Afghanistan Part 1: The Failure Of ‘Hearts and Minds’
That ISAF/UN attempt to win over the hearts and minds of Afghanistan has not been a great success, but the campaign by the Taliban to win over those of the domestic populations of the West has been a...
View ArticleAfghanistan Part 2: The Rise Of ‘Green On Blue’ Attacks
The recent surge of ‘green on blue’ attacks in Afghanistan may be the most successful tactic in the history of this conflict towards this aim, the aim of breaking the will of domestic populations to...
View ArticleLo Sprint Finale Della Corsa Alla Casa Bianca: Un Commento Conclusivo.
Si riducono le possibilità per Obama di conquistare i voti degli indecisi. A questo punto il presidente dovrebbe sperare che vada tutto per il verso giusto – nessuna gaffe o incidenti internazionali –...
View ArticleKarzai & His Talib ‘Brothers’
Karzai’s desire to secure his legacy as the father of a modern Afghan nation is behind his public olive branches to the Taliban. However, Afghan internal politics are increasingly becoming a zero-sum...
View ArticleThe Race Has Begun For The 2014 Afghan Presidential Elections
The confirmation that the Afghan presidential elections will be held, as per the Constitution, on 5 April 2014 will intensify the already febrile political atmosphere in Afghanistan. [dhr] [dhr] The...
View ArticleGood Luck President Obama, You Need It!
Most of Obama’s policies are completely unchanged from those of his predecessor. The War on Terror continues, the drone program has expanded, relations with western Europe remain strong whilst those...
View ArticleThe Trial Of Staff Sergeant Robert Bales
The trial of Staff Sergeant Robert Bales takes two major issues of the past 11 years of war, mental illness among troops and civilian casualties, and rolls them into one. As a result this case has...
View ArticleWithdrawal Lessons From Iraq
The United States should think twice about how to withdraw while protecting Afghan democracy at the same time. [dhr] [dhr] On January 11 President Barack Obama declared that the United States is, after...
View ArticleA ‘War On Terror’ Or A ‘War On Chaos’?
The European deployments throughout Africa are an entirely different creation to the US-led “War on Terror”. The European “War on Chaos” is one of pragmatic national interest but also of support for...
View ArticleLa guerra è davvero inevitabile?
Se l’umanità vuole davvero emanciparsi dall’illogicità della guerra, deve iniziare a reagire e a classificarla con gli stessi aggettivi che si riservano, oggi, alla schiavitù e ai sacrifici umani:...
View ArticleLegacy of Lines on a Map
In Robert Kaplan’s recent book Revenge of Geography, Kaplan argues that geography, particularly land masses and oceans, have played a distinct role in determining the geopolitical fault lines of the...
View ArticleMali: Intervention, Invasion, and Invention
Broadly, it may be that intervention is a limited and fundamentally flawed approach, but to say that some invented Western Empire marches on Africa to secure its dominance is to simplify a complex...
View ArticleNo SOFA: US Troops In Post 2014 Afghanistan
The discussions surrounding US troop numbers in post 2014 Afghanistan are valuable, but only to the extent that US policymakers and military leadership are confident that they will be able to keep any...
View ArticleObama e Reagan: visioni e scelte strategiche a confronto
Diversamente dalla pronta reazione di Reagan dopo gli avvenimenti del 1983 a Beirut, la presunta passività dell’attuale presidente americano, mostrata in seguito all’attentato di Bengasi, è necessaria...
View ArticleObama & Reagan: Foreign Policies in Comparison
Unlike Reagan’s prompt reaction to the events of 1983 in Beirut, the supposed passivity of the current American president, shown following the attack in Benghazi, is needed to orientate himself in a...
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