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...military that can barely handle the one conflict it's already fighting on its own soil. At the conference, Putin unveiled plans to dust off and deploy SS-19 missiles, known to NATO as "Stilettos" since 1980, to replace Russia's worn-out land-based strategic nuclear arsenal. "I'm speaking here about the most menacing missiles - with hundreds of warheads," he said. "Their capability to overcome any anti-missile defense is unrivaled." Should the world worry? No, says Pikayev. This saber rattling is meant mostly for domestic consumption ahead of December's parliamentary and next year's presidential campaigns...
...notably in the run-up to a war on Iraq which, if we set aside the retrospective talk of “liberation” and return to the beginning, was sold principally on the basis of fear. Iraq, we were told, was developing nuclear weapons. It had an arsenal of weapons of mass destruction ready to go at a moment’s notice. Remember? Just days before the October vote in Congress on Iraq (and just as the Air Force was preparing an internal report to the contrary), President Bush announced the existence of Iraq?...
...Military preemption must be a part of the U.S. arsenal, but only when danger is grave and imminent, or else it will result in unexpected casualties, costs, and consequences, as have seen in Iraq,” Perry said...
...senior Israeli intelligence official says that, far from laying down its arms, Hamas used the cease-fire to reorganize, restock its bombmaking arsenal and plot a new wave of suicide attacks. Israel has responded by broadening its offensive against Hamas to include strikes aimed at killing the group's ideological and political leaders. After last week's bombings, Israeli warplanes struck the house of another Hamas leader, Mahmoud al-Zahar, killing al-Zahar's son Khaled and a bodyguard, and seriously injuring his wife and daughter. The air strikes have killed 12 suspected Hamas leaders in the past month...
...technology has improved since then. The biggest beneficiary of China's space program, and its $2 billion-$3 billion annual budget, is the People's Liberation Army. Its Second Artillery Corps, which also controls China's nuclear arsenal, oversees the program. Its scientists are expected to translate aspects of the manned space program for military use. Rockets big enough to blast a life-support system to the moon, for instance, will also be able to throw heavier military satellites into orbit. And the increased maneuverability of rockets and satellites could someday help Chinese missiles penetrate America's planned national missile...