11/22/2011 - by Michael W. Wynne There has been much said about the cost structure for the current premier program for re-building airpower, the Joint Strike Fighter. Though the Trillion Dollar moniker was rapidly debunked for its more definitive view on inflation in general than for any accuracy as to…
[caption id="attachment_14313" align="alignleft" width="150" caption=" "][/caption] By Dr. Richard Weitz 11/21/2011 - On November 1, 2011, Turkey officially extended its command of the all-important region of Afghanistan’s Kabul region for another year. Furthermore, Istanbul hosted two vital multinational meetings on November 1 and 2 designed to support international peace efforts…
11/20/2011 by Dr. Harald Malmgren The unique characteristic of a neutron bomb explosion is that it kills all the people while leaving all the buildings, homes, and other structures intact. How much of the world could be at risk of a financial neutron bomb exploding in the Eurozone? World leaders…
[caption id="attachment_20891" align="alignleft" width="98" caption=" "][/caption] By Dr. Richard Weitz 11/17/2011 - As Nicholas Eberstadt, Murray Feshbach, and other scholars have noted, the Russian Federation has been experiencing an unrelenting demographic crisis throughout its two-decade history. Russia’s population has been shrinking more, and for a longer time, than almost any…
11/16/2011 - by Dr. Richard Weitz Despite the inevitable charges of electoral fraud, Kyrgyzstan’s presidential election seems to have gone reasonably well. An end to Kyrgyzstan’s political instability would be good for the entire region. The earlier political violence in that country threatened U.S. and Russian military installations as well…
11/14/2011 by Dr. Richard Weitz The Russian government is turning its attention to revitalizing Russia’s fleet of cruise-missile and multi-purpose attack submarines. They are able to do so with the apparent completion of Russia’s fourth-generation Project Mk 955 Borey-class nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine and its new RSM-56 Bulava (NATO code…
11/09/2011 - by Richard Weitz The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has written its latest quarterly assessment of Iran’s nuclear program and things don’t look good. The report and other comments by the IAEA and its member governments indicate that Iran has made considerable progress In the three pillars required…
11/10/2011 By Michael Wynne If one recalls the history of the transformation movement, it became embraced by then candidate Bush in his speech at the Citadel and then he followed through on the speech as president. The calls for a revolution in military affairs now became defense transformation. In all…
