Luttwak on the Australian Strategic Pivot
Updated: 2012-09-30 06:44:43
Iconoclastic strategist Edward Luttwak has characteristically caustic words on an Australian -American strategic entente to contain an “autistic” rising China: Australia counters Chinese threat AUSTRALIA has been quietly building a regional defence coalition to restrain China’s increasingly ”aggressive” and ”autistic” international behaviour, an influential adviser to the Pentagon says. Edward Luttwak bluntly contradicts Australian and [...]
UN Photo/J Carrier Note from Jeffrey: I’m still on blog sabbatical in baby-land. Here’s another anonymous guest post. Let’s be fair. It’s hard to simplify what’s not so simple. And it’s harder still to get your point across if few make the effort to understand. The Acme-brand bomb diagram brandished by Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin [...]
[ by Charles Cameron -- Netanyahu's UN speech, Jyllands-Posten cartoon, a nifty film technique, and is there an echo there? ] . ** A fair number of people have commented on Israeli PM Netanyahu‘s displaying a cartoonish bomb graphic in the course of his UN address today, and some have complained, fairly IMO, at the [...]
: skip to main skip to sidebar The Nuclear Abolitionist Working towards a nuclear free world Pages Home Video Photo Y-12 Witness Quotable This time no one dropped a bomb on us . We set the stage , we committed the crime with our own hands , we are destroying our own lands , and we are destroying our own . lives Haruki Murakami , Japanese novelist , commenting on Fukushima Thursday , September 27, 2012 Just Say NO to New Trident Plans The United States Navy has released its final decision on plans to build a new fleet of ballistic missile . submarines The announcement , made in a news release earlier this month informs us that the Ohio class submarines with their Trident II D-5 thermonuclear armed missiles , the crown jewel of the nation's nuclear weapons systems , are going to sail on well
Some of you know that I am a regular visitor in Vienna, and that I haven’t missed a General Conference since 2004. Most of you also know that I’m not a very diligent blogger anymore. Having said that, I thought it would be useful to give the ACW community my take on what’s been going [...]
: . skip to main skip to sidebar The Nuclear Abolitionist Working towards a nuclear free world Pages Home Video Photo Y-12 Witness Quotable This time no one dropped a bomb on us . We set the stage , we committed the crime with our own hands , we are destroying our own lands , and we are destroying our own . lives Haruki Murakami , Japanese novelist , commenting on Fukushima Tuesday , September 25, 2012 CTBT . What's in a Name , Friends The 16th anniversary of the signing of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty CTBT passed yesterday with little , if any , . fanfare The CTBT bans all nuclear explosions in all environments , for military or civilian purposes . It was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 10 September 1996, but it has not yet entered into force . When the treaty
For The Common Defense (Revised & Updated) by Allan R. Millett; Peter Maslowski In the Shadow of the Sword by Tom Holland The Poison King by Adrienne Mayor The Fate of Africa by Martin Meredith I seem to be on another bibliomaniacal binge where my reach exceeds my time For the Common Defense: A Military History of [...]
[ by Charles Cameron -- a quick recap of Col. Lang & Lt. Col. Francona on the realities of an Israeli strike on Iranian facilities, 2006-2012 -- and the recent WaPo trilogy ] . . I posted here a while ago about what happens when “religious leaders talk of wiping nations off the map” — [...]
All options are on the table. How many times have we heard this? The administrations of Presidents George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush directed such declarations to Saddam Hussein. North Korea is no stranger to this formulation. Then there’s Iran. Here’s what President Barack Obama had to say at the 2012 AIPAC Policy Conference [...]
A friend and colleague who prefers to remain anonymous has asked me to post the following. For reasons you can probably guess, I haven’t had time to take a hard look at the numbers. By now everyone already knows about the spat between Israeli PM Netanyahu and the Obama administration over “red lines” for the [...]
Not for the first time, the IAEA Board of Governors on Thursday afternoon passed a resolution on safeguards implementation in Iran which said a few things that its sponsors neglected to point out when they explained the results to the Vienna press corps minutes after the vote was taken behind the closed doors of the M Building at the [...]
Is that a plastic model of Obama with his hand on the proverbial button? Turns out, it is a little red phone. The product is an “Obama 3 am Phone Call Squeezable Figure.” It reminds my of my favorite Onion headline in recent years: Obama Makes It Through Another Day Of Resisting Urge To Launch All [...]