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    Ukraine War a risky game of Mother May I?

    Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 17/08/2022

    » 'This obviously does not happen because of a thrown butt," said British Defence Minister Ben Wallace. But the Russian Ministry of Defence insisted that the explosions that destroyed at least eight warplanes at Saki Air Base in Russian-occupied Crimea on Aug 9 were due to "a violation of fire safety requirements".

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    Mideast missile madness gets even worse

    Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 25/01/2024

    » Not all that long ago, attacking another country's territory was still seen as a big deal. It was, in legal terms, an "act of war", liable to have unpleasant and potentially unlimited consequences, including full-scale war. Very powerful countries occasionally made small, one-off attacks on very weak ones to "discipline" them, but even that was relatively rare.

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    Life elsewhere will someday be possible

    Gwynne Dyer, Published on 17/09/2023

    » This week's real news is the discovery of life on another planet. As Cambridge University's Nikku Madhusudhan said in the first sentence of his report: "The search for habitable environments and biomarkers in exoplanetary atmospheres is the holy grail of exoplanet science." And he has probably found the Holy Grail.

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    Putin provides a shot in the arm for Nato

    Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 12/07/2023

    » When Nato held its annual summit in Brussels two years ago, all 31 presidents and prime ministers of the alliance’s member states dutifully showed up, but their hearts weren’t really in it. France’s President Emmanuel Macron had publicly declared Nato “brain-dead” in 2019, and nobody could find a good reason to disagree.

  • OPINION

    Taiwan is Nancy Pelosi's last hurrah

    Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 06/08/2022

    » Nancy Pelosi's brief visit to Taiwan this week caused great if somewhat confected anger in Beijing, but the Chinese Communist regime was not her main target. The Speaker of the House of Representatives has long supported Taiwan, and she will be aware that both the government and the people are in need of some reassurance at the moment.

  • OPINION

    North Korea: The sting in the scorpion's tail

    Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 02/02/2022

    » 'They want to have a deterrence system that is like a scorpion's tail," said Professor Kim Dong Yup, a former South Korean naval commander. "North Korea's main purpose is not to attack but to defend themselves." They want a "diversified deterrent capability", and who could blame them?

  • OPINION

    Hypersonic missiles are a needless complication

    News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 13/11/2021

    » 'I saw in some of the newspapers they used the term 'Sputnik moment'," said General Mark Milley, chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff. "I don't know if it's quite a Sputnik moment, but I think it's very close to that. It's a very significant technological event that occurred."

  • OPINION

    We're safe from non-existent nukes in Iran

    Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 09/04/2021

    » First, the good news. The US and Iran had talks in Vienna on Tuesday, and the nuclear deal they and all the other great powers signed in 2015 is coming back.

  • OPINION

    Faint hope of war petering out in Yemen

    News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 06/12/2019

    » Some wars end in victory, but just as many sputter out in exhaustion. The war in Yemen, now coming up on five years old, always looked likely to end up in the second category, and the time may be quite soon.

  • OPINION

    The democratisation of airpower

    News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 25/09/2019

    » Big shifts in the military balance happen quietly over many years, and then leap suddenly into focus when the shooting starts.

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