SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
The Kurds are a key element in the current Syria-Turkey conflict, but remain little understood by international observers, with regard to their areas of diversity and unity. Here are some of the factors.
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
Turkey considers direct military confrontation in Syria as Ankara stares strategic defeat in the face.
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
The People’s Republic of China begins its Djibouti troop deployment as base construction accelerates; meanwhile, Djibouti builds on its rapprochement with Riyadh.
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
How Russia has planned and executed its expanded war against DI’ISH and the jihadist movements in Syria, and how Turkey and the US have been responding.
CULTURE, PSYCHOLOGY & MEDIA
Saudi Arabia’s theater of mass executions on January 2, 2016, was designed to reinforce the authority of its leadership. It may bolster short-term objectives, but it also ended chances for an early end to the Yemen war; it further damaged relations with the US; and it bolstered Turkey’s and Iran’s…
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
Does “peacekeeping”, as it is presently construed by the United Nations concept, really provide long-term resolution of the problems which caused the conflicts? What are our objectives? Have we even defined them?
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
It is now apparent that Russia can no longer ignore the reality that Turkey will remain the major impediment to Russia's control over its strategic ability to escape the containment of geography as well as geopolitics. The question is: what can it do about it, and when?