Introduction
May we first thank you for giving us this opportunity to produce this report. We were surprised and pleased when the International Security Policy Group at 10 Downing Street
Soon after the 11 September 2001 attacks, Anthony Barnett suggested I contribute a short piece to openDemocracy about the impending war in Afghanistan. In the next few days a great
George W Bush's comments on 11 August on United States policy towards Iran have raised fears that his administration might still be prepared to attack Iran's
Washington sources have indicated in the past week that it might prove possible to reduce United States military deployments in Iraq, perhaps by 20,000 troops in early 2006. As
If Hiroshima and Nagasaki had not worked, the United States had a plan for winning the war against Japan that involved massive use of chemical weapons.
The dropping of the
The recent attacks in London and Egypt raise in a renewed form a question of burning interest to security agencies and citizens around the world: what is the real current
How is the Iraq war related to the wider war on terror? The question is of acute political saliency to George W Bush and Tony Blair, though the pressures of
Since the attacks of 11 September 2001, al-Qaida and its often loosely affiliated networks have mounted many attacks across the world. The range, persistence and scale of these incidents send
The multiple bombings in London on 7 July were almost certainly perpetrated by a group allied to the al-Qaida movement. They were intended to kill and maim many people and
The election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as president of Iran on 24 June is not an easy event for Washington to digest. The more convinced neo-conservatives find it especially difficult. The
The deteriorating security situation in Afghanistan, the subject of last weeks column in this series, is starting to attract more media attention. The destruction of a United States CH-46
The United States ambassador to Kabul, scheduled for transfer to a similar post in Baghdad, escaped assassination by a whisker this week. As Iraqs insurgents respond to the international
