Let me go on record as saying that whatever minimal value there might be in returning Abkhazia to Georgia (and the value may indeed be negative, since the residents of Abkhazia don't seem to want to return) is vastly exceeded by the costs of picking...
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...and a bit more at the new Russian Navy Blog. It's not an official Russian Navy blog, but rather is run by an enthusiast who pays a lot of attention.
The Chinese appear to be stealing an effective and marketable Russian weapon design; the Russian response is to threaten a lawsuit:Russia is getting more and more upset at what it.
Hans Kristensen has a good post on the inactivity of Russian SSBNs:The number of deterrence patrols conducted by Russia’s 11 nuclear-powered ballistic missiles submarines (SSBNs) decreased to only three in 2007 from five in 2006, according to our latest Nuclear Notebook published in the Bulletin...
This backs up something I heard at the recent International Studies Association meeting:A statement from the Russian foreign ministry said that "a bridgehead is being prepared for the start of.
A couple of aircraft carrier related links for your afternoon...Via Danger Room, Martin Sieff has a new series at UPI on the vulnerability of carriers to submarine attack. Galrahn has.
Like Matt, I don't have any principled opposition to Ukrainian membership in NATO. It will irritate the Russians, yes, but I don't have a terrible lot of sympathy for Russia on this point; making it more difficult for Russia to intimidate its neighbors seems, on...
This was quick; maybe rumors about Kitty Hawk were being deployed strategically?India and Russia have ended a protracted dispute over the cost of a Soviet-era aircraft carrier which will be.
Last August I wrote:It's unclear whether the Indians will keep Viraat around for another three years or accept a carrier deployment gap. It's kind of interesting to me that, in.
Jurgen Rohwer and Mikhail Monakov wrote Stalin's Ocean-Going Fleet in 2001, after the opening of Soviet archives had let considerable light onto Soviet Navy doctrinal and procurement decisions during the Stalin period. Rohwer is a German historian, and Monakov a Russian naval officer. The book...
The Russians seem desperate for attention. Alex:Russian air force out again, in some strength; and exercising a whole range of types, including the White Swan...sorry...Tu-160 BLACKJACK, BEAR, BACKFIRE, and MiG31.
The Romanovs seem to have emerged, along with a number of other important Russian families, from a minor 14th century noble named Andrei Kobyla. The Romanov branch of this large.