For the first time ever, the United States will use a ship-based missile to take out a satellite. In the next day or two, the world will witness a modified weapons capability that will have significant policy implications. But it’s the “how” story behind the scenes that has Russia sweating.
The spy satellite malfunctioned hours after [...]

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But those facts are just the top of an enormous iceberg looming ahead of the United States. They reveal the focused challenge to American national security by the harnessed enormous resources of the People’s Republic of China. And they also document the real concern of senior officials in the FBI and the U.S. national security [...]

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It is quite possible that terror master Imad Mughniyeh was not killed Tuesday night in Damascus for his past crimes, but to prevent him from carrying out additional attacks in the future.
On January 30, French security services raided a Paris apartment and arrested six Arab men. Three of the men – two Lebanese and one [...]

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Presenting the first-ever map of “hotspots” of new infectious diseases, they predict that the next pandemic is likeliest to come out of poor tropical countries, where burgeoning human populations come into contact with wildlife.
The emergence of new diseases have roughly quadrupled over the past 50 years, says the study, appearing in the British journal Nature.
Sixty [...]

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The increasingly belligerent statements issuing from top Iranian leaders since the death of Imad Mughniyeh in Damascus earlier this month are seen as betokening serious intent. Israel’s chief of staff Lt. Gen. Gaby Ashkenazi told graduating officers Wednesday, Feb. 20, that he could not rule out a possible “tough ordeal” in the near future. Israel [...]

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Asked about plans for a cartel, Bouteflika said: “It’s clear that countries such as Russia, Qatar and Algeria already play a major role on international gas markets and they should coordinate their activities even more.”
He said that the Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF), set up in Tehran in 2001, should “play a more active role” [...]

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Following up on our GLORIA dispatch, “Who Owns the Palestine Card” in which a high-ranking Iranian official claims the battle against Israel as a Shia and non-Palestinian monopoly—comes a Hamas statement which also indicates the deep divisions among Muslims and Arabs. At the same time, in contrast to the bragging (or is it whistling in [...]

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In an exclusive new index, Foreign Policy and the Center for a New American Security surveyed more than 3,400 active and retired officers at the highest levels of command about the state of the U.S. military. They see a force stretched dangerously thin and a country ill-prepared for the next fight.
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As the Israel Foreign Ministry protests to the UN repeated statements by Iran to “wipe Israel off the map” security analysts in Israel say that the Jewish democratic nation is more than ready for any aggression by Iran, Hezbollah and Syria.
“Israel was born from the ashes of the Holocaust,” said an Israel security analyst. “As [...]

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The next Middle East war may start over Sderot. To many Israelis, the daily rain of Qassam rockets is reason enough to go back into Gaza and eradicate the rocket-makers, the rocket launchers and the entire Hamas leadership that now runs Gaza. The call for action superficially makes a certain amount of sense. But memory [...]

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