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All of this is a far cry from using the Red Square platform to compare George W. Bush’s policies to those of the Third Reich, resuming air patrols along the Norwegian coast and into the North Atlantic and the Caribbean, or threatening Poland with deployment of Iskander missiles in Kaliningrad.
Moreover, the Obama administration, by having reset US foreign policy, removed the principal irritants in Russia-Western relations, such as the prospect of NATO enlargement to Ukraine and Georgia; close relations with Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, and plans for the deployment of US defensive missiles in Central Europe.
In 1962, Khrushchev took this approach a step further, testing the young President John F. Kennedy with a “mad” plan to install nuclear missiles in Cuba.
Diplomacy remained stalled until North Korea launched a series of missiles into the Sea of Japan in July.
But China’s development and acquisition of advanced weapons, including precision anti-ship missiles, makes it implausible that the US can maintain its forces’ decades-long invulnerability in the region, including the ability to operate with impunity near China’s shores.
Given that China has already militarized the area, including by building radar facilities on new islets and deploying the 100-kilometer-range HQ-9 surface-to-air missiles on Woody Island, it is well positioned to enforce such an ADIZ.
Unlike the Clinton administration, which saw engagement with North Korea as a goal in itself, the Bush administration is focused on preventing North Korean missiles sales to "rogue" regimes like Iran, ensuring verified compliance with international obligation on nuclear safeguards, and reducing conventional military forces along the border with South Korea.
Over 600 missiles, already deployed on the mainland, are aimed at cities and military bases on the island.
The navy is to shift its focus away from the anti-submarine warfare (ASW) capability of the Cold War era, creating a structure aimed at defending islands, monitoring and responding to ballistic missiles, and combating illegal spy ship activities.
A War of Values With RussiaCOPENHAGEN – Russian authorities recently threatened to aim nuclear missiles at Danish warships if Denmark joins NATO’s missile-defense system.
A year ago, the idea that some number of young men would come to the US to train as pilots, hijack four fully loaded passenger jets, and then turn them into missiles to be exploded into some of the most important symbols of Western civilization - was inconceivable.
For Huntington, the most dangerous combination is the "confucian-islamic connection", ganging up against the West and, at least in his imagination, firing nuclear missiles at Christian France.
Of course, Iran’s behavior – developing powerful ballistic missiles, helping to spread terror across the Middle East, and running intensive cyber warfare campaigns – is deeply troubling, and measures should be taken to apply pressure on Iran to address these issues.
That is why, soon after Yanukovych decided to flee to Russia, Putin’s “little green men” began to appear openly in Crimea, while Russian Buk anti-aircraft missiles and Russian battalion battle groups appeared in Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region not long after.
If Iran’s mobile missiles disperse, Israel wants to know about it immediately.
What would the United States and Israel do if Iran carried its threat to the point of evacuating its cities, or placing missiles in its own cities to ensure that any attack on them would cause massive collateral damage?
India has deployed a nuclear triad – bombers, missiles, and submarines – and in 2012 tested an intercontinental ballistic missile, giving it the ability to hit Beijing and Shanghai.
China, too, is shifting its nuclear forces to mobile missiles and submarines.
But they will soon have to face the fact that anti-missile technology may well be catching up with that of offensive missiles – and perhaps surpassing it.
No one is going to shoot missiles into China or Russia for the sake of upholding human rights or international standards of warfare.
Militarily, the Arab world lacks advanced capabilities in ballistic missiles, anti-satellite missiles, and cyber-warfare.
But to greet the elegant and popular President-elect Barack Obama with threats to station missiles on Europe’s borders, as Medvedev did the day after America’s presidential election, exposed before the world the Kremlin’s ham-handed ways once again.
Not only did it produce world-straddling alliances, but either side could have used intercontinental missiles to destroy the other within 30 minutes.
India has significant hard-power resources as well, with an estimated 60-70 nuclear weapons, intermediate-range missiles, a space program, 1.3 million military personnel, and annual military expenditure of nearly $30 billion, or 2% of the world total.
Iraqi Scud missiles bombarded Tel Aviv, and one came close to hitting Dimona.
Given this, America’s foreign-policy priorities have shifted to the Asia-Pacific region, where the most pressing economic, political, and security challenges – including the threat of North Korean missiles and rising tensions between China and its neighbors over competing sovereignty claims in the South and East China Seas – are emerging.
Labeling China a currency manipulator would be the economic-policy equivalent of launching 59 cruise missiles at an isolated air base in Syria.
Destroyed water and wastewater treatment facilities, use of depleted uranium in anti-tank missiles, and ground water contamination may well lead to a host of other problems.
Israeli leaders were aware of Hamas’s buildup of medium-range missiles, mostly smuggled through Sinai in underground tunnels, but continue to argue that, absent the siege, Iran and others would supply more (and more sophisticated) weapons.
In fact, Israel discovered over the last few years that Gaza contained enough rockets and missiles to paralyze its south.
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