Новости за 29.08.2018

US Army War College 2018-20 Key Strategic Issues List

US Army War College 2018-20 Key Strategic Issues List edited by LTC Charles A. Carlton - Strategic Studies Institute

300,000 Troops, 900 Tanks: It’s Called the Most Massive Russian Military Exercise Since the Cold War, and China’s Role is Growing

300,000 Troops, 900 Tanks: It’s Called the Most Massive Russian Military Exercise Since the Cold War, and China’s Role is Growing by Todd South – Military Times

---Quote--- NATO confirmed a large scale Russian navy buildup in the Mediterranean Sea off Syria on Tuesday. “The Russian Navy has dispatched substantial naval forces to the Mediterranean, including several ships equipped with modern cruise missiles,” NATO spokesperson Oana Lungescu confirmed to...

Repeat a perception until it becomes a reality. ---Quote--- A modernization program focused on naval and missile forces has shifted the balance of power in the Pacific in ways the United States and its allies are only beginning to digest. While China lags in projecting firepower on a...

Two articles on an incident many had forgotten, it occurred just after Internment was introduced and in summary: ---Quote--- More than 40 years after the shootings in a west Belfast neighbourhood, the Guardian has reconstructed the events surrounding what appears to be a killing spree by...

Two background articles via Open Democracy on the regional conflict and linked I noted by an act of revenge. The first is about the Second Chechen War and is summarised as: ---Quote--- Chechen journalist Abdul Itslayev lived out the Second Chechen War in his native village. Against a backdrop...

U.S. Casts Doubt on Islamic State's Staying Power

U.S. Casts Doubt on Islamic State's Staying Power

Mattis: U.S. Troops Can’t Leave Syria Until U.N. Peace Talks Advance; Says President Trump’s Afghanistan Strategy is Drawing the Insurgents to the Negotiating Table

Mattis: U.S. Troops Can’t Leave Syria Until U.N. Peace Talks Advance by Kevin Baron - Defense One

Afghanistan Operations Could Hit 22 Years; Airstrikes Continue to Climb this Month, Highest this Decade

DoD: Afghanistan Operations Could Hit 22 Years - But Don’t Call it a Permanent Presence by Tara Copp - Military Times

The Future of Terrorism: The Practitioners’ View SWJED Wed, 08/29/2018 - 12:24am

Once a grievance and possible weapons are identified, ascertaining possible targets is certainly possible if analysts and practitioners allow themselves to examine the threat from the terrorists’ perspective. Doing so will allow government leaders to make informed decisions regarding the allocation of finite resources in a way best suited to defend their citizens and their way of life.

Nuclear Stability-Cyber Instability: A New Look at an Old Cold War Theory SWJED Wed, 08/29/2018 - 12:08am

As security competition looms within the re-emerging 4+1 threat environment (China, Russia, North Korea, and Iran plus the constant challenge of transnational threats), those once-archaic concepts of ‘great power war’ and ‘nuclear deterrence’ are worth revisiting.