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Resumption Of Talks On Moldova's Trandniester Conflict Is Only A Small First Step
October 01, 2011By Robert Coalson -- The announcement that official talks are to resume in the so-called 5+2 format aimed at resolving Moldova's long-standing conflict with the breakaway Transdniester region has been hailed as a small but important bit of progress...
STRATFOR analysis: Iran at a Crossroads
September 27, 2011By Kamran Bokhari / STRATFOR / Austin, TX -- Geopolitically, a trip to Iran could not come at a better time. Iran is an emerging power seeking to exploit the vacuum created by the departure of U.S. troops from Iraq, which is scheduled to conclude in a...
US Marines evaluate Georgian soldiers
September 20, 2011By David J. Smith / Georgian Security Analysis Center / Potomac Institute for Policy Studies / -- For a week last month, US Marines of the 2nd Combat Engineering Battalion and Georgian soldiers of the 33rd Infantry Battalion joined forces in Operation...
Barack Obama's dilemma: U.S. foreign policy and electoral realities
September 20, 2011By George Friedman, Stratfor / Austin, TX / -- STRATFOR does not normally involve itself in domestic American politics. Our focus is on international affairs, and American politics, like politics everywhere, is a passionate business. The vilification...
NED Panel Commemorates Moldovan Independence
September 15, 2011To commemorate Moldova’s twenty years of independence, NED hosted a panel discussion, co-organized with Freedom House and the Moldova Foundation (a NED grantee), on “Moldova’s Transition: 20 Years of Challenges and Successes.”...
September 11, 2011On a clear, sunny late summer day in September 2001, Al Qaeda terrorists aboard three hijacked passenger planes carried out coordinated suicide attacks against the World Trade Center in New York City and the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., killing everyone...
U.S. Civil War: Re-examining the Confederate past (video)
August 24, 2011As the United States marks the 150th anniversary of the start of the Civil War, many Americans are re-examining the conflict, especially in Richmond, Virginia, former capital of the Confederacy. During the Civil War, which lasted four years, the nation...
Ex-IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn is off the hook
August 24, 2011Sexual Assault Charges Against Strauss-Kahn Dropped A New York judge has dismissed sexual assault charges against former International Monetary Fund (IMF) chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn, one day after prosecutors moved to have the case dropped. Tuesday...
American foreign aid in Muslim countries: Upgrade or end?
August 22, 2011Despite the billions of dollars that the United States has spent in aid to many Muslim countries, our image in many of these countries continues to be profoundly negative. The "winning hearts and minds" strategy simply has not worked. It is...
80% of U.S. Marines shot in Iraq died because of inadequate body armor
August 17, 2011The Army improperly tested new bullet-blocking plates for body armor and cannot be certain that 5 million pieces of the critical battlefield equipment meet the standards to protect U.S. troops, the Defense Department's inspector general found. The Pentagon...