Archive for the 'War' Category
Russia Warns Moldova Against “Georgian Mistake”
August 25th, 2008Via: Reuters: Russian President Dmitry Medvedev warned ex-Soviet Moldova on Monday against repeating Georgia’s mistake of trying to use force to seize back control of a breakaway region. Russia sent peacekeepers to Moldova in the early 1990s to end a conflict between Chisinau and its breakaway Transdniestria region and is trying to mediate a deal […]
Russian Parliament Votes to Recognize South Ossetia and Abkhazia
August 25th, 2008Via: Bloomberg: Both houses of the Russian parliament called on President Dmitry Medvedev to recognize the independence of two breakaway Georgian regions that sparked Russia’s first foreign military incursion since the Soviet era. “Today we are faced with, I’m not afraid to say, a historic decision, to call upon the president of the Russian Federation […]
Uncle Sam Wants Your Brain
August 25th, 2008Via: Wired: Drugs that make soldiers want to fight. Robots linked directly to their controllers’ brains. Lie-detecting scans administered to terrorist suspects as they cross U.S. borders. These are just a few of the military uses imagined for cognitive science — and if it’s not yet certain whether the technologies will work, the military is […]
U.S.-Led Coalition Air Strikes Left 76 Civilians Dead
August 23rd, 2008Freedom. Via: CBC News: U.S.-led coalition forces killed 76 Afghan civilians, mostly women and children, in a Friday attack in western Afghanistan, said the country’s Interior Ministry. “Seventy-six civilians, most of them women and children, were martyred today in a coalition forces operation in Herat province,” the Interior Ministry said in a statement. Nineteen women, […]
Russia Blocks Georgia’s Main Port City
August 21st, 2008Via: AP: Russian forces blocked the only land entrance to Georgia’s main port city on Thursday, a day before Russia promised to complete a troop pullout from its ex-Soviet neighbor. Armored personnel carriers and troop trucks blocked the bridge to the Black Sea port city of Poti, and Russian forces excavated trenches and set up […]
RUSSIA TO CUT ALL MILITARY TIES WITH NATO
August 21st, 2008As this unfolds (into the fall and winter months), here’s something to keep in mind. The following states now have strategic dependencies on natural gas from Russia: Germany Turkey France Austria Poland Greece (See: Russian Natural Gas: Regional Dependence) Via: AP / Guardian: Russia has informed Norway that it plans to suspend all military ties […]
Russian Aircraft Carrier Heads for Syria?
August 21st, 2008Yikes. Keeping an eye on this for confirmation. Via: MINA: The Russian aircraft carrier “Admiral Kuznetsov” is ready to head from Murmansk towards the Mediterranean and the Syrian port of Tartus. The mission comes after Syrian President Bashar Assad said he is open for a Russian base in the area. The “Admiral Kuznetsov”, part of […]
U.S. Sending 12,000 to 15,000 Additional U.S. Troops to Afghanistan
August 20th, 2008Via: U.S. News: The Pentagon will be sending 12,000 to 15,000 additional U.S. troops to Afghanistan, possibly as soon as the end of this year, with planning underway for a further force buildup in 2009. A request by Gen. David McKiernan, the commander of NATO forces in Afghanistan, for three U.S. brigades with support staff […]
Army Moves Ahead With Mobile Laser Cannon
August 20th, 2008Via: Wired: The Army is moving ahead with plans to mount a laser cannon on a massive, 35-ton-plus truck. The service just handed Boeing a $36 million contract to “continue developing a truck-mounted, high-energy laser weapon system that will destroy rockets, artillery shells and mortar rounds,” according to a company statement. Under the High Energy […]
Russian Soldiers Take Prisoners in Georgia Port
August 19th, 2008Via: AP: Russian soldiers took 20 Georgian troops prisoner at a key port in western Georgia on Tuesday and commandeered American Humvees awaiting shipment back to the United States after taking part in earlier U.S.-Georgian military exercises. The move came as a small column of Russian tanks and armored vehicles left the strategic Georgian city […]
