JERUSALEM, March 31 — Hamas, the dominant faction in the Palestinian government, is building its military capacity in the Gaza Strip, constructing tunnels and underground bunkers and smuggling in ground-to-air missiles and military-grade explosives, senior Israeli officials say.
The officials, including a top military commander who spoke in an interview on Friday, said that Hamas had [...]

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Hezbollah, the Iranian-controlled terrorist organization operating inside Lebanon, continues to grow in strength and to endanger the U.N.-brokered “cease-fire” in southern Lebanon. The U.N. arms embargo has not been enforced and the terrorist organization continues to rearm, receiving arms shipments from Syria. The threat to Israel and to Lebanese sovereignty looms greater than ever.
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The capture by Iran of fifteen British sailors and marines while they were inspecting a trading dhow in international waters for smuggled goods could be the spark that ignites the next war.
Whether that happens or not will not depend on us, or on the Brits. It will depend on President Ahmadinejad, his backers in Tehran, [...]

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Israel will be at war by summer, a prominent opposition member of the Israeli Knesset told NewsMax in an exclusive interview this week.
“We have no choice. We will have to do it,” said Dr. Arieh Eldad, member of the opposition National Union Party.
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The Anglo-Iranian Hostage Situation Makes Europe’s Flaws Obvious
by Victor David Hanson
“It’s completely outrageous for any nation to go out and arrest the servicemen of another nation in waters that don’t belong to them.” So spoke Admiral Sir Alan West, former First Sea Lord of the Royal Navy, concerning the present Anglo-Iranian crisis over captured British [...]

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ST. PETERSBURG: I live in Vladimir Putin’s hometown, not far from the palaces of the czars, but on a windowsill in my apartment, I have a phone that lives in New York.
It makes and receives calls on a New York City area code as surely as a phone in a takeout joint on Flatbush Avenue [...]

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All these attitudes began to change in 2001, when the CIA and the Air Force rigged a few Predators with Hellfire air-to-ground missiles. Suddenly, a UAV could do more than just float over a target for 20 hours at a time, watching and taking pictures, already a significant asset. It could also be a killer.
What [...]

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Washington, D.C. (AHN) - The United States and Japan are signing new defensive agreements and evolving their military alliance to defend against new threats.
Commander of U.S. Forces Japan, Air Force Lt. Gen. Bruce A. Wright, says the shift will move from traditional warfare to the defense against a missile attack from neighbors like North Korea [...]

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MOSCOW - The weakness of western powers and the international community was exposed once again last week after Iran arrested British sailors and marines it claimed had strayed into Iranian territorial waters.
One Iranian official has said that if the United Kingdom does not admit that the sailors were in Iranian waters, they would be charged [...]

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Calling the U.S. occupation of Iraq ‘illegitimate’ was just the latest volley in Saudi Arabia’s war of independence from Washington. A conversation with the Saudi foreign minister.
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It is one thing to be disliked; quite another to be despised. Iran would not have kidnapped our Servicemen without having considered our rules of engagement, our diplomatic isolation and our likely military response, and made a rough calculation of how likely they were to get away with their piracy.
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After years of disappointment, PetroChina Ltd. announced it has found an offshore field that could become China’s biggest new domestic-petroleum source in a decade, with reserves of 2.2 billion barrels, the official Xinhua News Agency said Wednesday.
Such a field would be a “world-scale discovery,” said Gavin Thompson, an oil consultant in Beijing for the Scottish [...]

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March 30, 2007: A year ago, the U.S. Navy began production of 39 high-speed anti-ship missile simulators. The GQM-163A Coyote SSST (Supersonic Sea-Skimming Target) is a 31 foot long missile with a combination solid fuel rocket, and ramjet propulsion. It has a range of 110 kilometers and, because of the ramjet, a top speed of [...]

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China is developing an “impressive” array of space weapons, including missiles and jammers, and is moving toward placing nuclear weapons in space to attack U.S. satellites, the commander of U.S. strategic forces told the Senate yesterday.
The Chinese military has “undertaken what we would call a very disciplined and comprehensive continuum of capability against … our [...]

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This is all the fault of Russia, to whom Mr Blair routinely cosies up, and whom the civilised world invites to its annual G8 summit meetings. Russia seems to think it isn’t worth “deploring” the kidnap of our sailors, so we had better start to show Russia what we think of it: by uninviting it [...]

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The speed and cunning shown by the Revolutionary Guards suggests that their action was premeditated.
The British sailors and marines being held by Iran were ambushed at their most vulnerable moment, while climbing down the ladder of a merchant ship and trying to get into their bobbing inflatables.
Out of sight of their warship and without any [...]

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Riyadh summit concludes with dire warning, backing for Mideast peace plan.
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - An Arab summit ended in Saudi Arabia on Thursday with endorsement for an Arab land-for-peace proposal with Israel and a warning about a possible nuclear arms race in the region.
“We affirm a just and comprehensive peace as a strategic option for [...]

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JERUSALEM: Israel’s Arrow interceptor can now shoot down the most advanced ballistic missiles in the Iranian arsenal, including those that can carry nuclear warheads, a member of parliament’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee said Friday.
Tests of the Arrow anti-ballistic missile system — the latest carried out successfully Monday — show it can intercept any missile [...]

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Why are there so few takers outside China for its self-proclaimed doctrine of “peaceful rise”?
And yet, as our special report in this week’s issue argues, if you scour the region for China’s firm friends it is hard to find them. Even Russia, where China’s president, Hu Jintao, was this week pressing the flesh, is a [...]

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Moscow (CNSNews.com) - Russia has renewed its pledge to build its strategic partnership with China, in a thinly veiled attempt to oppose what Moscow views as American unilateralism.
President Vladimir Putin told visiting Chinese President Hu Jintao Monday that the positions of both countries on Iran and North Korea “either coincide or are similar.”
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King’s Remarks on Iraq Follow Signs Riyadh Is Distancing Itself From Bush.
Of all the foreign leaders President Bush has dealt with over the past six years, few have been as direct or blunt in private as Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah, according to U.S. officials. At one point in 2002, Abdullah showed Bush images of Palestinian [...]

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