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The IRGC’s Struggle for the Advancement of the Islamic Republic of Iran
Following the victory
of the Islamic Revolution, and especially in the last two decades, given the
successes of Iran in domestic and foreign fields, a concerted...
On Nuclear Madmen and Their Perilous Bluffs
During the Cold War, and in particular,
the Nixon era, the US’s Nuclear Deterrence Strategy had at times flirted with
the idea of its leadership playing...
Donald Trump, War and the Shape of Chaos
“And we are
here as on a darkling plain, Swept by confused alarms of struggle and flight,Where
ignorant armies clash by night”. -Matthew Arnold, Dover
Beach
With the...
Donald Trump, Foreign Policy Incoherence and Inadvertent Nuclear War
"In a surrealist year....some cool clown pressed an inedible
mushroom button, and an inaudible Sunday bomb fell down, catching the president
at his prayers on the...
Kashmir Issue at the UNGA and the Nuclear Discourse
The Kashmir issue has more significance in
view of the nuclearization of South Asia as many security
experts around the world consider Kashmir a potential ‘nuclear...
Turkey and the Kurds: What goes around comes around
Turkey, like much of the Middle East, is discovering that what goes
around comes around.
Not only because President Recep Tayyip Erdogan appears to have
miscalculated the...
China’s new military technologies
According
to some international press and media sources, China is investing significant
sums of money in some dual-use technologies - i.e. both civilian and military
at the...
US Strategy after the INF Treaty: Implications and Projected Outcomes
Thirty-one
years ago, US President Ronald Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail
Gorbachev signed the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty placing a
curb on nuclear weapons after...
Big power rivalry in the Gulf requires a US strategy rethink
As French, Pakistani and other leaders seek to engineer a meeting
between the US and Iranian presidents on the sidelines of the United Nations
General Assembly,...
Iran’s Challenge to the U.S Supremacy in the Middle East
The United States as a global superpower
has been maintaining and projecting its military and political supremacy for
decades. The U.S has ensured its military presence...