Regular readers know that one of my hobby horses is that the US and Russia should revive the sea-launched cruise missile data exchanges that expired with START as a confidence-building measure because the next agreement will probably have to say something about SLCMs. A short version of my proposal appears in a new Carnegie monograph, Beyond …
PSA: CTBT Advanced Science Course
by | 2012-10-15 | 5 Comments
One of the things I am terrible about is promising to post worthwhile public service announcements, then forgetting! Anyway, I don’t want to forget this one. Any chance to listen to Linton Brooks by day, and then hash it out afterward over beers with the big Swede, Andreas Persbo, is not to be missed. If …
Reclaiming Pakistan
by | 2012-10-15 | 10 Comments
A hyphenated word has hung like a shroud over Pakistan ever since its founding father, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, vocalized what Great Britain produced in its hasty retreat from empire: a moth-eaten state. In 1947, a British barrister, new to the subcontinent, drew artificial lines on a map that carved up the Punjab, Bengal and Kashmir, …
RoK Missile Rationale Roulette
by | 2012-10-09 | 20 Comments
Just as expected, after a protracted negotiation, the U.S. and South Korea have agreed to relax the bilateral “guidelines” limiting the range and payload of South Korean missiles. It’s an election year in South Korea and — well, why mince words? The outcome makes the ruling party happy. And the more jingoistic quarters of ROK …
