Missile Defense Briefing Report: No. 321
Third interceptor site analysis finalized;
Iran says all of Israel within Hezbollah missile reach...;
...as Israel eyes laser interception
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Russia Reform Monitor: No. 1871
Mounting counterterrorism measures...and a new ally;
Foreign-funded media on notice
The future of U.S. missile defense
Lessons Learned, And The Road Ahead
Global Missle Threats To The U.S.
Reassesing The Phased Adaptive Approach
Critical Vunerabilities For Missle Defense
Missle Defense For Today And Tomorrow
How To Help Save Ukraine’s Revolution
An authentic revolution is now occurring in Ukraine, with uprisings in the capital city of Kyiv (Kiev) and throughout both Western and Eastern Ukraine. This groundswell of popular unrest underscores not only the loss of legitimacy suffered by Ukraine’s pro-Russian president, Viktor Yanukovych, but also the danger of the country’s potential disintegration if a resolution is not reached soon.
A day of reckoning over Iraq: Ceding the nation to al Qaeda could cost many American lives
The loss of the region to enemy forces caused resentment and despair. The central question asked was: "Why did we fight and die"? Veterans groups and soldiers were outraged, the public was in an uproar and the political leaders were tone-deaf.
That state of affairs refers not to Iraq in 2014, but to another American foreign intervention long ago: the 1745 battle of Louisbourg in what is today Nova Scotia, Canada. The American side lost 561 men — mostly from Massachusetts, Connecticut, Maine and New Hampshire — in that battle and its aftermath, only to have the British trade the city back to France three years later.