Geopolitical
Beijing: Berlin or Munich?
Written by Kathy Shaidle
August 07, 2008
By Kathy Shaidle
FrontPageMagazine.com
As President Bush prepares to head to Beijing for the Olympics, he is balancing reprimand with praise. Even while warning the Chinese government about its oppression of its own people, Bush applauds its economic liberalization, revealing the ...
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Uncontrolled ISI
Written by Dani Reshef
Dani Reshef
It is almost six and a half years since Afghanistan was taken over from the Taliban and a new, supposedly Democratic regime, was formed supported by the richest and strongest economy of the world. Despite all the efforts the situation in Afghanistan is worse anddeteriorating ...
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Prophets and Losses
Written by Barry Rubin
August 3, 2008
Barry Rubin
Strike One. September 6, 2007. Israel bombs and destroys Syrian nuclear facility. Syria is powerless to retaliate.
Strike Two: February 12, 2008. Hizballah operations' chief and terrorist mastermind Imad Mugniyah assassinated in a secure area of Syria's capital, ...
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China, the Olympics and the Visa Mystery
Written by Rodger Baker
July 29, 2008
By Rodger Baker
Stratfor Geopolitical Intelligence Report
Something extraordinary is happening in China, and we are not talking about the Olympics. Rather, Chinese officials have been clamping down on visa applications and implementing bureaucratic impediments to new and renewed ...
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Olmert's Legacy in the Occupied Territories: Strengthening the Settlement Blocs
Written by Benn, Aluf
by Benn, Aluf
INSS Insight no. 65
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's legacy vis-Ã -vis the occupied territories will be a strengthened Israeli hold on the settlement blocs west of the security fence, in particular around Jerusalem. Olmert’s fundamental approach views the security fence as ...
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STRATCOM Cancels Controversial Preemption Strike Plan
Written by Hans M. Kristensen
July 25, 2008 Read more: STRATCOM Cancels Controversial Preemption Strike Plan
By Hans M. Kristensen
FAS
The U.S. military has canceled a controversial war plan designed to strike adversaries promptly - even preemptively - with conventional and nuclear weapons. The strike plan was known as Concept Plan (CONPLAN) 8022 and first entered into effect in the summer ...
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The Eldad Regev and Ehud Goldwasser Exchange
Written by IICC
July 21, 2008
Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center
at the Israel Intelligence Heritage & Commemoration Center (IICC)
Two years after the second Lebanon war the bodies of Eldad Regev and Ehud Goldwasser were exchanged for five Lebanese prisoners, including the terrorist murderer ...
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The New Era
Written by Stratfor
by Peter Zeihan
Stratfor Geopolitical Intelligence Report
As students of geopolitics, we at Stratfor tend not to get overexcited when this or that plan for regional peace is tabled. Many of the world’s conflicts are geographic in nature, and changes in government or policy only rarely ...
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A Clean Slate for North Korea
Written by Jacob Laksin
June 27, 2008
By Jacob Laksin
FrontPageMagazine.com
YOU KNOW THE BUSH administration’s North Korea policy is fatally flawed when even Barack Obama, last heard pledging to meet with the world’s dictators “without preconditions,” judges it naïve.
And yet, the presumptive Democratic nominee ...
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