There’s a Reason They Called it MAD.
They were all the rage in my day. Tactical nuclear weapons, mini-nukes, or “those little bags of instant sunshine.” Somewhere around here I’ve got a then-“secret” field manual laying out…
Cold War II
Okay, Canada. Prepare To Be Probed.
What a moment to be stuck with a navy so horribly neglected that it can’t put a single task force to sea. Now that the Harper government has left us…
Banging the War Drums
If you thought you had heard the last of insanely bellicose Anders Fogh “Foggy” Rasmussen when his term as NATO secretary-general lapsed, you were wrong. He’s back and he’s talking…
The New Frontier is the Russian Border
Think of it as the new equivalent of the East German-West German border. It was across that border that NATO (i.e. US) and Warsaw Pact (i.e. Soviet) forces glared at…
Does Your Bank Back the Bomb?
We’re all familiar with the ongoing campaign to urge institutions such as universities and churches to divest their shareholdings in fossil fuel companies. Well, if we believe that these institutions…
Arms Race Update – US to Spend a Trillion Dollars on Upgrading Nukes
US Defense Secretary, Chuck Hagel, put it bluntly. “No other mission we have is more important.“ The mission Hagel was referring to was a trillion-dollar, 30-year programme to upgrade America’s…
It’s Just Another Front in the New Cold War
Let the war begin, the propaganda war. One of the great battlefields of Cold War is the war of propaganda. We’ve been waging a propaganda war against Russia for some…
Is Syria Cold War II’s First Proxy War?
Another sign that we may have entered a new Cold War is the alignment of major powers behind rival forces in Syria. The Russians and Chinese tentatively back Assad. The…