It floats, it flies, it eliminates enemy targets—meet the water-launched unmanned enforcer
Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works, famed for the U-2 and Blackbird spy planes that flew higher than anything else in the world in their day, is trying for a different altitude record: an airplane that starts and ends its mission 150 feet underwater. The Cormorant, [...]

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Tehran’s former consul-general in Dubai tells Sunday Telegraph Islamic republic has been training secret networks of agents across Gulf states to attack US, European interests in event of military strike against its nuclear program
Iran has been training secret networks of agents across the Gulf states to attack Western interests and incite civil unrest in the [...]

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Hasn’t anyone noticed that it is taking Iran an inordinately long time to produce their first bomb? They began seeking the bomb about 1980. It is now some 27 years later and we are told they may need another 5-10 years!! All of the other nuclear powers took far less time. The U.S., Russia, China, [...]

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Russia is trying to use its oil wealth to become a superpower again, a former CIA deputy director says.
In a recent speech in San Diego, retired Adm. Bobby Inman said President Vladimir Putin seized control of the Yukos oil firm not just because its owner engaged in politics, but because Putin wanted the Russian state [...]

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Chinese control of worldwide port facilities is an issue that should be reexamined in light of recent concerns about rising Chinese influence around the globe. The Chinese company Hutchison Whampoa, owned by Chinese billionaire Li Ka Shing, controls 35 major ports in the world, including the four most important ports in Mexico.
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TAIPEI, Taiwan — President Chen Shui-bian made unusually strong pro-independence remarks Sunday in a message apparently aimed at provoking rival China and shoring up his base.
“Taiwan should be independent,” Chen said to cheers at a banquet marking the 25th anniversary of the Formosan Association for Public Affairs, a pro-independence group.
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(IsraelNN.com) A popular Arab news site has been caught ‘sanitizing’ Arabic hate terminology in its English translations.
The Ma’an News Service publishes several articles a day in Arabic that it then translates and releases in English. Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) released a report Tuesday noting that Ma’an’s Arabic-language articles include the hate ideology espoused by Islamic [...]

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Were the boosters entirely right? No. Did the critics have a point? Sure. But on that Sunday here in the land of liberty, I was troubled at the sourness toward our country expressed by some of my neighbors. I was struck by the hesitancy of others to admit their patriotic pride. I saw anti-Americanism, the [...]

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Most honest historians that look at WWII look back in horror knowing full well that the plans laid out by Hitler when he took office, and prior to that in his book, were followed with almost exacting precision in order to rid Europe of her Jewish population and to take back land believed owned by [...]

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A number of factors drive Mr. Putin’s recent rhetoric and Middle East actions:
(1) By embracing monarchies and Iran’s Islamist authoritarianism, he signals Russia’s continuous distancing from Western norms of internal political behavior.
(2) Russia is following the Soviet model of opposing first British and then the U.S. presence [...]

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WASHINGTON — At a time the nation is at war in Iraq and Afghanistan, the U.S. Air Force is battling another enemy: age.
The average age of military aircraft during the Vietnam war in 1973 was nine years. Today, the average age is 24 years, and venerable planes such as the KC-135 Stratotanker and the B-52H [...]

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March 4, 2007 — EDITOR’S NOTE: The Post’s editors sat down with former House Speaker Newt Gingrich last week to discuss the state of American politics and government during the war on Terror, themes core to his forthcoming book “American Solutions.” Below is a partial transcript.
GINGRICH: This is the most systematic period of appeasement [...]

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BEIJING — China will boost military spending by 17.8 percent this year, a spokesman for the national legislature said Sunday, continuing more than a decade of double-digit annual increases that has stirred unease in Washington and some of China’s neighbors.
Underscoring such concerns, Jiang Enzhu also lashed out at the president of Taiwan, the self-governing [...]

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