As everyone knows by now, North Korea launched a Taepodong-2 rocket on a trajectory over Japan. The North Koreans claim that their rocket put "an experimental communications satellite" into orbit, where "The satellite is transmitting the melodies of the immortal revolutionary paeans 'Song of Gen. Kim Il Sung' and 'Song of Gen. Kim Jong Il' as well ( Read more... )

Details reported in Closing Velocity (http://closingvelocity.typepad.com/closing_velocity/2008/12/mark-india-mark.html)

And at the end of the day, our hit-to-kill record improves to 37 out of 47 since 2001.In other words, our ballistic- ( Read more... )

I awoke to the following article from Angela Charlton of the AP:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081114/ap_on_re_eu/eu_eu_russia_missiles

French President Nicolas Sarkozy undercut the American rationale for a U.S. missile shield in Eastern Europe on ( Read more... )

BreitBart pulls this off the AP from Moscow:

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D92M5GM81&show_article=1

Russia says its response to the further development of a U.S. missile shield in Poland will go beyond diplomacy.which is a clear threat of the ( Read more... )

A new reason to strike Iran soonhttp://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071226/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iran_russia_weapons_4Read more... )