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Tag: Afghanistan

Meth-making – The Edge Review

Myanmar at the heart of Asia’s synthetic drugs boom www.theedgereview.com – app/digital magazine available here (subscription required) YANGON – Located...
Posted on 21 May 2014 by Simon | Read More... Burma, Business & Economics, Drugs & Crime, Reporting from Burma/Myanmar, The Edge Review

No EUdaimonia after Lisbon – The Casual Truth/Eurasia Review

http://www.thecasualtruth.com/story/europe-country http://www.eurasiareview.com/2010/03/32232-no-eu-daimonia-after-lisbon.html Lacking a democratic mandate and acting by stealth, the EU elites – namely senior Brussels-based bureaucrats and...
Posted on 8 March 2010 by Simon | Read More... Business & Economics, Environment, Energy & Resources, EU, Eurasia Review, Politics & Government, The Casual Truth

Robot Wars: The Hal Factor – ISN

http://www.isn.ethz.ch/isn/Current-Affairs/Security-Watch/Detail/?lng=en&id=106325 Rapid technological developments are changing how wars are fought, but as Predator drones and ground robots are supplemented...
Posted on 25 September 2009 by Simon | Read More... ISN Security Watch, Security & Defence, USA

NATOs Afghan Litmus Test – ISN

The greatest challenge facing NATO is its mission in Afghanistan, NATO Supreme Allied Commander James Jones said, testifying before...
Posted on 2 June 2008 by Simon | Read More... Afghanistan, ISN Security Watch, Security & Defence, Terrorism, War

Basra Fighting may overshadow NATO Summit – Sunday Business Post

http://archives.tcm.ie/businesspost/2008/03/30/story31621.asp Civil war may loom again, with Moqtada al-Sadr and Abdul Hakim – both Shi’ite warlords – now facing-off,...
Posted on 30 March 2008 by Simon | Read More... Iraq, Security & Defence, Terrorism, The Sunday Business Post

The NATO rift and a bear security market in Afghanistan-Pakistan – OpinionAsia

http://www.opinionasia.org/ Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf and his Afghan counterpart Hamid Karzai were high-profile speakers at the recent Davos money...
Posted on 4 February 2008 by Simon | Read More... Afghanistan, Opinion Asia, Pakistan, Security & Defence, Terrorism

More than talk required to stem Pakistani Taliban tide- Sunday Business Post

http://archives.tcm.ie/businesspost/2008/01/27/story29893.asp As President Pervez Musharraf toured Europe last week, retired military officers capitalised on his absence by calling for...
Posted on 27 January 2008 by Simon | Read More... Pakistan, Security & Defence, Terrorism, The Sunday Business Post

Pakistan’s deadly melting pot – The Irish Catholic

At time of writing, Pakistan’s state of emergency was becoming insoluble, with a complex array of actors and factors...
Posted on 15 November 2007 by Simon | Read More... Pakistan, Security & Defence, Terrorism, The Irish Catholic

NATOs unfamiliar role, Afghanistan’s familiar situation – Central Asia-Caucasus Institute

.pdf download – http://www.cacianalyst.org/issues/20061129Analyst.pdf NATOs 2006 Summit takes place in Riga on November 28-29, when the military alliance will...
Posted on 29 November 2006 by Simon | Read More... Afghanistan, CACI Analyst, JHU, Security & Defence
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