Putin Phoenix: NATO in Play

09/07/2014
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…

Germany and the Kurds: Supplying Arms as Part of Evolving German Foreign Policy?

09/03/2014
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…

Aussie Aid Drop in Iraq

08/31/2014
2014-08-31 In our special report on Australian defense modernization, we argued that Australia was building a force with reach, range and sustainability. Obviously, air power is the central lynchpin of such a force. [caption id="attachment_69300" align="alignnone" width="300"] Australian humanitarian aid for Iraq being unloaded from a Globemaster C-17A on August…