Canberra, 22 October 2015 In the second half of September, Russia moved military forces predominated by air assets, into Bassel al-Assad international airport in the Latakia province of Syria. This deployment made it impossible for the anti-Assad forces to capture the province and also provided a logistics lifeline to the military forces of the Syrian […]
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DECIPHERING THE FIGHT AGAINST THE ISLAMIC STATE Part I: The Major Participants
November 18, 2014 
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Canberra 18 November 2014 [This is the first part of a two-part series analysing the on-going conflict in the Middle East] Introduction The world is continuing to look at the Islamic State (IS) as yet another, and admittedly more potent, terrorist or ‘jihadi’ network. This is a rather simplistic view since the current conflict in […]
Continue readingPRESIDENT OBAMA’S SECOND TERM
November 22, 2012 0 Comments
US FOREIGN POLICY CONUNDRUMS Canberra, 22 November 2012 Introduction Despite a number of doomsayers predicting, even when the results were very clear, that President Obama would not win a second term, he has romped home with a clear majority in the Electoral College. However, as the President himself made very clear in his post-election […]
Continue readingThe 2008-09 Gaza Conflict
January 14, 2009 0 Comments
Singapore, 14 January 2009 The conflict in Gaza between Israel and Hamas rages on—if ‘rages’ is the right word to use for an almost one-sided offensive. The region has seen more than 40 years of start-and-stop warfare with official, ratified and unofficial ceasefires being the brief interludes. However, the latest Israeli offensive into Gaza has […]
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