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Strategic Black Sea falls by the wayside in impeachment controversy
Presidents Donald J. Trump and Recep Tayyip Erdogan had a plateful of
thorny issues on their agenda when they met in the White House this...
Strategic Instability in the Era of Information and Communication Technologies: Crisis or the New Norm?
Strategic stability is once
again becoming a primary concern in international relations. The topic has
received a great deal of attention of late, mainly because of...
Rooting for the environment in times of conflict and war
Eighteen years ago, on 5 November 2001, the United Nations General
Assembly declared 6 November the
International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in...
Report: Iranian military bases in Oman Threaten Regional Security
Cooperation
between Oman and Iran
Oman, in
recent years, has managed to carve out an apparent role as a
"moderate" Muslim state and has been pushing to be...
Expansion of Indian Naval Forces in the Indian Ocean
The decade beginning the year 2010 has
seen some rapid growing military initiatives around the globe, especially in
South Asia and Middle East Asia, where the...
A Much Prettier Prom Queen: Putin Outwits Trump in the Middle East. Again
By now,
most people around the world have roundly criticized or collectively shaken
their heads at President Trump and his sudden decision in early October to
remove...
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...