Canadian authorities on Thursday sent armed paramilitaries wearing camouflage and carrying high-powered rifles to clear out a group of anti-fracking protesters who’ve blockaded a gas exploration site since Sept. 30, area media reported.
Bo I. Cavefors (understreckare i SvD 1989) I Sverige publiceras sällan intressanta krigshistoriska och krigsteoretiska studier, men en sådan undantagsbok är Europas krig. Militärt tänkande, strategi och politik från Napoleontiden till andra världskrigets slut (Tidens förlag, Stockholm 1989) av Alf W. Johansson, docent vid Stockholms universitet och tillika medarbetare vid Militärhögskolan.
"Russia has the largest chemical weapons arsenal in the world. Yet after years of complications it is finally being destroyed. A new facility - Shchuchye in Siberia - has finally started neutralising nearly 6,000 tons of nerve agents."
Produkter med dubbla användningsområden kan användas för att framställa högt potenta vapen på hög teknologisk nivå. Samtidigt kan produkter med dubbla användningsområden användas för helt vanliga civila produkter. Det är därför de kallas för produkter med dubbla användningsområden (oftast används den engelska beteckningen "dual-use").
The CSTO was formed in October 2002 by Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia and Tajikistan. Signed an agreement with the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) in 2007.
Gilbert D. 30 Nov :
Europeans can take pleasure in the rare phenomenon these days of diametrically opposed narratives on major international issues being laid out...
"the switch at Euronews was very obviously flicked in time for President Hollande’s visit to Moscow on Thursday, 26 November to agree on the terms of Russian-French military cooperation. In its coverage of the press conference which followed, Euronews gave equal time to the French and Russian presidents and chose the most important assertion from Putin’s statements for airing, his answer to a French journalist on why Assad’s remaining in power is not an impediment to combatting the Daesh, but is rather an essential precondition: as Putin explained, the Islamic State forces in Syria can only be defeated on the ground, and there is only one military force in existence today, the regular Syrian Army of President Assad. This very reasonable logic just happens to fly in the face of everything Washington, and official France as well, has been saying about the Syrian civil war."
The Costs of War Project is a team of 35 scholars, legal experts, human rights practitioners, and physicians, which began its work in 2011. We use research and a public website to facilitate debate about the costs of the post-9/11 wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan.
Auch die Bundesregierung rüstet auf. Abwehrzentrum tatsächlich in der Lage ist Angriffe aus dem Netz abzuwehren wird die Zeit zeigen. Die Federführung für das Abwehrzentrum übernimmt jedenfalls das Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik (BSI
Efter åtta år har ingen ens tillstymmelse till svar. De som dominerar är upptrappning utan politisk substans och tillbakadragande utan politisk heder. Vi stirrar ner i ett svart hål. Det enda vi ser är skräck., skriver Per Wirtén