By Dr. Richard Weitz 11/28/2010 - "The EU Lisbon Treaty, which came into force last year, has concrete provisions allowing EU members to collaborate more in the military field, but much additional European defense industrial cooperation has yet to occur."
By Caroline Mükusch 11/28/2010 - When it comes to the North Pole and the question of who wins the race for the Arctic, two major interests are rising: energy and security. Therefore Arctic neighbor states regularly assert their national interests in this region. Predictably, they are increasing their civil and…
By Caroline Mükusch 11/18/2010 - The opening of the Arctic raises simultaneously energy security, environmental questions, and strategic competition. There are five states which claims based on extensions of their rights under international law to parts of the Arctic region: Norway, Denmark (Greenland), Russia, Canada and the United States.
The Air Force Tanker Decision: A ‘Fairer’ Way Forward By Michael W. Wynne, 21st Secretary of the Air Force 11/17/2010 - The Air Force is confronting a conundrum that in 1998, the GAO called a mandatory replacement program for the aging tanker fleet. There have been two winners since that…
By Sebastian Bruns 11/05/2010 - Africa is back on the maritime security map. For ship owners, masters, CSOs and SSOs who have long been concerned with African trade and maritime threats to their crews and vessels alike, this political shift signals a timely endorsement of the inherent challenges that the…
By Richard Weitz 11/05/2010 - The Obama administration has decided to pursue a more “proactive” air campaign against the Taliban insurgents and Islamist terrorists operating out of the autonomous tribal regions of northwest Pakistan.
By David J. Smith 10/29/2010 - Russia says that it will provide Syria with P-800 Yakhont anti-ship cruise missiles.
By Ambassador (Ret.) Jon D. Glassman 10/28/2010 - As NATO considers assumption of homeland territorial ballistic missile defense (BMD) as an alliance mission at the Lisbon Summit in November, and as Israel, the countries around the Persian Gulf, and Japan proceed with their own BMD acquisition, missile defense now moves…
