Farewell. The Flying Pig Has Left The Building.

Steve Hynd, August 16, 2012

After four years on the Typepad site, eight years total blogging, Newshoggers is closing it's doors today. We've been coasting the last year or so, with many of us moving on to bigger projects (Hey, Eric!) or simply running out of blogging enthusiasm, and it's time to give the old flying pig a rest.

We've done okay over those eight years, although never being quite PC enough to gain wider acceptance from the partisan "party right or wrong" crowds. We like to think we moved political conversations a little, on the ever-present wish to rush to war with Iran, on the need for a real Left that isn't licking corporatist Dem boots every cycle, on America's foreign misadventures in Afghanistan and Iraq. We like to think we made a small difference while writing under that flying pig banner. We did pretty good for a bunch with no ties to big-party apparatuses or think tanks.

Those eight years of blogging will still exist. Because we're ending this typepad account, we've been archiving the typepad blog here. And the original blogger archive is still here. There will still be new content from the old 'hoggers crew too. Ron writes for The Moderate Voice, I post at The Agonist and Eric Martin's lucid foreign policy thoughts can be read at Democracy Arsenal.

I'd like to thank all our regular commenters, readers and the other bloggers who regularly linked to our posts over the years to agree or disagree. You all made writing for 'hoggers an amazingly fun and stimulating experience.

Thank you very much.

Note: This is an archive copy of Newshoggers. Most of the pictures are gone but the words are all here. There may be some occasional new content, John may do some posts and Ron will cross post some of his contributions to The Moderate Voice so check back.


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Thursday, May 29, 2008

India - Knowledge Is Military Power

By Cernig



India just announced its intention to emulate Japan, Korea, Taiwan and a host of other Asian industrial bootstrapping efforts in a very interesting arena - arms technology.

NEW DELHI, May 28 (RIA Novosti) - India's defense minister said on Wednesday his country is no longer prepared to buy weapons from foreign companies unless deals include the transfer of technology, the ministry press service said.



India, which is a major weapons purchaser, is now set to develop military and technical cooperation only with countries prepared to develop partnerships in the joint development and production of military technology, A.K. Antony said.



The defense minister, who was attending the opening of the ILA-2008 Berlin Air Show, said "Companies that proactively search out industry partners in India will gain in our expanding market," adding that "as far as India is concerned, the era of purchasing just weapons themselves is over."

This policy was wide implications for future American sales of advanced military technology such as the F-35 to India and for the balance of power in the region. For one thing, India's two main weapons development partners right now are Russia and Israel, with France coming on strong, and it can be expected that any knowledge transferred to India will be transferred to those three nations forthwith. I hope someone at State is taking notes - there are a lot of US arms deals in the pipeline with India and its rival Pakistan right now - and that the presidential hopefuls have some ideas on how to react other than just to ignore it and keep selling.



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