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Islamic Caliphate is dead, but its dangerous and infectious ideology is alive
The year 2019 witnessed the
rout of the Islamic Caliphate - the pseudo-state entity created on the
territories of Iraq and Syria by the terrorist organization...
The Impact of Words: Christchurch Shooting
New Zealanders and Australians (two English-speaking
Commonwealth nations closely knit by culture, geography and history) have been
horrified by a major white extremist terrorist event in...
The role of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps with regional terrorism
The creation of a Hashd al-Sha'abi in
Iraq was a great step that the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) took
to increase the military power of...
The Flying Coffin
“If intense warfare broke out tomorrow, India could supply its troops
with only 10 days of ammunition, according to government estimates. And 68 per
cent of...
The United States in Iraq and the new offensives in the region
Over the last few days, particularly on
March 6, new US troops arrived in Iraq.
They in fact arrived in the Iraqi area of Al Anbar,...
Military Diplomacy as a Hybrid Instrument of National Power
Today's
complex security environment requires the United States to use all of its
instruments of power to maintain its status in the world, as well as...
Chinese pressure tactics put countries between a rock and a hard place
Recent Chinese pressure on
Myanmar to approve a controversial dam project and the arrest in recent
days in Kazakhstan of a human rights activist suggest that...
Disrespecting China: The Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands Controversy
The dispute over the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands
has been a long and controversial one. China claims to have historical evidence
showing sovereignty over the Diaoyu Islands. However,...
Iran and North Korea highlight pitfalls of Trump’s ‘maximum pressure’ strategy
Donald J. Trump’s hitherto failed ‘maximum pressure’ approach to Iran,
as well as for that matter North Korea, begs the question what the US
president’s true...
The Revolutionary Guards and Revolutionary Discourse
The Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps is a guardian of the Islamic
Revolution and its achievements. An important part of these achievements is
defined in the cultural...