ONE of Britain’s most senior military strategists has warned that western civilisation faces a threat on a par with the barbarian invasions that destroyed the Roman empire.
In an apocalyptic vision of security dangers, Rear Admiral Chris Parry said future migrations would be comparable to the Goths and Vandals while north African “barbary” pirates could be [...]

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The South Korean government is to take the US to task over Google Earth on the grounds that the globetrotting online service shows sensitive military installations laid bare in a way which might benefit North Korea.
On the other hand, Google has some impressive material on North Korea, too, such as this snapshot of Yongbyon - [...]

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Poking around Google Earth at a moment of geopolitical drama, I took a look at North Korea. Turns out that military installations are not only indicated by the Google Earth community, they’re described in some detail.
Link to this article.

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The People’s Republic of China has been long fixated on the elements of hard power, particularly on assessing how China stacks up against other states in economic and military terms. This fixation has manifested itself as an obsession in Beijing with the concept of Comprehensive National Power (CNP)—a quantitative indicator of a country’s power based [...]

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Credit should be given where it is due, and if one reads between the lines, the four Chinese defense white papers released every even year since 2000 have provided clearer insight into Beijing’s strategic aims and defense planning than ever intimated by Zhongnanhai through the 1990s. While the China’s National Defense in 2006 white paper [...]

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The United States government revealed on January 18 that the Chinese military had conducted an anti-satellite (ASAT) missile test against an aging Chinese weather satellite. The satellite was destroyed on January 11 by a medium-range ballistic missile at an altitude of 537 miles above the earth’s surface. Despite Washington’s private consultations over the matter with [...]

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New data on classified U.S. Air Force programs track the service’s changing emphasis from manned aircraft to unmanned stealth vehicles to algorithms that penetrate enemy defenses with even less notice but with equal, and perhaps even more, destructive power.
There are many classified programs, stretching back to the Cold War, that remain blank spots to the [...]

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TEHRAN, Jan. 23 (Xinhua) — Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps on Tuesday successfully test fired two types of homemade missiles during military exercises, the local Fars news agency reported.
The Zalzal and Fajr-5 missiles were fired by the military units subordinate to the Revolutionary Guards’ ground forces, Commander of the Revolutionary Guards’ missile unit Brigadier General [...]

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Newt Gingrich: Haifa, Tel Aviv, Jerusalem facing mortal Iranian threat, says former US Speaker of the House; emphasizes ‘three nuclear weapons are a second Holocaust’
The Israeli people are facing the threat of a nuclear Holocaust, former US Speaker of the House of Representatives Newt Gingrich warned the Herzliya Conference held by the Institute for Policy [...]

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China’s anti-satellite-interceptor test Jan. 11 is part of a covert space-weapons program designed to cripple the U.S. military in a conflict, defense officials said yesterday as Beijing confirmed it had destroyed one of its weather satellites. China said it had not “weaponized” space.
The anti-satellite weapon was identified by U.S. government officials as a nonexplosive “kinetic [...]

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The Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, dramatically raised the stakes in the international showdown with Iran last night, with a clear warning that his country was prepared to use military force to prevent Tehran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.
“The Jewish people, with the scars of the Holocaust fresh on its body, cannot afford to [...]

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Moscow: President Vladimir Putin hit out at Western criticism of the Kremlin, saying it was aimed at countering Russia’s growing influence in the world.
At a joint press conference with Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi after talks in the Black Sea resort of Sochi, Putin suggested, without naming it directly, that the United States saw Russia [...]

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A British admiral who oversees a group that predicts future global conditions presented a picture of a world facing difficult times in the next 30 years, but having better prospects afterward for the rest of the century.
Rear Adm. Christopher Parry’s organization, the Royal Navy’s Development, Concepts and Doctrine Centre, got 14 of 18 major predictions [...]

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