12/16/2014: Chinese Harbin Z-9E helicopter practices landing aboard the U.S. Navy's guided-missile destroyer USS Sterett (DDG 104). Sterett and ships from the Chinese People's Liberation Army (Navy) PLA(N) commenced a bilateral counter-piracy exercise, U.S.-China Counter-Piracy Exercise 15, in the Gulf of Aden and the Horn of Africa. Aiming to promote…
2014-12-12 By Richard Weitz Kazakhstan has played a prominent role in the global efforts to prevent nuclear terrorism. For example, Kazakhstan has played a leading role in the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism, hosting important meetings and supporting other projects. In April 2008, Kazakhstan’s Mazhilis (lower house of parliament)…
We are publishing a Special Report by Richard Weitz on the role of Kazakhstan on nuclear security. The first piece in the three part series which will conclude with the release of the report was published earlier this week. The Foreign Minister of Kazakhstan, H.E. ErlanIdrissov, recently visited Washington and co-chaired…
2014-11-29 By Harald Malmgren Economics, politics and global threats are reinforcing a shift away from the globalism of the past thirty years and posing the possibility of a new phase of global development, in which nationalism returns as a clearer definer of the way ahead for the global system. It…
2014-12-03 By Gulshan Luthra The Government is fast-tracking modernization of equipment with the armed forces, and it was “comforting” for the Navy to know that long-pending requirements were now being procedurally cleared. Stating this, Chief of Naval Staff Admiral Robin Dhowan told India Strategic in an interview that notwithstanding the delay in…
2014-12-02 Our colleague Amatzia Baram has recently published a new book on Iraq. We have interviewed Baram, a leading expert on Iraq, published an essay by him and have leveraged his work to suggest a shift in US policy towards Iraq. http://sldinfo.wpstage.net/isil-and-a-cascading-regional-crisis-a-conversation-with-amatzia-baram-2/ http://sldinfo.wpstage.net/in-iraq-back-to-the-tribes/ http://sldinfo.wpstage.net/president-obama-and-his-historic-opportunity-in-iraq/ His new book looks at the evolution…
2014-11-24 By Oscar Nkala The US Naval Facilities Engineering Command has contracted B.L. Harbert International to build 65 new housing units worth $18 million at Camp Lemonnier in Djibouti. A notice posted on the Federal Business Opportunities (FBO) website said the construction works are expected to be complete by May…
2014-11-16 By Robbin Laird and Ed Timperlake In mid-October 2014, we had a chance to discuss with Dr. Amatzia Baram, a leading Israeli expert on Iraq about how the ISIL crisis was much broader than simply being an Iraq crisis. With several years of dynamic change in the region, and the…
