Nye on Rumsfeld on Soft Power
Joe Nye has an op-ed in the Washington Post today with the story about Rumsfeld and soft-power: After the war in Iraq, I spoke about soft power to a conference co-sponsored by the Army. One of the speakers was Defense…
March 2004
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How many Chinese Nuclear Weapons Redux
In a previous post, I noted that the “NAIC estimates China has 140 nuclear ballistic missiles” including about 100 medium range ballistic missiles (MRBMs). A close look at classified documents leaked to the press suggests the number of MRBMs may…
Free Press in Iraq (What a difference a week makes)
The White House’s 22 March 2004 Iraq Fact of the Day: Fact #52: FREE PRESS IN IRAQ (03/22/04) Free press is flourishing in Iraq and providing the Iraqi people with access to a variety of news sources. More than 646…
St. Kitts and Nevis Sign CTBT
I’ve just returned from the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva, only to learn of an event of major geopolitical importance: the Government of Saint Kitts and Nevis has signed the CTBT. I will, of course, closely follow the ratification process…
From OJ to A Bian
Chen Shui-bian dispersed the crowds that had camped out near the presidential palace by agreeing to an independent panel to investigate the election eve assasination attempt (The 1000 riot police didn’t hurt, either). Taiwan’s CTI Cable News is reporting that…
China Warns of Intervention in Taiwan
A spokesman for the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council said Friday that China “will not sit back and look on unconcerned should the post-election situation in Taiwan get out of control, leading to social turmoil, endangering the lives…
Russian Defense Minister Ivanov and the Ideology of the Nuclear Posture Review
“If NATO remains a military alliance with an offensive military doctrine, Russia will have to adequately revise its military planning and principles regarding the development of its armed forces, including its nuclear forces,” warned Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov recently.…
Kadish and Space-Based Missile Defense, Redux
Air Force General Ronald Kadish, Director of the Missile Defense Agency, did it again. When asked about the relationship between space-based missile defenses and the “weaponization of space,” Kadish gave incorrect answers that might, as a result, appear misleading. For…
Kadish says no space-based missile defense
“From the standpoint of the threats we face at this particular time in the evolution of the missile defense systems, we don’t need to put weapons in space,” Lt. Gen. Ronald Kadish, Director of the Missile Defense Agency (MDA), recently…
Seigman on Sheik Ahmed Yassin Assasination
CFR’s Henry Siegman holds court today in the smartest moderated discussion I have ever read at WashingtonPost.com. Seigman, who has an excellent background article and exchange in the New York Review of Books, notes: The “old spiritual leader in a…