Vladimir Putin has proudly announced that Russia is developing superweapons that will get around the American missile defenses he sees as destabilizing the nuclear standoff. Poseidon, also known as Kanyon and Status-6, is an uncrewed underwater vehicle that can carry nuclear weapons. Putin has threatened...
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The fighter-bomber that was never built. Last weekend, Dan Nexon published a piece I wrote at the Duck of Minerva. There’s an ongoing argument about NATO expansion after the fall.
Well, the past month has been filled with excitement, hasn't it? First we learned that an orange white supremacist would be our next president. Then we got to watch the.
Oh Russia, you shouldn't have! Really. The CIA has concluded in a secret assessment that Russia intervened in the 2016 election to help Donald Trump win the presidency, rather than just to undermine confidence in the U.S. electoral...
Last night, Mikhail Gorbachev visited Louisville, and the bulk of the Patterson School braved deer filled roads to attend. I haven't seen Gorbachev before, so I can't say how much.
Putin's move on the prime minister's office seems fairly simple. I don't really disagree with anything Stratfor writes about it:In our opinion, Putin had both the authority and the informal.
I get some comments now and again on Russia posts accusing me of being alarmist. I don't think that's true; rather, I think that the Russian defense establishment has undertaken an effort to become as alarming as possible. Exhibit Z-12:Russia has tested the world's most...
From Warships: IFR:Other statements of intent last month regarding increasing naval capability included Admiral Masorin revealing that Russia is to create two new strike forces. They will be centred on.
I have an article up at TAP about the latest verbal brawl between the US and Russia over the proposed missile defense bases in Poland and the Czech Republic.
This is kind of interesting; I open up Fox News and find a front page article on a threatening new Russian ICBM that's apparently capable of defeating any US missile defense system. The missile, a variant of the Topol-M, isn't new. The Russian claims that...
Estonia has been under assault: When Estonian authorities began removing a bronze statue of a World War II-era Soviet soldier from a park in this bustling Baltic seaport last month,.
When I first met with the TAPPED folks in March, Adele Stan asked "How did you get into this security stuff?" That's not quite the right question; I think that.