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With Missile Shield Change, National Interests Get a Leg Up on the Military-Industrial Complex

Leon T. Hadar | Posted 11.22.2009 | World

Read More: Russia, Military Industrial Complex, Poland, Us Missile Shield, Missile Shield, Anti-Missile Shield, Obama Missile Shield, Czech Republic, World News
Leon T. Hadar

Remember the good-old days when the perceived Soviet threat was a constant opportunity for politicians, bureaucrats and interest groups to stimulate new arms races?

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Left, Right & Center: Missiles, Baucus Plan, Financial Reform and Glenn Beck

Huff Radio | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Wall Street, Baucus Health Care, Financial Reform, Missile Shield, Max Baucus, Glenn Beck, Politics News
Huff Radio

The Missile Shield: was it an act of pure symbolism? Is dropping it an overture to Russia or an outrageous betrayal of Eastern Europe? Can NATO surviv...

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U.S. To Shelve Bush's Nuclear-Missile Shield

AP | ANNE GEARAN | Posted 11.16.2009 | World

Read More: Iran, u.s. Foreign Policy, Bush's Missile Defense Plan, Euro Missile Defense Plan, Moscow, Poland, Obama Administration, Defense, President Bush, Missile Defense Plan, European Missile Defense Plan, Czech Republic, Nuclear Weapons, Missle Shield, Desmond Butler and Missle Shield, Cost of Us Missile Shield in Europe, Missile Shield, Us Missile Shield Doesn't Work, u.s. To Shelve Nuclear-Missile Shield, World News

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama abruptly canceled a long-planned missile shield for Eastern Europe on Thursday, replacing a Bush-era project...

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Russia: US Missile Defense Shield Not Acceptable

AP | STEVE GUTTERMAN | Posted 08.10.2009 | World

Read More: Russia, Foreign Affairs, Advocacy, Missile Defense, Missile Shield, Missile Defense Shield, Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System, Dmitry Medvedev, Barack Obama, World News

MOSCOW — President Dmitry Medvedev said Friday that Russia will still deploy missiles near Poland if the United States pushes ahead with a missi...

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Russia: Not a Quick Fix

Markus Ziener | Posted 04.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Russia, Iran, Obama, Missile Shield, Obama Secret Letter, Obama Letter, Missile Defense, Politics News
Markus Ziener

Is it realistic to expect the Russians to cooperate on the issue of Iran? Hardly.

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Afghanistan: Russia to the Rescue

William Bradley | Posted 03.16.2009 | World

Read More: Russia, America, Afghanistan, Missile Shield, Pakistan, Richard Holbrooke, Boris Gromov, Joe Biden, 9/11, Kabul, Iran, Vladimir Putin, Kyber Pass, David Petraeus, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Moscow, Iraq, Al Jazeera, Hillary Clinton, Dmitri Medvedev, Soviet Union, World News
William Bradley

Russia can certainly help the US greatly in Afghanistan. And the price -- ending the NATO encroachment strategy -- may be an inevitable one anyway, and thus perhaps easily paid.

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Global Obama: Big Opportunities, Bigger Challenges

William Bradley | Posted 11.24.2008 | Politics

Read More: Russia, Venezuela, Britain, Tunisia, Opec, Missile Shield, Iran, Georgia, Vladimir Putin, Qatar, Ukraine, Arctic, Boris Johnson, Libya, Energy Future, Barack Obama, Presidential Campaign, Germany, Petro Rush, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Oil, Dmitry Medvedev, Iraq, Israel, John McCain, Natural Gas, John F. Kennedy, Joe Biden, Persian Gulf, Middle East, Afghanistan, Czech Republic, Poland, Politics News
William Bradley

If he wins, Obama will have the global popularity that no American president has had in a great many years.

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That Foreign Policy Debate We're Not Having

William Bradley | Posted 10.27.2008 | Politics

Read More: Russia, John McCain, Afghanistan, Missile Shield, Pakistan, Joe Biden, 9/11, Georgia, Iran, Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan, Foreign Policy, John Cmcain, Barack Obama, Presidential Campaign, National Security, Russia-Georgia War, Nato, Sarah Palin, Palestinian, Geopolitics, Central Asia, Iraq, Israel, Syria, Presidential Debate, Politics News
William Bradley

The problem with foreign policy debates is that we end up debating symptoms -- illegal immigration from Mexico, a surge in Iraq -- rather than systems.

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Joe Knows National Security

Joe Cirincione | Posted 09.27.2008 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, Missile Shield, Missile Defense, Terrorism, Donald Rumsfeld, 9/11, Joe Biden, Biden National Security, Obama National Security, Biden Foreign Policy, Obama Foreign Policy, Politics News
Joe Cirincione

If George Bush had listened to Joe Biden instead of Donald Rumsfeld, the history of the past seven years would have been very different. We might have prevented 9/11.

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Beware of Growling Bears

Lincoln Chafee | Posted 07.24.2008 | Politics

Read More: Missile Shield, Medvedev, Russia, Cold War, Dmitry Medvedev, Iran Nuclear Weapons, Politics News
Lincoln Chafee

And after years of hard work at thawing Cold War tensions with Russia, the proposed placement of a missile shield behind the former Iron Curtain is a backward step.

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