U.S. airpower depends on the ability to overcome surface-to-air missile (SAM) defenses, and one of the key weapons for this role is the AGM-88 High Speed Anti-radiation Missile (HARM), which homes in on radar emissions. (You can see them, under the F/A-18’s wings in the picture, above.) The defenders can either turn off their [...]

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A local news agency says Russia plans to build five or six aircraft carriers as part of plans to rebuild the country’s once-formidable navy.
Interfax-Military quotes an unidentified Russian navy official as saying construction of the ships should start in 2012-2013.
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India is ramping up its military deployment along the border with China, positioning two army divisions, each comprising around 25,000 to 30,000 personnel, as also a squadron of frontline Sukhoi Su-30 MKI combat jets at a key airbase in the northeast, military officials said.
This apart, the induction of the first of three airborne warning and [...]

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The military’s big thinkers plan for future needs by predicting potential security threats
By the Pentagon’s reckoning, the world in 2018 will be a grim place, with a considerable array of tricky national security threats facing the U.S. military. Multinational corporations, employing increasingly thuggish private security forces, begin to undermine the traditional power of nation-states. Countries [...]

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The experts had visited the No. 3 military dock of the Changxing Island Shipyard — the new location of the Jiangnan Shipyard, known as the cradle of China’s defense industry — based in Shanghai, where they acquired exclusive photos of the interior of the shipyard. From these it can be deduced that China is ready [...]

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While Military Intelligence Chief Amos Yadlin says MI does not foresee a war breaking out this year, MI does believe that the decisions taken and processes embarked upon this year will determine the direction the Middle East will take in the coming years. As such, 2009 is a crucial year. All of Israel’s enemies are [...]

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Some hackers are born. And, if the Pentagon has its way, some can be taught.
The U.S. military is developing easy-to-use, highly powerful hacking tools for GIs to use in case of a cyberwar, reports the Web site of Aviation Week and Space Technology magazine.
“The Russians conducted a cyberattack that was well coordinated with what Russian [...]

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Though publicly muted, there is growing concern in capitals across the rest of Asia over Beijing’s burgeoning pre-eminence. “There’s no escaping the fact that, in the past ten years, China’s negotiating power has increased while others have weakened,” says C. Raja Mohan, a leading Indian foreign policy expert and professor at Singapore’s S. Rajaratnam School [...]

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This is a lesson for the U.S. The U.S. is the Goliath, and Russia and China are the Davids. When Davids acknowledged their weakness and make adjustments accordingly, their winning percentage in battle goes from 28.5% to 63.6%.
The U.S. is in serious trouble.
From the article:
In the Biblical story of David and Goliath, David initially put [...]

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Australia will powerfully strengthen and reorient its defense forces in the face of a rising China that it expects to wield an increasingly long reach.
Assessing risks in the changing Asian balance of power out to 2030, a defense white paper sets out plans for land-attack missiles as a strategic strike force based on a fleet [...]

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North Korean forces are invading South Korea. Drug gangs along the U.S.-Mexican border are seizing parts of El Paso, Texas. A nuclear device is floating in waters somewhere near the U.S. And, NATO forces are deploying along the border of Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan to quell ethnic violence. American military minds confronted these crises in detail. [...]

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Anatoly Serdyukov, the Defence Minister, acknowledged recently that 90 per cent of Russia’s weaponry was obselete. Mr Medvedev has authorised large-scale rearmament from 2011, regardless of the economic crisis gripping Russia, with mass production of new warships and submarines as well as modernisation of the country’s nuclear arsenal.
New equipment is the easy part compared [...]

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AN internal army report has given a more threatening assessment of China’s military expansion than was publicly stated in the defence white paper, warning bluntly that it could “destabilise” the region.
The report, obtained by The Weekend Australian, also makes more hawkish comments about India’s military ambitions than Defence has admitted.
A draft copy of an army [...]

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Two Chinese fishing vessels confronted a U.S. Navy surveillance ship in the Yellow Sea, prompting the American ship to call for help to a nearby Chinese military vessel, the Pentagon said on Tuesday.
The incident, the fifth of its kind in two months, occurred last Friday in international waters about 170 miles from the Chinese mainland [...]

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China’s build-up of sea and air military power funded by a strong economy appears aimed at the United States, the chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff said on Monday.
Admiral Michael Mullen said China had the right to meet its security needs, but the build-up would require the United States to work with its [...]

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THE new defence white paper will transform Australia’s defence for a generation, asking taxpayers to dig deeply in their pockets to fund the creation of one of the most potent military forces in the Asia-Pacific.
It foreshadows the most dramatic build-up of naval power since World War II, predicated on the belief that the rise of [...]

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Russian news agencies cite one of the country’s deputy defense ministers as saying that more that 35,000 officers are to be fired in 2009 as part of sweeping military reforms.
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