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Is this what the neocons want? Where the enemy is "known" and "understandable" with conventional hard force use that the military-industrial complex can create weapons for? Cold war strategies based on war gaming studies of "Fulda Gap" utilizing an NBC combat environment would be "comforting" to the neocons because it is based on the past fifty years of mutually assured destruction philosophy of Herman Kahn and his ilk.
(h/t to Buzzflash.com)
From Novosti, Russia News and Information Service, press release:
MOSCOW, October 2 (RIA Novosti) - Russian strategic bombers will conduct training flights with full combat payloads and live fire all cruise missiles on board for the first time in over two decades, an Air Force spokesman said.
The live firing exercises in Russia's northern latitudes on October 6-12 are part of the Stability-2008 strategic maneuvers in various regions of Russia and Belarus with the goal of practicing strategic deployment of the Armed Forces, including the nuclear triad, to counter potential threats near the Russian border....
Is the eastward expansion of NATO a wise decision? Wouldn't Russia see this as provocative due to it's history with western Europe?
