Dakar/Brussels - If military rule in Guinea is not rapidly ended, there is a serious risk the country will slide into a civil war that could destabilise all West Africa.
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By Nicolas von Kospoth
Larry Dickerson, senior unmanned systems analyst for Forecast International, recently stated that the international demand for unmanned aircraft is rapidly growing, with the United States continuing to be the key driver of this trend.
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On 17 September, US President Obama announced a considerable change on US plans for the deployment of BMD assets in Europe.
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It’s the old political game of distributing money for the right cause (in this particular case, the balance between jobs in industry, strategic requirements and troops’ requirements) with the almost certain outcome that not all involved parties will be satisfied, to say the least.
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Baku/Yerevan/Tbilisi/Brussels - Armenia and Azerbaijan should endorse a document on basic principles to end stalemate on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict by the end of the year, or they will face an eventual return to full-scale hostilities.
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The French defence industry can be pleased with its achievements in 2008, according to a report to parliament presented earlier this week by French Defence Minister Hervé Morin. In fact, arms sales have increased by 13 per cent over 2007, making France ...
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Mosul/Washington/Brussels - Arabs and Kurds must urgently agree to a power-sharing deal, joint patrols in disputed areas and protection of minority groups to prevent escalating violence in Ninewa from endangering what remains highly fragile and uneven progress in Iraq.
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Whoever read yesterday’s yellow press headlines may have had the impression that this was a ground-breaking day for US defence policy. All around the globe one could read that US President Barack Obama scrapped one of the most prominent and controversial plans of the Bush Administration: the missile defence shield to be based in the Czech Republic and Poland to counter a potential ballistic missile threat from Iran.
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A move by the Brazilian President, Inácio “Lula” da Silva, to apparently announce his choice of the Rafale as the new fighter aircraft for the Brazilian Air Force has triggered one of the most convolute stories in recent defence procurement history.
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by Luca Bonsignore
It is not the first time, and it will certainly not be the last, that a war is being fought on two different theatres: One abroad, where aircraft, tanks and soldiers fight against their nation’s declared enemies; and another at home, where politicians fight to win the public’s support for the war - or to undermine it, according to their ideas, goals and positions in the political circus.
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