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DIA director: China preparing for space warfare | Washington Free Beacon

Posted by on February 24, 2012 Comments Off

Burgess stated in little-noticed written testimony prepared for an appearance before the Senate Armed Services Committee that Beijing is developing missiles, electronic jammers, and lasers for use against satellites.

Much of the space warfare activity is being carried out under the guise of China’s supposedly non-military space program, he said.

“The space program, including ostensible civil projects, supports China’s growing ability to deny or degrade the space assets of potential adversaries and enhances China’s conventional military capabilities,” Burgess said.

DIA director: China preparing for space warfare | Washington Free Beacon

Russia’s Military Doctrine: New Dangers Appear – The Jamestown Foundation

Posted by on February 22, 2010 Comments Off

In the immediate aftermath of President Dmitry Medvedev signing the new Russian military doctrine most attention focused on the fact that a first preemptive nuclear strike was not mentioned in the document and on the attention given to NATO as the chief source of “danger” to the security of the Russian Federation. Comments by NATO’s leadership that the doctrine was not a realistic portrayal of NATO were reported by the press, but there was no strong criticism of that aspect of the doctrine. Instead, Russian authors drew attention to the gap between Russia’s conventional military capabilities vis-a-vis NATO and its reliance on nuclear weapons in a conventional conflict.

Russia’s Military Doctrine: New Dangers Appear – The Jamestown Foundation

Russian Nuclear First Use: a Case of Self-Defeating Exaggeration? – The Jamestown Foundation

Posted by on January 15, 2010 Comments Off

… He asserted that this element of the draft military doctrine revealed Russia to be “a power with [an inferiority] complex,” acknowledging the decline in Russian conventional military capabilities and the appearance of precision-strike means in the United States against which Russia has no conventional defense, and linked the ensuing declaration of nuclear first use to the military doctrine of the transition period, (the end of the twentieth century). However, the doctrinal expansion of nuclear first-use to even local conflicts amounts to an admission of an inability to find other means to deal with Russia’s security challenges….

Russian Nuclear First Use: a Case of Self-Defeating Exaggeration? – The Jamestown Foundation