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		<title>The Myth of &#8220;Surgical Strikes&#8221; on Iran</title>
		<link>http://nation.time.com/2012/10/18/the-myth-of-surgical-strikes-on-iran/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2012 12:01:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Isenberg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For all the years that the world has focused on the confrontation between Western nations and Iran, oceans of ink have been spilled over many aspects of its nuclear program &#8212; the quantity and quality of its enriched uranium, various UN Security Council resolutions, the number of Iranian centrifuges, IAEA safeguards, compliance with the Non-Proliferation Treaty, diplomatic negotiations, red lines, U.S. and Israeli attack scenarios, possible Iranian responses, the impact of a nuclear Iran, and so on. Yet, almost nothing has been written about one critical factor: the impact on Iranian civilians, if the U.S. and/or the Israelis were to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities. That vacuum has now been filled, thanks to a recent lengthy report &#8212; The Ayatollah&#8217;s Nuclear Gamble: The Human Cost of Military Strikes Against Iran&#8217;s Nuclear Facilities. It was authored by Khosrow Semnani, an Iranian-American industrialist and philanthropist with extensive experience in the industrial management of nuclear waste and chemicals. The University of Utah’s Hinckley Institute of Politics and Omid for Iran, a nonprofit organization based in Salt Lake City, Utah, published the assessment. Author Semnani has provided support for conferences and educational initiatives in the United States. The report examined various military options against different sites but regardless – perhaps it shouldn&#8217;t come as a surprise &#8212; the news was horrifyingly bad for Iraqi civilians. Iran insists its nuclear-development efforts are for peaceful purposes, and that it has no desire to build atomic weapons. According to the report: It is highly likely that the casualty rate at the physical sites will be close to 100 percent. Assuming an average two-shift operation, between 3,500 and 5,500 people would be present at the time of the strikes, most of whom would be killed or injured as a result of the physical and thermal impact of the blasts. If one were to include casualties at other targets, one could extrapolate to other facilities, in which case the total number of people killed and injured could exceed 10,000. The report analyzed the impact of pre-emptive conventional strikes on four key nuclear<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nation.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=89424&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Undercard Debate: Not Much Difference When It Comes to U.S. Interventions</title>
		<link>http://nation.time.com/2012/10/12/undercard-debate-more-ire-than-fire/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Oct 2012 14:35:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Thompson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There was a lot of smoke in Thursday night’s vice presidential debate. It felt hotter when watched. Reading a transcript Friday morning shows much more consensus between Vice President Joe Biden and GOP challenger Rep. Raul Ryan. Of course, that can be a problem. No one’s going to vote out an incumbent unless the challenger can present a clear alternative. Yet on the biggest national-security issues now in play – what should U.S. policy be toward Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria?&#8211; there was little difference between the two positions staked out by the No. 2 man on their party’s respective ticket. As Ryan said on another topic: &#8220;It&#8217;s a distinction without a difference.&#8221; When moderator Martha Raddatz of ABC News pressed for specifics, too often they were MIA. In some ways, it was like a high-school debate: Biden: The last thing we need now is another war. Ryan: We want to prevent war! But national-security daylight between them was hard to discern. On Afghanistan: Biden: We are leaving in 2014, period [that will no doubt come as a surprise to U.S. and allied leaders who are now debating how large of a force will remain in Afghanistan in 2015 and beyond. They’re planning on training Afghan troops, conduct special operations, and provide Afghan security forces with medevac helicopters and other military capabilities]. Ryan: We agree with a 2014 transition [to Afghan control of combat missions in that country]..We don&#8217;t want to stay…We don&#8217;t want to extend beyond 2014. On Iran: Ryan: They&#8217;re moving faster toward a nuclear weapon; they&#8217;re spinning the centrifuges faster. Biden: Our military and intelligence communities are absolutely the same exact place in terms of how close the Iranians are to getting a nuclear weapon. They are a good way away. Ryan: I agree that it&#8217;s probably longer. On Syria: Biden: What more would they do other than put American boots on the ground? The last thing America needs is to get into another ground war in the Middle East requiring tens of thousands if not well over a hundred<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nation.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=88892&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Iran Unplugged: Preview of Coming Attractions?</title>
		<link>http://nation.time.com/2012/09/18/iran-unplugged-preview-of-coming-attractions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Sep 2012 14:31:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Thompson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Iran’s nuclear-energy chief said Monday that his nation’s most heavily defended nuclear-enrichment plant had been unplugged with extreme prejudice last month. Actually, Fereydoun Abbasi-Davani said the electrical lines powering the buried plant at Fordow from the nearby city of Qom had been blown up by unknown saboteurs. The same thing happened at Iran’s Natanz plant at an unspecified earlier date, he told the annual member-state session of the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna. The world fears Tehran – which says it wants to develop nuclear power solely for peaceful purposes – is seeking nuclear weapons. Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu warned Sunday that Iran was six to seven months away from being able to build an atomic bomb. &#8220;It should be recalled,” Abbasi-Davani told the IAEA, “that power cut-off is one of the ways to break down centrifuge machines.” No kidding. For years, U.S. war planners looking for ways to attack such sites have focused on their so-called “umbilicals” – the power, air and water links that any major industrial facility requires to operate. With those destroyed, any industrial site becomes very expensive pile of scrap. Hardening such systems against such ancillary attacks could prove daunting. “A functional defeat may be achieved by various means: closing ingress/egress portals, destroying umbilicals such as electrical power lines, phone line and radio antennas, or by denying life-support systems relating to air and water supplies,” a 2004 Air Force study noted. Emphasis added.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nation.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=85287&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Stars Wars Gets More Complicated</title>
		<link>http://nation.time.com/2012/09/12/stars-wars-gets-more-complicated/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2012 10:12:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Thompson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An august panel of graybeards at the National Research Council has concluded that the U.S. should deploy interceptor missiles along the East Coast to defend against incoming missiles from rogue states like Iran. The recommendation is counter to the views of many in the U.S. military, who privately see a perpetual quest to defend the nation from such threats as a sucking chest wound to their own hardware dreams. But the panel said a smarter missile shield could be built for about as much as the $10 billion annual investment the nation is now spending on missile defense,  so long as programs it deemed unnecessary are scrapped to free up funds. The report didn&#8217;t assess the threat as much as try to figure out how best to defend the nation assuming there is a threat. The recommended shift in missile-defense options meshes with a push from the House of Representatives, which includes a call for such an East Coast system in its version of next year’s defense authorization bill. “Today’s report by the National Research Council highlights that we as a nation have much work to do in countering the threat of long-range missiles to the homeland,” said Rep. Mike Turner, R-Ohio, chairman of the armed services committee’s strategic forces subcommittee and an advocate of the East Coast interceptor base. “The ultimate goal of nations like Iran and North Korea [are] missiles that could carry weapons of mass destruction to threaten the American people.” The panel’s report &#8212; Making Sense of Ballistic Missile Defense: An Assessment of Concepts and Systems for U.S. Boost-Phase Missile Defense in Comparison to Other Alternatives &#8212; said the U.S. should consider building an interceptor base either in Maine or upstate New York, largely to protect the East Coast from Iranian missiles. That makes more sense, the panel concluded, than the Pentagon’s recurring interest in developing a boost-phase interceptor that would destroy enemy missiles shortly after launch. The current interceptor sites, in Alaska and California, are primarily aimed at destroying crude incoming North Korean warheads. The<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nation.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=84505&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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	<primary_category>Missile Defense</primary_category><primary_category_link>http://nation.time.com/category/missile-defense-2/</primary_category_link><featured_image>http://timemilitary.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/missile-defenses.png?w=240</featured_image>
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		<title>Wars? What Wars?</title>
		<link>http://nation.time.com/2012/08/30/wars-what-wars/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Aug 2012 12:44:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Thompson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wednesday night was supposed to be “foreign policy night” at the Republican convention in Tampa, and it was: the speeches were conventional.

Neither GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney nor his running mate, Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, are steeped in foreign affairs. For those looking for insights into how a President Romney might handle national security, specifics were MIA. There was some generic bashing of President Obama – that’s what conventions are for, after all, when you’re challenging an incumbent of the other party seeking a second term – but details were scant.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nation.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=83110&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Country Whose Name Dare Not Be Spoken</title>
		<link>http://nation.time.com/2012/08/23/the-country-whose-name-dare-not-be-spoken/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Aug 2012 14:40:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Thompson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Defense Secretary Leon Panetta spoke to the sailors of the carrier USS John C. Stennis on Wednesday in Bremerton, Wash. He lauded their their service, but warned of the threats still out there.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nation.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=82124&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>“Halt Or We Will Shoot”</title>
		<link>http://nation.time.com/2012/07/17/halt-or-we-will-shoot/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2012 11:02:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Thompson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When the first reports flashed over the wires Monday that the USNS Rappahannock fired a .50 caliber machine gun at a fast-approaching craft in the Persian Gulf, the first thought that flashed through many minds was: Thank God – another USS Cole averted. But in the hours after the shooting, it became increasingly clear that the small craft approaching the largely civilian-manned replenishment oiler wasn’t a wave-skimming bomb but a fishing boat, perhaps piloted by a drunk or deranged captain, or someone suffering from heat stroke. But how the heck are armed sailors &#8212; with the fate of their vessel, not to mention their shipmates, possibly imperiled &#8212; supposed to react? &#8220;In accordance with Navy force protection procedures, the sailors&#8230;used a series of non-lethal, preplanned responses to warn the vessel before resorting to lethal force,&#8221; the Navy&#8217;s 5th Fleet said in a statement from its base in Bahrain. The Navy tightened security regulations in the region after a small inflatable boat approached the USS Cole in Aden harbor in 2000 and exploded alongside, killing 17 sailors. The shooting left one Indian fisherman dead and three seriously wounded, the United Arab Emirates said. The event occurred about 10 miles off the UAE coast, near its port of Jebel Ali. Tehran denounced the attack. &#8220;We have announced time and again that the presence of foreign forces can be a threat to regional security,&#8221; Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast said on state television. &#8221;Certainly regional countries with the help of one another can provide security in the best possible way. If they join hands, with their defensive capabilities, they don&#8217;t need the presence of foreign forces. Anywhere where you see insecurity we have always seen the hand of foreign forces there.&#8221; The sailors who fired had grounds for concern, given their location. They fired just beyond the Strait of Hormuz, inside the Persian Gulf. Navy officers have said for years that Iranian speedboats routinely buzz U.S. ships in the region. “It’s clear that the Iranians have taken an approach in which they are going to<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nation.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=78486&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Never Mind&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://nation.time.com/2012/06/29/never-mind-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jun 2012 11:55:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Thompson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[David Fulghum over at Aviation Week is one of the capital’s top-notch defense reporters, although the lede on his latest story might leave you scratching your flight helmet: Evidence is mounting that the U.S. defense community and the Obama administration view 2013 as the likely window for a bombing attack on Iran&#8217;s nuclear and missile facilities. …fascinating. Interesting. But better not read the second sentence: &#160; It could be earlier, timed to use the chaos of the Syrian government&#8217;s fall to disguise such an attack, or later, if international negotiations with Iran stretch out without failing completely. Nonetheless, the full story is some typically fine Fulghum tea-leaf reading…<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nation.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=77337&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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	<primary_category>Nuclear Weapons</primary_category><primary_category_link>http://nation.time.com/category/nuclear-weapons-2/</primary_category_link>
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		<title>Stuxnet Just Died</title>
		<link>http://nation.time.com/2012/06/25/stuxnet-just-died/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jun 2012 04:02:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Thompson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The wily computer code has died, only weeks after the New York Times told us, not amid its birth announcements, that it was the bastard child of the U.S. and Israel. Designed to screw up Iran&#8217;s nuclear centrifuges, the software – which ultimately made its way into 130,000 computers around the world – contained a couple of lines that were the silicon equivalent of a cyanide pill. Assuming it worked as planned, Stuxnet died two minutes ago, the Christian Science Monitor reports. Iran&#8217;s FARS new agency Sunday noted: TEHRAN (FNA)- At one second past midnight Sunday, the United States&#8217; most powerful known cyber weapon will cease to operate after it failed to clandestinely infiltrate and then wreck Iran&#8217;s nuclear fuel enrichment program. There are survivors.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nation.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=77040&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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	<primary_category>Cyber</primary_category><primary_category_link>http://nation.time.com/category/cyber/</primary_category_link>
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		<title>Golden Oldie: The Day the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty Died</title>
		<link>http://nation.time.com/2012/06/13/the-day-the-anti-ballistic-missile-treaty-died/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jun 2012 12:45:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Thompson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[OK, so it lacks Don McLean’s songcraft, but it was a decade ago Wednesday that the U.S. walked away from 1972’s ABM treaty with the Soviets. Despite predictions from arms controllers that the sky would fall, not much has happened. Sure, the Treasury is lighter by $100 billion or so, but we did that to ourselves by building a missile shield to defend the West Coast from the all-but non-existent threat from North Korea. Now there’s debate about constructing a similar system on the East Coast, to defend against non-existent missiles from Iran. The Heritage Foundation is noting the anniversary with a confab to discuss future missile-defense efforts. Cheers!<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nation.time.com&#038;blog=20157722&#038;post=76401&#038;subd=timemilitary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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