Russia’s espionage operation in Britain is operating at the level of the Cold war and involves about half of the staff accredited to its diplomatic missions in London, it has been claimed.
Their tasks range from seeking military and commercial secrets to monitoring Russian dissidents based in London, most notably Boris Berezovsky, the billionaire and outspoken [...]

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The European Union must be tougher in its dealings with a newly assertive Russia during the final months of President Vladimir Putin’s rule, EU foreign ministers said on Friday.
Several EU states were dismayed at the bloc’s failure to censure Moscow over a Russian missile that fell on Georgian soil last month, and there is growing [...]

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Fearing that a sneak attack by American submarine-launched missiles might take Moscow out in thirteen minutes, the Soviet leadership had authorized the construction of an automated communications network, reinforced to withstand a nuclear strike. At its heart was a computer system similar to the one in Dr Strangelove. Its codename was Perimetr. It went fully [...]

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China has been upgrading its H-6 bombers and producing H-6K bombers in an effort to improve its aerial nuclear strategic deterrence. The subsonic speed of the H-6 and non-stealthy sorties prevented it from breaking through the air defense networks of Russia, the United States and Japan. Fitted with D-30-P2 engines of greater thrust power, the [...]

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Chinese military hackers have prepared a detailed plan to disable America’s aircraft battle carrier fleet with a devastating cyber attack, according to a Pentagon report obtained by The Times.
The blueprint for such an assault, drawn up by two hackers working for the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), is part of an aggressive push by Beijing to [...]

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The purported Israeli air force flights over the Pantsyr-S1E site established that the new Russian missiles, activated for the first time in the Middle East, are effective and dangerous but can be disarmed. Western military sources attribute to those Israeli or other air force planes superior electronics for jamming the Russian missile systems, but stress [...]

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As tensions between Syria and Israel increased yesterday with allegations in Damascus of an infringement of its airspace, Jerusalem officials accused Moscow of instigating the heightened border alert that has threatened to ignite war between the countries all through the summer.
The assertion by Syria that it shot at Israeli aircrafts yesterday that flew in a [...]

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SYDNEY (AFP) — Russia on Friday joined a rush by nuclear powers for access to Australia’s huge uranium reserves as President Vladimir Putin signed a landmark deal to import the strategic fuel.
The agreement he signed with Prime Minister John Howard came just months after Australia ratified a deal to sell uranium to China to [...]

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IBM-made supercomputer bought by China for weather forecasting at the 2008 Olympics unlikely to be used for military purposes after games.
It is unlikely that China will use the IBM System p575 purchased to aid weather forecasting in advance and during the 2008 Olympics in Beijing for weapons development after the Olympics due to the country’s [...]

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On Monday, Sept. 10, Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich will speak on the importance of understanding that America is involved in a real life-and-death struggle for the very survival of our civilization. Here, Newt outlines the major themes of his initiatives for awakening America.
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For six years, we have been at war on a worldwide basis [...]

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Among the survey’s other findings:
_ Americans and Europeans both expressed misgivings about a resurgent Russia. Asked about Russia’s behavior toward its neighbors, 69 percent of Americans and 56 percent of Europeans noted concern.
_Fifty-four percent of Americans and 48 percent of Europeans saw China as more of an economic threat than an opportunity. Half the Americans [...]

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OSLO, Norway: Norwegian and British fighters scrambled Thursday to intercept eight Russian bombers that neared the Nordic country’s territory in the latest show of air power by the Kremlin, defense officials said.
The Russian Tupolev 95 strategic bombers rounded Norway’s northern tip over the Barents Sea and flew south over the North Atlantic before turning back, [...]

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“A terrible demographic crisis is taking place,” said Nikolay Petrov, a specialist on Russian society at the Carnegie Center in Moscow. “Over the next 20 years, Russia will need 20 million immigrants to compensate for the labor shortage. This is the first time in which the population and labor force are declining together. It will [...]

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German investigators assume there is a far wider terror network than just the three men arrested on Tuesday. They are looking for seven other suspects and want to discover the identity of two men in Pakistan they think were behind the plot. By Matthias Gebauer and Yassin Musharbash in Berlin more…

Tracking Down the Islamist Cell: [...]

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He quotes in his book Daniel Pipes of the Middle East Forum. Pipes is off to a rollicking and reassuring start in what becomes the deadliest paragraph in town. Begin with our military superiority, which would appear to make victory inevitable. “Islamists have nothing like the military machine the Axis deployed in World war II, [...]

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