Israel: A Regional War May Be Approaching

Posted by Matt in February 8th, 2010 | no comment

Published in Israel, Middle East, War, Coastline, Enemies, Explosives, Fatah, Foreign Minister, Hamas, Hassan Nasrallah, Hizbullah, Hostilities, Iran, Israel, Israel War, Last Saturday, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, New Ways, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Proxies, Regional War, Syria

A regional war may well be approaching. The actions and statements of Iran and its Syrian, Lebanese and Palestinian proxies over the past week or so indicate that this is what Israel’s enemies are gunning for.
The latest developments are menacing. Last Saturday, Iran’s unelected president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad threatened to open up a new round of [...]

How Safe Is a World Without the Bomb? – NYTimes.com

Posted by Matt in January 5th, 2010 | no comment

Published in Favorites, Nuclear, Abolition, Bomb, bombs, Delivery Systems, Emergency Communications, Enemies, Hair Trigger, Half A Dozen, Mobilization, Nuclear Crisis, Nuclear Facilities, Nuclear Genie, Nuclear Powers, Nuclear War, Nuclear Weapons, Practice Drills, Scratch, Temptation, Transition Period, world-war-II

A world without nuclear weapons will be a disaster as countries position themselves to quickly build bombs in order to preemptively strike their enemies. But it’s actually worse than that. The transition period to the abolition of nuclear weapons will be extremely dangerous due to the temptation to preemptively strike.
After all, he notes, under abolition, [...]

The Atheism crusade is encountering powerful and possibly pivotal resistance – By Robert Wright | Foreign Policy

Posted by Matt in December 7th, 2009 | no comment

Published in general, Atheism, Atheists, Atmospherics, Conservative Christians, Crusade, Darwin, Enemies, Evolution Richard Dawkins, Foreign Policy, God, Intelligent Design, Religion, Resistance, Richard Dawkins, Teaching Evolution

If you’re a Midwestern American, fighting to keep Darwin in the public schools and intelligent design out, the case you make to conservative Christians is that teaching evolution won’t turn their children into atheists. So the last thing you need is for the world’s most famous teacher of evolution, Richard Dawkins, to be among the [...]

Cold war enemies Russia and China launch a cyber attack every day – Telegraph

Posted by Matt in December 4th, 2009 | no comment

Published in China, Russia, Attempts, China Attack, Cold-War, Crack, Cyber Attacks, cyber-attack, Economic Intelligence, Enemies, Gchq, hackers, Jonathan, Jonathan Evans, Listening Station, Mi5, Military Projects, Political Intelligence, Russia, Sensitive Technology, Technology Projects, Telegraph

A crack team that fights hackers, based at the GCHQ listening station, is being called on to deal with more than 300 cyber attacks a year, it has emerged.
Jonathan Evans, the head of MI5, has warned that Britain faces “unreconstructed attempts by Russia, China and others” who were using “sophisticated technical [...]

DEBKAfile – Iran digs hundreds of missile silos – some for misdirection

Posted by Matt in November 14th, 2009 | no comment

Published in Iran, Missiles, Air Defenses, Air Missiles, Debkafile, Enemies, Intelligence Report, Intelligence Sources, iranians, Israeli Attack, Launch Pads, Missile Batteries, Missile Launch, Missile Silos, Nuclear Installations, Operational Missile, Silo, Western Iran, Western Sources

The Iranians are frenziedly digging hundreds of new missile launch silos in central and Western Iran in readiness for a US or Israeli attack on their nuclear installations, DEBKAfile’s intelligence sources report. Some Western sources have noticed that they are creating more silo bases than they have operational missile batteries in order to mislead their [...]

ICBMs Without Nukes: USA’s Best New Weapon? – Newsweek.com

Posted by Matt in November 4th, 2009 | 2 comments

Published in Military, arsenal, Barack Obama, Blog, Enemies, Globe, Icbms, New Weapon, Newsweek, Nuclear Warheads, Nukes, Planes, Ratchet, Striking Distance, terrorists, United States, warships, Wealth Of Nations

How might the United States ratchet up pressure on foreign enemies and threats, wherever they are on the globe, while reducing the need to station warships, planes, and troops within striking distance? A new type of weapon might do the trick–and even facilitate President Barack Obama’s efforts to reduce the U.S. arsenal of nuclear warheads, [...]

Israel’s enemies are wrong – Israel Opinion, Ynetnews

Posted by Matt in October 26th, 2009 | no comment

Published in Israel, Circumstances, Commit Suicide, Enemies, Infrastructures, Israel, Launching Site, Military Targets, terror, Ynetnews

And here the formula is cruel and simple: The more effective the rocket terror war will be, the less “proportional” the response would be.
Under such circumstances, we will see a massive retaliatory blow, from the air and from the ground, targeting various infrastructures and sites and being painful enough to prompt the enemy to hold [...]

Report: U.K. planning ‘bug-eyed’ warriors

Posted by Matt in September 18th, 2009 | no comment

Published in Military Tech, Bae Systems, Enemies, Helmet, Line Troops, Night Vision, Optical Technology, Tiny Parasite, Warriors

A revolutionary new optical technology modeled on the eyes of a tiny parasite will soon afford front-line troops better night vision.
The digital device, worn over one eye and attached to a helmet, will allow soldiers to spot enemies out of the corner of their eyes without even moving their heads, say engineers of the British-based [...]

Did Israel hijack Russian ship [Arctic Sea] to stop Iran arms shipment? | International | Jerusalem Post

Posted by Matt in August 23rd, 2009 | no comment

Published in Israel, Russia, Arctic Sea, Classic Conspiracy Theories, Cruise-Missiles, Defense Experts, Enemies, Hijack, Hijackers, International Jerusalem Post, Israeli Officials, Medvedev, moscow, Mossad, Novaya Gazeta, Pravda, Russian Counterpart, Russian Ship, Russians, Shimon Peres, Urgent Request, Worn Path

Pravda’s Web site reported that the ship had been smuggling cruise missiles to Iran on a well-worn path via Algeria, but a “power that has relations with Ukraine” had prevented this. Novaya Gazeta reported that the hijackers had been operating on behalf of the Mossad. It also reported that President Shimon Peres’s visit to Moscow [...]

India launches its first nuclear-powered submarine – Telegraph

Posted by Matt in July 26th, 2009 | 1 comment

Published in India, Arihant, Defence Preparedness, Destroyer, Enemies, First Nuclear Submarine, India, Indian Prime Minister, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Launch, Manmohan, Manmohan Singh, Milestone, Military Prowess, Prime Minister Manmohan, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Rivals, Southern Port City, Telegraph, Visakhapatnam

India has launched its first nuclear submarine as the country seeks to reinforce its military prowess in the face of competition from regional rivals.
The 6,000 tonne Arihant – which means ‘Destroyer of Enemies’ in Sanskrit – was officially named on Sunday in the southern port city of Visakhapatnam.
Attending the ceremony the Indian prime minister, [...]