Finishing a book manuscript, and so haven't had much time for serious blogging recently. Nevertheless, would like to drag everyone's attention to Dmitry Gorenburg's excellent series on Russia's military relationship with India. First part examines naval, second part ground and air, third part joint projects....
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My latest at WPR takes a look at the Russia-China arms trade: By the middle of the last decade, however, the factors that made the relationship so strong had begun.
isn't happening. I, for one, am shocked.
Two updates to posts from last week. First, Colbert is absolutely brutal to Jennifer Rubin: The Colbert Report Get More: Colbert Report Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,Video Archive Second, Eli Lake has additional sourcing on the Georgia bombing. Two US intelligence officials describing a...
Sourcing is a little thin (and by thin, I mean entirely sourced to the Georgian Ministry of the Interior), and implication seems strong (based on Russian behavior in Georgia, we.
This is just outrageous: Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has signed legislation that officially classifies beer as alcohol in Russia. The new law will allow controls on the sale of beer.
My latest at WPR takes a look at the future of Russian Navy deployments: Consequently, Russia faces a strategic dilemma whenever it makes decisions about the basing of its warships. Because of the relative isolation of its fleets, warships deployed to one region cannot be...
One of the more interesting cables revealed by Wikileaks involved a meeting between Russian and US diplomats that touched on the question of Iran-North Korea collaboration. One of the key.
One lesson I take from this is the US-Russian cooperation on nuclear non-proliferation is altogether a good thing: In November 2009, six years after the government of Libya first agreed.
In light of growing disquiet about Chinese intentions and capabilities in the Pacific among US security types, it's worth taking note of this fairly alarmist Russian analysis: This brings [Aleksandr] Khramchikhin back to China. He has previously written some fairly alarmist pieces about the potential Chinese threat...
Quiggin on the end of the Great War: Despite the emergence of the ever-present nuclear menace, 1945 marked the low point of the 20th century in many ways. At least.
This is genuinely fascinating: When police found a russian-engineered submarine under construction on the outskirts of landlocked Bogota last week, one senior officer swore they had stumbled on "irrefutable proof.