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Global defense postures moderating, but new “Fault Lines” emerge
Economic development and flat defense budgets are reducing the reliance of the world economy on defense spending, but tensions are rising along five global...
The Eurasian project and the geopolitics of Brexit
With specific reference to Brexit - an issue that we have analyzed extensively - we need to define both its effects on Europe's new...
The strategic effects of Brexit
Brexit is the greatest strategic shock occurred in Europe after the "fall of the Berlin Wall" in 1989. Furthermore the 1989 myth had been...
A Realist Proposal: How the Vietnam War Can Help the US End its Afghan War
On December 28, 2014, the US and NATO formally declared an end to the Afghan war despite an ongoing insurgency. Nevertheless, a treaty was...
The 2016 NATO Summit: What will be on the agenda in Warsaw?
Authors: Dr. Ian Anthony, Dr. Ian Davis(*) At their Summit in Warsaw on 8–9 July, the heads of state and government of the NATO...
Is NATO Undermining Global Stability?
Authors: Lisdey Espinoza Pedraza(*) and Markus Heinrich The Western Alliance has been one of the linchpins of the post-Second World War world order, but...
Playing Chess, Not Checkers: Russian Responses to U.S. Hegemony in Kind
Few would argue that Russia’s recent display of military assertiveness, in both its hybrid confrontation in Ukraine and recent intervention in Syria, is antithetical...
Iran’s moves in Syria
A recent article published on the Russian Pravda, which is certainly not just the result of grey propaganda, namely that kind of "grey" communication...
The Libyan Failure: Obama and Clinton’s Forgotten War
On February 17th, 2011 the Arab Spring swept Libya. Within a couple of weeks, Tripoli had fallen and the National Transitional Council was established...
The Russian military posture
The big parade organized on May 9, 2016 to commemorate the 71st anniversary of the USSR victory in the Great Patriotic War - as...