Avatar photoChina 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 and property of Taiwan compatriots and affecting stability across the Taiwan Straits.” This is really …

Avatar photoRussian 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. Although the press coverage links the statement to US plans to develop low yield nuclear …

Avatar photoKadish 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 example, Kadish said: [R]ight now our focus in building this integrated missile defense is terrestrial …

Avatar photoKadish 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 told the 2nd Annual Missile Defense Conference organized by the American Institute of Aeronautics and …