In Moussaoui trial, FBI agent says he lacked central facts

Seeded on Thu Mar 9, 2006 4:40 AM EST (The Baltimore Sun)

The man the government presented as its FBI expert on al-Qaida testified in federal court yesterday that no FBI agents alerted him before Sept 11, 2001, that Zacarias Moussaoui had been arrested in Minnesota trying to learn how to fly jumbo jets weeks before the World Trade Center

No security threat in N.Korea missile test: analysts

Seeded on Thu Mar 9, 2006 4:37 AM EST (Reuters)

North Korea's test-firing of two short-range missiles was more about checking performance than rattling sabers during a stalemate in talks on ending Pyongyang's nuclear ambitions, analysts said on Thursday

The Broken System for Reviewing Foreign Investment in Our Vital Infrastructure

Seeded on Thu Mar 9, 2006 4:21 AM EST (strategycenter.net)

Other government components involved in the Exon-Florio process who may be better versed in national security risk assessment -- like Defense and Homeland Security -- are outnumbered and outranked

2005: A Turning Point for China's Aircraft Carrier Ambitions

Seeded on Thu Mar 9, 2006 4:19 AM EST (strategycenter.net)

While China did not begin to reveal its true intentions until mid-2005, it must have made substantial investments during the 2001 to 2005 Five-Year Planning cycle to begin to realize its goals

China's New Navy

Seeded on Thu Mar 9, 2006 4:17 AM EST (strategycenter.net)

China's navy is building quickly, with a wide range of submarines, including missile firing nuclear craft, also advanced destroyers some carrying Russian-supplied supersonic anti-ship missiles against which US carriers have no defense, others fitted with what is essentially US A

The Rise of China's Soft Power

Seeded on Thu Mar 9, 2006 4:16 AM EST (bcsia.ksg.harvard.edu)

Long-time observers of India-China relations, however, maintain that some improvement in the rhetoric and atmospherics notwithstanding, India-China ties remain fragile and as vulnerable as ever to a sudden deterioration

China's Strategy of Containing India

Seeded on Thu Mar 9, 2006 4:15 AM EST (pinr.com)

China's Global Hunt for Energy

Seeded on Thu Mar 9, 2006 4:13 AM EST (foreignaffairs.org)

Chinese foreign policy is now driven by China's unprecendented need for resources

China, Africa, and Oil

Seeded on Thu Mar 9, 2006 4:11 AM EST (CFR.org - Daily Analysis)

As global demand for energy continues to rise, major players like the United States, European Union (EU), and Japan are facing a new competitor in the race to secure long-term energy supplies: China

We Can See Clearly Now: The Limits of Foresight in the pre-World War II Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA)

Seeded on Thu Mar 9, 2006 4:11 AM EST (comw.org)

Profound uncertainty attends every military revolution - a pivotal fact that is often obscured in historical accounts of successful RMAs.

Russia drafts ambitious plan to build new nuclear power plants

Seeded on Wed Mar 8, 2006 8:13 AM EST (The San Diego Union-Tribune)

Russia's atomic agency is drafting an ambitious program to build two nuclear reactors a year to make nuclear power account for a quarter of the nation's energy by 2030, officials said Tuesday

Task Force Urges Bush To Be Tougher With Russia

Seeded on Mon Mar 6, 2006 8:47 AM EST (The Washington Post)

In a grim assessment of the recent "downward trajectory" under Putin, the Council on Foreign Relations reports that in Russia democracy is in retreat, corruption on the rise and the Kremlin an increasing obstacle to U.S. interests

U.S. Plans to Modernize Nuclear Arsenal

Seeded on Mon Mar 6, 2006 8:46 AM EST (The Washington Post)

The Bush administration is developing plans to design and deploy refurbished or replacement warheads for the nuclear stockpile, and by 2030 to modernize the production complex so that, if required, it could produce new generations of weapons with different or modified capabilities

Pentagon Agency's Contracts Reviewed

Seeded on Mon Mar 6, 2006 8:37 AM EST (The Washington Post)

Federal investigators are looking into contracts awarded by the Pentagon's newest and fastest-growing intelligence agency, the Counterintelligence Field Activity, which has spent more than $1 billion, mostly for outsourced services, since its establishment in late 2002

White House Trains Efforts on Media Leaks

Seeded on Mon Mar 6, 2006 8:36 AM EST (The Washington Post)

The Bush administration, seeking to limit leaks of classified information, has launched initiatives targeting journalists and their possible government sources

Homeland Security Headquarters Insecure

Seeded on Mon Mar 6, 2006 8:26 AM EST (Military.com)

When an envelope with suspicious powder was opened last fall at Homeland Security Department headquarters, guards said they watched in amazement as superiors took it outside and then shook it outside Chertoff's window without evacuating people nearby

Catastrophes

Seeded on Mon Mar 6, 2006 8:20 AM EST (The Economist)

Swiss Re, a reinsurance company, estimates that Hurricane Katrina caused the greatest damage last year, at $135 billion -- claims on insurers amounted to $45 billion, the biggest insured loss in post-war history

China Threatens to Fracture the Internet

Seeded on Mon Mar 6, 2006 8:16 AM EST (The Economist)

On March 1st China moved ahead with three new internet-address suffixes in the Chinese language, making it possible for Chinese users to type Chinese characters for website and e-mail addresses, liberating them from the strange squiggles of the Roman alphabet, upon which the curre

India's economy

Seeded on Mon Mar 6, 2006 8:15 AM EST (The Economist)

When India's state governments are added in, the overall government deficit climbs sharply, to an expected 8% of GDP in the present year -- but, at the turn of the decade, it was hovering around 10%

The Siren Song of Technonationalism

Seeded on Mon Mar 6, 2006 8:09 AM EST (feer.com)

Technological development in Asia is driven by government policy, and that policy is motivated in large part by technonationalism, or the desire of Asian states to free themselves from dependence on Western technologies

Eavesdropping on the universe

Seeded on Mon Mar 6, 2006 8:07 AM EST (Kentucky.com: Homepage)

In the biggest joint Mexico-U.S. scientific venture ever, builders are finishing a monster telescope on top of a volcano that will let astronomers look back 13 billion years and uncover secrets about the creation of the universe

Hey Neighbor, Stop Piggybacking on My Wireless

Seeded on Mon Mar 6, 2006 7:48 AM EST (The New York Times)

Piggybacking, the usually unauthorized tapping into someone else's wireless Internet connection, is no longer the exclusive domain of pilfering computer geeks or shady hackers cruising for unguarded networks.

Passing the joystick to a new generation

Seeded on Mon Mar 6, 2006 7:46 AM EST (The Philadelphia Inquirer)

In a national survey released in January, 35 percent of 501 parents living with children age 2 to 17 said they played computer or video games, according to the Entertainment Software Association - of those, 80 percent also played with their children

Homeland Security report tracks down rogue open source code

Seeded on Mon Mar 6, 2006 7:40 AM EST (The Register (UK))

The authors of a US government-sponsored report claim to have delivered the first reliable guide into judging the safety and reliability of open source software

TIA Lives On

Seeded on Mon Mar 6, 2006 7:20 AM EST (nationaljournal.com)

A controversial counter-terrorism program, which lawmakers halted more than two years ago amid outcries from privacy advocates, was stopped in name only and has quietly continued within the intelligence agency now fending off charges that it has violated the privacy of US citizens

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