As the Cold War experience demonstrates, only strong public pressure could force reluctant leaders of the global arms race to reconsider their militant positions
According to recent findings of the Stockholm International Peace Research ... ... Huasheng, Andrey Kortunov:
Prepare for the Worst and Strive for the Best. Russia’s and China’s Perceptions of Developments in International Security
No doubt, national leaders find many compelling reasons for their decisions to raise the stakes in global ...
... emergence of hypersonic weapons will introduce a number of destabilizing factors for international security. First, countries possessing such weapons will have an asymmetric... ... laser component of the missile defense system. Third, it will provoke a new global arms race, including with regard to laser weapons, hypersonic anti-missile systems,... ... propel it to hypersonic speeds). According to some
reports
, the vehicle may be reusable. Northrop Grumman Corporation is
working
to design the combined-cycle Advanced...
... heavy expenses on the country’s military industry, but instead his policy leads to the boomerang effect while provoking a new arms race. Putin’s supporters would question this statement and say that President Trump
increases the Pentagon’s budget
... ... almost 13,000 soldiers and officers. However, the NATO leadership questioned these official figures.
In 2017, from 70 to 150 thousand troops participated in the Zapad maneuvers,
according to the estimates of the Western intelligence
. This significantly ...
