Mads Gilbert och Erik Fosse till NRK före avresan från Kairo till Gaza: "Vi vil ta oss til Gaza by og stille oss til disposisjon for palestinske helsemyndigheter og ta fatt på det medisinske arbeidet med de skadde. Begge vi to er forberedt på å jobbe hard
"The average volume of worldwide arms transfers for 2005–2009 was 22 per cent higher than the period 2000–2004. [...] Greece remains among the top five largest recipient of major conventional weapons for 2005-2009, but has fallen from third place for 2000
Dana Priest & William Arkin: "The top-secret world the government created in response to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, has become so large, so unwieldy and so secretive that no one knows how much money it costs, how many people it employs, how
Paul Rogers in OpenDemocracy 11 Feb 2010. "The Kajaki power-plant experience [2008] has implications, direct and indirect, for Operation Moshtarak. First, it reveals the possibility of Nato using its huge firepower advantages to push Taliban paramilitarie
Gates noted Sunday that "we have had a number of countries forego nuclear weapons, countries that ... really voluntarily walked away from them: South Africa, Libya, Taiwan, South Korea, Argentina, Brazil. "So total pessimism with respect to nonproliferati
The signals of growing turbulence in a range of military environments - Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Yemen and beyond - send a worrying message to Washington. Paul Rogers "Afghanistan and Iraq played little part in the United States’s mid-term elections,
Andrew Mack "... in the case of Kissinger and his collaborators, there is also a coldly "realist" calculation: that in a nuclear-free world, the United States would be the world's pre-eminent military power - one no longer be vulnerable to annihilation
the United States now faces a further deep underlying worry: that paramilitary groups worldwide are ever more aware that their most effective impact might come less from laying improvised-explosive devices (IEDs) to disable small military units than by st
Duff i FT , 30 jan. 2008: "MEPs stress the need for good collaboration between themselves and national parliamentarians in the scrutiny of EU foreign, security and defence policy. Indeed, the Lisbon treaty expressly requires there to be a special interpar
"HAARP is investigating an atmospheric layer of charged particles known as the “ionosphere.” These charged particles impact long-range communications and space operations. HAARP’s goal is to understand this impact and help improve long-range communication