China circled by chain of US anti-missile systems

Posted by Matt in February 21st, 2010 | no comment

Published in China, Afghanistan, Air Force Colonel, Crescent, Deployment, Eastern Europe, Japan, Military Affairs, Military Strategist, Missile System, Missile Systems, Neighborhood, Periphery, Political Science, Russia, Shanghai Institute, South China Sea, South India, Stretches

Air force colonel Dai Xu, a renowned military strategist, wrote in an article released this month that “China is in a crescent-shaped ring of encirclement. The ring begins in Japan, stretches through nations in the South China Sea to India, and ends in Afghanistan. Washington’s deployment of anti-missile systems around China’s periphery forms a crescent-shaped [...]

French Officials Rationalize Naval Rearmament of Russia – The Jamestown Foundation

Posted by Matt in January 26th, 2010 | no comment

Published in Europe, Military, Russia, Class Ships, Excuse, Fleets, France, French Government, French License, French Officials, helicopters, Jamestown, Jamestown Foundation, Mistral-ClassWarship, moscow, NATO, Nato Member, Naval Rearmament, Neighbors, Partner Countries, Periphery, Power Projection Capability, Russia, tanks, Warship

The approval process for boosting Russian naval power is moving forward in the French government. Paris and Moscow are negotiating the sale of one French-built Mistral-class warship to Russia, to be followed by construction of three or four such ships in Russia under French license.
These intentions, amount to a program of naval rearmament for Russia, [...]

The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century

Posted by Matt in January 15th, 2009 | 1 comment

Published in Amazon.Com, general, 100 Year Forecast, 100 Years, Amazon, American Army, Austro Hungarian, Continent, Eastern Hemisphere, George Friedman, Global Financial Markets, Great Britain, Interdependence, Left Communism, Less Than Five Years, Living In London, Nazi Germany, Ottoman Empires, Peace Treaty, Periphery, Prosperous Europe, Soviet Union, Stratfor, Unprecedented Prosperity, World Europe

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By George Friedman at Stratfor.Com
OVERTURE
An Introduction to the American Age
Imagine that you were alive in the summer of 1900, living in London, then the capital of the world. Europe ruled the Eastern Hemisphere. There was hardly a place that, if not ruled directly, was not indirectly controlled from a European capital. Europe was [...]