Analysts are actively debating the possible outcomes of an armed conflict between Georgia and the self-proclaimed republic of Abkhazia, which seceded from Georgia in 1992.
Without looking into the most pessimistic scenarios envisioning a nuclear conflict between Russia and NATO, let’s try to predict the possible outcomes of a Georgian-Abkhazian conflict.
In late 2007 the Georgian armed [...]

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Defense analysts for the British intelligence service MI6 believe China is preparing for the “eventuality of a nuclear war.” The conclusion follows evidence that Beijing has built secretly a major naval base deep inside caverns which even sophisticated satellites cannot penetrate, says a report in Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin.
In an unusual development, the analysts [...]

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The number of oil-producer-based conflicts is likely to grow in the future as stratospheric prices of crude oil push more countries in the developing world to produce oil and gas. In 2001, the Bush administration’s energy task force hailed the emergence of new producers as a chance for the United States to diversify the sources [...]

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Russia’s deployment of extra troops in the breakaway Georgian region of Abkhazia has brought the prospect of war “very close,” a minister of ex-Soviet Georgia said on Tuesday.
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A dissident Chechen military commander said on Saturday amnestied rebels recruited by Chechnya’s pro-Kremlin leader Ramzan Kadyrov were engaged in violence and stood ready for another war with Russia.
Sulim Yamadayev, in an interview with Echo Moskvy radio station, described a situation in Chechnya at odds with Kremlin claims that it has re-established control [...]

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Sensitive intelligence reports obtained by the U.S. over the past several months indicated that military commanders in China thought they had authority to use military forces without first seeking permission from Beijing’s leaders, the officials said.
The reports indicated the specific issue for China’s military was Taiwan’s March 22 nationwide referendum on whether to seek membership [...]

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Indecision is the path to war. The world is about to repeat errors that led to WWII: talking peace while a dictator prepares for war.
 
Iran’s President again showed his contempt for the UN by announcing Iran is installing 6,000 more centrifuges that spin at thousands of revolutions per minute. Ahmadinejad fails to say if they [...]

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Even though it looks relatively peaceful on the outside, Northeast Asia is in fact the heart of the global military-industrial complex. The armies that confront each other in this region — the United States, Russia, China, Japan, and the two Koreas — are the largest in the world. They are responsible for at least 65 [...]

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At 1913 Intel we’re monitoring how the world is slowly positioning itself for war. Those that want to see a more multi-polar world with forces balancing (read - opposing) the United States are simply moving us along a little faster toward a major war. This was one of the key requirements to start World war I: [...]

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After 2012-2015, the U.S. will be able to annihilate Russian strategic nuclear forces by a non-nuclear preemptive strike, said Konstantin Sivkov, the first vice president of the Russian Academy of Geopolitical Problems.
“I declare that the likelihood of a military threat is great as never before now,” Sivkov told Interfax on Saturday.
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Four types of Merkava tanks were in action in Lebanon 2006, including Merkava Mk4, the Merkava Mk 2D (with its distinctive sloped turret), the standard Mk2 (mostly with reserve units), and Merkava Mk3Baz.
Towards the end of the fighting, Brigadier General Halutzi Rodoi, the chief of the IDF Armored Corps was asked to assess the performance [...]

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Sources in Chinese military circles claim that during the 1996 Taiwan Strait crisis, when China shot missiles over the island to send a warning ahead of presidential elections, China had also formulated a plan to take over one of the small islands of Jinmen or Matsu. The Taiwan Strait confrontation that took place in 1958 [...]

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Preface: The Caspian Sea Summit and the Historical Crossroads of the 21st Century
This article is part of The Sino-Russia Coalition: Challenging America’s Ambitions in Eurasia (September 23, 2007). For editorial reasons the article is being published by Global Research in three parts. It is strongly advised that readers also study the prior piece.
History is in [...]

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Secret MI6 files reveal, for 1st time, leader’s agonizing deception of Nazis
LONDON – With Nazi “flying bombs” raining down on the nation’s capital and largest population center, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill made a fateful and agonizing decision to use a double agent to redirect the missiles toward the Jewish sector of the city, secret [...]

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A study of the 2006 Israeli-Hezbollah war commissioned by the United States Air Force and to be published this month concludes that Israel’s use of air power was of diminishing value as the fight dragged on because it was used without enough discrimination.
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China’s military forces have received the order to be fully prepared for engagement by the end of this year in the event of a change for the worse across the Taiwan Strait. China is highly concerned about Taiwan’s plans to hold a national referendum on applying for U.N. membership in the name of Taiwan, which [...]

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The question regarding a military conflict with Iran doesn’t seem to be if, but when and how? FSM Contributing Editor Col. Kenneth Allard (US Army, ret.) has some keen insights as to how America could defeat Iran – with a little bit of help from its leader, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
For months, I have argued in this [...]

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WASHINGTON, Oct. 8 (UPI) — I don’t think it possible for any historian to visit the Baltic countries or the rest of Central Europe and not reflect on the catastrophes World war I brought to that part of the world. Communism, World war II, National Socialism, the extinction of some communities and the expulsion of [...]

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The gigantic machines of Star Wars are fantasy: tomorrow’s battlefield will belong to micro-gadgets. We reveal some of the unmanned devices racing to enter the front line.
The designs are groundbreaking because for the first time they hint at the possibility of removing humans from the loop. Swarm Systems, based in London, is one of the [...]

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RUSSIA AND GEORGIA STILL TEETERING ON BRINK OF WAR
Eurasia Daily Monitor, DC - 21 hours ago
In 2005 the Georgian parliament had demanded the withdrawal of Russian military bases and peacekeepers from its territory. Moscow’s failure to meet a March …
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Hezbollah-like cells plan provocations to force war between Damascus, Israel
The leader explained in “Schmoozing” his group will initiate rocket attacks and Hezbollah-like raids against Israeli troop positions and Golan-based Jewish communities in hopes of eventually provoking a conflict or generating domestic Israeli pressure for Israel to vacate the Golan.
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