This edition of FYRP is an experiment. Instead of a roundup on different subjects, it focuses on just one: Iran’s President-Elect Hassan Rohani and what his presidency might mean for the nuclear issue. A regular FYRP will be published shortly. This FYRP also ends with a special request to readers. Meir Amit Center | Israel’s …
Chong Chon Gang Interdiction
by | 2013-07-18 | 16 Comments
Steph Hagard wrote a great little piece on the Chong Chon Gang interdiction. I have only a few additional comments. 1. I find the story that Cuba was sending the equipment to North Korea for refurbishment plausible. In fact, it resolves a minor mystery. In 2006, the Cuban’s revealed new mobile launchers for the S-75 …
Saudi Arabia’s Strategic Dyad
by | 2013-07-15 | 28 Comments
Sean O’Connor has a really great article on Saudi Arabia’s missile force in Jane’s Intelligence Review (“Saudi ballistic missile site revealed“) that nicely updates his 2009 blog post on the same subject. O’Connor’s article offers a nice excuse to tackle what I like to call Saudi Arabia’s “Strategic Dyad.” Over the past decade, I suspect …
Sufficiency
by | 2013-07-15 | 1 Comment
The Nixon administration needed to make many adjustments in order to prepare for strategic arms limitation talks with the Kremlin. One change was in the terminology used to describe how US nuclear forces were supposed to stack up against the Soviet Union. Prior to the SALT negotiations, US Presidents and Congressional leaders lined up squarely …
