A Vast Arms Buildup, Yet Not Enough for Wars
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The United States will spend more than $500 billion on security this year, a high-water mark that is creating boom times in the armaments industry.
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Chinaâs military modernization, particularly its drive to develop advanced weaponry, has been raising concerns.
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History today is not so much written by the victors as by the vanquished.
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TALL AFAR, Iraq -- A three-foot-high coil of razor wire, 21-ton armored vehicles and American soldiers with black M-4 assault rifles stood between tens of thousands of people and their homes last week.
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Does access to fuel ease nations toward nuclear weapons? Rising demand has nonproliferation experts unsettled.
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The U.S. military buildup has brought some relief from bombs and bullets to Baghdad's shattered neighborhoods. But it has failed so far to reach its overarching purpose: getting Iraqis to agree to the political compromises that Washington consider crucial for any lasting stability.
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ARM gets slapped for making a pricey buy.
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Reentering history s arena. The scheduled partial U.S. troop withdrawals from Europe were long overdue; some of us had become shrill and hoarse in calling for them over the past few years .
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The Iraq War was supposed to be a preview of the new U.S. military: a light, swift force that relies as much on sensors and communications networks as on heavy armor and huge numbers. But once the shooting started, technology fell far short of expectations.
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A colossal defense appropriation is the headline item, but it's only the beginning.
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The Americans have run out of explanations, but not excuses.
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Nevermind the civil war debate -- the real question is why didn't the U.S. make a war declaration in the first place? That could bring an end to something that never should have been started
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This past Sunday the Washington Post ran a piece on the possibility of a nuclear war with China. To my knowledge it's the first to appear in such an auspicious publication, so I'll quote it at length:Given China's appetites and our alliances and interests, a war is not inconceivable in Taiwan, or in Korea. To remove American nuclear escalation from the equation, China would need not parity but only a deterrent such as it has long possessed. The Chinese, however, whose nuclear thresholds are dissimilar to ours, would have other options. They know that every facet of America's economy, military and society depends on individual and networked electronic devices. Were these to fail all at once and irreparably, the nation would seize up, perhaps for years.Faced with victory, or with loss, they might choose to -- and who would venture to guarantee that they would not? -- detonate half a dozen high-megatonnage nuclear charges in the mesosphere, in an electro-magnetic pulse (EMP) strike perhaps not even in American airspace, cooking almost every circuit and semiconductor, rendering the American government blind, deaf and dumber than it is already and the country unable to resist the inroads that would surely follow.  Heady stuff, written in a hawkish style reminiscent of the Cold War, but does it add up to a plausible scenario for toe-to-toe nuclear combat?
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The military health-care system canât keep pace with the flood of battlefield casualties. Max Cleland--Vietnam vet, triple amputee, and former U.S. senator--on the roots of the crisis, and what needs to be done.
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The Corps orders up a passle of new South African-designed and Israeli-made bomb-deflecting vehicles. Plus: Walter Reed is not the only problem -- so many docs deployed to Iraq means a military MD shortage at home. In Danger Room.
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These guys are doing what they can, but it just isn't enough.
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No faction has been able to secure absolute power, and that has only sharpened the hunger for it.