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Surprise! Russia not about to invade Mideast, says new prophecy theory

Posted by Matt in August 21st, 2008 | no comment 
Published in Israel, War, general, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

But an unexpected war is imminent, according to best-selling new biblical analysis
According to Salus, the next war in the Middle East will involve Israel’s closest Arab neighbors – not faraway Iran or Russia, the re-emerging military power to the north. He says a sometimes overlooked or misinterpreted passage in Psalm 83 is the key to [...]

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Losing the Cold Peace

Posted by Matt in July 21st, 2008 | no comment 
Published in China, Russia, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

“China and Russia represent the return of economically successful authoritarian capitalist powers, which have been absent since the defeat of Japan and Germany in 1945,” writes Azar Gat, a national security specialist at Tel Aviv University, in Foreign Affairs magazine.
Ironically, at precisely the moment when America’s military power appears to be at its apex, the [...]

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Sun Tzu, Nuclear Weapons and China’s Grand Strategy

Posted by Matt in July 8th, 2008 | no comment 
Published in general, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Sun Tzu said: The art of war is of vital importance to the state. It is a matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin.
What is the Role of Nuclear Weapons in China’s grand strategy? The paper will also discuss how the ancient writings of Sun Tzu have informed China’s [...]

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Paper dragon: the Pentagon’s unreliable statements on the Chinese space program

Posted by Matt in June 23rd, 2008 | no comment 
Published in China, Space, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Every year the Pentagon produces a report on Chinese military capabilities called Military Power of the People’s Republic of China. Every year the media covers the release of the report with the same amount of surprise as the sheep that is startled to discover the sun rising in the East each morning—alarmed at data that [...]

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Defense Focus: Makarov’s mission — Part 1

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

Gen. Nikolai Makarov has replaced tough, old Gen. Yury Baluyevsky as the chief of staff of Russia’s armed forces and has been tasked with rapidly modernizing them — but the odds are against him.
Despite all the stories of gloom and doom about them that regularly appear in the Western media, the Russian armed forces [...]

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Dissuading China

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

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 [...]

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An Underwater Threat

Posted by Matt in May 14th, 2008 | no comment 
Published in China, Military, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

As America and its allies focus their diplomatic energy on the Middle East and Afghanistan, China continues to alter the balance of power in East Asia with little fanfare and even less resistance. Consider recent revelations that China has built a massive new naval base in Sanya, on Hainan Island. The strategically located base, which [...]

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Sabre-rattling will draw near with globalisation

Posted by Matt in April 30th, 2008 | no comment 
Published in Asia, Australia, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Some of the world’s major concentrations of military power and potential hot spots are in Asia: for example on the Korean peninsula, across the Taiwan Straits and between India and Pakistan. Strong economic growth in our region is leading to the build-up of modern military forces in China and India, as well as in South [...]

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