The National Intelligence Council has released a new report, Mapping the Global Future: Report of the National Intelligence Council’s 2020 Project, that leads with this doozy: China will overtake Russia and others as the second largest defense spender after the…
After a 13 December 2004 meeting of the EU3-Iran “Steering Group” (right) that Javiar Solana called “more symbolic than substantive,” Iran-EU working groups began to deal substantively with three issue baskets: economic-technical, political-security and nuclear cooperation. (Paul summarized the working…
One approach to existential threats. A conversation I had yesterday with an esteemed arms control expert, as well as this article by my colleague Wade Boese, reminded me to write about a subject I’ve been thinking about recently. While it…
This doesn’t usually happen. Honest. MDA Director Henry “Trey” Obering (right) attributes the failure of IFT-13C to a “very minor computer software glitch.” Noah Shachtman, however, has posted a fantastic analysis from former DOD Director of Operational Test and Evaluation…
Dammit. Shachtman over at DefenseTech.org suggests my efforts to entice my readership to join us for a drink or eight at the Fox & Hounds pub— Washington DC, next Tuesday, the 18th, starting around 8pm—weren’t exactly rousing. So let me…
Taking arms control with him? The Washington Times reports that SECSTATE has approved a plan to merge the State Department’s arms control and nonproliferation bureaus “having concluded that much of their work oveps and resources are being wasted.” The State…
Michael Roston has given Nuclear Test Watch its own home.
USA Today has obtained a set of documents, dated 21 December 2004, stating that construction on CW disposal facilities in CO and KY won’t begin until 2011 — five years after originally planned and too late to meet US obligations…
Working on some odds and ends. Officials with the Iraq Survey Group tell The Washington Post that “the violence in Iraq, coupled with a lack of new information, led them to fold up the effort shortly before Christmas.” Is “shortly…
Reading Kevin Drum’s recent take on DepSecDef Wolfowitz’s laughable prewar testimony inspired two not-terribly-original thoughts. 1. Everyone who supported the Iraq invasion should be embarrassed. They should really rethink their qualifications to speak about any foreign policy issue, or at…
