War & Peace
An in-depth look at the critical zones of the world and the implications that go beyond their borders.
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Tuesday, 1 Mar, 2011
Certainly, the military leadership cannot afford to stand and watch while developments of this magnitude unfold. In fact, it should come as no surprise that while witnessing an evolving political atmosphere, the military arm of the state will likewise evaluate how it could benefit from supporting change.
As David Sanger explains in a recent article in The New York Times, “Egypt’s military leadership came to the same conclusion that South Korea’s did in the 1980s and Indonesia’s di...
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Thursday, 17 Feb, 2011
It seems that roughly every 10 years a major event, in or closely linked with the Middle East, transforms the region and its politics. Common to most of these historic moments is the presence of either political Islam or Jihadism, and the direct or indirect involvement of the World’s greatest power, the United States. The “Peoples Revolution,” although in its source related with none of the above, has the ingredients to become one more chapter in the convoluted story of the relatio...
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Monday, 31 Jan, 2011
The new alliance with Israel was midwifed last year in Russia during a reportedly chance restaurant encounter between Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou and Israeli Prime M...
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Tuesday, 25 Jan, 2011
But China was not the only one with grievances. China’s relationships with neighbors in the Pacific have threatened American interests significantly, most notably with their ...
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Monday, 17 Jan, 2011
Like so many others, Syria welcomed Barack Obama’s accession to the presidency in January 2009 as a chance to reset its relationship with the United States. The previous ...
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Tuesday, 11 Jan, 2011
Following North Korea’s recent attack on South Korea, Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman asked how the world would be able to stop Iran if it cannot deal with the Asi...
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Wednesday, 22 Dec, 2010
What do a clandestine fiber-optic communications network in Beirut, Najaf’s Shamsah Travel and Tourism Agency, and a railway line in western Afghanistan all share? According to ...
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Wednesday, 22 Dec, 2010
October saw Al-Qaeda once again prove its determination to undermine western security: the “parcel” bomb dispatched by Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP)—the group’s...
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Tuesday, 14 Dec, 2010
Up in Turgali, a smuggler's village on the Turkish-Iranian border, Cüneyt Boz dotes on his packhorse. "Minefields, pasdaran, she's afraid of nothing," he says, stroking her mane...
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The 19-20 November heads-of-state summit in Lisbon devoted much attention to the alliance’s troubled military campaign in Afghanistan. In the eyes of many, NATO’s failure to w...
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