WASHINGTON, Aug. 7 (UPI) — Lockheed Martin said Tuesday it has won a $33 million contract to build an Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense system for the Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force destroyer JDS Chokai.
“JDS Chokai is the second of four Japanese destroyers to be outfitted with the Aegis BMD Weapon System. Aegis BMD is [...]

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President Hu Jintao will begin a three-nation tour to Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan and Russia August 14-18, to attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit (SCO) and observe the SCO joint anti-terrorism military drill in Russia, the Foreign Ministry said yesterday.
The seventh SCO summit will be held in Bishkek, capital of Kyrgyzstan on August 16. Heads of states [...]

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Check out video. Watch the slo-mo segment, then the extra slo-mo at the end of the tape. You can clearly watch missle tracking flare or exhaust, not sure which it is. The missile hits bare ground at a very shallow angle about 20 meters from the terrorist’s car. Missile does not detinate from this minor [...]

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VIENNA, Austria (AP) - Moscow has warned Iran that it will not deliver fuel to a nearly completed Russian-built nuclear reactor unless Tehran lifts the veil of secrecy on suspicious past atomic activities, a European diplomat said Tuesday.
Separately, a U.S. official told The Associated Press that the Russians are not meeting other commitments that [...]

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After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Estonia took advantage of a narrow window of opportunity to radically reform its economy, and these reforms have yielded stunning results. Poverty and inequality are decreasing. Estonia has low unemployment and low inflation, and living standards are improving rapidly. The government’s budget is not only balanced, but also [...]

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The Chinese government has begun a concerted campaign of economic threats against the United States, hinting that it may liquidate its vast holding of US treasuries if Washington imposes trade sanctions to force a yuan revaluation.
Two officials at leading Communist Party bodies have given interviews in recent days warning - for the first time - [...]

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Mr. Putin, who has repeatedly lamented U.S. dominance in what he derisively calls a “unipolar world,” has allowed Russian technology to be used in Iran’s controversial nuclear program despite the overt suggestion by the Bush administration that Tehran’s pursuit of nuclear power, which Iran says is for civilian purposes only, could trigger a war.
Russia’s relations [...]

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Bahrain, Jordan, Lebanon and Israel are threatened with extinction.
by Daniel Pipes
New York Sun
August 7, 2007
Quiz time: Which Middle Eastern country disappeared from the map not long ago for more than six months?
Answer: Kuwait, which disappeared from August 1990 to February 1991, becoming Iraq’s 19th province. This brutal conquest by Saddam Hussein culminated intermittent Iraqi [...]

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Saudi Arabia? Isn’t that the country:

from which came 15 of the 19 men responsible for 9/11?
that opposed the March 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq and whose king, in March 2007, called the invasion an “illegal occupation”?
that told the United States to remove its troops and find some other country for U.S. Central Command’s (CENTCOM) forward [...]

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Two Russian military jets invaded Georgian airspace last night and fired a missile that narrowly missed a village, Tbilisi claims.
Georgia said that it had “incontrovertible evidence” that Russian aircraft had bombed its territory and said that it would raise the matter at the United Nations Security Council.
Gela Bezhuashvili, the Georgian Foreign Minister, told The Times [...]

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Three U.S aircraft carriers, 22,000 troops and about 290 aircraft are participating in a repeat of Valiant Shield off Guam, a big interoperability exercise that was first held last year.
The exercise, which kicked off yesterday and will be held over eight days, “tests the military’s ability to rapidly bring together joint forces in response to [...]

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WHILE MANY nations are breathing a collective sigh of relief after North Korea’s official commitment to move forward on disabling its nuclear facilities, one country is still holding its breath: Japan.
After decades of North Korean military provocations, Kim Jong Il now has a big problem on his hands, as the Japan of old is transforming [...]

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The global war against terrorism has changed international relations worldwide. Many nations are restructuring their military and defense postures. In this informative analysis, FSM Contributing Editor Tom Ordeman, Jr., defines alterations in German and Japanese policies.
Author’s Note: This is the first of a two articles about recent changes in the military mandates of Germany and [...]

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Weapons for the Middle East, nuclear power for Gadhafi, nominees to head important international institutions — and nobody even bothers to call Angela Merkel. The government in Berlin is learning a painful lesson this summer: It stands alone in its multilateralist policies and few, apparently, care what the Germans think. By Markus Feldenkirchen, Dirk Kurbjuweit [...]

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