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HOLIDAY of the DAY (for those looking for a reason to stay home today) This is the 64th anniversary of the changing of William “Wild Bill” Donavan’s wartime Office of Strategic Services (OSS) to the Central Intelligence Group, forerunner of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).

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It’s Hard Hat Time Yet Again!

According to US AF’s Strategic Command, Russia’s Phobos-Grunt ( grunt is Russian for “ground” or “soil”) probe, which was to land on Mars’s moon Phobos, will re-enter our atmosphere between January 14 and January 17. It’s currently stuck in a decaying...

Published 01-09-2012 7:45 by Eagle Watch

Filed under: Russia, science, axcess bloggers, NASA, technology, space
Iran’s New Toy

An hour after Iranian state television aired images purporting to show off a captured LockheedMartin RQ-170 Sentinel , General Norton Schwartz, the Air Force’s top uniformed officer, raised the specter of a foreign power copying the stealthy jet’s...

Published 12-13-2011 6:08 by Eagle Watch

Filed under: geopolitics, China, North Korea, Iran, Russia, science, Intelligence, CIA, axcess bloggers, technology
a Civilizational Crisis

The fall of the Soviet Union, geopolitically profound as it was, didn’t usher in “a New World Order.” The world still lives in the warmth and prosperity of the dominance of Western Civilization. A collapse of the European Union could...

Published 11-08-2011 10:38 by Eagle Watch

Filed under: economics, geopolitics, China, Russia, axcess bloggers, Ireland, NATO, Italy, Greece, Europe
Understanding Turkey

In a Realist sense, Turkey is key for the reason she has always been key – Turkey is the southern Eurasian interface, buffering European Russia from the Middle East and Persia from the Mediterranean. As a NATO member, Turkey is ideally placed to host...

Published 12-19-2010 6:18 by Eagle Watch

Filed under: Middle East, geopolitics, Iran, Russia, Turkey, energy, Poland, Eastern Europe, axcess bloggers, Ukraine
Non-Technical New START

A short follow-up on New START , trying to stay out of the technical weeds. There are three basic (read: non-technical) reasons for passing New START on to the 112 th Senate: 1. it is not in the security interests of the US; 2. the treaty is complicated...

Published 11-23-2010 13:12 by Eagle Watch

Filed under: politics, Obama, geopolitics, international relations, Russia, Senate, axcess bloggers
a Confused Treaty

The Senate Foreign Relations Committee [1] has approved the Treaty between the United States of America and the Russian Federation on Measures for the Further Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms (popularly known as the New START Treaty...

Published 11-19-2010 10:14 by Eagle Watch

Filed under: geopolitics, international relations, Russia, military, Senate, axcess bloggers
a Nuclear Iran

There is much hand-wringing over the prospect of a nuclear Iran. Too late. Iran is already a nuclear state – they just haven’t converted that capacity into the production of nuclear weapons yet. The regime has accumulated vastly more enrichment...

Published 09-10-2010 14:16 by Eagle Watch

Filed under: Middle East, Israel, geopolitics, China, Iran, Russia, DPRK, science, axcess bloggers
I Saw a Space Ship!

A highlight of my recent time in Florida had to be watching a space ship streak low across the sky early one morning. Not a UFO – a Rockwell/Boeing orbiter, hull number OV 103, named Discovery – was decelerating through Mach 7 as it passed...

Published 08-06-2010 4:37 by Eagle Watch

Filed under: Obama, Gee Whiz technology, China, Russia, science, lunacy, axcess bloggers, NASA, Florida
the Banning of History’s Most Dangerous Weapon

Much has been made of our glimpse into the administration’s nuclear philosophy, afforded by this week’s leak of the new Nuclear Posture Review and the signing of a new START with Russia. Most analyses I have seen tie the content to President Obama’s avowed...

Published 04-08-2010 11:47 by Eagle Watch

Filed under: politics, Obama, Israel, government, China, World War II, history, Russia, military, UN, axcess bloggers
the End Game

The Persian Conundrum is a tertiary puzzle. We will end up with Iran minus a nuclear program; or Iran with a nuclear program; or Iran under new management. We are insisting on the first option, which is least likely and will only happen voluntarily in...

Published 12-27-2009 5:32 by Eagle Watch

Filed under: politics, Obama, Middle East, Israel, government, geopolitics, China, Iran, Russia, Turkey, Intelligence, CIA

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