The fact is that the Chinese military buildup really began after the demise of the Soviet Union — that is, precisely when China had the least reason to worry about its defense needs. And the buildup continued during a period when the United States was cutting its own defense budget by significant amounts. Moreover, no [...]

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With the Hamas rout of Fatah on the Gaza Strip last week, the land claimed by Palestinians now falls under the sway of three separate entities, leading to new problems and talk of at least some new opportunities. Fatah, the old guard of Yasir Arafat’s Palestine Liberation Organization led by President Mahmoud Abbas, has consolidated [...]

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Wars, famine, and poverty drive hundreds of thousands of people each year to pull up stakes and head for greener pastures. But those seeking a better life don’t always find themselves welcome in their prospective homes. For this week’s List, FP takes a look at the dangerous routes migrants are using in order to stay [...]

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Thanks to Fatah’s ineptitude and corruption, Israel’s shortsightedness, and the Bush administration’s misguided policies, Hamas is now in control of the Gaza strip, setting the stage for potentially ominous developments.
Specifically, it was Israel, seeking a counterbalance to the PLO, that gave Hamas’s early organizers a helping hand in the mid-1980s; it was Fatah’s unscrupulous ways [...]

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Israel should issue ultimatum to Lebanon in wake of Sunday’s rocket attack.
Ultimatum needed
What should Israel do then? It must immediately declare that the attack on Kiryat Shmona constitutes a declaration of war by Lebanon against Israel. Lebanon is responsible for what goes on in its territory and we cannot accept that it turn a [...]

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The W-88 Reliable Replacement Warhead.
The United States must build new nuclear weapons to maintain its deterrent capabilities, a National Nuclear Security Administration official said Friday. The development of new warheads to replace the U.S. Cold war stockpile is necessary to assure a nuclear deterrent for the future, John Harvey, the NNSA’s policy planning staff director, [...]

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While Prime Minister Olmert is beginning his visit to America by stressing diplomacy and internationally agreed solutions to the new regional realities, his newly appointed defense minister, Ehud Barak, was reportedly planning a military incursion into Gaza.
Politicians and analysts in Israel have started a major debate of whether the new Gaza situation calls for a [...]

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MOSCOW, Russia (CNN) — Russia has staged a remarkable comeback in recent years. Gone are the days, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, when the Kremlin depended on Western handouts to keep its fragile economy afloat. (Special Report: Eye on Russia)
The country has emerged as the world’s biggest energy producer. It supplies Western Europe [...]

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Recently, we asked a group of Post contributors to write the history of the world’s next war. In today’s second instalment, George Jonas offers a Swiftian take on Transatlantic relations.
From our Special Correspondent I’m writing this dispatch on the 80th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima. Soon, we’ll know if a belligerent will use atomic [...]

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Everything China has done, and is doing, is in preparation for what they are planning…and they are planning (according to Chinese President Jiang Zemin, “for war with the United States”).
We know what China’s intentions are. There is a compendium of books crystallizing the growing, inevitable, significant ‘China Threat’.
* The China Threat [...]

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ABECHE, Chad — A prime minister’s office scarred by a recent al-Qaeda bomb attack. Families separated while fleeing from genocidal murderers in their hometowns. And employees of an international company kidnapped from a heavily guarded oil-rich area.
No, this isn’t Iraq or the Middle East — it’s an impoverished region of Africa where chaos is breeding [...]

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In Turkey, the military and the government are engaged in an all-out struggle for power. The country is deeply divided, and decidedly unstable. Turkish writer Ahmet Altan describes his country’s paradoxes and warns of the potentially dire consequences.
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Not far from the old Silk Road, Chinese government scientists have begun boring holes deep into granite in the first steps toward building what could become the world’s largest tomb for nuclear waste.
As governments worldwide look at nuclear power as a possible answer to global warming, China has embarked on a nuclear-plant construction binge that [...]

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Are you aware that CAIR insists that any and all Muslims from around the world are automatically “entitled” to immigrate to America? FSM Contributing Editor Glen Reinsford makes compelling arguments on this issue. Is an ever growing Muslim population an asset or a liability for us?
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The world’s weakest states aren’t just a danger to themselves. They can threaten the progress and stability of countries half a world away. In the third annual Failed States Index, FOREIGN POLICY and The Fund for Peace rank the countries where the risk of failure is running high.
Few encouraging signs emerged in 2006 to suggest [...]

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