Two towns are currently taking shape, more or less at the opposite ends of Africa, although one is just into Asia. About as far south as you can go, and
The violence in Iraq and a renewed call for attacks on Iran continues to take most of the space in the western media's coverage of George W Bush&
A report, Policy Recommendations for the incoming Prime Minister, from the South Waziristan Institute of Strategic Hermeneutics (SWISH) for the International Security Working Group of the Transition Team, 11 Downing
The United States surge in troop numbers in Iraq is now into its fourth month and thus three-quarters complete, yet the country's military leaders caution that there will
On 30 April 2007, five people were jailed and two acquitted at the Old Bailey in London on charges relating to conspiracy to cause explosions. This ended what had become
The build-up of United States forces in Iraq as part of the "surge" is now past its halfway point, with three of the five additional combat brigades deployed,
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
