The failure of the United States surge will be significant for its domestic politics, but devastating for Iraqi citizens.
Across four years when the security situation in Iraq has consistently
The United Statess global military strategy serves a control paradigm. What the world needs is sustainable security.
The United States military surge in Iraq continues to gather pace. As
The continued elusiveness of Osama bin Laden as he reached his 50th birthday on 10 March 2007 engendered much reflection among security officials about the condition and prospects of al-Qaida.
The Democrat-controlled Senate in Washington passed a resolution on 27 March 2007 which sought to link expenditure on the war in Iraq with a timetable for withdrawal of United States
Osama bin Laden's 50th birthday on 10 March 2007 was an occasion for much media reflection on the persistence of the al-Qaida movement. One attempt to counter this
The new United States defence budget involves a substantial increase in spending and a redirection of many military programmes towards counterinsurgency and responding to asymmetric warfare (see "The costs
The current United States surge in Iraq, the additional troops for the US command in Afghanistan and the large naval force now being assembled close to Iran together indicate the
The suicide-bomb attack at Bagram air base on 27 February 2007 during United States vice-president Dick Cheney's brief visit, made headline news across the world. Its impact within
The Bush administration's additional deployment of troops to try and bring Baghdad under United States military control is still in its early days. Already, however, three developments throw
To the extent that there is an open debate on British defence policy, it is centred on the arguments over whether Britain's Trident nuclear-weapons system should be replaced.
The United States operations in Iraq continue to be costly. The number of American combat deaths in October 2006 - January 2007 (334) was the highest of any four-month period
The surge in United States troop levels in gathering pace. As it does so, the civilian losses in Iraq continue at an appalling rate: as many as a hundred people
