a blog for those hard to find news items, awkward subjects and unwanted conversations.
[Follow up to blog post, "China's 21st Century War to Destroy the U.S. | Wake up! We Are Losing!"]
Something is very wrong. The number of press stories / pentagon reports / think-tank assessments and arbitrary Joe Geek office cube conversations revolving around Chinese Hackers continues to escalate and very little notice (publicly) appears to be [...]
Source: Wikipedia
Chinese Military Power Report
The Guardian Newspaper (UK) yesterday reported on a confidential report leaked to the Press that outlines a ‘bleak picture of a counterinsurgency effort undermined by intelligence failures that at times border on the absurd.‘
This is on topic of recent comments by Army General David McKiernan – the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan – that equally [...]
Associated Press (AP) reports this morning that the “top U.S. commander [Army Gen. David McKiernan] offered a grim view Wednesday of miliarty efforts in southern Afghanistan, warning that 17,000 new troops will take on emboldened Taliban insurgents who have ’stalemated’ U.S. and allied forces.”
This is a huge deal and should raise massive – visible from [...]
With the daily avalanche of doom and hideous gloom battering us from every angle – it’s very difficult (neigh, almost impossible!) to find any silver lining strong enough to tug on with reasonable focus and interest. So when you trip over the odd headline here and foreign-correspondent article there (in quiet corners of the [...]
The energetic French presidential race concluded yesterday with the election of moderate conservative Nicolas Sarkozy. But even as Sarkozy reaffirms France’s close relationship with the United States, the French will continue in their role as a diplomatic counterweight by reminding the U.S. of the challenges to be faced in the likely multi-polar world of the [...]
The term ‘Crazy Ivan‘ was made famous by Tom Clancy’s first novel – ‘The Hunt for Red October‘ – published in 1984 and the subsequent blockbuster movie starring Harrison Ford and Sean Connery.
The term, as called out by Sonar Operator Seaman Jones [Courtney B. Vance], is (or was) used by the U.S. Navy to describe [...]
Last Wednesday (February 7th 2007) I took a flippant, and one might even suggest ’sarcastic’ tone as I attempted compare and contrast the full-blown bravado of the prior year ‘Munich Conference on Security Policy‘ to that of the upcoming annual event.
Despite my furious attempts to exaggerate or emphasize some of the more preposterous statements made [...]
As we all know – annual conferences are a great venue for peacock pride, barrel-chested bravado, and well-worn speeches full of optimism and strategy yet hollow on truth and outcome.
The annual Munich Conference on Security Policy is this and so much more. The conference, in its 43rd year, invites “the international security community – ministers, [...]
After fifteen years of introspection, economic and political struggle and despair, Russia appears to be rapidly reclaiming its lost strength – economic and political – and is expressing its renewed confidence as a powerful alternative to the United States in world affairs.
Economic:
Russian president Vladimir Putin used his annual nationally broadcast news conference (1200 reporters from [...]
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