"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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
"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."