2014-09-10 By Julien Canin The deteriorating situation facing millions of Christians and other religious minorities in the Middle East was focused of a bipartisan and ecumenical conference which started yesterday in Washington DC. The three-day event (September 9-11) sponsored by In Defense of Christians (IDC), a non-profit organization, featurex speakers from…
2014-09-09 By Julien Canin With a fluid and dynamic situation in Iraq and Syria, and under the pressure of ISIS successes, the international community has woken up to the need to help the Kurds survive and prevail in the fight with ISIS. And with the Kurds clearly willing to include…
2014-09-04 By Kenneth Maxwell President Obama was in Estonia yesterday (September 3) where he met with the nervous presidents of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Donald Tusk, the Polish Prime Minister, in late March, made a plea to NATO: Put 10,000 troops in Poland permanently. Angela Merkel, the German Chancellor, rejected the idea…
2014-09-07 In this exclusive interview conducted by our partner India Strategic with Air Chief Marshal Arup Raha, Chief of the Air Staff, Indian Air Force, the COS provides an overview on how he sees the evolution of Indian Air Power in the joint context. By Gulshan Luthra and Air Marshal…
2014-09-06 The rise of the PRC is certainly an important event and process in the 21st century. But it can be forgotten that the PRC has virtually no developed allies, unless one wants to consider Putin capable of such a description. What this means is that the constant set of…
2014-09-03 By Julien Canin Germany has formally announced that they will support the Kurdish fighters, the Peshmergas, against the terrorist organization of Islamic State (ISIS), by sending weapons and providing training as well. Although the decision was known since the August 20th‘s statement of the German Defense Minister Ursula von…
2014-09-03 by Ed Timperlake and Robbin Laird “We will develop what I would call a spearhead within our Response Force -- a very high-readiness force able to deploy at very short notice,” Secretary General Rasmussen told reporters at the Residence Palace in Brussels, where NATO is headquartered. “This spearhead would…
2014-08-30 By Ian Armstrong, Department of Political Science at Temple University Roughly three weeks from now, the Scottish people will decide for themselves whether they wish to end the 307 year union that has bound them to the United Kingdom. The Union formed in large part due to economic concerns…
