Washington and a Changing Middle East: A Dramatically Shifting Narrative?
A new order may be emerging in the Middle East, but how it is emerging does…
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On Wednesday this past week (15 March 2023) the officers and crew of the HMS Enterprise…
Read More »Will the Syrian Earthquake Usher Damascus into the Middle East Mainstream?
Bashar and Asma al-Assad were as good as it was going to get in Syria. The…
Read More »Is Kazakhstan Finally Ready for Takeoff?
Kazakhstan’s president Kassym-Jomart Tokayev believes “Never let a crisis go to waste.” Tokayev has been on…
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The earthquakes in Turkey and Syria bring back memories of November 1, 1755, All Saints Day,…
Read More »Iranian Artillery and WMD
Weapons of Destruction (WMD) also comprise chemical and biological weapons other than nuclear and radiological weapons.…
Read More »The War in Ukraine: Cascading Consequences
Recently, Henry Kissinger emphasized that the war in Ukraine needed to be stopped and negotiations put…
Read More »Georgia’s Mikheil Saakashvili is Racing the Clock
Timing is everything, and it may determine the fate of Georgia’s former president, Mikheil Saakashvili. Saakashvili…
Read More »Boron for Chinese Supersonics and Hypersonic Weapons
China’s ‘anti-access area denial’ strategy requires credible weapon systems among which anti-ship missiles are one. Both…
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