http://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2012/03/13/comment/columns/india%E2%80%99s-nuclear-submarine/ The writer is a retired Commodore, Pakistan Navy. It may seem somewhat strange for India to lease a Russian nuclear submarine, and at a heavy cost, when an earlier similar venture didn’t turn out to be smooth and when it is itself building nuclear submarines. The 10-year lease is costing India a billion dollars. […]
http://in.reuters.com/article/2012/03/14/usa-russia-missiledefense-idINDEE82D00S20120314 WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Obama administration is leaving open the possibility of giving Moscow certain secret data on U.S. interceptor missiles due to help protect Europe from any Iranian missile strike. A deal is being sought by Washington that could include classified data exchange because it is in the U.S. interest to enlist Russia […]
http://www.stonegateinstitute.org/2941/muslim-gangs-denmark “With Islam comes fear, and with fear comes power.” More than 140 Muslim gang members were arrested in Denmark after they tried to raid a courthouse where two fellow Muslims are being tried for attempted murder. The Muslims — all members of criminal street gangs that have taken over large parts of Danish towns […]
http://www.stonegateinstitute.org/2939/lynching-troops-afghanistan The global fight for Western democratic freedom is being undermined from within through obsessive unbalanced reporting: it demonizes US troops, while perpetuating a dreamy unawareness about the enemies we face. Western citizens continue to be bombarded by information on the human rights violations of American troops in Afghanistan. The most recent cases being the […]
http://www.andrewbostom.org/blog/2012/03/13/gibbons-muhammad-viagras-vicegerent-on-earth/ Gibbon’s Muhammad: Viagra®’s Vicegerent on Earth? “Ecce Homo…in rigor mortis Viagra®-tus?”(Hat tip Religion of Peace [3]) Edward Gibbon (1734-1794), considered the Enlightenment’s greatest historian, maintains in his 1776 magnum opus, “The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire [4],” Vol. 9 [5] (p. 89, and note 175), that according to the […]
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Once again, Iran’s proxies in Gaza set off an early sign of something much bigger.
The moral asymmetry between Israel and its enemies has been strikingly on display in the latest flare-up between Gaza terror groups and Israeli forces.
By Monday afternoon the Israeli air force had reportedly killed 19 terrorists in pinpoint strikes on Gaza targets — mostly rocket-launching crews — and two Palestinian civilians as collateral damage, a 15-year-old boy and a 12-year-old boy. According to UN data cited by Richard Kemp, former commander of British forces in Afghanistan, the typical ratio when armies fight terror groups is 3:1 — three civilians killed per every terrorist killed by the military forces.
By contrast, the over 200 rockets fired from Gaza at Israel since Friday have been aimed solely at civilian targets. Most have been lobbed at cities — Ashkelon, Ashdod, and (my own) Beersheva — in the hope of killing and maiming as many men, women, and children as possible.
The far larger of the two groups doing the firing, Islamic Jihad, is, as noted by the Israeli army spokesman, “an arm of the Iranians. It is completely funded and supported by Tehran when it comes to weapons and resources.” A senior officer said Iran was directly encouraging Islamic Jihad to keep up the shelling.
The Control Factor: Our Struggle to See the True Threat by Bill Siegel (Jan 12, 2012)
Why do we continue to indulge the fantasies about the real threats to our society, our judiciary, our academies , our security, our national culture and our survival posed by Islamic jihad? In praising this book, Andrew McCarthy (among others, including Steve Emerson and Herb London) states it perfectly:
“Willfull blindness, today’s refusal to come to grips with the Islamic threat to the West, is America’s most profound national security vulnerability. Supremacist Islam’s campaign has targeted the United States by violent jihad. a softer and more insidious march through our institutions, and lawfare salvos fired in American courts and international tribunals. Desperate to avoid offense to Islamist activists and their allies, we surrender to the politically correct narrative that the vital measures taken on our own defense are the cause of our peril. The Control Factor powerfully unfolds the process of self delusion and the ssstruggle to remove the scales we’ve placed over our eyes. Survival of the West’s freedom culture- our commitment to critical inquiry based ordered liberty, and human reason- hangs in the balance.”
The Control Factor: Our Struggle to See the True Threat by Bill Siegel (Jan 12, 2012)
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In the Persian Gulf, A Vulnerable FleetThe Navy’s capabilities are impressive. But we need more ships.
Aboard USS Bunker Hill
It didn’t take Chief Warrant Officer Jason Echevarria more than a glance through the ship’s binoculars to figure out what the Iranian-flagged dhow 3,400 yards off the starboard beam wasn’t doing.
For one thing, the gaily colored boat was larger than the dhows that typically ply the confined waters of the Persian Gulf. Its deck was clear of netting and tackle, and the paint job seemed fresh. The Furuno radar was another giveaway. And it was shadowing us, coming at one point within a mile.
“If that’s a fishing boat, I’m a monkey’s uncle,” said Mr. Echevarria, a native of Melbourne, Fla. Later, the boat would be photographed flying the colors of the IRGC-N, the naval branch of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps.
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By WARREN KOZAK
It was simply called the “Dayton Exercise” and for obvious reasons it was kept secret for decades. It was also one of the clearest examples of the trouble the United States encounters when it decides to precipitously draw back its military in a troubled world.
At the end of World War II, the U.S. had the most modern and best-equipped military on earth. No one else came close. It had taken the entire war to build it, and at great sacrifice.
U.S. troops fought at a distinct disadvantage until 1944 because of an earlier self-imposed disarmament. But when the atomic bombs fell on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, forcing the Japanese surrender and preventing a land invasion of the Japanese islands, the U.S. abruptly demobilized again. It had done the same thing 27 years earlier, after World War I.
In the Army Air Forces alone (there was no independent Air Force until 1947), the number of men dropped to just over 300,000 in 1947 from 2.4 million in 1945. On the day the Japanese surrendered in August 1945, there were 218 combat groups in the Army Air Force and 70,000 planes. One year later, there were 52 groups—only two of which were considered combat-ready. The airplanes that American factories had churned out were parked end-to-end in the desert, sold to other countries or junked.
