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Tag: Gulf War

Posted inUnited Kingdom

Inside the UK’s top secret ‘Increment’

by Dave Makichuk June 6, 2021June 6, 2021

Like real-life James Bonds, they cross borders with fake identities and passports. They operate in small isolated teams and have access to the full array of 007 gadgets designed by the spies’ Q section. Its members are famed for not always looking like soldiers. Some speak foreign languages and can pass as foreign nationals. The […]

Mere mention of Saddam Hussein's name was enough to send shivers down the spines of allies and opponents alike – an effect Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has tried to replicate. Photo: Reuters
Posted inOpinion

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by Jonathan Gornall March 2, 2021March 2, 2021
Mere mention of Saddam Hussein's name was enough to send shivers down the spines of allies and opponents alike – an effect Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has tried to replicate. Photo: Reuters
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Aladdin conjures a century of Hollywood stereotyping

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US soldiers rest after military exercises by US and South Korea troops at Daegu in March 2005.  Washington and Seoul have just signed a long-term military agreement, although a key aspect is still unclear. Photo: AFP / Kim Jae-hwan
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Why America can’t win wars

by David Isenberg February 1, 2019February 18, 2020
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Can India weather the Middle East Strategic Alliance?

by Hasan Alhasan January 30, 2019January 30, 2019
Chief justice William Rehnquist administers the Presidential Oath of Office to George H W Bush during his January 20, 1989, inauguration ceremony at the United States Capitol. Photo: Wikipedia
Posted inAfghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Kuwait, Middle East, South Asia, Syria, World

On getting in and out of a swamp

by Norman A. Bailey December 24, 2018
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, right, shakes hands with his Iraqi counterpart Ibrahim al-Jaafari at the end of a joint press conference following their meeting in Moscow on October 23, 2017. Photo: Kirill Kudryavtsev / AFP
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New government in Iraq courts Russian embrace

by Sami Moubayed December 13, 2018February 18, 2020
Chief justice William Rehnquist administers the Presidential Oath of Office to George H W Bush during his January 20, 1989, inauguration ceremony at the United States Capitol. Photo: Wikipedia
Posted inChina, Iraq, Kuwait, Middle East, Russia, World

Still Bush league: Nostalgia can’t erase Bush 41’s horrific legacy

by Muhammad Cohen December 5, 2018
United States President George HW Bush shares Thanksgiving with US military personnel in Saudi Arabia on November 22, 1990. Photo: David Valdez, White House via CNP
Posted inEgypt, European Union, Iraq, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Kuwait, Middle East, Northeast Asia, Russia, Syria, World

George HW Bush and the ‘American era’ in the Middle East

by Sami Moubayed December 3, 2018February 18, 2020
This file photo taken on July 31, 1991, shows US president George Bush and his Soviet counterpart Mikhail Gorbachev during a press conference in Moscow concluding the two-day US-Soviet Summit dedicated to the disarmament. Bush died at age 94, his family announced late on  November 30, 2018. Photo: AFP / Mike Fisher
Posted inAfghanistan, European Union, Germany, India, Iraq, Kuwait, Middle East, North Korea, Northeast Asia, Pakistan, Russia, South Asia, World

The world George H W Bush made

by Richard N. Haass December 3, 2018
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Fake news and beyond: an American saga

by Alexander Casella November 22, 2018November 23, 2018
People gather at a building destroyed by Saudi-led air strikes in the northwestern city of Amran, Yemen, on September 8, 2016. Photo: Reuters / Khaled Abdullah
Posted inAfghanistan, Middle East, North Korea, Northeast Asia, Pakistan, Russia, South Asia, South Korea, World

South Korea may be next victim of US lust for battle

by Ehsan Sehgal September 27, 2017
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has responded to threats made at the UN by US President Donald Trump. Kim described Trump as mentally deranged for threatening to destroy North Korea.
Image: Annika Laas/Wikidpedia Commons.
Posted inIraq, Japan, Middle East, North Korea, Northeast Asia, World

Financial markets shrug off growing North Korean tensions

by Nigel Green September 23, 2017
A Russian helicopter flies over the Temple of Bel in the historic city of Palmyra, Syria. Photo: Reuters
Posted inIran, Iraq, Israel, Middle East, Russia, Syria, Turkey, World

A new American Grand Strategy for the Syrian Confict?

by Nicos Panayiotides March 7, 2017March 8, 2017

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