The Color of Failure

D&FA 07,8-08 ed The Color of Failure.doc (16KB)
Defense & Foreign Affairs Strategic Policy, July-August, 2008
Early Warning, By Gregory R. Copley
 
 
Defense & Foreign Affairs Strategic Policy is published by the International Strategic Studies Association (ISSA), Alexandria VA.
www.StrategicStudies.org
 
THE END OF WORLD WAR II saw the triumphal Western powers – particularly the United States – embark with hubris [...]

World defence update

Iran claims new submarine and sea-launched missile capabilities
 
Iran’s 25 August statement that it has begun production of a new class of indigenously developed submarines able to fire missiles is the latest in a series of recent claims of improved military technology. In all cases little or no hard information is provided by the Iranian authorities, [...]

MENENDEZ/SNOWE: Macedonian quandary

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/sep/24/macedonian-quandary/
 
 
Bob Menendez and Olympia Snowe
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
 
 
COMMENTARY:
With the attention of Euro-Atlantic diplomats understandably focused on cooling the conflict in the Caucasus, the United States must not forget that much work remains to be done to address tensions elsewhere in the mountains of Southeastern Europe.
Enhancing and preserving the hard-won stability of the Balkans requires that [...]

World defence update

UK’s Operation Scorpion trains Iraqi Army to lead
A first cohort of junior non-commissioned officers (NCOs) in the economic hub of Basra in southeastern Iraq has completed its leadership training, marking an important step in the wider strategic future of UK troops as they move to withdraw completely from the country after five years. “One of [...]

Nicholas Hammond

A distinguished classical scholar, he was parachuted into wartime Greece to play a leading role in organising resistance groups
 
Richard Clogg
 
The Guardian,
Thursday April 5 2001
Article history
 
Nicholas Hammond, who has died aged 93, was a classical scholar of great distinction and prodigious output. Like that of a number of his classicist and archaeologist contemporaries, his knowledge of [...]

World military update

U.S. Plans THAAD Sale to U.A.E. Worth $7 Billion
 
 
The Boston Globe
The Bush administration is set to notify Congress of a pending arms deal with the United Arab Emirates (U.A.E.). The United States is planning to sell the U.A.E. a missile defense system known as Terminal High Altitude Area Defense, or THAAD, for a contract which [...]

EU Parliament held conference on terrorism threat

EU-NATO-US-Israel united to combat terror, but they are not agree to use the same methods
 
Ararat News –Publishing (ANP) – Fiona Lorin/ Roni Alasor, 17/9/2008 / Brussels
Last Tuesday, EU Parliament held Conference on Terrorism and Europe: Threats and Responses. EU and NATO-US-Israel are united to fight terrorism but they don’t share the same approach in the [...]

Serbia, Russia, and the Pax Americana in South Eastern Europe

By Dušan Reljić
 
Harvard International Review
http://www.harvardir.org/articles/1753/
 
 
 
Two decades have passed since the dissolution of the Socialist Federative Republic of Yugoslavia began destabilizing southeast Europe, but there is still little reason to proclaim that the region has reached the point of no return for ethnic conflicts and wars. Until recently, many pundits blamed the unresolved issue of Kosovo [...]

World military update

 
India looks to South Korea to boost ship design capabilities
 
The Indian Navy has said that it wants to encourage closer links between the country’s state-owned shipbuilders and those in South Korea in order to improve domestic naval ship design capabilities. Speaking to Jane’s on 3 September, Commander Nirad K Sinha, official spokesman for the Indian [...]

World military update

Boeing’s Super Hornet enters Denmark’s combat aircraft contest
 
The US Navy (USN) has responded to a request for information (RfI) from Denmark regarding the Boeing F/A-18E/F Block II Super Hornet multirole combat aircraft, it was announced on 27 August. The RfI, which Boeing received in May, pertains to the Royal Danish Air Force’s (RDAF’s) New Combat [...]