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...
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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.
An alternative title to this article might have been "Russia's arms industry a pathetic shambles." Russia is to embark on the biggest overseas arms shopping spree in its modern history with up to £8 billion earmarked for state-of-the art foreign military hardware, it has been...
Nice slideshow of the 65th anniversary celebration of the end of the Great Patriotic War. Love the T-34s: But especially dig Medvedev's handshake with Death: You can pass 70-630 and.
Noah Shachtman notices what I noticed two weeks ago: The Obama administration is poised to take up one of the more dangerous and hare-brained schemes of the Rumsfeld-era Pentagon. The.
Michael Cecire responds to my article about the sale of four Mistral class amphibious assault ships to Russia, but unfortunately misses most of the point: Certainly, there is no question that the Russian navy has qualitatively declined since the demise of the Soviet Union. And...
Thiessen explains why the Smolensk crash sucks for Poland, but REALLY sucks for America: This weekend, in that same forest, much of Poland’s 21st century intelligentsia was wiped out as.
I have a short article up at World Politics Review about the sale of the French Mistrals to Russia: France's decision to negotiate the sale of four Mistral-class Amphibious Transport.
Thank you, Russia: Russian state-owned aerospace group United Aircraft Corp. plans to bid for a U.S. Air Force tanker contract, teaming up with a U.S. partner, a lawyer representing UAC said March 19. "They're going to announce Monday [March 22] a joint venture with an...
To be a bit more sympathetic than Yglesias, I think that Krugman's argument on Poland might most profitably be put into this form:A Poland with sensible institutions wouldn't have suffered.
First published in 1972, Norman Davies' White Eagle, Red Star covers the Soviet-Polish War of 1920. Davies went on to write extensively about Polish history in the 20th century, and.