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India Pulls The Plug On The Agni 3 ICBM Project Washington (UPI) Jun 05, 2006 
The Agni III ICBM, the pride of India's strategic deterrent force, has been shot down before it could even conduct its first test flight. Why did the Indian government pull the plug? The ambitious rail and road-mobile Agni III was the pride of the Indian strategic missile program and was designed to have a range of at least 2,000 miles, giving it the capability of reaching almost all of China with nuclear weapons. Indian Defense Minister Pranab Mukherjee said May 16, "As responsible members of the international community, we want to keep our international commitments on non-proliferation."
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Japanese Military Going Into Space
Tokyo (UPI) Jun 05, 2006Japan's Liberal Democratic Party has drafted a bill to allow Japan's military into space. The calls for the military to venture into space within the parameters of self-defense rights. That would be a drastic change from the current civilian-based limitations that Japan has placed on space ventures. AFSO 21 Crucial To Achieving New Vision 
Schriever AFB CO (AFNS) Jun 05, 2006Air Force Smart Operations for the 21st century will be crucial to achieving the 50th Space Wing's new vision, said Col. John Hyten, wing commander. "If someone asks you how we can do things smarter, tell them AFSO 21 gives us free rein to cut through red tape," Colonel Hyten said. CENTAF Releases Airpower Summary 
Southwest Asia (AFNS) Jun 05, 2006In Afghanistan, Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcons, a B-1B Lancer and a Predator unmanned aerial vehicle responded to coalition forces taking small-arms fire and rocket-propelled grenades from Taliban extremists near Tarin Kowt. The B-1B expended precision-guided joint direct attack munitions on the enemy positions, ending the engagement. |
FMS Pakistan HARPOON Block II Anti-ship Missiles
Washington DC (SPX) Jun 01, 2006The Defense Security Cooperation Agency notified Congress of a possible Foreign Military Sale to Pakistan of HARPOON Block II Anti-ship Missiles as well as associated equipment and services. The total value, if all options are exercised, could be as high as $370 million. Rumsfeld urges China to come clean on military spending 
Singapore (AFP) Jun 3, 2006 US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld urged China Saturday to explain its increased military spending to the world, saying it was in its interest to demystify actions that others find potentially threatening. US Army Shifts Training Focus To Stryker Teams 
Schofield Barracks HI (AFNS) Jun 05, 2006The U.S. Army 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team continues to transform with five new units and a fleet of new, highly mobile, survivable and lethal Stryker vehicles. Similarly, the brigade's 5th Squadron, 14th Cavalry Regiment, is continuing to transform training by shifting from individual soldier tasks to Stryker team building exercises. |
Boeing-Led Industry Team To Pursue Secure Border Initiative Effort
St Louis (SPX) Jun 05, 2006Boeing officials have announced that its best-of-industry team is pursuing the SBInet program. The Boeing-led team submitted its proposal to the U.S. government and is competing for an estimated $2 billion contract award. Senate Bill Means Wider Briefing On Spying 
Washington (UPI) Jun 01, 2006The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence is moving to end a long-standing arrangement under which just a few members of congress are briefed on the most sensitive of U.S. intelligence activities. Raytheon SBInet Proposal Reflects Extensive Border Security Experience 
Washington DC (SPX) Jun 01, 2006Raytheon has submitted its proposal to use its border security experience and systems management expertise to help the Department of Homeland Security secure America's borders by integrating technologies, infrastructure, rapid-response capability and personnel into a comprehensive border protection system. |
Moscow Facing A Complex Chinese Challenge
Washington (UPI) Jun 05, 2006The rise of China affects virtually every other country in the world, but most especially those that neighbor it. Moscow has important reasons to be concerned about China: Russian territory bordering it is sparsely populated. Armor Holdings Receives Armor Component Order for Up-Armored HMMWV 
Jacksonville FL (SPX) Jun 05, 2006Armor Holdings has announced the receipt of an order from AM General valued at $87.4 million under a blanket purchase agreement to provide armor components for the M1151 and M1152 Up-Armored HMMWV program. NATO strides confidently into unruly southern Afghanistan 
Brussels (AFP) Jun 4, 2006 Three years into its mission in Afghanistan, NATO is moving confidently into the unruly south but as violence escalates concern is mounting about when the government will be able to take control. |
Iran Intransigence Threat To NPT
Washington (UPI) Jun 05, 2006A top State Department official said if the international community fails convince Iran to give up its uranium enrichment program, it will dramatically undermine the 40-year-old Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, an international agreement credited with preventing new states from developing nuclear weapons. Iran will not discuss its right to enrichment: Ahmadinejad 
Tehran (AFP) Jun 3, 2006 Iran will not discuss its "absolute rights" to nuclear technology, notably the enrichment of uranium, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said in a televised address Saturday. Rice brushes aside Iran threat on oil supplies 
Washington (AFP) Jun 4, 2006 US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Sunday brushed off an Iranian threat to disrupt world oil supplies and promised a tough international response if Tehran refused to scrap its controversial nuclear actvities. |
Rumsfeld plays down Ahmadinejad statement on nuclear proposal
Singapore (AFP) Jun 4, 2006 US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on Sunday played down comments by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad declaring that Iran's right to nuclear technology is not negotiable. US echoes Gulf fears of pollution from Iran's nuclear program 
Doha (AFP) Jun 4, 2006 A US official said Sunday Gulf Arab states were worried about the ecological fallout from Iran's nuclear program, reiterating Washington's offer of talks if Tehran freezes sensitive nuclear work. US sweetens offer to Iran: diplomats 
Vienna (AFP) Jun 4, 2006 The United States has offered to lift some of its trade sanctions against Iran as part of a package of benefits the EU will deliver to get Tehran to guarantee it will not make nuclear weapons, diplomats told AFP Sunday. |
Dismantling The Iraqi Militias
Amman, Jordan (UPI) Jun 04, 2006Since being endorsed by Iraq's elected Parliament last month, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has used every opportunity to stress that his government's top priority is to restore security and dismantle the armed militias in his war-torn country. But that's easier said than done. Iraqi Model Becomes A Failed Strategy 
New York (UPI) Jun 05, 2006Although only two weeks have passed since the formation of the long-anticipated Iraqi government, all signs show that this "watershed event," using President Bush's own words, will be another episode with no real impact on Iraq's future. Learning The Hard Truths On Iraq 
Washington (UPI) Jun 05, 2006There are no good strategic options in Iraq, and there is a serious risk of failure regardless of the policies the United States pursues. The United States also has increasingly limited options. |
Losing The Shiites
Washington (UPI) Jun 05, 2006The latest wave of violence in Iraq seems all too familiar to Americans, but its strategic implications are fresh and disturbing. On Tuesday at least 54 people were killed around the California-sized nation of 28 million people in a new wave of car bomb and mortar attacks. US scientist, once suspected China spy, settles lawsuits 
Washington (AFP) Jun 2, 2006 US nuclear scientist Wen Ho Lee, once a suspected spy for China, settled on Friday lawsuits against the US government and major news media for 1.64 million dollars, the US Justice Department said. What About Israel And Iran 
United Nations (UPI) Jun 05, 2006The U.N. chief weapons inspector leading up to the Iraq war, Hans Blix, returned to the world organization's headquarters and into the debate on non-proliferation of nuclear weapons in Iran and North Korea, saying the debate on weapons of mass destruction has stagnated. |
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