UPI – China is bent on the simultaneous development of both an aircraft carrier and a strategic nuclear submarine, or SSBN. Discussions over which should take priority are over, as a higher military budget allocation has accelerated the Peopleís Liberation Army navyís ambitious plan.
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Daily Archives: August 19, 2007
Geopolitics / Soviet Union – Seeing Red: Why Communism Really Failed
Foreign Affairs – Robert Service’s Comrades! tells the story of world communism — but leaves the reader still hungry for explanations of why the movement lasted so long and what, if anything, it accomplished.
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