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Nuclear Musings

March 9, 2015 Lawrence J. Haas U.S. News & World Report

From today's diary entry of Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei:

Ah, the Americans. When it comes to our nuclear weapons program, they leave us with only good choices!

On the one hand, I can drag out the talks beyond this month's latest deadline because the desperate Americans certainly will agree to keep talking. That's how we went from the six-month interim deal in November 2013, through a deadline in July 2014, and then through another deadline in November 2014.

Missile Defense Briefing Report: No. 334

March 8, 2015

New sensor blimp unnerves citizens;

Turkey goes its own way on missile defense;

Nuclear talks with Iran skirt its missiles;

North Korea now launching at sea;

A new Iranian-Russo missile deal

South Asia Security Monitor: No. 361

March 8, 2015

Sri Lanka: No more Chinese subs in ports;

India and Israel coope on the new SAM system;

Afghans launch largest-ever solo offensive;

India to fast-track, upgrade new carrier;

Battle rages near China-Myanmar border  

Protecting the Baltics

March 8, 2015 Defense News

There is an old piece of folk wisdom which, in light of current events, must translate neatly into Russian: "Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me."

As an already shaky second cease-fire crumbles following the Russian capture of the Ukrainian town of Debaltsevo and with Moscow's intent to also seize Mariupol, it is becoming ever clearer that Russia has no intention of keeping the peace with Ukraine — and that the Kremlin is emboldened by what it perceives to be Western weakness.