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Opinion: Is Russia Plotting To Bring Down OPEC?

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Even a casual glance at the IMF’s World Economic Outlook statistics for Russia shows the tight correlation since 1992 between GDP growth on the one hand and oil and gas output, exports, and prices on the other (economic series available here ). percent of GDP in 2014. Natural gas data from Gazprom). billion respectively).

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Landsat Proved the Power of Remote Sensing

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Within a few months of the sales, however, global food prices soared by 50 percent, and U.S. As part of its War on Drugs, the CIA used Landsat imagery to reveal an increase of acreage committed to poppy in Afghanistan in 1985 and the resulting expanded opium trade. farmers estimated a profit loss of $462 million (about $3.2

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Department of Defense releases new operational energy strategy; more fight, less fuel

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aircraft over Afghanistan, 8 Dec 2010. billion, a 255% increase over 1997 prices. At least 80% of land convoys in Afghanistan are for transporting fuel to warfighters, Lynn said. More capability, less cost: Build energy security into the future force. Yet the Department’s institutions and processes for building future.

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The Bionic-Hand Arms Race

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soldiers and 300 British soldiers lost limbs in Iraq and Afghanistan. The fleshy stumps of the world act as repositories for these designers’ dreams of a high-tech, superhuman future. This is what the future looks like,” he says, and he sounds a little exasperated. Limb loss in the general population dwarfs those figures.

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Budget Drones in Ukraine Are Redefining Warfare

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But for the most part, the price is right: China’s DJI Mavic 3 , used by both Russia and Ukraine for surveillance and for delivering bombs, goes for around $2,000. You can get 55,000 of them for the price of a single F-35. The current war may therefore not be a good guide to future ones. “I Reaper, which it broadly resembles.

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