Posted by Matt in December 26th, 2008 |
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In August, Putin’s Russia seemed unstoppable, specifically after its five-day war with Georgia punctured the appearance of a new era of U.S. power in the former Soviet Caucasus and Central Asia. Georgia seemed the crowning achievement of a several-year-campaign of projecting Russian power over its borders after a decade of retrenchment following the Soviet collapse. [...]
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Posted by Matt in December 9th, 2008 |
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I found this article very disturbing. The thought of nuclear war with Russia and/or China is not even on the radar screen of the Secretary of Defense, Robert Gates.
Think about the threats to the United States today. Yes, there are a lot of bad guys out there gunning for us. However, the amount of damage [...]
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Posted by Matt in June 3rd, 2008 |
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A group of German security and peace researchers warns that current armament tendencies may pose greater threats to the world than the Cold war did, a development for which the United States is mainly to blame.
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