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Richard Cochrane is trained in chemistry and metallurgy but is far more interested and practiced as a political and fund raising consultant, writer and amateur historian. He grew up in a Navy family and with his two younger brothers carried on its 500+ year tradition of naval service to Great Britain and the USA then enjoyed a career with one of the largest advertising and public relations agencies working with numerous Fortune 500 companies and many of America's premier educational institutions. He maintains friendships and acquaintanceships around the world. He lives in Santa Barbara, California.

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Russia Arming To Teeth As Obama Promises Defense Cuts

September 27th, 2008 • Richard Cochrane
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Russia military budget increased by 23% over last year

On Friday Russia said it would build a space defense system and a new fleet of nuclear submarines by 2020, beefing up its nuclear deterrent at a time of heightened tensions with Washington, according to a story in the UK Telegraph. “Large-scale construction of new types of warships is planned, primarily of nuclear submarines armed with cruise missiles, and multi-purpose submarines. A system of air and space defense will be created,” Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said.

 An early Saturday, September 27 announcement in Pakistan’s DAWN newspaper reports Medvedev said this summer’s war with Georgia - which opened up new rifts between Moscow and the West - showed the need for Russia to have a strong military. Medvedev was speaking at what one military commander said were Russia’s largest combined arms live fire exercises in 20 years.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, an ardent foe of Washington who has aligned himself with Moscow, met Medvedev 75 km from the site of the exercises earlier on Friday.

 It is unclear if this a resurrection of the SPACE TRIAD built around CHARGED-PARTICLE BEAM and NEUTRON PARTICLE BEAM WEAPONS original proposed in February 1992, by then Russian President Boris Yeltsin. It is known Russia has continued development of the Star Wars-like system and has haad breakthroughs.

  It is also known that Russia has increased its military budget by 23% over last year while one U. S. Presidential nominee is promising sharp cuts in America’s defense spending even though it has not fully recovered from cuts in the 1990s.

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