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global securityInternational Security Correspondent Paul Rogers provides weekly commentary on the 'war on terror'. His acute commentaries are an indispensable guide to explaining the present conflict's development and mapping the future.
Washington's problems in Iraq and Afghanistan are leading it to refocus its military attentions on Tehran
What will the world be like in 2020? Here are two scenarios, in the author's 350th openDemocracy column since September 2001
Today's food crisis echoes the early 1970s'. But global finance and climate change make it new
A French colonial defeat inspires a Taliban aiming to erode the resolve of the United
States
Washington's
bubble of optimism about Iraq
has burst, revealing the contrast between American and jihadi
strategic thinking
The
uncertain and fragile security situation in Iraq challenges the view that the war is being
won
The unavoidable emergency of climate change places key responsibility on states
A Washington military resignation - and Israel's operations in Gaza - may affect the likelihood and timing of a war with Tehran
Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan are near-invisible in the United States election. That may not last
The al-Qaida movement again solicits advice from the respected
management consultancy - which delivers possibly its
last such report
A
single week's issue of a leading military journal reveals a lot about the United States's
strategic predicament and plans
The
targeting of western business interests and infrastructure is becoming a potent
weapon in the militant armoury
The United States's military and political project in Afghanistan and Iraq is in terminal trouble. Why, how, and what next?
The
United States's military and political ambition in Iraq is enormous and
undiminished.
A valuable but flawed report on Nato's future highlights the real 21st-century security agenda.
In Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan, it's less reported, but raging
The election buzz in the United States ignores problems that may explode into the campaign
Benazir
Bhutto's killing deepens the US's
strategic predicament
The world must defuse twin dangers: nuclear weapons and global climate change
Between 2001's dream and 2007's reality an American - and global - tragedy lies
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