Predicting that Israel’s future wars will be characterized by unprecedented missile barrages, the IDF has decided to modify its missile defense doctrine and has changed its deployment of the Arrow missile in northern Israel, The Jerusalem Post has learned.
The changes to the Air Defense Forces’ doctrine have been made over recent months amid rising and [...]

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Australia possesses almost 40% of the world’s known low-cost reserves of uranium.
And ore from Australia’s three operating mines supplies about a quarter of the world’s uranium-oxide exports. Until now all this has gone to countries that have signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). This ensures, in theory, that they will use it to produce electricity [...]

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Political power in Russia now lies with the FSB, the KGB’s successor
Over the two terms of Mr Putin’s presidency, that “group of FSB operatives” has consolidated its political power and built a new sort of corporate state in the process. Men from the FSB and its sister organisations control the Kremlin, the government, the media [...]

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The chief spokesman of the Russian Air Force, Col. Aleksandr V. Drobyshevsky, has confirmed in writing for the first time that it was Soviet pilots, in the USSR’s most-advanced MiG-25 “Foxbat” aircraft, who flew highly-provocative sorties over Israel’s nuclear facility at Dimona in May 1967, just prior to the Six Day War.
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A survey of Asia Pacific security experts has found the rise of China is the central issue for Asia, but the greatest concern is about the future role of the United States.
The editor of the survey, Dr Jim Rolfe, told Radio Australia’s foreign affairs and defence correspondent, Graeme Dobell, that the specialists did not believe [...]

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Wary of China’s long-term intentions and its rapidly expanding military capabilities, the US sees India as a ‘natural partner’ in the region and is keen to further enhance ‘interoperability’ with the Indian armed forces.
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Russia’s MiG design bureau has just unveiled its version of a combat drone: the Skat unmanned combat aerial vehicle. Aviation Week has what looks like the first photos and description of the new strike aircraft:
Skat has two internal weapons bays, capable of carrying air-to-surface missiles as large as the Kh-31 (AS-17 Krytpon). Possible roles [...]

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So-called thermobaric weapons, in which combined heat and pressure kill people over a wide area by sucking the air out of lungs and destroying internal organs, have already been used by the US against suspected al-Qaida and Taliban underground bases, the report said.
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Current U.S. headlines about China trumpet dubious dog food and lead paint in toys. Too bad all that is burying another important story. China’s emergence as an economic power has set off alarms among national security and military experts in Washington, D.C., about China’s rapidly rising military expenditures, including the acquisition of world-class submarines, development [...]

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Recent photographs purportedly showing Sudanese soldiers in the Darfur region moving containers from a Russian-made Antonov cargo plane onto military trucks reinforce suspicions that Sudan continues to violate a U.N.-imposed arms embargo, the London-based human rights group Amnesty International said.
The photographs, taken in July and released today by the rights group, also purportedly show Russian-supplied [...]

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Moscow’s latest saber-rattling - flying long-range bomber patrols toward the U.S. and Britain, launching planes from its sole aircraft carrier, redeploying the Russian fleet to the Mediterranean, engaging in war games with China and several central Asian nations - doesn’t mean the Cold war has returned. What it does signal is Russia’s willingness, emboldened by [...]

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“This time the Israel Defense Forces will be so ready and so strong, and will conduct itself with such sophistication, that I hope both Assad and Nasrallah regret their decision,” he said, referring to the leaders of Syria and Hezbollah.
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“On the outbreak of general nuclear war, it is expected that central government would cease to exist from the earliest stage, that a third of Britain’s population and the bulk of her industrial capacity would be destroyed, that communications with overseas posts would be interrupted initially, perhaps for several days, and when restored would be [...]

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With a bit of fanfare, the government announced that the armed forces are being restored to their former glory. But most of this was a PR exercise. A dozen or so long-range bombers were sent off on the kind of flights that brought them to the borders of distant countries, and triggered a response from [...]

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Large majorities believe the United States is acting in its own interests while ignoring the interests of its allies. Such views reflect widespread opposition to U.S. unilateralism in world affairs. The Bush administration is perceived as over-reliant on hard power while ignoring soft power, whereas the E.U. is perceived as good at using soft power. [...]

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Iran now possesses a 2,000 pound smart bomb, the Iranian Ministry of Defense announced Wednesday, according to Ynet. Iran’s newly developed bomb can be dropped from F-4 and F-5 jets.
The news comes amid a series of weapons acquisitions and upgrades by Iran and its close ally Syria, both financiers of terrorist groups aimed at [...]

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