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The meeting between al-Sarraj and General Khalifa Haftar
L ast mid-February both the leader of Libya's Government of National Accord (GNA), Fayez al-Sarraj, and the leader of the Libyan National Army...
EU’s Litmus Test in the Western Balkans
For the last few months the western Balkans are back in the newspaper headlines. This is typically not good news. High Representative for Foreign...
World military spending: increases in the USA and Europe, decreases in oil-exporting countries
T otal world military expenditure rose to $1686 billion in 2016, an increase of 0.4 per cent in real terms from 2015, according...
Neo-religionism of the post ideological Russia
T he lonely superpower (US) vs. the bear of the permafrost (Russia), with the world’s last cosmopolite (EU) in between. Is the ongoing...
Fayez al-Sarraj’s attempt to take hold of NOC
O n March 24 last, al-Sarraj dissolved his Petroleum Ministry and formally acquired direct control over the National Oil Company (NOC), namely the...
2017: The year in which nuclear weapons could be banned?
A t the end of 2016, the General Assembly of the United Nations voted by a large majority (Resolution 71/258 of 23 December...
Russia in Libya
A few days ago the press reported that dozens of Russian military "contractors", supplied by the RSB Group, were already operating in...
How to implement nuclear deterrence in Europe
T he many projects circulating in Italy, as well as in the other NATO and EU countries, for the "new EU Army" lack...
Hezbollah and the war in Syria
T he war in Syria against Assad’s Alawites and his post-Baathist State began with the people’s uprising of March-April 2011. Mass demonstrations in...
Metaphysics and strategic analysis
S peaking about metaphysics today seems almost an insult to the standard Western culture, all based on Reason and Feeling and on empiricism...