There's a rather breathtaking lack of self-awareness in this Asian Wall Street Journal op-ed from China military expert Richard Fisher. The passage in question: Read more »
There's a rather breathtaking lack of self-awareness in this Asian Wall Street Journal op-ed from China military expert Richard Fisher. The passage in question: Read more »
Nuclear weapons can change your perspective. Here we are, chewing over the rights and wrongs of a coercive humanitarian intervention in Burma, while North Korea, apparently, inches towards famine. Yet in the latter case, Arms Control Wonk gravely (and correctly) warns that: Read more »
Andrew O'Neil's op-ed today argues that if we're serious about our commitment to the 'responsibility to protect', we have to risk the lives of our air crews by dropping relief supplies into Burma without the regime's permission. Read more »
Regular readers will know I'm something of an enthusiast for what might be called the 'new security agenda'. I'm sympathetic to the idea that we face a number of serious non-military security threats in our future, and that the era of state-on-state conflict may be passing. I also believe that terrorism, in its present form, has been over-rated as a security threat, but that it could metastatize into a far more serious problem. Read more »
There's a rather breathtaking lack of self-awareness in this Asian Wall Street Journal op-ed from China military expert Richard Fisher. The passage in question: Read more »
US Defense Secretary Robert Gates is proving himself quite the provocateur. He has given speeches advocating increased funding for US soft power, he has criticised the US Air Force for being old fashioned, and now he says elements of the US military are prone to what he calls 'Next-War-itis', which he defines as: Read more »
Former Australian foreign minister Gareth Evans, currently head of the International Crisis Group, has written an interesting op-ed about Burma and the 'Reponsibility to Protect' (R2P), a humanitarian intervention doctrine he helped create. Read more »
This Jane's Intelligence Review exclusive featuring satellite images of a new Chinese underground submarine base is behind a firewall, so I haven't been able to read the whole thing yet. But given the kind of expertise Jane's boasts, I assume their analysis is more sober than that offered by the UK Telegraph. This claim is particularly laughable: Read more »
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