It’s been a busy week or so on the Iran front. Just getting caught up may take a little while. Let’s start with the diplomacy. Technology will be tackled in a follow-up post. Starting in late June, there were some hints and suggestions from Tehran that they’d like to re-open negotiations with the West on …
China’s Space Power in 2010
by | 2010-08-20 | 2 Comments
So the 2010 iteration of the Department of Defense’s China Military Power report is out. The 2009 version came out on March 24, 2009, about two months after Inauguration Day, so this is probably the first one for which the Obama administration’s political appointees ran the show from start to finish. And obviously, intelligence assessments …
The M Word
by | 2010-08-17 | 7 Comments
I don’t have much to add to Page’s excellent post and Foreign Policy article on the politics of stockpile “modernization”, other than to repeat my suggestion that we all stop using the “M” word — modernization: I wish, by the way, wonks would stop using “modernize” as though it has some technical meaning. If it …
Nuclear Optimism
by | 2010-08-17 | 11 Comments
No country has been more optimistic about the atom than India. Most Indians believe in nuclear energy and in the ability of their nuclear establishment to deliver it efficiently and cheaply. Indian strategic analysts tend to be extremely confident, which often results in a dismissive attitude toward Pakistan. Indian government leaders have been proud about …
