A study of the 2006 Israeli-Hezbollah war commissioned by the United States Air Force and to be published this month concludes that Israel’s use of air power was of diminishing value as the fight dragged on because it was used without enough discrimination.
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One day, when North Korean leader Kim Jong Il’s secret diary comes to light, historians will know for sure whether he genuinely tried to make peace with his neighbors to the south. North Korea has promised to reveal its nuclear military secrets by the end of the year, and Kim recently told visiting South Korean [...]

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The title of Nagorski’s book, The Greatest Battle, is likely to raise eyebrows, but it shouldn’t. As he points out, the fighting around Moscow was “inarguably the largest battle between two armies of all time,” involving a total of 7 million soldiers. If casualties are the standard, the Battle of Moscow — where 1.9 million [...]

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Putin snubs US on joint missile defense
Boston Globe, United States - 21 hours ago
… new US ideas on missile defense, which include steps aimed at allaying Kremlin concerns that the system seeks to undermine Russia’s nuclear deterrent. …
Gates, Rice Made Last-Minute Offer of New Arms Ideas in Moscow Bloomberg
US to watch Russia’s military agenda: Rice Times of [...]

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Analysts Think Moscow Is Reasserting Its Superpower Status By Flying Close To The U.S.
The pictures of Russian bombers off the coast of Alaska were not pulled from the archives of the Cold War. As CBS News national security correspondent David Martin reports, they were taken this summer by American pilots who scrambled to intercept them.
“They’ve [...]

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Israel’s air attack on Syria last month was directed against a site that Israeli and American intelligence analysts judged was a partly constructed nuclear reactor, apparently modeled on one North Korea has used to create its stockpile of nuclear weapons fuel, according to American and foreign officials with access to the intelligence reports. [...]

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Once every five years, China’s top communist leaders meet to lay down the blueprint for national development for the next half decade, discuss inner party politics, review the work of the last five years and, most significantly, pick their successors. The Seventeenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China finds the country facing complex [...]

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There is a war brewing among the high ranking officials of Russia’s secret services. Unattended by Parliamentary oversight or responsibility to anyone but the president, major security agencies, including the FSB, the FSKN (the Federal Narcotics Control Service), and the Office of the Prosecutor, are fighting amongst themselves for greater powers.
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MOSCOW, Oct. 12 (UPI) — Russia’s domestic intelligence service FSB claims it has uncovered more than 300 foreign spies over the past four years.
“More than 270 actively operating agents and 70 foreign intelligence recruits, including 35 Russians, have been exposed since 2003,” FSB Head Nikolai Patrushev told Russian popular weekly Argumenty i Fakty.
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US rejects Russian missile call
BBC News, UK - 17 hours ago
“We remain eager to be open and full partners with Russia in missile defence… We discussed a range of proposals we hope they will accept. …
US-Russian missile defence talks fail Euronews.net
US-Russia missile defense talks fail Nuevo Mundo
Russia rebuffs US antimissile plan Los Angeles Times
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President Vladimir Putin has dealt a fresh blow to the West’s security guarantees when he raised the possibility that Russia could build medium-range nuclear weapons capable of hitting Europe.
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Analysts say that Russia’s withdrawal from the INF treaty is all but inevitable and suggest that Moscow may already have built a new generation of the decommissioned [...]

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TOKYO: Russia is concerned that a Japanese-U.S. missile defense plan could be an effort to preserve military superiority, Moscow’s foreign minister said in a news interview published Saturday.
Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Moscow regarded the joint missile defense effort as an “object of concern,” expressing wariness over what he called the possibility that the system [...]

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China’s military forces have received the order to be fully prepared for engagement by the end of this year in the event of a change for the worse across the Taiwan Strait. China is highly concerned about Taiwan’s plans to hold a national referendum on applying for U.N. membership in the name of Taiwan, which [...]

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Seven years ago, on October 12, 2000, the U.S.S. Cole was attacked in the Yemeni port of Aden, killing 17 American sailors. Two years later, to the day, a pair of suicide bombers killed 202 tourists and Indonesians in Bali. Neither attack would have the fateful consequences of September 11. But, in their own way, [...]

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