US ponders denying Israel arms needed for conflict with Iran

Posted by Matt in March 13th, 2010 | no comment

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debkafile’s military and Washington sources report: The Obama administration is considering withholding from Israel military items urgently needed in case of a flare-up of hostilities with Iran. This would further ratchet up the mounting row over Israel’s decision to build another 1,600 homes in E. Jerusalem. The requests were filed by defense minister Ehud Barak [...]

China, Iran Creating ‘No-Go’ Zones to Thwart U.S. Military Power — Politics Daily

Posted by Matt in March 3rd, 2010 | no comment

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But now the party’s over. The United States, Pentagon strategists say, is quickly losing its ability to barge in without permission. Potential target countries and even some lukewarm allies are figuring out ingenious ways to blunt American power without trying to meet it head-on, using a combination of high-tech and low-tech jujitsu.
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As Defense Secretary Robert [...]

AFP: NATO in ‘crisis’; Europe averse to military force: Gates

Posted by Matt in February 23rd, 2010 | no comment

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The NATO alliance faces a “crisis” as European countries have grown averse to military force and failed to invest in weapons and equipment, US Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on Tuesday.
“Right now, the alliance faces very serious, long-term, systemic problems,” Gates said in a speech to officers and officials from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
AFP: [...]

The Doomsday Plane – TIME

Posted by Matt in February 4th, 2010 | no comment

Published in Military, Air Force Crew, Cold War Relic, Doomsday Plane, Fuel Nozzle, Handful, Launch, Midair, Midst, Missile Silos, Nuclear Attack, Nuclear War, Robert Gates, Secretary Of Defense, Secretary Of Defense Robert Gates, Space Creature, Survivor, Tankers, Time Secretary, War Zones, Windshield

Secretary of Defense Robert Gates flies around the world to war zones and allies, to China and Russia and Suriname, on a Cold War relic called the Doomsday Plane. Forged in the 1970s by Boeing, it was designed to stay aloft even in the midst of nuclear war. It’s an airborne Pentagon. The plane is [...]

US to hold arms reductions talks with China, Gates says – Telegraph

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

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The US wants to open Cold War-style arms reduction talks with China to prevent future military confrontations, Robert Gates, the US defence secretary, said in New Delhi on Wednesday.
US to hold arms reductions talks with China, Gates says – Telegraph

How a Plugged-In DC Think Tank Published a General’s Brutal Intel Critique | Danger Room | Wired.com

Posted by Matt in January 12th, 2010 | no comment

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In military circles, the talk all week has been about how and why the top intelligence officer in Afghanistan wound up publishing a scathing critique through a small-but-influential think tank. Now, we’ve got the answers.
When Maj. Gen. Michael Flynn published his tough assessment of the military’s spy agencies in Afghanistan, it caught Pentagon officials by [...]

We’ve Been Talking to Iran for 30 Years – WSJ.com

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

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The Obama administration’s talks with Iran—set to take place tomorrow in Geneva—are accompanied by an almost universally accepted misconception: that previous American administrations refused to negotiate with Iranian leaders. The truth, as Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said last October at the National Defense University, is that “every administration since 1979 has reached out to [...]

US: Too Late to Stop Iran – Israel National News

Posted by Matt in September 28th, 2009 | no comment

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A top official in the Obama Administration has at last admitted what intelligence agents and Israeli government officials have been warning about for years: Iran intends to build a nuclear arsenal.
In media interviews with American television news networks scheduled to air Sunday, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said bluntly, “The Iranians have the intention of having [...]

DEBKAfile – New US anti-missile system in Israel, Azerbaijan to replace scrapped shield in E. Europe

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

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Deputy US army chief, Gen. James Cartwright and defense secretary Robert Gates amplified President Barack Obama’s statement on the US missile shield in East Europe in Washington Thursday, Sept. 17, by announcing that a new and better anti-missile missile system would be deployed in Israel and the Caucasus.
DEBKAfile discloses exclusively that the site would be [...]

China’s New Weapons May Threaten U.S. Bases, Ships, Gates Says – Bloomberg.com

Posted by Matt in September 16th, 2009 | no comment

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China is developing new weapons that could threaten the U.S. military presence in the Pacific, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said today.
“We should be concerned less with their potential ability to challenge the U.S. — fighter-to-fighter or ship-to-ship — and more with their ability to disrupt our freedom of movement and narrow our strategic options,” Gates [...]