[…] Washington Post reported on 15 March: ‘The Pentagon announced Friday that it would strengthen the country’s defenses against a possible attack by nuclear-equipped North Korea, fielding additional missile systems to protect the West Coast at a time of growing concern about the Stalinist regime.’ 38 Even though North Korea does not have a missile […]
[PDF file]: […] E-Mails Published’, Huffington Post, 27 February 2012. 10 Nick Hopkins, ‘Exclusive: MoD Prepares to take part in US Strike against Iran: UK Steps up Plans for Possible Missile Strikes Amid Fresh Nuclear Fears’, The Guardian, 3 November 2011. 11 Israeli Project, Washington, ‘EU Levels New Sanctions Against Iran’, 23 January 2012. See also ‘European […]
[PDF file]: […] attempt to put their nuclear missiles on Cuba in 1962. These are recounted in ‘Blundering on the Brink: The Secret History and Unlearned Lessons of the Cuban Missile Crisis’ by Sergey Radchenko and Vladislav Zubok. This is their summary of what the documents tell us. But the declassified Soviet documents make some important corrections […]
[PDF file]: […] the reports I read of the shooting down by the Iranians of the Ukrainian airliner referred to the occasion in 1988 when the USS Vincennes, a guided- missile cruiser of the United States Navy, shot down Iran Air Flight 655 killing, 290 people. Which led to the Lockerbie bombing . . . . Not […]
[PDF file]: […] sectors, with factories in the east of Ukraine supplying Russia with hardware such as helicopter engines (produced in Zaporizhia), ICBMs (designed and made in Dnepropetrovsk), and a missile guidance system (from Kharkiv).35 A Ukrainian pivot to the West would not only deprive Russia of a key market, it would threaten its links with what […]
[PDF file]: […] sea blockade of Yemen’ ‘Revealed: Hundreds of Saudi and Gulf military personnel trained in Britain as Yemen war continues’ ‘Exclusive: British government breaks inspection rules at Scottish missile factory supplying Saudi air war in Yemen – its fourth breach’ ‘Exclusive: Why Britain wanted to “kill” a United Nations ban on mercenaries’‘Revealed: UK government broke […]
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[PDF file]: […] Africa Command (AFRICOM)? 10 If ‘international policy-making in the post-Cold War era an idealised projection of the western self’, how does the Predator drone firing the Hellfire missile into a wedding party in Afghanistan fit into this? Nothing the author discusses seems to me to deal with the reality of the greatest and most […]
[…] sea blockade of Yemen’ ‘Revealed: Hundreds of Saudi and Gulf military personnel trained in Britain as Yemen war continues’ ‘Exclusive: British government breaks inspection rules at Scottish missile factory supplying Saudi air war in Yemen – its fourth breach’ ‘Exclusive: Why Britain wanted to “kill” a United Nations ban on mercenaries’‘Revealed: UK government broke […]
