Lee on Aug 15 2008 | Filed under: Foreign affairs
(photo: Pavel Trebukov | blog)
From the gang who brought you the “because Georgia has invaded its own country we had to attack” rationale for the South Ossetian War, Poland has now apparently “made itself a target” for Russian nuclear strike, by agreeing to base an entirely defensive missile system which could not possibly repel even [...]
Joshua Foust on Apr 23 2008 | Filed under: Foreign affairs
For at least a decade, there has been a running joke in the world of intelligence contractors that perhaps 90% of what the CIA does could be done for 1/10 the cost and 10x the effective accuracy by private, open-source agencies. The superiority of open source analysis is not really in question, though there are [...]
Lee on Feb 13 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web
Russia’s fears of NATO expansion reaching right to her western border with Ukraine, have provoked a new round of saber rattling from the Kremlin. Here’s Putin’s ominous quote, after he had just met with Ukrainian president Viktor Yushchenko: “It’s frightening not just to talk about, but even to think about, that in response to such [...]
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