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Tai sitten ei vain ollut tarpeeksi monta ihmistä yllyttämässä. Suomessakin tarvittiin jopa 50 000 ihmistä, jotta saatiin Jukka ajamaan minikaivurilla Hangosta Kuusamoon. 30 000 ihmisen aloite Kuolemantähden rakentamiseksi tuntuu tässä suhteessa aika olemattomalta.
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yle uutiset Ulkomaat 23.1.2013 klo 22:58
Yhdysvaltain naissotilaat pääsevät etulinjan taistelutoimiin
Puolustusviranomaisen mukaan päätös asiasta on tehty. Naisille avautuu näin satoja tuhansia työpaikkoja asevoimissa.
Yhdysvaltain puolustusministeri Leon Panetta on päättänyt päästää naissotilaat taistelutoimiin. Päätös mahdollistaa sadoille tuhansille naisille pääsyn etulinjaan sekä mahdollisesti muun muassa eliittijoukkoihin. Asiasta kertoneen korkea-arvoisen puolustusviranomaisen mukaan Panetta aikoo kertoa asiasta torstaina.
Viranomaisen mukaan Panetta on päättänyt kumota vuodesta 1994 saakka voimassa olleen säädöksen, joka mukaan naiset eivät pääse etulinjan taistelutehtäviin. Asevoimille annetaan tammikuuhun 2016 saakka aikaa hakea poikkeuslupia siihen, onko jokin sotilastehtävä sellainen, ettei siihen voitaisi palkata naisia.
Valtaosa paikoista saattaa tulla naisille avoimeksi jopa tänä vuonna. Sen sijaan erikoisjoukkojen, kuten merivoimien kommandojen tai maavoimien Delta Forcen iskujoukkojen tehtäviin pääsyssä kestänee kauemmin.
Päätös avaa yli 230 000 uutta työpaikkaa naisille, valtaosa niistä maavoimien ja merijalkaväen yksiköissä.
Viime vuosina naiset ovat työskennelleet sotatoimialueilla muun muassa lääkintäjoukoissa, sotilaspoliiseina ja tiedustelu-upseereina. He ovat joskus joutuneet etulinjaan, mutta virallisesti he eivät ole olleet taistelutehtävissä. Yhdysvaltain 1,4-miljoonaisesta aktiiviarmeijasta 14 prosenttia on naisia.
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AP, AFP, Reuters
Yhdysvaltain naissotilaat pääsevät etulinjan taistelutoimiin
Puolustusviranomaisen mukaan päätös asiasta on tehty. Naisille avautuu näin satoja tuhansia työpaikkoja asevoimissa.
Yhdysvaltain puolustusministeri Leon Panetta on päättänyt päästää naissotilaat taistelutoimiin. Päätös mahdollistaa sadoille tuhansille naisille pääsyn etulinjaan sekä mahdollisesti muun muassa eliittijoukkoihin. Asiasta kertoneen korkea-arvoisen puolustusviranomaisen mukaan Panetta aikoo kertoa asiasta torstaina.
Viranomaisen mukaan Panetta on päättänyt kumota vuodesta 1994 saakka voimassa olleen säädöksen, joka mukaan naiset eivät pääse etulinjan taistelutehtäviin. Asevoimille annetaan tammikuuhun 2016 saakka aikaa hakea poikkeuslupia siihen, onko jokin sotilastehtävä sellainen, ettei siihen voitaisi palkata naisia.
Valtaosa paikoista saattaa tulla naisille avoimeksi jopa tänä vuonna. Sen sijaan erikoisjoukkojen, kuten merivoimien kommandojen tai maavoimien Delta Forcen iskujoukkojen tehtäviin pääsyssä kestänee kauemmin.
Päätös avaa yli 230 000 uutta työpaikkaa naisille, valtaosa niistä maavoimien ja merijalkaväen yksiköissä.
Viime vuosina naiset ovat työskennelleet sotatoimialueilla muun muassa lääkintäjoukoissa, sotilaspoliiseina ja tiedustelu-upseereina. He ovat joskus joutuneet etulinjaan, mutta virallisesti he eivät ole olleet taistelutehtävissä. Yhdysvaltain 1,4-miljoonaisesta aktiiviarmeijasta 14 prosenttia on naisia.
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AP, AFP, Reuters
USAF ei enää lennä näytöslentoja Thunderbirdseillä eikä muillakaan.
MILITARY WRESTLES WITH POSSIBLE IMPACT, RAMIFICATIONS OF SEQUESTRATION
As the Washington, DC establishment continues to wrestle with political issues related to deficits, budget cuts and sequestration, the U.S. military has taken some initial steps toward cost-cutting and identified possible additional steps that it will take if Congress and the President do not reach an agreement that prevents mandatory, draconian budget cuts from being implemented on March 1.
In this memo from Acting Under Secretary of the Air Force Jamie Morin and Air Force Vice Chief of Staff General Larry Spencer to Air Force senior leadership on Monday, the current budgetary uncertainties are explained, and Morin and Spencer direct the Air Force to immediately implement tactics to reduce the rate of spending and mitigate the impact of the budgetary cuts that would become mandatory in the event that a political agreement is not reached. Importantly, the memo also says, “Our intent with these initial actions is to pursue reversible or recoverable steps and avoid impacts to core readiness.” Though the memo also directs the Air Force to curtail flying not directed to readiness, including air shows, there is some consensus that this does not mean that the Air Force is directing Air Force personnel to end their air show-related preparation for the 2013 season. In any case, those who feel that they are being directed to take permanent, irreversible and/or unrecoverable steps should get additional guidance before taking those steps.
The Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Budget, Rear Admiral J.P. Mulloy, issued this, similarly-worded memo providing direction to Navy personnel on budgetary concerns. The Navy memo dictates a more general “reduction to flying hours,” without specifically referencing air shows or air show flying.
RAHAT ON LOPPU !
MILITARY WRESTLES WITH POSSIBLE IMPACT, RAMIFICATIONS OF SEQUESTRATION
As the Washington, DC establishment continues to wrestle with political issues related to deficits, budget cuts and sequestration, the U.S. military has taken some initial steps toward cost-cutting and identified possible additional steps that it will take if Congress and the President do not reach an agreement that prevents mandatory, draconian budget cuts from being implemented on March 1.
In this memo from Acting Under Secretary of the Air Force Jamie Morin and Air Force Vice Chief of Staff General Larry Spencer to Air Force senior leadership on Monday, the current budgetary uncertainties are explained, and Morin and Spencer direct the Air Force to immediately implement tactics to reduce the rate of spending and mitigate the impact of the budgetary cuts that would become mandatory in the event that a political agreement is not reached. Importantly, the memo also says, “Our intent with these initial actions is to pursue reversible or recoverable steps and avoid impacts to core readiness.” Though the memo also directs the Air Force to curtail flying not directed to readiness, including air shows, there is some consensus that this does not mean that the Air Force is directing Air Force personnel to end their air show-related preparation for the 2013 season. In any case, those who feel that they are being directed to take permanent, irreversible and/or unrecoverable steps should get additional guidance before taking those steps.
The Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Budget, Rear Admiral J.P. Mulloy, issued this, similarly-worded memo providing direction to Navy personnel on budgetary concerns. The Navy memo dictates a more general “reduction to flying hours,” without specifically referencing air shows or air show flying.
RAHAT ON LOPPU !
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Metallica saneli ehdot Osama bin Ladenin tappajille
is 14.2.2013 6:06
Heavy-yhtye Metallica otti yhteyttä Yhdysvaltain asevoimiin ja vaati ettei bändin kappaleita jatkossa käytetä kiduttamiseen.
Tämä selvisi, kun Osama Bin Ladenin ampunut Navy SEAL -sotilas antoi haastattelun Esquire-lehdelle.
The Shooter -nimellä esiintyvä ampuja kertoo Esquirelle, että Metallican laulaja ja kitaristi James Hetfield otti yhteyttä saatuaan tietää, että armeija käyttää yhtyeen musiikkia sota-alueilla.
- Kun ensimmäisen kerran aloitimme sodan Irakissa, pehmitimme ihmisiä Metallican musiikilla ennen kuulusteluja, The Shooter kertoo.
- Metallica pelästyi tästä, ja he sanoivat: Älkää käyttäkö musiikkiamme, koska emme halua edistää väkivaltaa.
- Ajattelin: Jopas, teillä on kuitenkin levy nimeltä Kill 'Em All, The Shooter sanoi lehdelle.
Metallican ensilevy Kill 'Em All tarkoittaa suomeksi: tappakaa heidät kaikki.
"Minulla oli hihamerkki, kun ammuin"
Armeija luopui Metallicasta ja otti tilalle kristillisen heavy yhtyeen Demon Hunterin musiikkia.
- Demon Hunter lähetti meille levyjä ja hihamerkkejä. Käytin niitä kaikissa tehtävissä. Minulla oli Demon Hunterin hihamerkki, kun ammuin Osama bin Ladenin, The Shooter kertoo.
Seattlesta, Washingtonista kotoisin oleva Demon Hunter soittaa kristillistä metalcorea.
Yhtye esiintyi Suomessa 30. huhtikuuta 2012 Kouvolan Vappugospel-tapahtumassa.
- Seal Team 6 ja The Shooter ovat amerikkalaisia sankareita, jotka ansaitsevat tukemme, Demon Hunterin jäsenet ovat kommentoineet.
is 14.2.2013 6:06
Heavy-yhtye Metallica otti yhteyttä Yhdysvaltain asevoimiin ja vaati ettei bändin kappaleita jatkossa käytetä kiduttamiseen.
Tämä selvisi, kun Osama Bin Ladenin ampunut Navy SEAL -sotilas antoi haastattelun Esquire-lehdelle.
The Shooter -nimellä esiintyvä ampuja kertoo Esquirelle, että Metallican laulaja ja kitaristi James Hetfield otti yhteyttä saatuaan tietää, että armeija käyttää yhtyeen musiikkia sota-alueilla.
- Kun ensimmäisen kerran aloitimme sodan Irakissa, pehmitimme ihmisiä Metallican musiikilla ennen kuulusteluja, The Shooter kertoo.
- Metallica pelästyi tästä, ja he sanoivat: Älkää käyttäkö musiikkiamme, koska emme halua edistää väkivaltaa.
- Ajattelin: Jopas, teillä on kuitenkin levy nimeltä Kill 'Em All, The Shooter sanoi lehdelle.
Metallican ensilevy Kill 'Em All tarkoittaa suomeksi: tappakaa heidät kaikki.
"Minulla oli hihamerkki, kun ammuin"
Armeija luopui Metallicasta ja otti tilalle kristillisen heavy yhtyeen Demon Hunterin musiikkia.
- Demon Hunter lähetti meille levyjä ja hihamerkkejä. Käytin niitä kaikissa tehtävissä. Minulla oli Demon Hunterin hihamerkki, kun ammuin Osama bin Ladenin, The Shooter kertoo.
Seattlesta, Washingtonista kotoisin oleva Demon Hunter soittaa kristillistä metalcorea.
Yhtye esiintyi Suomessa 30. huhtikuuta 2012 Kouvolan Vappugospel-tapahtumassa.
- Seal Team 6 ja The Shooter ovat amerikkalaisia sankareita, jotka ansaitsevat tukemme, Demon Hunterin jäsenet ovat kommentoineet.
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Bear Bombers Over Guam
February 15, 2013 4:04 pm
Two Russian nuclear-armed bombers circled the western Pacific island of Guam this week in the latest sign of Moscow’s growing strategic assertiveness toward the United States.
The Russian Tu-95 Bear-H strategic bombers were equipped with nuclear-tipped cruise missiles and were followed by U.S. jets as they circumnavigated Guam on Feb. 12 local time—hours before President Barack Obama’s state of the union address.
Air Force Capt. Kim Bender, a spokeswoman for the Pacific Air Force in Hawaii, confirmed the incident to the Washington Free Beacon and said Air Force F-15 jets based on Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, “scrambled and responded to the aircraft.”
“The Tu-95s were intercepted and left the area in a northbound direction. No further actions occurred,” she said. Bender said no other details would be released “for operational security reasons.”
The bomber incident was considered highly unusual. Russian strategic bombers are not known to have conducted such operations in the past into the south Pacific from bomber bases in the Russian Far East, which is thousands of miles away and over water.
John Bolton, former U.N. ambassador and former State Department international security undersecretary, said the Russian bomber flights appear to be part of an increasingly threatening strategic posture in response to Obama administration anti-nuclear policies.
“Every day brings new evidence that Obama’s ideological obsession with dismantling our nuclear deterrent is dangerous,” Bolton said. “Our national security is in danger of slipping off the national agenda even as the threats grow.”
Defense officials said the bombers tracked over Guam were likely equipped with six Kh-55 or Kh-55SM cruise missiles that can hit targets up to 1,800 miles away with either a high-explosive warhead or a 200-kiloton nuclear warhead.
The F-15s that intercepted the bombers were based at Kadena Air Base, Japan, and were deployed to Guam for the ongoing annual Exercise Guahan Shield 2013.
Two U.S. B-2 strategic bombers were deployed to Guam in late January and last fall advanced F-22 fighter bombers were temporarily stationed on the island. Three nuclear-powered attack submarines and the Global Hawk long-range drone also are based in Guam.
About 200 Marines currently are training on the island. Earlier news reports stated that Japanese and Australian military jets joined U.S. jets in the Guam exercises.
Guam is one of the key strategic U.S. military bases under the Obama administration’s new “pivot” to Asia policy. As a result, it is a target of China and North Korea. Both have missiles capable of hitting the island, located about 1,700 miles east of the Philippines in the Mariana island chain.
This week’s bomber flights are a sign the Russians are targeting the island as well, one defense official said.
Guam also plays a key role in the Pentagon’s semi-secret strategy called the Air-Sea Battle Concept designed to counter what the Pentagon calls China’s anti-access and area denial weapons—precision guided missiles, submarines, anti-satellite weapons, and other special warfighting capabilities designed to prevent the U.S. military from defending allies or keeping sea lanes open in the region.
Defense officials disclosed the incident to the Free Beacon and said the Russian bomber flights appeared to be a strategic message from Moscow timed to the president’s state of the union speech.
“They were sending a message to Washington during the state of the union speech,” one official said.
The bomber flights also coincided with growing tensions between China and Japan over the Senkaku islands. A Chinese warship recently increased tensions between Beijing and Tokyo by using targeting radar against a Japanese warship.
The U.S. military has said it would defend Japan in any military confrontation with China over the Senkakus. The bomber flights appear to signal Russian support for China in the dispute.
Meanwhile, Obama on Wednesday telephoned Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to reiterate U.S. nuclear assurances to its ally following North Korea’s third detonation of an underground nuclear device.
A White House statement said the president told Abe, who visits Washington next week, that the United States “remains steadfast in its defense commitments to Japan, including the extended deterrence offered by the U.S. nuclear umbrella.”
“It shows that the Russians, like the Chinese, are not just going to sit idly by and watch the United States ‘pivot’ or ‘rebalance’ its forces toward Asia,” said former State Department security official Mark Groombridge.
“One could argue the Russians were poking a bit of fun at the Obama Administration, seeing how they flew these long-range bombers close to Guam on the same day as the state of the union address,” he said.
“But the broader implications are more profound,” said Groombridge, now with the private strategic intelligence firm LIGNET. “The Russians are clearly sending a signal that they consider the Pacific an area of vital national strategic interest and that they still have at least some power projection capabilities to counterbalance against any possible increase in U.S. military assets in the region.”
Airspace violations by Russian Su-27 jets triggered intercepts by Japanese fighters near Japan’s Hokkaido Island last week. The Feb. 7. incident prompted protests from Tokyo and took place near disputed territory claimed by both countries since the end of World War II.
The Russian air incursion around Guam was the third threatening strategic bomber incident since June. On July 4th, two Bear H’s operated at the closest point to the United States that a Russian bomber has flown since the Soviet Union routinely conducted such flights.
The July bomber flights near California followed an earlier incident in June when two Bear H’s ran up against the air defense zone near Alaska as part of large-scale strategic exercises that Moscow said involved simulated attacks on U.S. missile defense bases. The Pentagon operates missile defense bases in Alaska and California.
Those flights triggered the scrambling of U.S. and Canadian interceptor jets as well.
The bomber flights near Alaska violated a provision of the 2010 New START arms treaty that requires advance notification of exercises involving strategic nuclear bombers.
Military spokesmen sought to play down the June and July incidents as non-threatening, apparently reflecting the Obama administration’s conciliatory “reset” policy toward Russia that seeks better relations by tamping down criticism of Moscow, despite growing anti-U.S. sentiments and policies from the regime of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey questioned his Russian counterpart, Gen. Nikolai Makarov, during a meeting at the Pentagon July 12th.
The latest Russian nuclear saber rattling through bomber flights comes as the Obama administration is planning a new round of strategic arms reduction talks with Russia. State Department arms official Rose Gottemoeller was recently in Moscow for arms discussions.
The president was expected to announce plans to cut U.S. nuclear forces by an additional one-third in a new round of arms reduction efforts with Moscow.
However, the president did not announce the plans and said only during his state of the union speech that he plans further arms cuts.
“Building Guam as a strategic hub has played a critical role in balancing U.S. security interests in responding to and cooperating with China as well as in shaping China’s perceptions and conduct,” wrote Government Accountability Office analyst Shirley A. Kan in a September 2012 report.
“Since 2000, the U.S. military has been building up forward-deployed forces on the westernmost U.S. territory of Guam to increase U.S. presence, deterrence, and power projection for potential responses to crises and disasters, counterterrorism, and contingencies in support of South Korea, Japan, the Philippines, Taiwan, or elsewhere in Asia.”
Lähteitä:
http://freebeacon.com/bear-bombers-over-guam/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2279699/Russian-bombers-US-scrambles-jet-fighters-Russian-nuclear-bombers-circle-airspace-Guam.html
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/02/16/nuclear-armed-russian-jets-reportedly-circled-us-territory-guam/
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013...erritory-guam/
http://warnewsupdates.blogspot.fi/2013/02/russian-nuclear-bombers-circle-guam.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+WarNewsUpdates+(War+News+Updates)
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/02/16/nuclear-armed-russian-jets-reportedly-circled-us-territory-guam/
http://rt.com/usa/news/tu-95-guam-pe...-spending-377/
http://www.guampdn.com/article/20130216/NEWS01/130216006
http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/02/15/16978049-russian-nuclear-bombers-intercepted-near-guam
http://www.pacificnewscenter.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=31576
acom-confirms-f-15s-intercepted-russian-bombers-that-circled-guam-not-clear-whether-the-bombers-were-qnuclear-armedq-&catid=45:guam-news&Itemid=156
http://www.examiner.com/article/russian-nuclear-bombers-buzz-guam
p.s. eka posti, piti vihdoinkin liittyä joukkoon ikuisen ajan lueskelun jälkeen
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February 15, 2013 4:04 pm
Two Russian nuclear-armed bombers circled the western Pacific island of Guam this week in the latest sign of Moscow’s growing strategic assertiveness toward the United States.
The Russian Tu-95 Bear-H strategic bombers were equipped with nuclear-tipped cruise missiles and were followed by U.S. jets as they circumnavigated Guam on Feb. 12 local time—hours before President Barack Obama’s state of the union address.
Air Force Capt. Kim Bender, a spokeswoman for the Pacific Air Force in Hawaii, confirmed the incident to the Washington Free Beacon and said Air Force F-15 jets based on Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, “scrambled and responded to the aircraft.”
“The Tu-95s were intercepted and left the area in a northbound direction. No further actions occurred,” she said. Bender said no other details would be released “for operational security reasons.”
The bomber incident was considered highly unusual. Russian strategic bombers are not known to have conducted such operations in the past into the south Pacific from bomber bases in the Russian Far East, which is thousands of miles away and over water.
John Bolton, former U.N. ambassador and former State Department international security undersecretary, said the Russian bomber flights appear to be part of an increasingly threatening strategic posture in response to Obama administration anti-nuclear policies.
“Every day brings new evidence that Obama’s ideological obsession with dismantling our nuclear deterrent is dangerous,” Bolton said. “Our national security is in danger of slipping off the national agenda even as the threats grow.”
Defense officials said the bombers tracked over Guam were likely equipped with six Kh-55 or Kh-55SM cruise missiles that can hit targets up to 1,800 miles away with either a high-explosive warhead or a 200-kiloton nuclear warhead.
The F-15s that intercepted the bombers were based at Kadena Air Base, Japan, and were deployed to Guam for the ongoing annual Exercise Guahan Shield 2013.
Two U.S. B-2 strategic bombers were deployed to Guam in late January and last fall advanced F-22 fighter bombers were temporarily stationed on the island. Three nuclear-powered attack submarines and the Global Hawk long-range drone also are based in Guam.
About 200 Marines currently are training on the island. Earlier news reports stated that Japanese and Australian military jets joined U.S. jets in the Guam exercises.
Guam is one of the key strategic U.S. military bases under the Obama administration’s new “pivot” to Asia policy. As a result, it is a target of China and North Korea. Both have missiles capable of hitting the island, located about 1,700 miles east of the Philippines in the Mariana island chain.
This week’s bomber flights are a sign the Russians are targeting the island as well, one defense official said.
Guam also plays a key role in the Pentagon’s semi-secret strategy called the Air-Sea Battle Concept designed to counter what the Pentagon calls China’s anti-access and area denial weapons—precision guided missiles, submarines, anti-satellite weapons, and other special warfighting capabilities designed to prevent the U.S. military from defending allies or keeping sea lanes open in the region.
Defense officials disclosed the incident to the Free Beacon and said the Russian bomber flights appeared to be a strategic message from Moscow timed to the president’s state of the union speech.
“They were sending a message to Washington during the state of the union speech,” one official said.
The bomber flights also coincided with growing tensions between China and Japan over the Senkaku islands. A Chinese warship recently increased tensions between Beijing and Tokyo by using targeting radar against a Japanese warship.
The U.S. military has said it would defend Japan in any military confrontation with China over the Senkakus. The bomber flights appear to signal Russian support for China in the dispute.
Meanwhile, Obama on Wednesday telephoned Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to reiterate U.S. nuclear assurances to its ally following North Korea’s third detonation of an underground nuclear device.
A White House statement said the president told Abe, who visits Washington next week, that the United States “remains steadfast in its defense commitments to Japan, including the extended deterrence offered by the U.S. nuclear umbrella.”
“It shows that the Russians, like the Chinese, are not just going to sit idly by and watch the United States ‘pivot’ or ‘rebalance’ its forces toward Asia,” said former State Department security official Mark Groombridge.
“One could argue the Russians were poking a bit of fun at the Obama Administration, seeing how they flew these long-range bombers close to Guam on the same day as the state of the union address,” he said.
“But the broader implications are more profound,” said Groombridge, now with the private strategic intelligence firm LIGNET. “The Russians are clearly sending a signal that they consider the Pacific an area of vital national strategic interest and that they still have at least some power projection capabilities to counterbalance against any possible increase in U.S. military assets in the region.”
Airspace violations by Russian Su-27 jets triggered intercepts by Japanese fighters near Japan’s Hokkaido Island last week. The Feb. 7. incident prompted protests from Tokyo and took place near disputed territory claimed by both countries since the end of World War II.
The Russian air incursion around Guam was the third threatening strategic bomber incident since June. On July 4th, two Bear H’s operated at the closest point to the United States that a Russian bomber has flown since the Soviet Union routinely conducted such flights.
The July bomber flights near California followed an earlier incident in June when two Bear H’s ran up against the air defense zone near Alaska as part of large-scale strategic exercises that Moscow said involved simulated attacks on U.S. missile defense bases. The Pentagon operates missile defense bases in Alaska and California.
Those flights triggered the scrambling of U.S. and Canadian interceptor jets as well.
The bomber flights near Alaska violated a provision of the 2010 New START arms treaty that requires advance notification of exercises involving strategic nuclear bombers.
Military spokesmen sought to play down the June and July incidents as non-threatening, apparently reflecting the Obama administration’s conciliatory “reset” policy toward Russia that seeks better relations by tamping down criticism of Moscow, despite growing anti-U.S. sentiments and policies from the regime of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey questioned his Russian counterpart, Gen. Nikolai Makarov, during a meeting at the Pentagon July 12th.
The latest Russian nuclear saber rattling through bomber flights comes as the Obama administration is planning a new round of strategic arms reduction talks with Russia. State Department arms official Rose Gottemoeller was recently in Moscow for arms discussions.
The president was expected to announce plans to cut U.S. nuclear forces by an additional one-third in a new round of arms reduction efforts with Moscow.
However, the president did not announce the plans and said only during his state of the union speech that he plans further arms cuts.
“Building Guam as a strategic hub has played a critical role in balancing U.S. security interests in responding to and cooperating with China as well as in shaping China’s perceptions and conduct,” wrote Government Accountability Office analyst Shirley A. Kan in a September 2012 report.
“Since 2000, the U.S. military has been building up forward-deployed forces on the westernmost U.S. territory of Guam to increase U.S. presence, deterrence, and power projection for potential responses to crises and disasters, counterterrorism, and contingencies in support of South Korea, Japan, the Philippines, Taiwan, or elsewhere in Asia.”
Lähteitä:
http://freebeacon.com/bear-bombers-over-guam/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2279699/Russian-bombers-US-scrambles-jet-fighters-Russian-nuclear-bombers-circle-airspace-Guam.html
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/02/16/nuclear-armed-russian-jets-reportedly-circled-us-territory-guam/
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013...erritory-guam/
http://warnewsupdates.blogspot.fi/2013/02/russian-nuclear-bombers-circle-guam.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+WarNewsUpdates+(War+News+Updates)
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/02/16/nuclear-armed-russian-jets-reportedly-circled-us-territory-guam/
http://rt.com/usa/news/tu-95-guam-pe...-spending-377/
http://www.guampdn.com/article/20130216/NEWS01/130216006
http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/02/15/16978049-russian-nuclear-bombers-intercepted-near-guam
http://www.pacificnewscenter.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=31576
acom-confirms-f-15s-intercepted-russian-bombers-that-circled-guam-not-clear-whether-the-bombers-were-qnuclear-armedq-&catid=45:guam-news&Itemid=156http://www.examiner.com/article/russian-nuclear-bombers-buzz-guam
p.s. eka posti, piti vihdoinkin liittyä joukkoon ikuisen ajan lueskelun jälkeen
EDIT fiksasin linkit
Kaukovittuilija
Kapteeni
Taasko uusi multiaccount puolustamaan omia mielipiteitä? Mitä tuohon uutiseen tulee, niin ovatko amerikkalaiset automaattisesti jotenkin oikeutetumpia lentämään tiedustelukoneillaan toisten ilmatilassa, tahi kruisailemaan lentotukialuksilla toisten rannikoilla?
(Vain ensimmäinen lähdelinkki toimii.)
Mitä tuohon uutiseen tulee, niin ovatko amerikkalaiset automaattisesti jotenkin oikeutetumpia lentämään tiedustelukoneillaan toisten ilmatilassa, tahi kruisailemaan lentotukialuksilla toisten rannikoilla? (Vain ensimmäinen lähdelinkki toimii.)