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Soviet Naval Strategy

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On September 20, 2008
Bob Bateman writes:True, it was once a powerful force, and feared by NATO. But the salient point is why the Soviet Navy was feared. It was not because it could project power far from Russia's shores. That has never been a capability the Soviet fleet...

Russian TV in the Internet Age

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On August 27, 2008
A correspondent keeps sending me groovy Russian TV clips; this one takes something of an alarmist view of the ability of a Tomahawk missile to strike targets in Russia. Of course, nothing that I'd be surprised to find on Fox News. Here's a clip of...

Having determined that the DDG-1000 has minimal military value, the Navy and Congress have decided to compromise on three, rather than zero, of the remarkably expensive but utility-challenged vessels. Democracy.

Um… what?

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On August 3, 2008
Vice Admiral Barry McCullough:However, in the current program of record, the DDG-1000 cannot perform area air defense; specifically, it cannot successfully employ the Standard Missile-2 (SM-2), SM-3 or SM-6, and is incapable of conducting Ballistic Missile Defense. Although superior in littoral ASW, the DDG-1000 lower...

BMD Confusion

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On August 1, 2008

Cernig:The head of the Missile Defense Agency, General Trey Obering, has previously justified the massive expense and foreign policy jeopardy of placing land-based anti-missile facilities in Eastern Europe on the.

The Army on Global Warming

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On June 3, 2008
Noah Shachtman notes that the Army has some interesting ideas about global warming:The Army is weighing in on the global warming debate, claiming that climate change is not man-made. Instead, Dr. Bruce West, with the Army Research Office, argues that "changes in the earth’s average...

Hans Kristensen has a good post on the inactivity of Russian SSBNs:The number of deterrence patrols conducted by Russia’s 11 nuclear-powered ballistic missiles submarines (SSBNs) decreased to only three in.

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