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Wednesday, 19 June 2013 10:11 |
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by Francis Beaufort
The out-going military boss of NATO warned the alliance’s European members they need to increase defence spending if they are to retain the USA as the key underwriter of their security.
As he began the process of relinquishing duties as Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR) US Navy Admiral James G. Stavridis noted that, even with its own cutbacks, the USA still spends “well over three per cent” of its GDP on defence.
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 19 June 2013 10:16 |
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SHIPS AT SEA - NOT BOOTS ON THE GROUND |
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Wednesday, 19 June 2013 10:01 |
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Odin’s Eye
It is 125 years since the poet Rudyard Kipling coined the phrase ‘East of Suez’. It was a phrase that entered British overseas policy as encompassing, obviously enough, anything east of the Suez Canal. It included a vast military base in Singapore, which even though it failed in the Second World War, was still a beacon of British commitment.
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News Digest from the January 2013 Edition |
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Friday, 10 May 2013 13:53 |
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Reports by Usman Ansari, Iain Ballantyne & Charles Strathdee
DEPLOYMENTS ABANDONED IN THE FACE OF SEQUESTRATION AXE
RUSSIAN NAVY’S SURPRISE CALL-OUT
IRAN’S CASPIAN WARSHIP
EASTERN MED EXERCISE
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News Digest from the June 2013 Edition |
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Wednesday, 19 June 2013 10:16 |
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Reports by Juan Carlos Cicalesi & Usman Ansari
- NEW AIRCRAFT CARRIER FOR BRAZILIAN NAVY
- LASER WEAPON TO BE DEPLOYED
- ASSAULT SHIP BASES IN PACIFIC
- COLLINS REBOOT FOR RAN?
- ANGLO-KUWAITI EX
- SUBMARINE DELAYS
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“THE NORTH KOREANS SIMPLY NEED TO DIAL THE TEMPERATURE DOWN” |
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Friday, 10 May 2013 13:48 |
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by Iain Ballantyne
Wild threats of launching nuclear missiles against American naval bases, including Guam, and even the US mainland, along with a promise of all-out war against South Korea, stoked smouldering tensions in Asia-Pacific.
With salvo after salvo of warlike pronouncements fired off by Pyongyang, the world wondered if it was Cold War-style bluster by a new despot, keen to secure his position at home, or a very real indication of imminent conflagration.
The crisis erupted as the US Navy along with other American forces concluded a major exercise with South Korea which the North saw as one of many provocations, but which the Pentagon regarded as just sensible rehearsal for the possibility of a hot conflict.
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