Anyone curious to see what goes on behind the closed doors of Russia’s defence systems now needs to do no more than look online. Bloggers’ accounts show how easy it is to walk into army bases and publish sensitive images of military equipment for all to see.
Photos of a military base near Moscow went up [...]

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The QDR panel stated that a “train wreck” will occur unless our national security priorities are realigned and the defense budget is properly adjusted. It further identified a “significant and growing gap between the force structure of the military—its size and its inventory of equipment—and the missions it will be called on to perform in [...]

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China is ramping-up its military presence facing Taiwan despite the easing of hostilities across the Strait, a defence ministry report cited by local media warned Wednesday.
“Although the cross-Strait ties have improved significantly in recent years, the Chinese communists’ military have not slowed at all their pace of build-up aimed at Taiwan,” the United Daily News [...]

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Nations around the Caspian Sea are boosting their navies. With Russia and the West involved as well, it’s getting complicated.
The Caspian Sea, an oil-rich body of water on the border of Iran and the former Soviet Union, has seen an unprecedented amount of naval activity this year: Iran has launched its largest ship yet into [...]

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The PLA is in the process of creating an almost impregnable air defence system for China. Washington should take note.
The recent deployment of China’s first four indigenous KJ-2000 AWACS aircraft marks an important milestone in the PLA Air Force’s long march from being a ‘numbers intensive’ low technology force, to a much more [...]

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US combat troops are withdrawing from Iraq, where terrorist attacks are once again part of everyday life. The Iraqi population is suddenly mourning the departure of the once-hated occupiers, as fears of a civil war grow.
US Withdrawal from Iraq: Baghdad Residents Mourn Departure of Former Enemy – SPIEGEL ONLINE – News – International

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Even so, Western intelligence sources believe that mass-produced with extended range, large swarms of these flying bombs could cause death and destruction if released over densely populated Israeli areas and US military facilities and warships in the Persian Gulf, Iraq and Afghanistan.
DEBKAfile, Political Analysis, Espionage, Terrorism, Security

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The Chinese navy will hold a live-ammunition exercise in the Yellow Sea, where Washington and Seoul announced their own plan for a military exercise that has riled Beijing, China’s Ministry of Defense said on Sunday.
The Ministry said a naval fleet will stage the drill this week from Wednesday to Saturday in the sea between China [...]

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A specially upgraded Russian Akula class submarine has been caught trying to record the acoustic signature made by the Vanguard submarines that carry Trident nuclear missiles, according to senior Navy officers.
British submariners have also reported that they are experiencing the highest number of “contacts” with Russian submarines since 1987.
Russian subs stalk Trident in echo [...]

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The WSJ headline went to the heart of the matter. Since May, there have been a series of competing naval maneuvers near the Korean peninsula and in the South China Sea which have highlighted the growing confrontation between Beijing’s ambitions and the security interests of the United States and other nations along the Pacific Rim. [...]

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