2016-06-29 By Garth McLennan Ever since its emergence as a global military, economic, and cultural superpower after the Second World War, the United States has sought to service its geopolitical imperatives by building an international order for the world that is structured around defined rules and norms. Nowhere has this…
2016-06-19 By defenceWeb The global defense trade reached a record-breaking $65 billion in 2015 fueled by conflict in the Middle East and military spending in Southeast Asia. This is according to the annual Global Defence Trade Report released on 13 June by IHS Inc. The report found that the Middle…
2016-06-16 By Gulshan Luthra India Strategic Ever since President Bill Clinton…. Washington has steadily made attempts to come closer to New Delhi. President Clinton was impressed by India’s measured response in launching the limited Kargil War in 1999 to evict the Pakistani army from the Kashmir heights it had intruded…
2016-06-03 By Nilova Roychaudhury Special to India Strategic New Delhi. India has joined the Hague Code of Conduct (HCOC) against ballistic missile proliferation becoming the 138th country to sign it. The HCOC is intended to supplement the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR), and for India, this is a step forward towards…
2016-06-03 By Richard McCormack Washington legislators have re-awakened to concerns over the Defense Department's inability to plan for and deal with what is now the final stage in the shift of American microelectronics production offshore. Congress wants the Pentagon to figure out how it is going to deal with issues…
2016-05-27 Earlier this week, the Defence Committee of the Danish Parliament held a hearing on the government’s decision to buy the F-35 as the new fighter aircraft for Denmark. On May 12, 2016, the Danish government made a decision to select the F-35 as their fighter replacement choice and released…
2016-05-13 By Ed Timperlake With President Obama visiting Vietnam, it is now time for a celebration of a very successful bipartisan pro-bono effort to help build elementary schools in Vietnam. The late Jack Wheeler upon hearing of Lew Puller Jr ‘s tragic suicide challenged us all to build enough schools…
2016-05-15 By Kenneth Maxwell On Thursday May 12, 2016, the Brazilian senate voted by 55 to 22 to begin an impeachment trail of Dilma Rousseff. This means she was suspended from office and vice president Michel Temer was installed as interim president of Brazil. The trial of Rousseff in the senate could last up to…
