2014-10-10 The Australian KC-30A tanker has been an integral part of the ability of Australian forces to self-deploy from Australia to engage in operations against the ISIL. We will have an interview soon discussing this evolution of Australian capabilities and what it means for the future of the Royal Australian…
By Harald Malmgren Eurozone politics are currently being reformulated as the result of a rise in right-wing economic nationalism sentiment and growing Euro-skepticism. In Germany, the FDP pro-market, conservative minority party had for decades been an important counterbalance to left socialist pressures in German economic policy. Today, the FDP has…
2014-10-10 According to Andrew Rettman writing in the EU Observor, the EU is considering various responses in Africa including use of military forces as part of the containment effort. The EU foreign service, in an internal paper discussed by EU countries’ ambassadors in Brussels on Thursday (9 October) - and…
2014-10-10 By Amatzia Baram In October 2006 and more so since early 2007, more than three years into the insurgency in Iraq the US decided to approach the Sunni tribes in a systematic way for cooperation against al-Qa`ida. By late 2008 with the Surge and through cooperation with the Sunni…
2014-10-08 By Richard Weitz From August 24-29, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) held “Peace Mission 2014” at China’s Zhurihe Training Base, in Inner Mongolia in North China. This is China’s base for engaging in large-scale exercises with foreign armies on its soil. Peace Mission 2014 was the largest military exercise…
2014-10-08 By Robbin Laird The USMC is the only tiltrotar-enabled assault force in the world. The USS America has been built to facilitate this capability and will be augmented as the F-35B is added to the Ospreys, and helicopters already operating from the ship and as unmanned vehicles become a…
2014-10-07 By Kenneth Maxwell The first round of the most tightly contested Brazilian Presidential election in recent memory, which took place on Sunday (5th October 2014), has continued to produce surprises. 143 million Brazilians voted. Since 1996 100% of the voting has been by direct recoding electoral voting machines. So the results…
2014-09-27 In a recent article in The National Interest, China analyst Gordon Chang focused on how tensions within the Chinese leadership undercut efforts to secure a new positive working relationship with the Indian government. Chinese leader Xi Jinping was humiliated during his just-completed meeting with his Indian counterpart, Narendra Modi,…
