Hezbollah, the radical Lebanese Shiite militia, then gets into the act, raining Katyusha rockets on northern Israel. But when Israeli warplanes bomb the Katyusha batteries, Syria leaps in, sending its commandos to retaliate by capturing key Israeli bunkers atop the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. Israel’s counterattack succeeds only in precipitating a hailstorm of Syrian Scud-D missiles, [...]

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After orders peaked at more than $2 billion a year early in this decade, Chinese arms deals with Russia shrank to almost nothing in 2006, and no major new contracts are in the pipeline, according to Russian, Chinese and U.S. defense experts.
“We are in a strategic pause,” said Ruslan Pukhov, an expert on the Russian [...]

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Defense establishment officials reported on Sunday that Israel has recently purchased a new supply of “Logol” pills against nuclear radiation.
The pills were first experimentally distributed in 2004 to residents of Arad and Yavneh in southern Israel, and were met with strong opposition from the mayors of these Negev towns.
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“But with these people in Iran, mutually assured destruction is not a deterrent factor, but rather an inducement,” Lewis said. “They feel that they can hasten the final messianic process. This is an extremely dangerous situation of which it is important to be aware.”
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According to Yadlin, Hamas is dissatisfied with its current situation and is looking to settle the score with Israel.
“The pressure on the organization has led it to decide that the situation is insufferable and they must break the siege and create a new equation against Israel,” he said.
In response, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said “a [...]

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Russia is a country with more than its fair share of idiosyncrasies, yet even by its standards tomorrow’s presidential vote takes peculiarity to the extreme. Those Russians who choose to cast their ballots will be participating in an election that is not really an election, in order to choose a president who, most likely, will [...]

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The map shows the world as it will exist in 2053. By 2053 the world will be divided into five regions. Russia will have defeated America in a nuclear war long before that time. 
“That’s the thesis of Third Empire, a recently published futuristic novel by Mikhail Yuryev. In the book, Yuryev predicts that the Russian Empire will [...]

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