200 miles off the US East Coast, Russian attack submarines are at sea to see what the can see. These aging Akula class nuclear powered subs ("Akula" is the...
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Today is the anniversary of the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima. Once a year, we have the opportunity to pause and reflect on the devastation dropped upon Japan in...
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The House passed an appropriations bill 400-30, which took out $44 billion from the original bill including $2 billion for more F-22s. However, lots of weapons...
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Earlier this week, Boko Haram, an Islamist group in northern Nigeria started waging war against police and military targets. Unfortunately for them, the Nigerian...
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The politics of Iran are confusing and Byzantine at best, though outright chaos is possible. Iran is often called a "constitutional theocracy" - that is,...
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US Secretary of State Clinton and Indian Foreign Minister Krishna announced a huge treaty deal today, between the largest and second largest democracies in the world....
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China may not be a rich place, but even still it has a lot of income inequality. Throughout hte entire country, we see a big difference between incomes in coastal...
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Urumqi is the capital and center of Han Chinese power in the province of Xinjiang (formerly East Turkestan). The indigenous Uighur ethnic group has been subjected to...
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A $680 billion dollar defense spending bill for next year just got a warning from President Obama about the wasteful spending pushed for by both parties in Congress...
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Americans love their guns. The first battle of the American Revolution wasn't because of taxes or stifling freedom of press or freedom to assemble - but from...
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This story has legs. Ayatollah Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani is a former President of Iran, and is considered a "reformer" because he would like to be...
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You probably heard about the terrorist attacks in Jakarta today. In terms of body count, it wasn't a very good showing by the Jemaah Islamiyah terrorists, who...
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Wikipedia's hard power definition focuses on the international politics of hard power - one country using military and economic power to pressure another...
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This is Chuck Baginski, the editor of Hard Power. Our mission is to keep you informed about the real news - when people are fighting and dying, when billions are...
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