Virginia-based pork producer Smithfield Foods (SFD.N) entered an agreement with China's Shuanghui International for a $4.7 billion, all-cash buyout. Smithfield…
NOTE: From this edition forward, Defense Issues Weekly will appear on weekdays. This week, it will appear on Tuesday, and…
How spoiled we are, and how much we take for granted! At last count, I believe in our home we…
A satellite photo, with markings, of China's underground submarine base at Jianggezhuang near Qingdao in northeastern China. The base is…
Russia builds up, US cuts unilaterally The Obama administration is preparing to announce a new round of deep, unilateral cuts…
As it continues to campaign for deep cuts in America’s defenses, the Left has particularly aimed its arrows at the…
In December, North Korea tested an ICBM which delivered a North Korean satellite to the Earth’s orbit, thus demonstrating the…
Written in a time filled with the gasps and death of the Soviet Union, and its satellites' declarations of their independence,…
Leaders from Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (the BRICS) met in Durham, South Africa this week to discuss…
During his SOTU speech, Obama announced his intention to cut the barely-adequate US nuclear arsenal even further, below the 1,550…
Apparently this happens more often than we think. H/T The American Resolution
I could just as well title this article "why defense must always be fully funded" or "why America must always…
China built a 30-story building in just 360 hours (15 days) over last Christmas and finished before New Years Eve…
The Left, led by pro-disarmament organizations such as the Ploughshares Fund and stridently leftist "journalists" such as Robert Burns of…
In case you've forgotten last Fall's election (and, really, who can blame you if you've wanted to), Mitt Romney was…