THE criticism by Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, of the United States and NATO put one in mind of an alpha dog at the junkyard gate — tough, unrelenting, pugnacious. The trend started with his Feb. 10 speech in Munich, and in Moscow on April 26 his annual address to Parliament carried it forward. He railed [...]

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Why should Estonians honor a Red Army that brutalized them and, after driving out the Germans, re-enslaved them for half a century?
Why should this issue be of interest to America?
If President Putin decide the Estonians need a lesson, and sends troops to teach it, the United States, under NATO, would have to treat Russian intervention [...]

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BUCHAREST, ROMANIA — Parliament approved an agreement Wednesday allowing the U.S. to use four Romanian military bases and station up to 3,000 troops in the former communist country.
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Is there any chance that the North Korean regime will give up its nuclear weapons? The question is perhaps more frequently heard than any other in recent days. But regrettably, the answer is almost certainly no. Pyongyang stands to lose much and gain almost nothing if it does.
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However, international society ignores the situation aroused by the Anti-Secession Law. Since passing the law, China has used Taiwan as an excuse to develop its global military strategy and has been increasing its annual military spending at a double-digit pace, with a 17.8-percent increase in 2007 alone. China now has 988 missiles arrayed against Taiwan [...]

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The Chinese have turned hawkish towards the United States, devoting significant resources to both defensive and offensive measures against the world’s only super power. The Chinese have used the United States’ war on Terror to expand their military, intelligence capabilities, and influence. According to a report by the Rand Corporation the Chinese have assembled advanced [...]

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WASHINGTON (AFP) - Iran may have a long range missile capable of striking the United States and Europe in less than eight years, a senior State Department official said Thursday.
John Rood, the assistant secretary of state for international security and non proliferation, said the weapon could be wholly obtained from North Korea, which had provided [...]

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Tensions between Estonia and Russia are placing an added strain on relations between Europe and the Kremlin. The European Union has sharply criticized the Russians’ failure to protect diplomats after the Estonian and Swedish ambassadors came under attack in Moscow.
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With this book, he’s created an odd hybrid: The nonfiction tragi-thriller. One can’t put down this tale of real-life, diabolical intrigue that is, simultaneously, a book so depressing it ought to come shrink-wrapped with a fifth of Jim Beam.
The opening essay is the sort of work every journalist wishes he or she could produce and [...]

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London, May 3: The International Institute of Strategic Studies, influential think tank, has claimed that the cladestine nuclear proliferation network run by Pakistan’s disgraced top scientist A. Q. Khan, is still very much in business.
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Islam, Communism and fascism provide much the same kind of gratification. Islamists view women as either family chattel or whores to be preyed on; there are no free, respectable women in their eyes. So they are imbued with very different values from their middle-class European peers. Smaller versions of the French riots have erupted in [...]

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“It’s as if China was in near war-time production of missiles …
China has begun a massive ballistic missile acquisition and development program that is “surpassing anything since the Soviet Union’s missile buildup of the 1960s,” John Pike, director of GlobalSecurity.org, told Aviation Week & Space Technology (AW&ST) April 9, 2007. “It’s as if China was [...]

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The scathing interim report issued this week by an Israeli panel that reviewed the decisions leading to the country’s war with Hezbollah last summer may spell doom for Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s leadership. Calls for his resignation have mounted even within his own party. However, the real story is that the causes of last year’s [...]

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