"The GLOBEMASTER US Military Aviation Database is a web based service providing information about the active aircraft operating units and air bases of the US forces around the world."
The website is supported by Pavel Podvig. He has been the principal investigator of the Russian Nuclear Forces project from its very beginning and was the editor of the Russian and English editions of the book Russian Strategic Nuclear Forces. Pavel Podvi
Elaine Supkis on EATR: ENERGETICALLY AUTONOMOUS TACTICAL ROBOT. This is a Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) Phase II Project (DARPA Contract W31P4Q-08-C-0292a). Supkis blog-entry is based on a presentation of the project made 9 April, 2009, by
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
Bill Joy [quoted from Wired 8.04]: "A bomb is blown up only once - but one bot can become many, and quickly get out of control." --. " Uncontrolled self-replication in these newer technologies runs [...]a risk of substantial damage in the physical world.
a review of “The Bases of Empire: The Global Struggle Against U.S. Military Posts,” an important collection of articles on United States militarism and imperialism, edited by Catherine Lutz
Efter åtta år har ingen ens tillstymmelse till svar. De som dominerar är upptrappning utan politisk substans och tillbakadragande utan politisk heder. Vi stirrar ner i ett svart hål. Det enda vi ser är skräck., skriver Per Wirtén
Link to PDF of Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists , Volume 65, Number 6, November/December 2009 DOI 10.2968/065006010 Online Date Tuesday, November 10, 2009. Authors Robert S. Norris, Hans M. Kristensen. "As the United States and Russia continue to conso
AFP 29 Augusr 2009 - Russia plans to purchase a French naval helicopter transport ship this year and is interested in jointly producing more of the vessels, the head of Russia's armed forces said here Wednesday... The French navy currently has two Mistral
RIA Novosti. Le porte-hélicoptères français Mistral est arrivé le 23 novembre pour une visite de travail à Saint-Pétersbourg, en prévision d'une possible acquisition par la Russie d'un navire de ce type. RIA Novosti Alexeï Danichev Le porte-hélicoptères f
1 Sept 2009. "According to Tad Davis, the Army's Deputy Assistant Secretary for Environment, Safety and Occupational Health, the military is fast developing a holistic strategy for greening its energy use. “We’re looking at ways we can reduce consumption
Sara Flounders, IAC: "In evaluating the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen -- with more than 15,000 participants from 192 countries, including more than 100 heads of state, as well as 100,000 demonstrators in the streets -- it is important to a
"A fully functioning Gwadar port would be the most strategically devastating ‘pearl’ in China’s chain of naval bases. [...] Pakistan would, by going forward with its Sino-dependant long-term economic plans, become intricately bound to maintaining Chinese
It is scheduled to enter service in mid-2008... can be equipped with four MBDA (formerly Matra BAe Dynamics) Mistral or Raytheon Stinger air-to-air missiles. The air-to-air missile control functions are on the flight control grip. Target acquisition is ac
Military Deluged in Drone Intelligence (NYT 8 Jan 2010) Nick Turse: "[...]the Air Force will quite literally be flooded with video information from future battlefields; and every “advance” of this sort means bulking up the global network of facilities,
By CARL BILDT and RADEK SIKORSKI Published: February 1, 2010 The actual numbers are obviously closely held secrets. A recent report by the International Commission on Nuclear Nonproliferation and Disarmament indicates that the United States possesses appr
Timothy Garton Ash on the Global Zero initiative in The Globe and Mail, publ 3 Feb 2010. "Effective nuclear disarmament will require intrusive verification, which most of the sovereignty-conscious great powers are extremely reluctant to concede. Indeed,
Pourquoi la France concentrerait-elle les critiques, et non la Chine ? Nous sommes dans la ligne de mire. Les militants pour l'abolition ont le sentiment que les "petits" pays dotés de l'arme, comme la France, sont un maillon faible et qu'on peut donc foc
The use of Georgian training base and military infrastructure for conduction of peacekeeping operation in Afghanistan will be discussed at the informal meeting of NATO Defense Ministers in Istanbul, February 5. Georgian Defense Minister Bacho Akhalaia wi
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
"We can reasonably expect an accord confirmed by the states and the manufacturer," Teisseire said by phone. "We are in the negotiation on the details to reach something stable." ... "EADS and the seven governments that ordered the four-propeller Airbus pl
"What is the use of saying that we need federal world control of the air? The whole question is how we are to get it. " ... "A lifelong habit of thought stands between him [Wells] and an understanding of Hitler's power." "Hitler is all the war-lords and w
I often find myself quoting F. Scott Fitzgerald when I write about conspiracy theory, who said that "The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time." It's an ability that no explorer of the oute
"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
NWC is a group of academics, researchers and media professionals that enquire effects of the new kinds of war technologies. The group was born in the third quarter of 2006 after Israel-Lebanon conflict.
It turns out, however, that the picture of Marja presented by military officials and obediently reported by major news media is one of the clearest and most dramatic pieces of misinformation of the entire war, apparently aimed at hyping the offensive as a
Hannu Sokala Taloussanomat 1.4.2010. "ICAHD-järjestön Suomen-jaoston edustajat Bruno Jäntti ja Petter Nissinen pitävät vastakauppoja huomattavasti ongelmallisempina kuin Huusko. Insta Defsecin toimituksiin liittyy nimittäin hämmentävä tilasto: ihmisoikeu
Bruno Jäntti, Petter Nissinen. ICAHD Finland "Suomen puolustusvoimat ja suomalaiset aseyhtiöt käyvät laajamittaista asekauppaa kahden israelilaisen asevalmistajan, Elbit Systemsin ja Rafael Advanced Defence Systemsin kanssa. Rafael Advanced Defense Syste
International Brotherhood Of Electrical Workers - Int'l Office:: "Speaking at a symposium of labor activists, defense specialists from the public and private sectors highlighted the national security reasons why the Navy should move forward with construct
Dagens Arena-ledare 8.4.2010, av Nisha Beshara. Mer i Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_12,_2007_Baghdad_airstrike) och Wikileaks, som publicerade den 40 min långa hemligstämplade videon.
The NPR explicitly rejects reducing the high-alert status of ICBMs and strategic submarines (SSBNs), concluding that “the current alert posture of U.S. strategic forces - with heavy bombers off full-time alert, nearly all ICBMs on alert, and a significant
(Hughes-menettely) - ulko- ja turvallisuusasiain sekä puolustuspolitiikan valiokunta - A4-0005/1999. Taistaa: " Parlamentin puhemies ilmoitti 13. heinäkuuta 1995 pidetyssä istunnossa lähettäneensä Elisabeth Rehnin työjärjestyksen 45 artiklan mukaisesti kä
"It was announced yesterday that the United States will have a missile defense shield to cover its allies by 2018. Bradley Roberts, deputy assistant secretary of defense for nuclear and missile defense policy, told the House of Representatives Armed Serv
Reuters 15 april 2010 av Jim Wolf Usas antiballistiska missilsystem ska år 2018 täcka hela Europa, sa en tjänsteman vid Pentagon och utmålade ett ambitiöst mål för försvaret av ett upplevt hot utifrån Iran. ”Ett hundra procent,” sa Bradley Roberts, vid fö
By Rick Rozoff has been involved in anti-war and anti-interventionist work in various capacities for forty years. He lives in Chicago, Illinois. Is the manager of Stop NATO international.
"The Boeing X-37 (Advanced Technology Demonstrator) is an American unpiloted spaceplane operated by the U.S. Air Force for orbital spaceflight missions. It is a reusable robotic spacecraft that is a 120 percent–scaled derivative of the X-40A." Also htt
Friday, Mar 20, 2009 Ceremonies were held today at Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] in Fort Worth, Texas, to commemorate the F-16 Peace Xenia IV program for Greece. The ceremony marks an important production milestone, demonstrating that the program is on sch
- Carnegie Endowment for International Peace:"Stephen I. Schwartz and Deepti Choubey have determined for the first time that the United States spent over $52 billion on nuclear weapons and related programs in fiscal year 2008, figures that even the govern
"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
Conn Hallinan: "Drones are a high-tech solution to a deeply complex political problem. The longer they stalk the skies over Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia, the more difficult those political problems become. It is time to stop bombing and start talking."
Garteh Porter interviewed 20 June. Marja campaign - the defeat shows that the US cannot get the support of the population & will not be able to eliminate the Taleban. The Kandahar campaign. "When you go to protect people, the people have to want you to pr
by Kyoungeun Cha, who works for the Peace Network in South Korea."The U.S. and South Korean government are expanding their military alliance, and if the naval base on Jeju Island is set up, the U.S. navy will use the base to monitor China’s naval power. B
David Cronin (IPS 19.6.2010) "Some 1.6 billion euros (2 billion dollars) has been allocated to the EU's "Clean Sky" project, which aims to develop aircraft engines that emit half as much carbon dioxide as those now in use. With the funding being divided b
The obvious solution is to reduce military spending and apply those savings to a green technology initiative that reduces our dependency on fossil fuels, shrinks our carbon footprint, and creates jobs.
Opinion by Christian Whiton 25 Oct 2010: "First and foremost, it is important to understand that this is a serious challenge to our national security. It’s not about government transparency or free speech, which is the claim WikiLeaks and its leader, a ce
Sam Jones, The Guardian, 26 Oct 2010. "Christian Whiton says whistleblowing website presents serious challenge to national security after leak of Iraq war logs"
Idag är ”hela den organisation, den planläggning och det kunnande som en gång handlade om att försvara landet borta” skriver professorn i underrättelseanalys vid Lunds universitet Wilhelm Agrell i ”Fredens illusioner - Det svenska nationella försvarets ne
It can also be argued that this widening of the kind of risks that are included as part of security potentially represents a massive securitisation of every-day life. Indeed, the justification for maintaining the overseas aid budget is based on national s
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,
"Rand Paul, the insurgent ophthalmologist from Kentucky, continues to sustain this fantasy. During his campaign, he pointed out quite reasonably that cutting social welfare programs won’t balance the federal budget. “The truth of the matter is, if you loo
13 October Letter to "The National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, established by President Obama, "is charged with identifying policies to improve the fiscal situation in the medium term and to achieve fiscal sustainability over the long
The U.S. administration's decision last month to sell billions of dollars worth of weapons to potentially unstable Arab nations in the Gulf - including Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Oman, Kuwait, Qatar and Bahrain - have triggered fears of
09TELAVIV2757 2009-12-22 09:09 SECRET Embassy Tel Aviv: MOD Political-Military Chief Amos Gilad described recent Russian cooperation on Iran as encouraging, but expressed reservations that Russia would join in any sanctions against Iran. He explained
Pacifists ought to enter more deeply into the aesthetical and ethical point of view of their opponents. Do that first in any controversy, says J. J. Chapman, then move the point, and your opponent will follow. So long as antimilitarists propose no substit
After 225 days in orbit the Air Force’s mysterious X-37B space plane touched down Friday at 1:16 a.m. local time at California’s Vandenberg Air Force Base. It was only the second fully automated re-entry and runway landing in the history of space flight.
The Pentagon has rolled out prototypes of its first-ever programmable "smart" grenade launcher, a shoulder-fired weapon that uses microchipped ammunition to target and kill the enemy, even when the enemy is hidden behind walls or other cover.
Noah Shachtman December 6, 201: "What the 29-foot-long craft did during all those months in orbit is still a matter of intense speculation. a prototype for an orbiting bomber? platform to take out the satellite assets of an enemy"?Russian military estab
I do think there's a case to be made, moral as well as pragmatic, against assassination-by-drone. I don't buy it, but I may be wrong. But if, as is often said, the United States should not be fighting terrorism with battalions of soldiers occupying foreig
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
Juni 2008. "Lissabonfördragets påverkan på EU:s gemensamma utrikes- och säkerhetspolitik och den europeiska säkerhets- och försvarspolitiken var huvudfrågan i två betänkanden som Europaparlamentet antog idag. Europaparlamentet efterlyser en större parlame
William Pentland, Forbes, Mar. 11 2011 - 7:23 pm Image by Hyougushi via Flickr The United States military and other nations are scrambling to support the government of Japan’s efforts to avoid a nuclear meltdown at a nuclear facility affected by the massi
En iransk general som är ansvarig för utredningen kring masken Stuxnet uppger att en ny attack har drabbat landet. Den senaste attacken består av en ny mask som går under namnet Stars.
Auch die Bundesregierung rüstet auf. Abwehrzentrum tatsächlich in der Lage ist Angriffe aus dem Netz abzuwehren wird die Zeit zeigen. Die Federführung für das Abwehrzentrum übernimmt jedenfalls das Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik (BSI