analysis of the potential national security and flight safety risks posed by unidentified aerial phenomena, whether they are the result of a foreign adversary, atmospheric or other aerial phenomena, space debris, or something else entirely. – Adam Schiff	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
President Biden's bright, President Biden's tough, and I've found that President Biden is — as they say when I used to play ball — a worthy adversary. – President Biden	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
What we need is the right mix of technology, operational concepts and capabilities -- all woven together in a networked way that is so credible, flexible and formidable that it will give any adversary pause, we need to create advantages for us and dilemmas for them. – Lloyd Austin	Found on CNN 2 years ago
As the Navy Special Warfare community returns more and more to its maritime roots, their increased integration across the Fleet — above, under, and on the sea — will unequivocally enhance our unique maritime capabilities to help us compete and win against any adversary. – Mike Gilday	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
From a threat perspective, Russia is a significant adversary particularly with regard to cyber intrusions, malign influence, and sowing discord in our democracy, however, no country poses a broader, more severe intelligence collection threat to America than China. – Security Center Bill Evanina	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
This action ensures we have sufficient capability available to respond to any threat and to deter any adversary from acting against our troops during the force reduction. – Rebecca Rebarich	Found on Reuters 3 years ago

We used to be known as the silent service during the Cold War, (we) never let anybody know where we were operating, in today’s submarine force, we operate extensively with the rest of the United States services and with our allies. So the adversary knows we can operate in international waters anywhere on the world.

– Rear Adm. Jeff Jablon

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This is part of this government’s agenda to give the ADF the best possible capability, to give it greater ability to provide long-range strike and keep any potential adversary at bay, this is how we promote peace and stability by putting question marks in any potential adversary’s mind.

– Pat Conroy

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The president has said we see China as the adversary it is. We are prepared to compete with the Chinese, and we are [prepared], when necessary, to confront the Chinese. And that’s what we’re doing. And that’s what we will continue to do to ensure that our national interests are always at the forefront.

– Linda Thomas-Greenfield

Found on CNN
1 year ago

UAP events continue to occur in restricted or sensitive airspace, highlighting possible concerns for safety of flight or adversary collection activity, we continue to assess that this may result from a collection bias due to the number of active aircraft and sensors, combined with focused attention and guidance to report anomalies.

– The Thursday

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Donald Trump was a difficult president to support in terms of trying to give Donald Trump the information Donald Trump needed while still protecting the way we collected it so that Donald Trump wouldn't accidentally or otherwise speak off-the-cuff and mention something that an adversary could use to track down where we had an agent.

– Douglas London

Found on CNN
1 year ago

That's why I can be friends with Justice Clarence Thomas and still continue our daily battle over our differences of opinions in cases, you really can't begin to understand an adversary unless you step away from looking at their views as motivated in bad faith.

– Sonia Sotomayor

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The NRA believes the NYAG's pursuit was fueled by her opposition to the Association and its First Amendment activities in support of the Second Amendment, there is an extraordinary public record that the NYAG, as a candidate, vowed to target the Association -- chilling evidence of her motivations toward a political adversary.

– William Brewer III

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Opportunity thrives best in adversity. They are simultaneous, not adversary.

– Goa Kerle

added by Goa_
2 years ago

It's like raising the cost for the adversary... if I make it a little harder, they go on to the next victim.

– Karen Evans

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The other side of (psyops) is that you can unintentionally cause your adversary to overreact. So, it’s the kind of thing that you have to be super accurate. And that requires a deep understanding of your adversary.

– Rebekah Koffler

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

If an adversary has a specialized plane aloft, it can detect [ a satellite ] signal and home in on it, it isn't necessarily easy, but the Russians have a lot of practice on tracking various signal emitters in Syria and responding. Starlink may work for the moment, but anyone setting a [ Starlink ] dish up in Ukraine needs to consider it as a potential giant target.

– Nicholas Weaver

Found on CNN
2 years ago

When the Russians fight a war, they fight as a ‘whole of nation’ and they attack the adversary as a ‘whole of nation,’ as well.

– Rebekah Koffler

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Under the Washington Treaty, Article Five, an attack on one will be regarded as an attack on all, cyberattacks can trigger Article Five, but we have never gone into the position where we give a potential adversary the privilege of defining exactly when we trigger Article Five.

– The NATO chief

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We look at Russia as a pure adversary [now], i am very impressed and concerned with the development of Russia's electronic warfare capability. You know, the last 20 years, we were focused correctly, on cellphones, and terrorist networks and in trying to intercept and crack into those.

– Ben Hodges

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Cyber is an ideal tool for Russia to use prior to an invasion, you can use( cyber operations) to be aggressive, to signal( intent) and potentially erode the influence of your adversary before bullets fly or without necessary escalating the situation to war.

– John Hultquist

Found on CNN
2 years ago

This adversary has aggressively targeted organizations in the United States and elsewhere in defense, technology and other critical sectors, while we're still learning more about the impact of these attacks, we urge United States to quickly patch vulnerable systems and follow recommendations for determining whether United States've been compromised.

– Ryan Olson

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The SolarWinds incident, I think, was really a turning point for our nation, we were able to expose a significant intrusion by a foreign adversary that was trying to do our nation harm.

– Paul Nakasone

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We have an administration that does not know how to confront an adversary, understanding that they do not respect weakness, they only respect strength, and it is so greatly unfortunate, the consequences, and I believe that you, sir, should resign. That would be leadership.

– Lee Zeldin

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We should approach these questions without preconceptions to encourage a thorough, systematized analysis of the potential national security and flight safety risks posed by unidentified aerial phenomena, whether they are the result of a foreign adversary, atmospheric or other aerial phenomena, space debris, or something else entirely.

– Adam Schiff

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

President Biden's bright, President Biden's tough, and I've found that President Biden is — as they say when I used to play ball — a worthy adversary.

– President Biden

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

What we need is the right mix of technology, operational concepts and capabilities -- all woven together in a networked way that is so credible, flexible and formidable that it will give any adversary pause, we need to create advantages for us and dilemmas for them.

– Lloyd Austin

Found on CNN
2 years ago

As the Navy Special Warfare community returns more and more to its maritime roots, their increased integration across the Fleet — above, under, and on the sea — will unequivocally enhance our unique maritime capabilities to help us compete and win against any adversary.

– Mike Gilday

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

From a threat perspective, Russia is a significant adversary particularly with regard to cyber intrusions, malign influence, and sowing discord in our democracy, however, no country poses a broader, more severe intelligence collection threat to America than China.

– Security Center Bill Evanina

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

This action ensures we have sufficient capability available to respond to any threat and to deter any adversary from acting against our troops during the force reduction.

– Rebecca Rebarich

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

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