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Russia’s S-400 Missile System
According to the Missile Defense Project of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), the S-400 Triumf (NATO name SA-21 Growler) Missile System was developed during the late 1990s and was first deployed in Moscow in August 2007.
Fatal Flaws Undermine America’s Defense Industrial Base
The first-ever US Department of Defense National Defense Industrial Strategy (NDIS) confirms what many analysts have concluded in regard to the unsustainable nature of Washington’s global-spanning foreign policy objectives and its defense industrial base’s (DIB) inability to achieve them. The report lays out a multitude of problems plaguing the US DIB including a lack of surge capacity, inadequate workforce, offshore downstream suppliers, as well as insufficient “demand signals” to motivate private industry partners to produce what’s needed…
The U.S. Congress Now Has the Plan: Get Everybody on Earth Killed
Lookout world, a U.S. Congress commission has determined we are all going to die. Just when you thought Armageddon was about to happen on the plains of Mageddo in the Holy Land, The Strategic Posture Commission (PDF) says America must prepare for war with Russia and China. The good news for those holding shares of U.S. defense industry stocks is that business will be excellent. As good as during the Cold War, or better if indicators are calculated correctly. With the United States some $33.6 trillion in debt, the powers that run our empire’s business and war strategies will print even more funny money now…