Global military spending soars 45 pct in 10 years

Posted by Matt in June 9th, 2008 | no comment

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World military spending grew 45 percent in the past decade, with the United States accounting for nearly half of all expenditures, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) said Monday.
Military spending grew six percent last year alone, according to SIPRI’s annual report.
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Taiwan: China taking more aggressive stance, MND report shows

Posted by Matt in May 16th, 2008 | no comment

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China has been steadily stepping up fighter plane patrols in the Taiwan Strait, according to the Ministry of National Defense?? (MND) annual national defense report released yesterday.
The report said that while Chinese fighters patrolling the Strait made about 400 sorties per year before 1998, there were 1,500 sorties in 2001 and 1,700 in 2005.
The figures [...]

Dissuading China

Posted by Matt in May 15th, 2008 | no comment

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What about stop trading with China? Wait, that would be inconvenient. Plus it would lower my standard of living.
Wouldn’t war and death lower your standard of living even more?
From the article:
The US would like to prevent China from developing certain offensive military capabilities. A dissuasion strategy has its charms, but it lacks a political [...]

China: Let The War Games Begin

Posted by Matt in May 2nd, 2008 | no comment

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According to the 2007 edition of the Pentagon’s annual report on Chinese military power, China is developing a capability beyond regional war at a pace that both surprises and concerns U.S. officials, a capability that includes a new generation of ballistic missile submarines and the capability of a first-strike attack on our military satellites.
Appropriately, the [...]