What about US-China relations?
‘Now there is a two sided military competition underway – it’s limited and constrained compared for example to the Cold war military competition between the Soviet Union and America, but its underway and its serious and its accelerating….’ There are those that choose to argue that ‘terrorists’ and the ‘axis of evil’ [...]

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Is Israel, supported by the Bush Administration, preparing to launch an atomic war against Iran? On January 7, the London Sunday Times claimed that the Israeli government is planning to attack Iran’s uranium enrichment facilities with tactical nuclear weapons. While the Israeli government denies the story, recent statements by top Israeli officials and military figures [...]

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But is anti-American sentiment as rampant as it seems? In their new edited volume, “Anti-Americanisms in World Politics” (Cornell University Press), international relations scholars Peter Katzenstein and Robert Keohane bring together a distinguished group of social scientists to consider how much anti-Americanism there is, and whether, in fact, anti-Americanism is any one thing at all.
The [...]

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The second Holocaust will be quite different. One bright morning, in five or ten years’ time, perhaps during a regional crisis, perhaps out of the blue, a day or a year or five years after Iran’s acquisition of the Bomb, the mullahs in Qom will covoke in secret session, under a portrait of the steely-eyed [...]

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While the president’s announcement that an additional 20,000 troops would be sent to Iraq dominated the headlines last week, the real story was the president’s sharp rhetoric towards Iran and Syria. And recent moves by the administration only serve to confirm the likelihood of a wider conflict in the Middle East.
The president stated last week [...]

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The solid-fuel booster is designed to carry a missile at supersonic speed and be on target within 15 minutes of launch.
The SLIRBM is projected for the Ohio-class submarine as a surprise-attack asset that can hit targets virtually anywhere in the world. The proposed system would be able to deliver conventional and nuclear payloads and [...]

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Russia sees its relations with Iran as leverage to influence diplomacy in the wider Middle East, where the U.S. has successfully sought to exclude the Kremlin since the end of the Cold War. Russia’s other self-interest has been to exempt from sanctions the Bushehr nuclear reactor that it is building for Iran (to be in [...]

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While US political leaders and citizens are concentrating their attention on Iraq, the Chinese appear to have embarked on a long-range plan intended to challenge the US for military superiority in Asia.
China’s latest white paper on defense asserts: “To build a powerful and fortified national defense is a strategic task of China’s modernization drive.” [...]

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