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Burying China's 'String of Pearls'
Image Credit: REUTERS/Guang Niu/Pool By Christopher D. Yung January 22, 2015 The “String of Pearls” model has long outlived its usefulness as a strategic concept. In a November 8 column, U.S. Naval War College Professor James R. Holmes (aka the Naval...
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Navy to launch submarine command
Posted : 2015-01-11 17:50 By Yi Whan-woo The Navy will inaugurate its first submarine command early next month in Jinhae, South Gyeongsang Province, the Ministry of National Defense said Sunday. The command's fleet will be composed of under 2,000-ton...
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‘Blue-Water’ Navies in the Indian Ocean Region
Image Credit: REUTERS/Shailesh Andrade By Abhijit Singh January 21, 2015 What Indian and Chinese positions on their “blue-water” status says about strategy in the IOR. In India’s strategic institutes and think-tanks, maritime analysts are sometimes faced...
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Philippines says US has lifted restrictions on military aid funds
U.S. Navy and Armed Forces of the Philippines Navy ships are underway during exercise Balikatan 2009 Agence France-Presse, Manila | World | Thu, January 22 2015, 7:23 PM The United States has lifted restrictions on a small portion of its military assistance...
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Is China Bidding for the Heartland?
Image Credit: REUTERS/Stringer By Francis P. Sempa January 21, 2015 Beijing doesn’t have to choose between land and sea predominance. It could have both. In his 1919 masterpiece, Democratic Ideals and Reality, the great British geographer Halford Mackinder...
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IS threatens to kill Japan hostages, Tokyo vows not to give in
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe places a note between stones of the Western Wall during his visit to Jerusalem's Old City. People of all faiths slip notes between the stones in the belief that god will answer their prayers. (AP/Mahmoud Illean) POSTED:...
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Missile BrahMos : 1er tir d'essai depuis un chasseur Sukhoi prévu pour mars
Le premier tir d'essai d'un missile russo-indien BrahMos depuis un chasseur indien Sukhoi Su-30MKI se tiendra en mars prochain, a annoncé mercredi à Moscou Alexandre Dergatchev, PDG adjoint de l'entreprise Mashinostroyenie, concepteur russe du missile....
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Révélations sur la construction du premier porte-avions chinois
Pékin, 20 jan 2015 (AFP) - Le premier porte-avions chinois n'a pas été construit à partir d'une coque vide vendue en 1998 par l'Ukraine, comme l'a toujours affirmé Pékin, mais à partir d'un bâtiment déjà équipé de moteurs, acheté grâce à un intermédiaire...
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Indonesia must toughen laws to combat IS: think-tank
Masked Indonesian Muslim hardliners protest against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Indonesia could help fight the threat of homegrown extremism by banning its citizens from going abroad to fight with groups like the Islamic State, said a think-tank....
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Britain warns India of possible terror attack by ISIS
Islamic State jihadists moving in vehicles captured from the Iraqi army. PTI | Jan 19, 2015, 07.35 PM IST NEW DELHI: Britain has warned India about possible attack by ISIS and said all efforts must be taken to check activities of the Middle East terrorist...
