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Military Photos: A Month Inside the Armed Forces, August
TIME’s photo editors bring you the best pictures from the front lines from around the world, and the home front.
Military Photos: A Week Inside the Armed Forces, July 23-30
TIME’s photo editors bring you the best pictures from the front lines from around the world, and the home front.
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Battleland Diary, June 9-15
TIME’s photo editors bring you the best pictures from the front lines and home.
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Battleland Diary, June 1-8
TIME’s photo editors bring you the best pictures from the front lines and home.
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Battleland Diary, May 5-11
TIME’s photo editors bring you the best pictures from the front lines and home.
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More Evidence of the Glorious Do-Loop That Is the East Asian Arms Race
WSJ lead story about Chinese developing a ballistic missile designed to fragment – like a cluster bomb – on the deck of a U.S. carrier and wipe out all aircraft and personnel. Naturally, it’s unbelievably provocative to us, …
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The “Strategic Pivot” to Asia Now Committed, Pentagon Can Float Allegedly Deep Cuts
Nice piece in the New York Times on Tuesday, previewing Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta’s much-anticipated announcement of almost a half-trillion in defense cuts over the next decade.As Mark Thompson just noted, not a whole lot …
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Why Japan Won’t Go All Caldicott Over Fukushima
My favorite – and most frustrated – anti-nuke activist Helen Caldicott believes Fukushima drives Japan out of the industry and – by extension – kills the industry worldwide.
But telling WSJ piece last Friday suggests otherwise, for the best reason: (print ed. subtitle: “Few civilians want bombs, but leaders see plutonium playing …
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Right Where We’ve Always Wanted Us
Philip Stephens of the Financial Times recently pens a rather pessimistic piece on what Libya said about “Britain’s pretensions of influence.” Noting that the “campaign has stretched the armed forces to their limit,” he calls it a “last hurrah.” Now, the underlying tone of the piece is his criticism of PM David Cameron’s desire to …
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Our Silent Partner Everywhere We Intervene – China
That’s how I like to describe it. Whether we like it or not – much less admit it, every time we show up somewhere in tumult, the Chinese are already there or soon to show up. They will be making the big investments (like that $3-4B on a copper mine in Afghanistan) and they will be winning the big extractive contracts (like with both …
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Cyberwar fears: disaggregating the threat
My man Mark Thompson puts up a cheeky post yesterday that I most heartily approved of. In it he speaks of cyberwar worrywarts and rightly fears that, as the terror war recedes in some priority, new little piggies approach the DoD trough. And as these cyberwar advocates find such a prime target in China, I would note that their …
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As You Approach #1, The Catch-up Tactics Need to Cease
NYT story on how the Defense Department suffered a massive loss of data during a hack last March. Pentagon won’t say which country is to blame, which makes it either China or Russia. Why tell us now? The cleared version of the new US cyber strategy is being released, as Mark just noted.
Odds are it’s China, because that’s what a …