Saturday 1 March 2008

An overstated threat?

click here to go to the blogBy the end of last year, fears were being expressed that resurgent military spending in Russia posed a "new challenge to west", raising the spectre of another Cold War. But these fears may be unfounded. Pinning down the source of the anxiety, the most immediate concern is that, in 2007, Russia spent $31bn on hardware, in a major modernisation programme ...

Posted on Defence of the Realm.