China circled by chain of US anti-missile systems

Posted by Matt in February 21st, 2010 | no comment

Published in China, Afghanistan, Air Force Colonel, Crescent, Deployment, Eastern Europe, Japan, Military Affairs, Military Strategist, Missile System, Missile Systems, Neighborhood, Periphery, Political Science, Russia, Shanghai Institute, South China Sea, South India, Stretches

Air force colonel Dai Xu, a renowned military strategist, wrote in an article released this month that “China is in a crescent-shaped ring of encirclement. The ring begins in Japan, stretches through nations in the South China Sea to India, and ends in Afghanistan. Washington’s deployment of anti-missile systems around China’s periphery forms a crescent-shaped [...]

War against Pakistan and China? You’d need Napoleon – The National Newspaper

Posted by Matt in January 26th, 2010 | no comment

Published in China, India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, China, India, Looking To The Future, Military Capabilities, napoleon, National Newspaper, Pakistan, Regional Power

Almost certainly India is looking to the future, at a post-US withdrawal from Afghanistan scenario. Despite US efforts to build up Indian military capabilities as a counter-balance to growing Chinese strength, India remains conscious of its inability to meet China militarily or economically on equal terms.
With the imminent US departure from Afghanistan, China is going [...]

How the US is attacking Taliban funding | GlobalPost.Com

Posted by Matt in January 21st, 2010 | no comment

Published in Asia, Afghan, Afghanistan, Corruption, Defense Inspector General, Department Of Defense, Department Of Defense Inspector General, Development Contracts, Finance, General Accounting Office, Government Agencies, Reconstruction, State Department, Taliban, United States Government

The United States government is widening its investigation into reports that U.S. aid and development funds in Afghanistan are being diverted to the Taliban, GlobalPost has learned.
A number of U.S. government agencies are investigating corruption related to military and development contracts, including: the Department of Defense Inspector General, the State Department Inspector General; the General [...]

How the US is attacking Taliban funding | GlobalPost.Com

Posted by Matt in January 21st, 2010 | no comment

Published in Asia, general, Afghan, Afghanistan, Corruption, Defense Inspector General, Department Of Defense, Department Of Defense Inspector General, Development Contracts, Finance, General Accounting Office, Government Agencies, Reconstruction, State Department, Taliban, United States Government

Iran threatens to hit Gulf » Kuwait Times Website

Posted by Matt in January 19th, 2010 | no comment

Published in Iran, Afghanistan, Defense Minister, Iran Nuclear, Iranian Officials, iraq, Islamic Republic, Kuwait Times, News Agency, Targets, Tehran Iran, warships

TEHRAN: Iran’s Defense Minister Ahamd Vahidi said yesterday that Western warships stationed in the Gulf are “best targets” for the Islamic republic if its nuclear sites are attacked, Fars news agency reported. Iranian officials have repeatedly threatened to deliver a “crushing response” and hit US targets, including its bases in the Gulf and neighboring Iraq [...]

Afghan Drone War Spikes Under McChrystal | Danger Room | Wired.com

Posted by Matt in January 14th, 2010 | no comment

Published in War, Ackerman, Afghan War, Afghanistan, Air War, Civilian Casualties, Cutting, Danger Room, Deaths, Drone, General Stanley Mcchrystal, Munitions, Old School, Propaganda, Sky, Spencer, Spikes, Strikes, Taliban, United Nations, War Room

Since taking over as top commander in Afghanistan, General Stanley McChrystal has dramatically scaled back the traditional air war, cutting in half the number of munitions dropped from the sky. The unmanned air war, however, has escalated under McChrystal’s watch, reports Spencer Ackerman. Since July 2009, there have been 89 drone strikes in Afghanistan, compared [...]

Top Risk No. 4: U.S. financial regulatory reform | The Call

Posted by Matt in January 13th, 2010 | no comment

Published in Geopolitical, Afghanistan, climate change, Horizon, Ian Bremmer, Mid Term Elections, New Year, Obama, Policy Success, Popularity, Recession, Regulatory Reform, Risk, Unemployment, United States

On balance, 2010 is looking like a tougher year for President Obama than 2009 proved to be. Going into the new year, he has succeeded in kicking Afghanistan and climate change down the road, but pulling off real policy success on either still looks unlikely. Unemployment remains high as the country pulls weakly out of [...]

Why Wars No Longer End with Winners and Losers – Newsweek.com

Posted by Matt in January 12th, 2010 | no comment

Published in War, Academic Project, Afghanistan, Civil Wars, Cold-War, Columbia University, Correlates Of War, Half A Percent, iraq, Newsweek, Political Scientist, Winners And Losers, world-war-II

With U.S. troops leaving Iraq and deploying in Afghanistan, it’s worth asking: how are wars won now? Increasingly, they’re not. Instead, says Page Fortna, a political scientist at Columbia University who researches war outcomes, nearly half of all wars since World War II have ended indecisively. That trend between states started with the Cold War, [...]

Gerald Celente Predictions for 2010, Trends Research Institute | NowPublic News Coverage

Posted by Matt in January 3rd, 2010 | 1 comment

Published in Favorites, Forecasts, Afghanistan, Countries, Gerald Celente, iraq, Lot, Many People, Nowpublic, Pakistan, Revenge, Top Trends, Trends Research Institute, United States Foreign Policy

Gerald Celente is back with his predicitions for 2010 and many people think that Gerald Celente from the Trends Research Institute says a lot of things that come true and that he accurately predicts what will happen.
Unfortunately Gerald Celente seems to think that 2010 is not going to be the year for America either.
He [...]

How to intercept drone video feeds

Posted by Matt in December 17th, 2009 | no comment

Published in Military, Military Tech, Off-Topic, Afghanistan, Drone, Free Videos, Hard Disk, Insurgents In Iraq, Interception, Intercepts, Music Videos, Pentagon, Planes, Predator Drones, Satellite Data, Shelf Software, Shiite Fighters, Skygrabber, Software Programs, Spy, Video Feeds, Wall Street, Wall Street Journal

Have you seen the news reports today about how insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan have hacked into live video feeds from our Predator drones?

Pentagon: Insurgents intercepted drone spy videos
Shiite fighters in Iraq used off-the-shelf software programs such as SkyGrabber — available for as little as $25.95 on the Internet — to regularly capture drone video [...]