The Muslim attack on Christendom . . . has gone through three phases. The first is from the very beginning of Islam, when the new faith spilled out of the Arabian Peninsula, where it was born, into the Middle East and beyond. It was then that the Muslims conquered Syria, Palestine, Egypt, and North Africa–all [...]

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[This article was originally posted in German in DIE WELT.de and was translated from German by Hartmut Lau.]
A few days ago Henryk M. Broder wrote in Welt am Sonntag, “Europe — your family name is appeasement.” It’s a phrase you can’t get out of your head because it’s so terribly true.
Appeasement cost millions of Jews [...]

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RAMAT GAN, Israel — Sirens wailed throughout Israel as thousands of rescue personnel in cities in the country’s center and south scrambled to a series of simulated terrorist and missile attacks.
The purpose of the unprecedented two-day exercise that ended yesterday, emergency officials said, was to test their response to a September 11-like confluence of strikes [...]

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Congress has directed the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) to submit to the Congressional leadership and intelligence committees an annual, unclassified report assessing the safety and security of the nuclear facilities and military forces in Russia. Congress further asked that each report include a discussion of the following:
The ability of [...]

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TOKYO - It’s not the fictional Super X project, designed to defend Tokyo, in the Godzilla movie series. It’s a real project designed to shield Japan - the capital first and other parts of the country later - from a real threat.
Amid skyrocketing concerns about neighboring North Korea’s nuclear and missile programs, Japan has recently [...]

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MOSCOW. March 22 (Interfax-AVN) - The Russian Strategic Rocket Forces scrapped nearly 80 intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICMBs) under the START treaty in 2006, Strategic Rocket Forces spokesman Alexander Vovk told Interfax on Thursday.
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BEIJING, March 21 (Xinhua) — A joint anti-terrorism military exercise within the framework of Shanghai Cooperation Organization(SCO) will be held in Russia this year, Chinese Assistant Foreign minister Li Hui said here Wednesday.
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BEIJING, China (AP) — Talks on disarming North Korea’s nuclear program broke down abruptly on Thursday with the country’s chief nuclear envoy departing for home after a dispute over money frozen in a Macau bank could not be resolved.
Kim Kye Gwan went to Beijing’s airport after refusing to take part in six-party talks on ways [...]

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Call it the ambitious launch of the Great Leap Upward: After already demonstrating - much to Washington’s alarm - that it can use high-tech missiles to destroy its old satellites in space, China has announced that it plans to deepen its involvement in the commercial-aviation sector in a big way. In an effort that will [...]

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A Resurgent China confronts Japan.
IN 1937, while Hitler was tightening his grip on Germany and Stalin was killing “unreliable” Russian generals, Emperor Hirohito invaded China and massacred over 200,000 civilians in the Nationalist capital of Nanking. This was the brutal prelude to Japan’s far-flung co-prosperity sphere in Asia that was finally crushed in [...]

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Despite frequent complains about lack of transparency in Chinese military planning, a new report from the Office of Naval Intelligence – recently described in the Washington Times and subsequently released to the Federation of American Scientists in response to a Freedom of Information Act request – boasts a high degree of knowledge about meticulous details [...]

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Pakistan successfully test-fired on Thursday a nuclear-capable cruise missile with the capability to avoid radar detection, the military said.
The missile, named Babur or Hatf VII, has a range of 700 kilometers (434 miles) and is capable of carrying various types of warheads, including nuclear, the military-run Inter-Services Public Relations Directorate said.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia accused the United States on Wednesday of using Cold War-style methods to persuade European allies to host an anti-missile shield on their soil.
Washington plans to install elements of the shield in Europe as part of a scheme it says is designed to protect from missile attacks by rogue states. Moscow [...]

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