The American Forces Press Service published a Reagan retrospective, entitled “Reagan/’s National Security Policy Targeted Soviet Threat”, that closes with this comment: History shows that 1980s Soviet military expenditures made in an attempt to keep up with the Americans eventually broke their bank. In 1989, within a year after Reagan had left office, the Berlin …
Cock blocked by the KGB
by | 2004-06-08 | No Comments
1973. The Soviet Ambassador calls the National Security Advisor. What major crisis dominates their conversation? Just read it. Read this one, too. Now, Dmitry.
Open Skies
by | 2004-06-07 | No Comments
The Russian Federation and Republic of Belarus will conduct their first Open Skies Treaty observation mission over the territory of the United States this week (The Russians have conducted some other missions prior to entry-into-force). The treaty, which entered into force on 1 January 2002, permits a state party “to conduct short-notice, unarmed, reconnaissance flights” …
Abu Ghraib, ICC and the incompetent American media
by | 2004-06-05 | No Comments
A colleague sent me a Reuters story that so mangles a UNHCR report on the human rights situation in Iraq that I don/’t know whether to laugh or cry. The gist of the Reuters story is: While crediting the United States for ending the “shocking and systematic” human rights abuses that occurred under Saddam Hussein, …
