As one example, Wang Cheng, in a July 5, 2000, article from Liawang (Outlook), Volume 27, called “The US Military’s ‘Soft Ribs’, A Strategic Weakness”, said: “For countries that can never win a war with the US by using the method of tanks and planes, attacking the US space system may be an irresistible and [...]

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BEIJING: For more than two decades, China has labored to build its first state-of-the-art jet fighter as part of the country’s drive to become a leading military power.
In December, it appeared to have closed in on that ambition when it revealed, in an unusual blaze of publicity, that its new fighter, the J-10, had entered [...]

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Feb. 9 (Bloomberg) — Japan must recognize China as an economic and military threat, said Tokyo Governor Shintaro Ishihara, and should “tear up” the country’s pacifist constitution to face the challenge.
Ishihara, who co-wrote the 1989 best-selling “The Japan That Can Say No,” said in an interview that his country is capable of standing up [...]

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Tehran, Iran (AHN) - Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards on Wednesday started a two-day air and naval war exercise aimed at testing its latest missile defense capabilities. The war games come on the heel of rising tension between Iran’s Islamic government and the West.
The state television reported the war games were being held in the Persian [...]

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While one can understand a former superpower’s temptation to seize its opportunity to return to a muscular foreign policy, Russia’s bullying in the energy area is destroying trust and undercutting Russia’s soft power in other countries. Both Russia’s neighbours and Western Europe have become more wary of depending upon Russia.
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Tel Aviv, Feb 8 (DPA) Israel is to build a huge bomb shelter in Jerusalem against nuclear and chemical weapons, local media reported Thursday.
According to the Ma’ariv daily, the shelter will be located in the new underground Jerusalem railway station being constructed near the western entrance to the city and slated to open only in [...]

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TEL AVIV, Israel, Feb. 8 (UPI) — Former Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu accuses Syria of waging an indirect war against Israel.
“Syria is connected to the axis of evil and Iran. Planes in Syria supply Hezbollah, as do Syrian-made weapons. They are waging war against us actively, and giving refuge to 12 terror groups,” Netanyahu [...]

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TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran’s Revolutionary Guards test fired missiles in wargames on Thursday which a commander said could sink “big warships” in the Gulf, Sea of Oman and the north of the Indian Ocean, the state broadcaster said.
Iran is at loggerheads with the United States over its disputed nuclear program and what Washington calls its [...]

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A recent report by the U.S. Congress’ research unit Congressional Research Service (CRS) has raised questions about North Korea’s ability to transform cargo ships into missile launch pads. The CRS report said that North Korea has developed a submarine- or ship-mounted ballistic missile system with a range of at least 2,500 kilometers. The North has [...]

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SEOUL — Planning for a handover of military command to South Korean forces has failed to provide for a small but vital U.N. force, jeopardizing the allied deterrent on the Peninsula, the U.S. commander said.
Gen. Burwell B. Bell, joint head of the Combined Forces Command, warned that the problem must be resolved because a [...]

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Russian Deputy Prime Minster and Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov addressed the Duma on Wednesday. During his speech, he called the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty between the United States and the Soviet Union — which banned short-, medium- and intermediate-range ballistic and ground-launched cruise missiles — a mistake. Ivanov first raised the midrange missile [...]

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Fortunately, there’s a secondary solution: a passive defense system that cloaks our satellites’ radar and optical signatures from the Chinese and Russians (and everyone else). As it happens, Advanced American Enterprises (AAE), a company DefenseReview has been writing about for some time now, claims that their cloaking technology (a.k.a. invisibility cloak, a.k.a. adaptive camouflage, a.k.a. [...]

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The Foreign Affairs Committee of the Finnish Parliament on Wednesday called attention to the increase of Russian military surveillance and movements in the Gulf of Finland and the Baltic Sea. The Russians are using new submarines and other equipment. The increase in energy transport in the Baltic is seen as a key factor in the [...]

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Chinese President Hu Jintao is in Africa bearing the usual gifts of money for soccer stadiums and interest-free loans, but is also acknowledging tensions over mounting trade imbalances, the practices of some Chinese investors and the risks of investing in rogue states.
Unmentioned, as Beijing adds lustre to Africa’s renewed status as a strategic ally, is [...]

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MOSCOW, Feb. 8 (UPI) — U.S. missile defense plans in Europe could set off a new arms race, an advisor to Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday.
Gleb Pavlovsky, an influential political adviser to the Russian president, warned that the U.S. drive to deploy ballistic missile defense, or BMD assets in Poland and the Czech [...]

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PanARMENIAN.Net - U.S. Defense Secretary thinks that American armed forces must be ready for a large-scale war, the Associated Press reports. “We need a full set of measures to conduct a war, including both special military units necessary for war against terrorists and infantry troops to be able to fight against large regular armies. [...]

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