2013-10-06 By Gulshan Luthra The recent Indo-US summit between Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh and Mr Brack Obama seems to have spurred the subdued ties between the two countries. There is progress on two strategic aspects, nuclear as well as defense. Washington has supported India’s desire to join four nuclear and…
2013-10-03 Hubert Stephenson was the co-pilot of the B-17 which was forced to crash land on July 4, 1943 in France. We participated in this summer's ceremony to honor the crew and to place a monument in the local area in their honor. A ceremony was held on Noirmoutier island, France,…
2013-10-03 by Robbin Laird The PRC leadership clearly has growing global aspirations. It is also a leadership living on top of a caldron of economic and ethnic dynamics. The two can actually go together, in terms of global play and reach being a means of containing domestic pressures. Obviously, the…
2013-10-01 By Robbin Laird Recently, we published a comprehensive report by Richard Weitz on Azerbaijan. Weitz argued that: The Republic of Azerbaijan is a close U.S. ally since Azerbaijanis regained their independence following the Soviet Union’s collapse. It has become a prominent role model for Muslim-majority nations seeking to manage…
2013-09-30 by Chloé-Alexandra Laird I had the honor in June of this year to ask a couple of questions to Michel Adrien, a witness to the B17 crash in the town of Noirmoutier, France on July 4th, 1943. Q: How old were you when you witnessed this American plane crash…
2013-09-30 By Guy Martin The US military has stopped flying unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) from its main African base in Djibouti after a string of crashes, moving operations to a remote desert airstrip. Camp Lemonnier, next to Djibouti’s international airport, is the only official American military base on the African continent…
2013-9-29 By Robbin Laird Clearly, when one looks back on 2008, the actions against Georgia were the beginning of a more assertive Russian policy. A line in the sand was placed on NATO expansion, and neither the United States nor Europe have really crossed that line since then. With the…
2013-09-26 By Robbin Laird The United States is no longer a superpower. It is clearly a significant global power. The period where the Soviet Union collapsed and left the US in a lopsided leadership position was a clear anomaly. This period is in the rear view mirror. Some asserted during…
