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Japan Increases Military Presence in Asia; And No the US Isn’t Leading From Behind
I’ve written a few posts on Realism as of late. Obviously from those readings you could peg me as a Realist as it pertains to international relations. When one unequivocally endorses a theory over another, the likelihood one is to … Continue reading
Realism Moving Forward
THERE WILL BE A TIME when America will have to rethink its foreign policy. Perhaps that time is already upon us as our wars in Iraq and Afghanistan draw to a close. The Middle East has shown, beyond our best … Continue reading
China Commissions First Aircraft Carrier
For any nation in search of political currency around the globe, it needs global reach. A large blue-water navy is essential to this aim. Some nations have did this as a matter of necessity such as an island power like … Continue reading
U.S. Navy To Relocate to Pacific in Strategic Shift
Businessweek | U.S. Navy’s Pacific Presence to Expand By 2020, the “Navy will re-posture its forces from today’s roughly 50/50 percent split between the Pacific and the Atlantic to about a 60/40 split between those oceans — including six aircraft carriers, … Continue reading
Posted in Foreign Policy, Military, National Defense
Tagged Asian security conference, China, Leon Panetta, military strategy, US Navy, US-China relations
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American Defense Outsourcing Has Become a National Security Threat
It is true and widely known that the US military readiness rests on outdated planes, vehicles, and parts. Severe budget problems affect all sectors of spending and the military is usually often hit hardest despite a huge annual Pentagon defense … Continue reading
Retired Military Officers Speak Out On China’s Growing Power
This from the Washington Times “The U.S. may be shadow-boxing against an elusive threat to them … [but] today is not the time to shadow-box,” said Adm. Koda, who was a senior fellow at the Harvard University Asia Center. “The U.S., Japan and South … Continue reading
Interesting Point on China’s Defense Budget
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard at the Telegraph argues that China’s defense budget is actually shrinking due to inflation. …China’s nominal GDP (growth plus inflation) will increase by 12pc to 13pc this year. Ergo, the defence budget is shrinking as a share of … Continue reading
The US Still On The Hook For Afghan Army Even After Withdrawal
The Washington Post The U.S. military expects that sustaining the Afghan army and police forces after the planned withdrawal of American combat forces in 2014 will cost about $4 billion a year and that most of that money will have to … Continue reading
Posted in Foreign Policy
Tagged Afghan geopolitics, Afghan security, Afghan withdrawal, Afghanistan withdrawal policy, China, Iran, Pakistan, Taliban
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Robert Kagan: Why The World Needs America
The Wall Street Journal With the outbreak of World War I, the age of settled peace and advancing liberalism—of European civilization approaching its pinnacle—collapsed into an age of hyper-nationalism, despotism and economic calamity. The once-promising spread of democracy and liberalism … Continue reading
Air Force’s Space Plane Monitoring Chinese Satellite?
Those sneaky zoomies. The U.S. Air Force’s classified X-37B space plane should have returned to Earth in December. But the top-secret unmanned spacecraft continues to glide along its unusually low orbit nearly one year after it was launched in March 2011, leading Spaceflight magazine to suggest … Continue reading
Posted in Military, National Defense
Tagged Air Force X-37B space plane, Boeing X-37, China, military intelligence, military weapons, U.S. Military, USAF
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Another Reason Why Unilateral Sanctions Do Not Work In Today’s World
From Fox News BEIJING — China, the biggest buyer of Iran’s oil, has publicly rejected U.S. sanctions aimed at Tehran’s energy industry while American allies Japan and South Korea are scrambling to find a compromise to keep critical supplies flowing. … Continue reading
Posted in Foreign Policy
Tagged China, Iran sanctions, Japan, Nuclear program of Iran, oil sanctions, oil trade, political economy, sanctions, soft power
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While US Bleeds in Afghanistan, China Invests
The US is currently thoroughly occupied in Afghanistan. The ten year war has brought several achievements in the war on terror but has largely failed in expanding Kabul’s control over the country. The war there has offered great stories of … Continue reading
Posted in Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, World Events
Tagged Afghan war, Afghanistan, Afghanistan economy, Afghanistan minerals, Afghanistan oil, Aynak copper project, China, China investments in Afghanistan, China National Petroleum Corporation, Chinese foreign investments, Pakistan, Taliban, United States
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