[caption id="attachment_7168" align="alignleft" width="250" caption=" French General Gaviard with American General Michael Moseley, then Vice Chief of Staff of the USAF, while visiting the Air Operations Conducting and Command Center (CCOA) in 2004 "][/caption] This is the first of a series of four articles on the subject of conflict management…

 By Ambassador Jon Glassman Ambassador Jon Glassman is a retired career Foreign Service officer who is currently Director for Government Policy of the Northrop Grumman Corporation’s Electronic Systems sector. While at the Department of State, Ambassador Glassman served in many countries, including Afghanistan. Ambassador Glassman also has served as the…

Europe is in the throes of a fundamental change.  The dynamics of change associated with the Great Recession, and the ripple effects on European societies are intersecting with a Euro crisis.  The currency crisis reflects underlying pressures and strains within global economies.  The intersection between the economic pressures with those…

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="Dr. Ronald Asmus"][/caption] While Dr. Ronald Asmus, Director of the Brussels Office of the German Marshall Fund, and one of the author’s of the Clinton Administration’s NATO Expansion policy, was in Washington DC recently, Sldinfo had a chance to talk with Ron about his new book…

The Obama Administration has provided its view on the evolution of military threats and policies in the recently released QDR.  For a perspective on a core ally, which provides a different take on the future, there is a recently released British Ministry of Defense (MOD) assessment of evolving strategic trends,…

This is the second posting in our new Outlook section, which will include regular participations from the upcoming generations. We start with an article by a student from the Toulouse-based Aeronautics and Space Institute (ISAE) - who is also part of our SLDinfo research team -, which gives a first…

[caption id="attachment_3670" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Credit: http://www.airforce-technology.com/projects/b2/"][/caption] The Administration will make perhaps its most important announcements over the next few months, affecting our very existence. I am referring specifically to the results of our nuclear posture review and the arms control deal we are seeking to make with Russia.  Congress, and…

By Harald Malmgren History will look back at the Copenhagen Summit as the moment at the beginning of the 21st century when the power structure of the world fundamentally changed. [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="220" caption="Photo: http://www.copenhagenclimatecouncil.com/get-informed/news/cop15-daily-brief-the-copenhagen-accord.html"][/caption] Towards a De-Facto G-2: The Chinese Emergence and the European Re-Alignment During the run-up…