15/07/2018 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Defense - The Risk to the World: Massive Nuclear Proliferation
America leaving NATO would force European countries that currently lack nuclear arms to rush to acquire them, all in order to deter the Russians without U.S. help.
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19/10/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
US - Is The U.S. Racing to Stop a Rebel Assault in Africa?
The Pentagon could be in a race to prevent a major rebel attack on African civilians, aid groups believe. That’s one disturbing possibility behind President Barack Obama’s announcement of a new U.S. military mission to Central Africa.
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13/11/2010 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Pentagon Readies New Ship-Killers for Pacific Showdown
Pentagon planners were wary of China’s double-digit military-budget growth rates even before the global economic crisis put the squeeze on America’s own defense investment. Now the Chinese army’s growth continues while America’s flat-lines. That’s got the U.S. military, especially the Navy, scrambling for new ideas.
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15/07/2010 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Navies Conflate Terrorists, Pirates
The warning was a dire one, especially considering its source. In the July issue of the U.S. Naval Institute's Proceedings magazine -- the unofficial professional journal of the U.S. Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard -- an officer of the Indian navy, Akash Chaturvedi, claimed that Islamic extremists had teamed up with sea pirates in Somalia to form a "nexus of piracy and terrorism [that] will be dangerous for both the world economy and security." The world must act, Chaturvedi insisted, to prevent "another 9/11 -- this time at sea."
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12/07/2010 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Japan Counters China's Naval Build-Up
On Sunday near Okinawa, the Japanese navy spotted two Chinese warships sailing south into the Pacific. The Chinese vessels were in international waters, but their proximity to Okinawa, which hosts a preponderance of U.S. and Japanese military forces, alarmed Tokyo. As a courtesy, navies traditionally announce their routine cruises in advance, particularly when one nation's ships might pass close to another's territory.
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30/06/2010 | Sociedad
Aid Groups Must Be Wary of Exploitation
When hundreds of thousands of Darfuri refugees flooded across the Chad-Sudan border in 2003, fleeing a campaign of ethnic cleansing orchestrated by the Sudanese government and its militia proxies, the U.N. and various aid groups raced to help. Humanitarian workers built a vast and sophisticated network of refugee camps to house as many as 300,000 people.
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21/06/2010 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
War is Boring: Ambiguous U.S. Spacecraft Worries Rivals
The new space craft's launch occurred without much fanfare. On April 22, the U.S. Air Force's X-37B prototype roared into orbit atop a rocket launched from Cape Canaveral in Florida. Some 15 years in development, the X-37's technology, performance and purpose all are cloaked in mystery.
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01/02/2010 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Shippers Mull Private Security against Somali Pirates
Just four months after the world's navies all but declared victory in their war on Somali pirates, hijackings have spiked. In the span of just one week in early January, sea bandits seized four large commercial vessels off the Somali coast. Captured vessels can be ransomed for several million dollars apiece.
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27/08/2009 | Frente Externo
Russian War Documentary Fuels Propaganda Debate
In August 2008, Russia and Georgia fought a brief, bloody war over Georgia's pro-Russian region of South Ossetia. After hundreds of casualties, Georgia withdrew its forces, essentially ceding the breakaway province to Russia. Moscow's overall aim was to ensure "that Russia's power is respected both within and outside the post-Soviet space," according to U.S. Army Lt. Col. Robert Hamilton, a fellow at the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies.
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23/07/2009 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
War is Boring: Mercenary Air Forces Underpin Afghanistan, Africa Operations
A 30-ton Mi-26 helicopter, operated on a NATO contract by the Moldovan firm Pecotox Air, was hovering with a load of supplies near the town of Sangin in southern Afghanistan on July 14, when Taliban fighters fired on it with a rocket-propelled grenade. The crew of an accompanying helicopter saw the rocket sheer off the Mi-26's tail boom, causing it to crash. All six Ukrainian crew members on board died, as did an Afghan boy on the ground.
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23/07/2009 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
War is Boring: Mercenary Air Forces Underpin Afghanistan, Africa Operations
A 30-ton Mi-26 helicopter, operated on a NATO contract by the Moldovan firm Pecotox Air, was hovering with a load of supplies near the town of Sangin in southern Afghanistan on July 14, when Taliban fighters fired on it with a rocket-propelled grenade. The crew of an accompanying helicopter saw the rocket sheer off the Mi-26's tail boom, causing it to crash. All six Ukrainian crew members on board died, as did an Afghan boy on the ground.
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