Tag Archives: Missiles

Sun Tzu

Georgetown Students Discover China’s Nuclear Arsenal Could Be Larger than Previously Estimated

Posted by Sun Tzu Dec 1st 2011 at 5:34 pm in China, Military Technology, Nuclear Proliferation | Comments(30)
From the Washington Post: The Chinese have called it their “Underground Great Wall” — a vast network of tunnels designed to hide their country’s increasingly sophisticated missile and nuclear arsenal. For the past three years, a small band of obsessively dedicated students at Georgetown University has called it something else: homework. Led by their [...]
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El Cid

Thousands Of Libya Missiles On The Loose; Civilian Aviation Threatened

Posted by El Cid Oct 3rd 2011 at 8:05 am in Africa, Military Technology, Strategy, Terrorism, Weapons | Comments(28)
From Defense News: Officials oversee destruction of Libyan missiles The NTC [ Libya's National Transitional Council] estimates that almost 5,000 SAM-7s from Gadhafi’s stockpiles are still unaccounted for – raising concerns that the missiles could fall into the wrong hands and be used against civilian aircraft. Called to the hangar on Oct. 1, journalists watched as 10 of [...]
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Jim Hanson

Ronald W. Reagan

Posted by Jim Hanson Feb 5th 2011 at 6:57 am in Communism, Foreign Policy, Nuclear Proliferation, Russia, human rights | Comments(43)
In his day he was reviled in ways that George W. Bush could commiserate about. He was denigrated as just an actor, a lightweight, an extremist and many other insults. And yet now he is revered by most including many on the left. His crime at the time was an Unapologetically American attitude, and [...]
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Erick Stakelbeck

Exclusive Pics: Venezuelan Officials Meeting w/ Hezbollah

Posted by Erick Stakelbeck Dec 10th 2010 at 3:01 pm in Iran, Latin America, Nuclear Proliferation, Weapons | Comments(27)
News that Iran is placing medium-range missiles inside Venezuela that can reach the U.S. should come as no surprise. Last month, in a special episode of my show, Stakelbeck on Terror, a former high-ranking State Department official, Roger Noriega, shared several exclusive items highlighting the dangerous cooperation between Iran and Venezuela [...]
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Peter R. Huessy

China’s Growing Military: Much Ado About Something (Part 2)

Posted by Peter R. Huessy Jul 29th 2010 at 4:41 am in China, Cuba, Foreign Policy, Iran, Military Technology, Nuclear Proliferation, Strategy, Terrorism, Weapons | Comments(12)
For what purposes is China going to use its growing military? No, they are not going to invade Florida. (Just drill for oil some 50 miles from Spring Break). Nevertheless, they are asserting hegemonic power and it is primarily related to energy. They seek to use their military as a coercive tool to steer investment [...]
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Peter R. Huessy

China’s Growing Military: Much Ado About Something (Part 1)

Posted by Peter R. Huessy Jul 28th 2010 at 3:54 am in China, Military Technology, Nuclear Proliferation, Russia, Strategy, Weapons | Comments(33)
China’s military power has long been assessed almost solely in terms of its ability to use that capability to invade the Republic of China or Taiwan. This has led some wags to ridicule American concerns, describing the PRC threat to Taiwan as akin to a “million-man swim” given the relative lack of amphibious landing and [...]
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