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 United States over the next two decades and will be, by any measure, a first-rate …
EU-Iran Complete Round of Negotiations
by | 2005-01-15 | No Comments
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 group structure and schedule in Arms Control Today.) The Western press has done surprisingly little …
Remember Russia?
by | 2005-01-14 | No Comments
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 is good to continually point out that the Bush administration screwed the pooch on Iraq …
Missile Defense Software
by | 2005-01-14 | 2 Comments
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 Phil Coyle who argues the software glitch is anything but minor. Rather, the glitch reflects …
