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October 24, 2008
Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat
Despite recent unpleasantness in Georgia, and a dimwitted refusal to appropriately discern its friends from its enemies, a strong Russia is not only in the short term interest of the free world, it is in the long term interest of democracy. It is difficult to be too hard on Russia's corrupt leadership, blinkered as it is by anti-Americanism; these are features of every European government saved by the United States in World War II.
50 billion dollars in Russian military spending in 2009 may sound alarming but I find the prospect they may not be able to pay for it far more alarming. A Russian military "running on fumes" is inherently more destabilizing than even the most belligerent Russian policy in the near abroad.
Related to my point: India is building airfields along the border with China.
More than meets the eye: A previously classified Northrop Grumman video of the X-35 prototype for the short take-off/vertical landing variant of the F-35 joint strike fighter.
Posted by Ghost of a flea at October 24, 2008 07:44 AM
