It used to be interesting as to whether those who followed the romanticized idea of Fukuyama (history as we knew its cycles, ended) were correct, or the seemingly 'warmongers' who believed that Samuel Huntington was probably on the right track were correct.
Now it seems thats unless a nation is military defeated in the way that Germany and Japan were defeated, FLAT ON THEIR BACKS, and unable to perform the most basic tasks, except for intercession of the victor, the situation is actually WORSE than Huntington portrayed it. There exists both a world wide religious war of civlizational dimension, and the same national rivalries which lead to massive wars in the past. To this we can add insane strategic weapon sales to aggressive players in the religious war by one rival.
As you read this remember, that last new strategic ballistic missile deployed by the USA occurred in 1986, and it's been almost completely retired. We now retain about 50 strategic missiles of this kind. We also have launched NO NEW NUCLEAR BALLISTIC MISSILE SUBS, or deployed new missiles for them.
RUSSIA: "This year we will continue test and combat-training launches of new types of warheads for the Topol-M and Bulava sea-launched missile complexes"
The Topol is a newly deployed, BRAND NEW, mobile ICBM.
The Bulava is a missile for a brand new YET TO BE DEPLOYED SSBM missile submarine fleet.
MOSCOW, September 1 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's Strategic Missile Forces will conduct more tests of new warheads for its intercontinental ballistic missiles later this year, the SMF commander said Saturday.
"This year we will continue test and combat-training launches of new types of warheads for the Topol-M and Bulava sea-launched missile complexes," Col. Gen. Nikolai Solovtsov said.
He said previously a second missile battalion, equipped with advanced Topol-M (SS-27) road-mobile ICBMs, will be put on combat duty before the end of the year and that the deployment of silo-based Topol-M systems in the Saratov Region and road-mobile systems in the Ivanovo Region (central Russia) would be completed in 2010.
As of December 2006, the Strategic Missile Forces operated 44 silo-based and three mobile missile systems.
The commander said the Topol-M system will be equipped with multiple independently targetable re-entry vehicles (MIRV) in the next two or three years, adding that the new system would help penetrate missile defenses more effectively.
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