The remnants of Iranian dissident group the MEK confined to an Iraqi refugee camp face a massacre when the United States leaves.
MEK May Be a Terrorist Organization, But It Doesn’t Deserve to Be Butchered
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War & Peace
Does Israel Believe Downed Drone in Iran Contained Attack Coordinates?
Israel may believe that the downed drone in Iran contains data for an attack.
Coalition Forces Won’t Take Training Wheels Off Afghan Forces
Afghan National Security Forces have yet to play the lead role in the Afghanistan war.
New Nuclear Weapons Facility: “Gateway to a Bleak and Hopeless World”
The media has finally discovered the new nuclear pit facility being built — at outrageous cost — at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Australia Remilitarizes
Recent transformations in the international system, notably the rise of China and an economic slump in the West, are rapidly ushering in a new age in Australian foreign policy. Slowly the sleeping continent has awoken to the din of machinery in uranium mines, shipbuilders in dry docks, and the arrival of a new contingent of U.S. Marines – the latter only the most recent indication of a re-posturing of the country’s foreign policy against perceived Chinese expansionism.
Israel May Be as Threatened by a Rational Iran as an Irrational Iran
Apparently the rationale that Israeli war hawks and the Americans who enable them have long harbored for attacking Iran is mutating.
Review: The Unraveling
In mid-September, bomb blasts and gunfire hit the U.S. Embassy and the NATO headquarters in Kabul, killing seven people. According to subsequent intelligence reports, the perpetrators were from the Haqqani network, which has been funded and supported by the government’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI). The Pakistani government denied the U.S. accusations, but the tough reactions of both sides reveal the mutual mistrust and widening cleavage between the two counter-terrorism allies.
Medal of Honor Winner Pays for Balking at Equipping Pakistani Snipers
Concerns about its support for the Taliban led Dakota Meyers to object to sales to Pakistan by the defense company for which he worked.
Are 24 Pakistani Soldiers Dead Because of the “Fog of War” or a Calculated Strike?
The NATO border attack that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers: “fog of war” incident or a calculated hit aimed at torpedoing peace talks in Afghanistan?
Is the Success of Israel’s Attack on Osirak a Myth?
Israel’s 1981 attack on Iraq’s Osirak reactor may have actually accelerated Iraq’s nuclear-weapons program, just as an attack on Iran might spur it to develop nuclear weapons.