AFP: Pakistan slams ‘detrimental’ Indian submarine

Posted by Matt in July 30th, 2009 | no comment

Published in Pakistan, Afp, Foreign Ministry, Gunmen, India And Pakistan, India Pakistan, Induction, Lashkar E Taiba, Last November, Lethal Weapon, New Delhi, Nuclear Submarine, Peace And Stability, Regional Peace, Rivals, Slams, Weapon Systems

Pakistan hit out at India on Tuesday, branding its first nuclear-powered submarine “detrimental” to regional peace and vowing to take “appropriate steps” to maintain a “strategic balance”.
Relations between nuclear-armed rivals India and Pakistan have plummeted since Islamist gunmen killed 166 people in Mumbai last November, attacks that New Delhi blamed on banned Pakistani group Lashkar-e-Taiba [...]

World’s still spinning with danger

Posted by Matt in June 17th, 2009 | no comment

Published in Conflict, U.S., Afghanistan, Al-Qaeda, Challenges, Countries, Dangerous Place, Defense Spending, Forefront, iraq, Korean Peninsula, North-Korea, Peace And Stability, Risk, Rogue States, Spinning

America’s complacent at own risk
The world remains a dangerous place, populated with countries that could hold U.S. interests at risk. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and against al-Qaeda must be at the forefront in defense spending and planning, but we also need a balanced force that can address emerging conventional and strategic challenges from [...]

West must stand up to Russia or risk crisis-Georgia

Posted by Matt in May 3rd, 2008 | no comment

Published in Russia, West, 1990s, Black Sea, Caucasus Region, Energy Supplies, Former Soviet Union, Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili, Hardliners, International Crisis, International Peace, invasion, Moment Of Truth, moscow, NATO, Peace And Stability, Peacekeepers, President Mikhail Saakashvili, Reuters, Spread Of Democracy, Tbilisi, Transit Route

The “moment of truth” has come for Europe to resist hardliners in Russia who are bent on stopping the spread of democracy in the former Soviet Union, Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili said on Thursday.
Moscow has sparked an international crisis by ordering extra troops and equipment to Abkhazia, a Black Sea province which threw off [...]