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Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jul 09, 2007Russian Space Agency head Anatoly Perminov recently congratulated Yury Solomonov, general designer of the Moscow Heat Technology Institute, on the successful submarine launch of a new sea-based strategic missile, the Bulava, which was developed by his institute. The launch was part of a series of flight tests. Such publicity given to an event so ordinary and routine may seem strange, but only at ... more Japan Makes Missile Defence Shield Priority 
Tokyo (AFP) Jul 07, 2007Japan said Friday it aims to erect a missile defence shield as quickly as possible as North Korea develops increasingly sophisticated weaponry, including long-range rockets. Japan's annual defence report warned that North Korea is improving its missile system to cover all east Asia, including Japan, and potentially reach the northern tip of Australia as well as part of Alaska. The report, approv ... more The Soft Partition Of Iraq 
Washington (UPI) Jul 06, 2007The partition of Iraq is far from an original idea. The notion has been floated around Washington and Baghdad numerous times since the start of the war in 2003. Pundits, journalists and politicians have in the past proposed the partition of Iraq in various forms despite strong opposition from Iraqi leaders, the Bush administration and the Iraqi Study Group headed by former Secretary of State Jam ... more The Invisible Refugees Of Iraq 
Washington (UPI) Jul 06, 2007The displacement of Iraqi refugees -- close to 4 million -- represents the most serious crisis involving population movements in the Middle East since the exodus of Palestinians in 1948, when fleeing the creation of the state of Israel, hundreds of thousands established themselves in decrepit refugee camps in Jordan, Syria and Lebanon, as well as in Gaza and in the West Bank. Yet despite t ... more Korea After Unification 
Sapporo, Japan (UPI) Jul 06, 2007It may years away, but the unification of the two Koreas is bound to occur some day -- the most likely route through the collapse of the North. This could occur because "Dear Leader" proves to be a threat to too many in the Communist leadership, who agree to unification with the South in exchange for retaining some position of authority in the unified state. Or it could occur as a result of a su ... more |
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Beijing (SPX) Jul 09, 2007The Chinasat 6B telecommunication satellite, built by Thales Alenia Space as prime contractor, was successfully boosted into orbit on Thursday July 5, from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan Province by a Long March 3B rocket. Chinasat 6B will enable ChinaSatcom to offer communication and broadcast capabilities to the Chinese market. Based on the Thales Alenia ... more ABM And The Geostrategic Interests Of Azerbaijan 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jul 09, 2007The proposal by Russian President Vladimir Putin to use jointly with the United States the Gabala radar site, leased by Russia from Azerbaijan, as an element of a missile defense shield is well worth examining through the lens of Azerbaijan's geostrategic interests. How compatible is Putin's initiative with Azerbaijan's national security strategy in the short, medium and long terms? In lin ... more Waste Not Stay Hot Says Spanish Government With New Air Con Rules 
Madrid (AFP) Jul 06, 2007The Spanish government led by example Friday on energy waste, ordering pubic buildings to stick to a minimum summer temperature of 24 degrees Celsius (77 degrees Fahrenheit). With much of Spain baking in rising summer temperatures that can surpass 40 degrees, the government is courting unpopularity by making people work under the restrictions. But Spanish First Deputy Prime Minister Maria Teresa ... more Successful Launch Second German Sar-Lupe Observation Satellite 
Cannes, France (SPX) Jul 03, 2007The second SAR-Lupe satellite, part of the German observation system, was successfully boosted into orbit yesterday from the Plesetsk space centre by a Russian Cosmos-3M rocket at 21:38:41 hours CEST. SAR-Lupe provides high-resolution images of the ground 24 hours a day to the German Ministry of Defence. Thales Alenia Space has supplied the Sensor Electronic units forming the core of the Synthet ... more The Adventures Of ASTRO And NextSat 
Huntsville AL (SPX) Jul 05, 2007Picture this: Two robots hang suspended in space, nose to nose. One reaches out a crooked silver arm and begins to minister to the needs of the other. Fuel is exchanged, a battery is replaced; servicing complete, the two silently drift apart. These robots, named ASTRO and NextSat, are real and they are in Earth orbit now. On March 8, 2007, an Atlas V rocket boosted the pair into space. Their mis ... more |
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Washington (UPI) Jul 05, 2007In the 1989 Marine Corps Gazette article where I and four colleagues first laid out the Four Generations of Modern War, we foresaw two potential futures. One, the way the world has gone, was Fourth Generation War. The other, the direction the Pentagon has taken, became known as the Revolution in Military Affairs, or, more recently, Transformation. This vision of future war, a vision anchored in ... more Mixed Signals From Iran 
Washington (UPI) Jul 05, 2007The Swiss cartoon shows an angry U.S. general briefing a puzzled President George W. Bush with a map of the Middle East. "Here you can see the Lebanonization of Iraq, the Iraqization of Palestine, and the Palestinization of Lebanon." Baffling signals are the norm in the Middle East. The latest come from Iran. The regular army and the Revolutionary Guards appear to be at odds over their res ... more Missiles In Kaliningrad 
Washington (UPI) Jul 05, 2007The ballistic missile defense showdown in Central Europe between the United States and Russia took another grim leap forward this week: Russian First Deputy Premier and former Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov said that if the Bush administration pushed ahead with its plans, Russia would respond by openly deploying ballistic missiles targeted on the bases in its oblast or region of Kaliningrad. ... more Interpreting Nukes In Japan 
Washington (UPI) Jul 05, 2007If the United States had not dropped nuclear bombs on Japan, World War II could have dragged on even longer and claimed more Japanese as well as American lives. That line of thinking is a mainstream U.S. theory when justifying the Truman administration's decision to attack Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. But merely mouthing that idea in front of a group of university students is ill-advised for ... more Let Them Raise Catfish Says Indonesian Minister As Future For Mud Volcano Victims 
Jakarta (AFP) Jul 05, 2007Hundreds of hectares of land inundated by sludge spewed from a devastating "mud volcano" in Indonesia should be developed to raise catfish, a minister said Thursday. "We have tested this and it has been proven that catfish can be raised in ponds made of the mud," environment minister Rachmat Witoelar told AFP. Witoelar said the government's priority was now to try to reduce the mud outflow or ha ... more
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