Watch this video of a talk by historian Niall Ferguson where he discusses risk in the 21st century.
Learn how today is like the time right before World war I. We could be at risk of a major war breaking out.
What went wrong before World war I? We need to know this because it could happen [...]

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The Middle East looks like Europe circa World war I.
The United States invaded Iraq in April 2003 for multiple reasons, but the most ambitious was a desire to remake a whole region. The Middle East, it was argued, was full of political and economic underachievers, driven to violence by a Muslim/Arab inferiority complex. Replacing Saddam [...]

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“…Hizbollah must be taken by surprise, at least at the beginning of the fighting. An attack must include most of the organization’s physical assets: its headquarters, bases, and the homes of senior operatives. The fighting itself should take place during the day in order to generate as many points of friction as possible between IDF [...]

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Israel’s Aman military intelligence does not think that Syria or Lebanon’s Hezbollah militia will carry out a largescale offensive against Israel in 2008, an Israeli daily said on Sunday.
Aman said that Israel had regained its so-called force of dissuasion during last year’s 34-day war with Hezbollah, launched by the Jewish state after a deadly cross-border [...]

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The Topol-M’s chief designer, Yuri Solomonov, has said the missile drops its engines at a significantly lower altitude than earlier designs, making it hard for an enemy’s early warning system to detect the launch.
He said the missiles’ warhead and decoys closely resembled one another in flight, making it extremely difficult for a foe to select [...]

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Why the US responds differently to the rise of China and of India.
Singapore’s Lee Kuan Yew wonders why “India’s peaceful rise hasn’t led to unease over the country’s future” whereas “China’s peaceful rise (has) raised apprehensions”. His comparison of the global (meaning American) response to the two nations in a recent article in Forbes magazine [...]

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Today is the 36th anniversary of India’s victory over Pakistan in the 1971 War. But the military threat from across the border is still very real in the wake of the recent cruise missile tests by Islamabad. India is now launching an unprecedented programme to defend itself from a cruise missile attack.
Clearly worried by a [...]

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Communist Red China, has provoked the United States, by renewed threats of military action against Taiwan, and now the insolent and public humiliation of the United States, in banning the USS Kitty Hawk from Hong Kong’s harbor.
This, on top of the blatant verbal threat of nuclear annihilation made against America, by Red China’s military establishment.
“A [...]

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