Tuesday, 9 September 2014

The Battle Against IS: Why Iran and Assad's Syria are not part of a Diplomatic Initiative.

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'A rapprochement between Saudi Arabia and Iran would help to ease conflicts and tension across the Middle East. The US and UK are no...

The New US 'Game Plan' in Iraq and the Middle East.

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President Obama made plain at the NATO summit in Wales last week that when confronting the Islamic State, 'We haven't got a strateg...
Monday, 8 September 2014

The Third Iraq War: Continuity and Change between 2004-2014

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“This is a galvanizing moment for NATO and our partners” -US Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel President Obama is finalising plan to 'deg...
Sunday, 7 September 2014

Do you Support Military Action against ISIS ?

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The Guardian has held an online opinion poll on the prospect for military intervention in Iraq and Syria against IS. 42% of those stated t...
Monday, 1 September 2014

How to Prevent Islamist Terrorism in Britain.

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With Islamic State now posing the new improved version of the previous terror threat offered by Al Qaida in the mass marketplace for insa...
Sunday, 31 August 2014

Britain and Qatar: Why National Security is Energy Security.

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'Take Qatar. There is evidence that, as the US magazine The Atlantic puts it , “Qatar’s military and economic largesse has made its way...

Britain's Foreign Policy on IS: Building Towards Military Intervention.

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'As Washington seeks to build a multi-national coalition to support an expansion of air strikes against the jihadists....the prime mi...
Saturday, 30 August 2014

"A Greater and Deeper Threat to our Security than we have Known Before".

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"It was clear evidence, not that any more was needed, that this is not some foreign conflict thousands of miles from home that we can...
Tuesday, 26 August 2014

Tony Blair Continues to Instruct and Reform the World for the Better.

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'In a letter to Nursultan Nazarbeyev, Blair told the autocratic ruler that the December 2011 deaths, "tragic though they were, s...
Sunday, 24 August 2014

Immediate Reflections on News of the Fall of Tripoli in Libya

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'The weekend's developments threaten to tilt the country across the line from troubled post-Arab spring democracy to outright fai...

Why the Caliphate could be Established in the Middle East.

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'The declaration by Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of this new entity, that he is the supreme authority of a new "caliphate...

The Call of the Caliphate in Britain: Why British Jihadists Fight in Syria.

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The rise of IS in Syria and Iraq and the evident barbarity it revels in, from social media depictions of  enemies being machine gunned into ...
Friday, 22 August 2014

Why Britain Wants to Arm Sunni Militants in Syria and Arms the Opposition to IS in Iraq.

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"We may very well find that we are aligned against a common enemy. But that does not make us able to...

Israel-Gaza and the Potential for Protracted War in 2014.

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'The Palestine issue is separate from the problems in Iraq and Syria, which are making the headlines today, but it continues to spread ...

Why Western Strategy in Syria and Iraq Appears Contradictory: Energy Interests and Realpolitik.

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This is what passes for "informed" commentary in a British newspaper in 2014, 'Oh the fickleness of humanity and history! T...
Thursday, 21 August 2014

The Gaza-Israel War, Energy Interests and the Potential Defeat of Hamas.

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On August 20 2014 the war between Hamas in Gaza and Israel resumed after the ceasefire broke down. Three Hamas leaders were killed and the w...