Archive for the 'War' Category
U.S. HAS REMOVED AN ESTIMATED STOCKPILE OF 130 NUCLEAR WEAPONS FROM RAMSTEIN AIR FORCE BASE
July 17th, 2007Via: Deutsche Welle: The Ramstein air base in southwestern Germany, long the largest US nuclear storehouse in Europe, has been completely emptied of its atomic arsenal according to experts who say the weapons are out of the country. This week the Washington-based Federation of American Scientists (FAS) said in a study that the US army […]
Energy: U.S. Strike on Iran Could Result in Asymmetric Blowback
July 17th, 2007I’ve been trying to think about some of the possible repercussions of a U.S. strike on Iran. All the usual ones came to mind: economic collapse, panic in the energy markets, possible nuclear war etc. But I came up with a different scenario. I haven’t seen this mentioned anywhere. I thought that an attack on […]
Cheney Pushes Bush to Act on Iran
July 17th, 2007Did you hear the one about the strategic supersonic B1 bombers, originally designed to carry nuclear weapons, that are being used against the AK-47 wielding insurgents in Iraq? Tell me another one. Via: Guardian: The balance in the internal White House debate over Iran has shifted back in favour of military action before President George […]
Russian Energy Pipeline Giants to Form Corporate Armies
July 15th, 2007Via: mnweekly: Lawmakers voted Wednesday to give Russia’s natural-gas and oil pipeline monopolies the right to set up armed security units to protect the country’s energy infrastructure. One lawmaker said the move could lead to “a multitude of corporate armies.” Instead of hiring private security firms, state-controlled gas giant OAO Gazprom and oil pipeline monopoly […]
Air Force Quietly Building Iraq Presence
July 15th, 2007B1-B (long range, supersonic) strategic bombers and F-16C fighters are being used against dusty insurgents and their assault rifles… Incredible. Uncle $cam is going to have to borrow another couple of hundred billion dollars from the Chinese to keep this circus going. Of course, the word Iran doesn’t appear anywhere in this story. Not once. […]
Mexico: Rebels Say Attack on Mexican Pipeline is Just the Beginning
July 12th, 2007Undefended, critical infrastructure… Via: Dallas Morning News: A shadowy leftist rebel group took responsibility Tuesday for a gas pipeline blast that shut down some industry in central Mexico, including two car assembly plants. The Popular Revolutionary Army, or EPR for its initials in Spanish, said Tuesday’s explosion and two similar attacks on Pemex pipelines in […]
U.S. Navy Sends Third Carrier to 5th Fleet Region
July 10th, 2007This information broke a couple of weeks ago on some sites that I wouldn’t admit to reading. I couldn’t confirm it back then, so I didn’t post it. Well… Via: Reuters / Yahoo: The U.S. navy has sent a third aircraft carrier to its Fifth Fleet area of operations, which includes Gulf waters close to […]
War Costs Soar by a Third; Total Could Top $1.4 Trillion
July 8th, 2007Mission accomplished. Via: Wired: It’s not just the troops that are surging. War costs are up for American operations in Iraq and Afghanistan* — way up, more than a third higher than last year. In the first half of this fiscal year, the Defense Department’s “average monthly obligations for contracts and pay is running about […]
Mercenaries Outnumber U.S. Troops in Iraq
July 5th, 2007“The coalition of the billing.” Via: Los Angeles Times: The number of U.S.-paid private contractors in Iraq now exceeds that of American combat troops, newly released figures show, raising fresh questions about the privatization of the war effort and the government’s capacity to carry out military and rebuilding campaigns. More than 180,000 civilians — including […]
Geostrategy via Economics: China Providing the U.S. with Enough Rope to Hang Itself
July 2nd, 2007For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill. —Sun Tzu, The Art of War As good as this article is, it doesn’t mention a certain, former superpower that was also bogged down in a futile war […]
