Military And Intelligence News Briefs -- April 30, 2013

Land-based missiles may force US aircraft carriers and fueling tankers to stand off so far that F-35s might not reach their targets. Beyond ...

U.S. Navy To Deploy Rail Guns And Lasers

Navy Set To Deploy Rail Guns, Laser Prototypes -- DoD Buzz The U.S. Navy’s Science and Technology community is deploying prototypes of elect...

Some North Korean Spies Still Believe In The Kim Family And Communism

Trapped In South Korea, Veteran Spies Still believe In The North -- Reuters (Reuters) - Park Hee-sung, a 78-year-old North Korean former age...

Who Is More Likely To Sell Guns To Dictators?

In constant 1990 U.S. dollars. Source: 2012 SIPRI Arms Transfers Database Gun R unner No. 1 -- Joshua Keating, War & Ideas One of the...

A Close Terror Call In England

Six Islamic Terrorists Facing Lengthy Prison Sentences After Admitting Plot To Bomb EDL Rally Causing Mayhem And Mass Injuries -- Daily Mail...

President Obama's Prudence On Syria Has Become A Strategic And Moral Failure

Red Lines As Red Herrings In Syria -- Richard Cohen, Washington Post Watching PBS’s “NewsHour” the other night, I caught a debate between tw...

A New Kalashikov Assault Rifle For The Russian Military

Russian Military May Soon Adopt New Kalashikov Assault Rifle -- RIA Novosti MOSCOW, April 30 (RIA Novosti) – The fate of a new Kalashnikov A...

Japan And Russia Agree That They Should Formally End World War II

Russia's President Vladimir Putin (r.) shakes hands with Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe during a signing ceremony at the Kremlin ...

Picture Of The Day

LONE RUNNER A U.S. sailor runs on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush during sunset in the Atlantic Ocean, April 26...

How China's Foreign Policy Is Changing The World

China’s Ruthless Foreign Policy Is Changing The World In Dangerous Ways -- Jonathan Kay, National Post Are we witnessing the end of the “Ame...