Syria has successfully developed a new surface-to-surface missile that would enable it to target with greater accuracy Israeli installations – such as airports, ports and factories – according briefings recently presented to senior ministers.
According to the information, Syria developed the new missile with Iranian support, which is further indication of the tight strategic bonds between [...]

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So you thought the Cold War was over, did you? Welcome to Vladimir Putin’s new Russian Empire.
Using the wealth generated by soaring oil and gas prices, the Kremlin has intimidated its former satellites in Eastern Europe, while treating most of America’s North American Treaty Organization allies as if they too could be pushed around.
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China’s on a resource-buying spree, most recently paying US$13 billion for a stake in an Australian mining company. Is this a threat to your nation and its economy? To the world’s?
China’s presence in Iran and the Middle East might be a potential threat for the United States given its current regional policies – but it [...]

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China is certainly in no state yet to produce its own long-range strategic bombers, air-refueling tankers or air transport aircraft like the C-130 Hercules or the C-17 Globemaster and must therefore continue to try and buy them off the shelf, if not from the United States because of deteriorating relations, then from Russia.
The main reason [...]

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China’s unprecedented industrial growth over the last two decades has raised the question of whether it now poses a threat to the security of the United States economically, militarily, or both. Economically, the extent to which China truly threatens the United States depends at least in part on the chauvinistic assumption that any potential challenge [...]

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For a procession of senior U.S. military commanders who have visited China in recent years, the complaint has become almost routine.
As part of a sustained military buildup, they say, China is investing heavily in so-called area-denial weapons without explaining why it needs them.
The term area-denial weapons refers to a combination of armaments, technology and tactics [...]

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