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...document outlines Australia's military aims for the next two decades and specifically mentions China's ascendancy as a reason for an arms buildup. In all, $72 billion will be dedicated to bulking up the nation's armed forces, doubling the submarine fleet and adding up to 100 joint-strike fighter jets to its air force...
...Iran, where religious observance is declining in the generation that came of age under the Islamic Republic. The young there are in turn disillusioned with the state-sponsored religious identity that has failed to resolve their basic problems. It will be interesting to see if Bosnia's Muslims can strike the right balance between personal piety and secular solutions to temporal concerns. Shehzad Shah, Karachi...
...Sergei Lavrov, have said nuclear-weapons reductions are possible only if the U.S. drops its plans to expand its missile-defense shield into Eastern Europe. The U.S. argues that such defenses, including installations in Poland and the Czech Republic, are necessary to protect the West from a possible missile strike by Iran. The Russians don't buy that. The shield, it thinks, is designed to give the U.S. an edge against Russia. "We don't believe that any plans for [missile defense] have anything to do with the 'Iranian threat,'" Sergei Ryabkov, Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister, told TIME recently...
...engagement now say a diplomatic initiative appears unseemly given the accusations of vote-rigging by the Iranian government and the security forces' brutal response to the protests. Vice President Joe Biden's July 5 comment that the U.S. wouldn't stand in the way of an Israeli air strike on Iranian nuclear sites made it sound as if the Administration's message in favor of engagement was slipping. (See pictures of people around the world protesting Iran's election...
Success is by no means assured. McChrystal's order to keep Afghan civilian casualties low, for example, may be politically savvy, but in the short term it can be militarily fraught. Before the Helmand offensive began, U.S. troops called in an air strike on a compound after coming under fire from it. A number of civilians died, and McChrystal was not pleased. "I want you all to stop dropping compounds," he quietly told the 100 members of his staff gathered inside his command center and others linked via video. "Yes, sir," responded the commander involved. Three days later, when troops...