Strategy

Russia eyes threat of preemptive strike in its defense strategy

June 19, 2013

Source: China CN Org Russia must take into account the possibility of a preemptive nuclear strike against its interests and include it in its defense strategy, President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday. “Not only the U.S. but also other countries are busy improving their offensive weapons, including middle-range missiles. Practically all our neighbors develop these systems,” [...]

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Army Radio: French Officers Train Syrian Rebels in Jordan, Turkey

June 19, 2013

Source: JP Sources familiar with the events in Syria have told Israel Army Radio on Wednesday morning that military officers from France have been training Syrian rebels in Jordan and Turkey. The information reveals a picture whereby the government in Paris is the most active among Western nations in attempting to topple Assad The French [...]

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Report: Mossad recruiting Algerian youth

June 19, 2013

Source: Digital journal According to a report issued on Wednesday by an Algerian newsletter, Mossad, the Israeli spy agency, has begun to recruit Algerian youths to fight alongside the Syrian opposition, in the battle against Bashar al-Assad. Sources within the North African country had told the Algerian daily al-Fajr, that the opposition Salafi groups operating [...]

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The U.S. deploys more troops in Yemen

June 18, 2013

Source: Yemen Post Military officials confirmed on Tuesday media reports stating that more U.S. troops have landed in Yemen,, as part of Washington-Sana’a military efforts against al-Qaeda in the region. An estimated 1,700 troops arrived in Yemen on Monday: 1500 soldiers were immediately deployed to Anad strategic airbase in the southern province of Lahj, just [...]

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Libya, Armed And Dangerous: Piles Of Weapons Fuel Illicit Exportation Of War from Mali to Syria

June 18, 2013

Source: IBT One of the last things the old Libyan regime did before its downfall in 2011 was to distribute stockpiles of arms all across the country. The late Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi intended to disperse the weapons so they would not be easily targeted by opposition forces and their international allies. Mines and mortars [...]

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Qatar Red Crescent smuggling arms into Syria

June 18, 2013

Source: alalam A new report says the Qatari Red Crescent has secretly delivered weapons to insurgents in Syria. The report by Lebanon’s Al Akhbar daily says the intelligence agency of the Lebanese army have recently detained a Jordanian citizen with a fake Palestinian ID, who was caught delivering weapons under the cover of the Qatari humanitarian [...]

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ANALYSIS: The internationalization of the Syrian civil war

June 17, 2013

Source: Israel Hayom America sending light arms • Russia sending S-300 and MiGs • Iran sending 4,000 elite troops • Chechen Islamists fighting Assad have anti-aircraft missiles • Jordan, Egypt cut off diplomatic relations with Damascus • Israel, U.S. plan for WMD strike. World powers and regional actors are increasingly converging on Syria, a development [...]

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Onward, Through The Fog Of War

June 16, 2013

Source: Sri Lanka Guardian The world waits. Washington and other western capitals ponder war. Tehran and Moscow assume their positions, wary of their flanks and the rear. Syria suffers. Groups within and without Syria’s borders position themselves as representatives of the Syrian people, almost every one of them hoping for some kind of Western support [...]

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Pakistan Army to preempt India’s ‘Cold Start Doctrine’

June 16, 2013

Source: Tribune According to the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), the war games were meant to operationalise new strategies against the evolving threat. At the culmination of four years of war gaming and exercises, the Pakistan military has now adopted a ‘new concept of war fighting’ aimed at preempting India’s ‘Cold Start Doctrine,’ security officials said [...]

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Saudi Arabia plans to supply the Syrian opposition with anti-aircraft missiles

June 16, 2013

Source: DailyStar Source: Der Spiegel Saudi Arabia plans to supply the Syrian opposition with anti-aircraft missiles to counter President Bashar al-Assad’s air force, German news weekly Der Spiegel reported Sunday. The article, citing a classified report received by the German foreign intelligence service and the German government last week, said Riyadh was looking at sending European-made Mistral-class MANPADS, or man-portable air-defence systems. [...]

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Zbig: Obama Syria plan is ‘chaos, baffling, a mess, tragedy’

June 14, 2013

Source: Washington Examiner The president’s abrupt decision to arm Syrian rebels is a huge mistake, one driven by emotion and propaganda not they kind of strategic White House plan that has marked past successful interventions in civil wars, according to former Carter-era national security chief Zbigniew Brzezinski. In a broad attack on President Obama’s vague [...]

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US-UK Supporting Baloch Militants

June 14, 2013

Source: Pak Tribune In 2010 and 2012, two articles, “Foreign Involvement in Pak Balochistan” and “US meddling in Balochistan Exposed” have been written by me. The articles then unveiled the US and her allies’ hidden involvements of supporting rebellions, aiming at creation of Greater Balochistan and increasing influence in northern lip of straits of Hormuz [...]

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The war on Africa: U.S. imperialism and the world economic crisis

June 14, 2013

Source: Pambazuka Mineral resources and the quest for strategic advantage guide western foreign policy on the continent Capitalism has failed to provide adequate housing, jobs, medical, educational and other services to many people in the West. As well, China’s global influence is rising. These are some of the reasons behind the US quest for mineral [...]

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U.S. Military Proposal to Arm Rebels Includes No-Fly Zone in Syria

June 13, 2013

Source: WSJ A U.S. military proposal for arming Syrian rebels also calls for a limited no-fly zone inside Syria that would be enforced from Jordanian territory to protect Syrian refugees and rebels who would train there, according to U.S. officials. Asked by the White House to develop options for Syria, military planners have said that [...]

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Path to Persia:US to arm Syrian rebels

June 13, 2013

Editor’s Note: Give me a break! And now an overt operation to supply weapons to FSA, while covert operations have been operating behind the scenes for months to smuggle weapons to foreign fighters|terrorists. Related articles are a snippet of weapons operations funneled to Syria US and Europe in ‘major airlift of arms to Syrian rebels [...]

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How Egypt Might Try To Stop Ethiopia’s Dam Project

June 13, 2013

Source: Forbes Ethiopia’s initiation of a dam project on the Blue Nile has quickly drawn the ire of Egypt, which is critically dependent on it as a source of much of the country’s freshwater needs. As Egyptian Foreign Minister Mohamed Kamel Amr said June 9 following Ethiopia’s refusal to halt construction of the dam and ahead of his trip to Addis [...]

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Why Azerbaijan should matter to America

June 12, 2013

Source: News.AZ There is a point where three great powers — Russia, Turkey and Persia — meet: the Caucasus. At the moment they converge in a country called Azerbaijan. That fact makes Azerbaijan a battleground for these three great powers, which have competed with each other along various borders for centuries. Until 1991 Azerbaijan was [...]

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Why Tunisia Could Host the U.S. Military’s African Headquarters

June 12, 2013

Source: Tunisia Live The post-revolutionary Tunisian government may soon find itself inclined to host a major piece of the United States’ international military architecture. The debate over whether Tunisia should accommodate the United States Africa Command, also known as AFRICOM, started when the U.S. declared its intentions to create the command in 2006. At the time, the [...]

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The four great games

June 12, 2013

Source: The News The Americans have a great facility for giving compact names to complex issues to enable easy interpretation of their policies by the American public. Af-Pak is one such name – indicating the intertwining of Afghanistan and Pakistan as the main theatre of the war on terror. The term implies that US policies [...]

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Permanent Military Footprint:Pentagon’s ‘Bridging Force’ for Afghanistan

June 10, 2013

Editor’s Note: A permanent Pentagon Bridging Force will conduct military operations to secure opium/heroin production and distribution to fund covert operations not funded by the American taxpayers , secure rare earth element mining facilities for military weapons systems (compete against Russia/Chinese interests in the Afghanistan/Pakistan region), divert all future oil and LNG pipeline routes away from [...]

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Retired US Generals and Politicians Reaping Oil Profits from Iraq’s Kurdistan

June 10, 2013

Source: Press TV A former Kurdish official claims that a group of retired American generals negotiated Iraqi Kurdistan’s oil contracts with the knowledge of Kurdistan’s US representative. Heyrsh Abdulrahman – who has made the statement – served as deputy of the Kurdistan Regional Government’s US representative between 2004 and 2009. In an interview with the [...]

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U.S. Hegemony : America Secretly Approves $1.3 Billion Worth of Military Aid to Egypt

June 10, 2013

Source: Trumpet In a May 9 memo publicized last week, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry wrote that the American government will continue to provide its annual $1.3 billion military aid package to the Muslim Brotherhood government of Mohamed Morsi in Egypt. The aid package has been in place since 1979 under former President Anwar Sadat. Back [...]

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US Tests Iran Nuclear ‘Bunker Buster’

June 9, 2013

Source: IBT The United States has successfully tested missiles designed to destroy Iran’s underground nuclear laboratories. In information passed to Israel, the US government said that tests last year of the GBU-57B had gone well. The massive ordnance penetrator, as the weapon is called, has cost $500 million to develop, and can be dropped from [...]

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China details Indian Ocean strategy and interests

June 8, 2013

Source: Hindu Blue book’ laments Beijing has trailed behind New Delhi and Washington in securing its interests China has, for the first time, attempted to spell out its strategy — and plans — to secure its interests in the Indian Ocean in its first “blue book” on the region, released here on Saturday. The blue [...]

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Intelligence report: on Russia’s position to NATO anti-missile defence and possible incidents during Zapad 2013

June 7, 2013

Source: Lithuania Tribune Russia still wants to avoid elements of NATO’s anti-aircraft and anti-missile defence in close vicinity and proposes to the Alliance to divide Europe into responsibility areas, the Second Investigation Department under Lithuania’s Ministry of National Defence, in charge of military intelligence, said in a 2012 report on threats to national security on [...]

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Nicaragua Enlists China To Build An Alternative To The Panama Canal

June 7, 2013

Source: PopSci After a century as an only child, the Panama Canal is about to get a sister. Nicaragua announced recently that it is awarding China a contract to build an alternative to the Panama Canal, a move that could have huge implications for everything from military power to international trade. The new Nicaraguan canal will connect [...]

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ISI engaged in helping Taliban again: Riedel

June 6, 2013

Editor’s Note: Let’s not forget the continuation of CIA and private contractor activities after the withdrawal of US soldiers from Afghanistan. CIA’s paramilitary Special Activities Division could control forces in Afghanistan after 2014 and Pentagon Has No Idea What 108,000 Contractors Are Doing in Afghanistan Related Article to ISI engagement with the Taliban: The Pakistani Godfather: The Inter-Services Intelligence and the Afghan Taliban 1994-2010 (1/4) [...]

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Reviving the Maghreb Union

June 6, 2013

Source: Majalla In the wake of the Tunisian revolution Maghreb integration and cooperation is once again on the table. “We will work to restore unity with our brothers in Algeria, Morocco, Libya and Mauritania,” declared Tunisian President Moncef Marzouki during a tour of the North African countries in February 2012. Mohammed VI of Morocco spoke [...]

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Putin announces permanent navy presence in Mediterranean to protect Russia’s security

June 6, 2013

Source: EJ/AP Russia announced on Thursday that it will keep a fleet of about dozen navy ships in the Mediterranean Sea, a move President Vladimir Putin said is needed to protect his country’s national security. Putin said the plan should not be seen as saber rattling, but it comes as Moscow is serving as a [...]

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