Strategy

THE STRATEGIC PARADOX OF AMERICAN & RUSSIAN CONFRONTATION

Tue, 14/06/2016 - 08:11
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Tue, 14/06/2016

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By: Harry C. Blaney III

In my look at the global landscape for 2016, I addressed the critical issue of the future of US-Russian relations in a section titled “Russia: A Disaster in Waiting.” I promised to look again at this question over the course of the year and focus on key risks and opportunities while also adding a bit to a possible long-term “grand strategic perspective.”

In surprise move, Netanyahu says he’s ready to negotiate based on Saudi peace initiative

Tue, 31/05/2016 - 07:19
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Tue, 31/05/2016

 

Will Israel move from occupation to annexation?

Tue, 31/05/2016 - 07:09
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Tue, 31/05/2016


Author Uri Savir
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s surprising turn in appointing Avigdor Liberman, head of the right-wing Yisrael Beitenu party, as defense minister May 25 caught the international community off-guard. In the days before the appointment, intense deliberations took place about the upcoming Quartet report on obstacles in the way of a two-state solution and the Paris conference to relaunch a two-state process.

Clausewitz and the Crackhouse

Mon, 16/05/2016 - 07:53
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Mon, 16/05/2016

Dangerous drugs

By Paul Rexton Kan
In 1834, the British Government could not have sent a worse person with the worst set of instructions to China. The British Parliament chose William Napier, a Scottish lord, to be the Chief Superintendent of Trade in East Asia. Lord Napier had no experience with Chinese culture or traditions, but was nonetheless sent to Canton to take-up residence as the King’s representative and to ensure unfettered access to the Chinese market.

Why the Pentagon Loves War Games Again

Mon, 16/05/2016 - 07:23
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Mon, 16/05/2016

A cheap way to avoid costly strategic mistakes.
Michael Peck
It’s a great time to be a Pentagon game nerd.
Long dismissed as the geekier side of the military, war gaming is suddenly in demand, after the Department of Defense realized that if it wants to devise a strategy to beat China and Russia, it needs to play games.

Unpredictability: Tactical Virtue Turned Strategy

Thu, 12/05/2016 - 10:15
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Thu, 12/05/2016

 By Maxim Trudolyubov
“Without international revolution, neither the Soviet Union nor any other [socialist] country can triumph... We have to increase the number of our friends,” Vyacheslav Molotov, the Soviet premier and wartime Minister of Foreign Affairs, once said. Such wisdom from the olden days of the Cold War should be held in high regard in todays’ Russia, given the increased official respect for Soviet legacy. But the Kremlin does not seem to follow cold-war blueprints.

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