Two weeks after the announcement by President Bush of a 20,000-strong "surge" in the number of United States troops in Iraqi, it is already clear that an
In September 2006, on the eve of the Labour Party conference in Manchester, Tony Blair announced his intention to resign at some point during 2007. The British prime minister has
In a major address on the evening of 10 January 2007, President Bush confirmed that he planned to order a "surge" in the number of United States troops
The government of Tony Blair (and his likely replacement Gordon Brown) made clear in June 2006 its intention that Britain's Trident nuclear-weapon system would be replaced in due
More than five years after the Taliban evacuated Kabul in November 2001, Afghanistan's summer 2006 was marked by a re-emerging insurgency signalled by unexpected and accelerating violence (see
A week after the publication of the Iraq Study Group (ISG) report on 6 December 2006, it is blindingly obvious that the Bush administration may engage in a small amount
A fifth report from the South Waziristan Institute of Strategic Hermeneutics to the al-Qaida Strategic Planning Cell on the progress of the campaign.
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A shift of vocabulary can be the harbinger of a new understanding. The notable increase in the past week in the use of the term "civil war" to
Afghanistan in 2006 was not supposed to be like this. The period around the fifth anniversary of the Taliban's evacuation of Kabul on 12 November 2001 has been
The new parliamentary session in Britain opened on 15 November 2006 with a raft of proposals from prime minister Tony Blair to counter terrorism. They include tighter immigration controls (including
The resignation of Donald Rumsfeld as United States defence secretary in the aftermath of heavy Republican losses in the mid-term elections on 7 November 2006 is an event whose reverberations
There has been little movement on government targets, but the public mood has shifted dramatically.
