RSS- Supreme Court oral arguments to be heard on April 25 about presidential immunity for official acts
- Nasa’s Voyager-1 sends usable data from deep space
- The Wondrous Oak
- Three Seas Summit: Vilnius 2024
- Tit for tat until it all goes boom
- Deadly H5N1 avian influenza strain detected on mainland Antarctica
- “BYD is launching its next-gen Blade EV battery soon with more range and even lower cost”
- Iran launches air attacks on Israel
- ISW on the developing Ukrainian defense industrial base and Russias strikes on the Ukrainian energy infrastructure
- Britain? Kaput! By Walrus.
Monthly Archives: August 2008
A Lebano-Syrian duet
"Syria and Lebanon have agreed to start diplomatic ties and exchange ambassadors for the first time since independence about 60 years ago, a Syrian presidential adviser said on Wednesday. The decision was taken during a meeting in Damascus between President … Continue reading
Posted in Current Affairs
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Let’s make a deal – NATO and Russia
In spite of the "jelly donut" (Berliner) talk from McCain it is probably time to discuss a methodology for avoiding similar possible flash points between the United States and Russia. It appears to me that Russia’s behavior is largely the … Continue reading
Posted in Current Affairs
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“Fear of Russia ends Israeli support for Georgia”
"A top Georgian envoy in Israel on Sunday urged the Jewish state to use whatever leverage it has to put pressure on Russia to pull its forces out of the small Caucasus nation. But while voicing support for Georgian territorial … Continue reading
Posted in Current Affairs
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Rice’s interview as quoted in Israel
""We don’t say yes or no to Israeli military operations. Israel is a sovereign country," she said in response to a question from The Politico Web site as to whether she was concerned that America would be blamed in the … Continue reading
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Outpost “Margha”
"Corsi is hampered in what he can do – with only 18 soldiers, he cannot allow his men to patrol the vicinity. There are several reconstruction projects ongoing, but the Americans are largely unable to protect them. All Corsi can … Continue reading
Posted in The Military Art
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Is Iranian enrichment a realistic target set?
"From the time that Iran halted the suspension of its centrifuge manufacturing efforts and its adherence to the Additional Protocol, the IAEA’s knowledge of Iran’s centrifuge manufacturing complex has degraded dramatically. U.S. and other intelligence agencies appear to have only … Continue reading
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5th Generation Warfare in Georgia?
"Georgia will withdraw its entire 2,000-strong military contingent from Iraq within three days to help battle South Ossetian separatist rebels, a senior Georgian military official said on Saturday. "We are actually in the stage of preparing our departure," Colonel Bondo … Continue reading
Posted in The Military Art
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Suskind interview on National Public Radio
http://www.npr.org/templates/player/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=4&islist=true&id=13&d=08-07-2008 Here find the link to Suskind’s interview on the NPR radio program "Fresh Air." pl
Posted in Current Affairs
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Hamdan will go home.
"The prosecutors said they would have preferred a longer sentence, but noted that they had won a conviction. “That’s the way a fair, open system works,” said one of the prosecutors, Maj. Omar Ashmawy. “The sentence isn’t always what the … Continue reading
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Gates, Ignatius and the lost cause
"· Fix the half-baked reform of the intelligence agencies. The 2004 law that created the Office of the Director of National Intelligence was meant to deal with the intelligence failures that led to Sept. 11, but it instead has created … Continue reading
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