Retired Brigadier General Tzvika Fogel, former Chief of staff for Israel’s southern command and now the CEO of Marathon, a company for project management and process analysis said in a foreign press briefing near Gaza, that a war between Israel and Gaza Palestinians is likely to erupt between April 15th and May 15th.
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PALMACHIM AIR FORCE BASE, Israel (AP) - The Israeli air force unveiled its newest unmanned aircraft Wednesday, saying the plane can fly longer, faster and higher than any other surveillance aircraft.
The drone, called the Heron, already saw combat during last summer’s war in Lebanon, where Israeli officials said a prototype performed well, seeking out Hezbollah [...]

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Two recent polls tell us what we already knew: Israel is relatively popular among Americans and the subject of considerable antipathy among European democracies. The data suggest that Americans see themselves with Israelis in the same boat, while Europeans have an almost opposite point of view. Why is this so and what, if anything, can [...]

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WASHINGTON — The Air Force said Wednesday it will retire the most modern cruise missile in the U.S. nuclear arsenal, a “stealth” weapon developed in the 1980s with the ability to evade detection by Soviet radars.
Known as the Advanced Cruise Missile, the weapon is carried by the B-52 bomber and was designed to attack heavily [...]

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The decisive question at this stage is not whether there is a new ‘Cold War’. Where does Europe stand today in the context of the new world powers? Is it ready to continue to be a ‘bridgehead’ for the maintenance of the US claim to global dominance? Or will it emancipate itself together with Latin [...]

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Russian military officials will fly over Canada on Thursday and Friday, on the lookout for weapons of mass destruction that might be hidden in the landscape below.
The flight, aboard a Russian Tupolev 154M jet, is being conducted under the terms of the Treaty on Open Skies. Canada has flown similar observation flights over Russia and [...]

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The People’s Republic of China continues to conduct a campaign of smoke and mirrors on its defense budget. Beijing has just announced that it plans to boost defense spending by 17.8 percent in the coming year — a fairly hefty increase, and the latest in a pattern of double-digit hikes over the past decade. Both [...]

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by Sean Brodrick
3/7/2007 8:00:00 AM
Do you think gasoline prices are too high? Do you think illegal immigration is a problem? Well, get ready for more of both, because Mexico, the #3 supplier of imported fuel to the U.S., is spiraling into a quiet energy crisis that could interrupt our oil supplies, send shockwaves through our [...]

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American reportage on Russia generally obsesses about the Kremlin and the leader, Vladimir Putin. Putin dominates U.S. coverage of Russia far more than he dominates Russia.
The answer to the question of today’s talk, “Russia: toward democracy or dictatorship?” is “neither.” Russia is not a democracy, and it is not a dictatorship. Russia, like most countries [...]

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News of double-digit growth in China’s military spending is nothing new; after all, Beijing’s military budget has been increasing more than 10 percent annually since 1993. But the curious thing is that China has no hostile neighbors and does not face any immediate threat, nor do there appear to be any potential ones. So [...]

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In “The China Fantasy: How Our Leaders Explain Away Chinese Repression,” Mann points an accusing finger at the most powerful people in U.S., Europe and Asia — politicians, corporate executives, scholars and diplomats.
These decision makers and opinion formers offer what he terms the Soothing Scenario whenever critics attack China’s one- party regime and grim [...]

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The major threat from Beijing comes rather from its pursuit of energy resources, trade, and profits at the expense of human rights. China, as a preeminent investor in Sudan’s oil reserves, has been financing that regime’s genocidal crimes in Darfur. Beijing also acts as the principal ally of Burma’s military dictatorship and as a ruthless [...]

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HONG KONG (Reuters) - China could build its first aircraft carrier by 2010 if current research and development proceeds smoothly, a Hong Kong newspaper quoted a Chinese general as saying on Wednesday.
Experts say China’s military has been researching carriers for years as a way to protect its interests offshore, but there has been no formal [...]

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While Kashmir and al-Qaeda-linked terrorism garner front-page play around the world, India’s own internal terrorism problem tends to be off the radar of most American news outlets—or, at best, warranting a postage-stamp-sized wire story (NYT) buried at the bottom of an inside page. Yet terrorism-related deaths in the contested territory of Jammu and Kashmir dropped [...]

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