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Geopolitics

The Missiles of Spring: 2012 Edition

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Stick around any job long enough and pretty soon you’ll find a pattern of repetition or cycles will emerge.  When on active duty, it was inexorably tied to the CVW turnaround training cycle.  This year we are now on the threshold of the 3rd North Korean space launch vehicle (SLV) attempt since 2006 and the [...] [...]

Missile Defense

Concerning Missile Defense, Deterrence and North Korea

Writing in today’s Japan Times Online, columnist Michael Richardson raises several, hoary arguments as to the possible effectiveness of missile defense vs. massive retaliation as a form of deterrence vis-à-vis the DPRK’s l’enfant terrible and the latest brewing crisis on the Korean peninsula.  We say “hoary” because true to the definition, the arguments are the [...] [...]

history lessons

North Korea: Here We Go Again – Part II

As if the 29 April statement from the DPRK Foreign Ministry wasn’t provocative enough, comes the latest missive dated 29 May (full statement here): As long as the UNSC fails to respond to the DPRK’s just demand, the DPRK will not recognize any resolution and decision of the UNSC in the future, too. Third, if [...] [...]

Air Warfare

This Date in Naval Aviation History: 15 Apr 1969 – Deep Sea 129

The weak can be rash. The powerful must be restrained.- Secretary of State William Rogers, April 1969 For most of these past several weeks, international attention has been focused on the activities taking place near a peninsula on the north-east coast of Korea.  There, despite protests and warnings from around the world, the North Koreans [...] [...]

Geopolitics

The Missiles of Winter – Part II: Rampant Proliferation

Previous: The Missiles of Winter (I): International Conventions March 1985.  In the high desert, west of Tehran, an element of the Islamic Revolution Guard Corps Air Force (IRGC AF) is going about their business in the early morning darkness.  The object of their attention is a SCUD-B SRBM fixed to a MAZ-543P transporter-erector launcher, both [...] [...]