If the commander at Kleine Brogel Air Base in Belgium were to go all Mr. Burns on the Peace Action “bomb spotters” — nothing would happen. That’s because, as I pointed out to Elaine Grossman in her excellent story on the most recent security violations at Kleine Brogel Airbase, the Belgian government has failed to …
Extended Deterrence Policy Committee
by | 2010-10-19 | 7 Comments
This is very interesting. The US and South Korea, in the 42nd U.S.-RoK Security Consultative Meeting Joint Communique, have committed to … … institutionalize an Extended Deterrence Policy Committee, which will serve as a cooperation mechanism to enhance the effectiveness of extended deterrence. That is a very interesting recommendation. The United States has a formal …
Scare Tactics
by | 2010-10-19 | 16 Comments
Money is the mother’s milk of politics; motivation is the mother’s milk of the politics of treaty ratification. Arms control battles in the United States tend to be uneven fights — and not just because skeptics need only 34 votes to quash a treaty in the Senate. The “arms control lobby” has not been known …
The Cooling Tower
by | 2010-10-16 | No Comments
I have a commentary over at 38 North about the political symbolism of North Korea’s construction/excavation activities near the ruins of the Yongbyon reactor’s cooling tower: What is clear is the political symbolism of the site itself. The Six Party Process, at least as we knew it, is dead and buried. The trucks and other …
