2013-06-22 By Kenneth Maxwell According to the BBC, the current protests in Brazil might well lead to problems facing Brazil in hosting next year’s World Cup. Football supporters fleeing tear gas and rubber bullets. Angry mobs torching banks and buses. Gleaming new stadiums encircled by activists. These are images few…
2013-06-20 by Richard Weitz The end of the Cold War confrontation between Moscow and the West simultaneously created an environment favorable for improved Russian-Western relations and established conditions that made conflict likely. On the one hand, the July 1991 dissolution of the integrated Warsaw Pact, held together by the Soviet…
2013-06-15 by Richard Weitz Why is the People’s Republic of China not a member of the Group of Eight (G-8) industrial countries, who are holding their 39th annual heads-of-state summit in Northern Ireland on June 17? China has the world’s largest population and second-largest national economy. The PRC belongs to…
2013-06-05 With our new partnership with Defence Web, we will bring our readers from time to time articles from our partner which highlights developments of interest to our U.S. and global readers. A key theme for Second Line of Defense is shaping 21st century forces for 21st century missions. In…
2013-06-02 By Richard Weitz Russian-NATO differences over ballistic missile defense (BMD) were unsurprisingly a major source of disagreement at the International Conference on “Military and Political Aspects of European Security,” hosted in a major Moscow hotel by the Russian Ministry of Defense (MOD), on May 23. Notwithstanding all the changes…
2013-05-26 By Richard Weitz I had the opportunity to attend an International Conference on “Military and Political Aspects of European Security,” hosted in a major Moscow hotel by the Russian Ministry of Defense (MOD), on May 23. The MOD convened a similar conference last year in Moscow, though that meeting…
2013-05-24 by Robbin Laird The 21st century is not the 20th. The late 20th century was characterized by global growth, globalization, American and European dominance, Russian decline, and the rise of Asia. The 21st century is really none of these. The struggle for growth is moving beyond the stock…
2013-05-15 By Robbin Laird A French White paper is a combination campaign document, Presidential statement, prologue to shaping budgets, and a stab at a tour de horizon view of the strategic environment a la française. It is decidedly not a detailed look at the future and the way ahead. It…
