Afghanistan
Stratfor: Russia's plan to disrupt U.S.-European relations
December 13, 2011By Lauren Goodrich/ Stratfor/ Austin, Texas -- Tensions between the United States and Russia have risen in the past month over several long-standing problems, including ballistic missile defense (BMD) and supply lines into Afghanistan. Moscow and...
U.S. Republican Presidential debates: Candidates focus on Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran
November 23, 2011By Charles Recknagel/ RFE/RL/ Washington, DC -- The eight candidates from the Republican Party who hope to defeat U.S. President Barack Obama in November next year all agree on one thing. They all accuse Obama of failing to deal adequately with three...
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...
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...
Top Terrorism Risk list by Maplecroft (198 countries)
August 04, 2011Elena Vnorovscaia / Chişinău / Moldova.ORG / -- Maplecroft, a consultancy firm that studies and monitors political, economic, social, and environmental risks, developed the Terrorism Index to allow business to identify and monitor the risks posed...
Spy games: Phone hacking caused “News of the World” closure (VIDEO)
July 07, 2011Elena Vnorovscaia / Chişinău / Moldova.ORG / -- Britain's biggest-selling newspaper featuring the best news, showbiz and sport exclusives, updated 24/7, the News of the World, is closing up. Rupert Murdoch's “News of the World” had nothing...
New terrorist attack in Afghanistan, hospital ruined
June 25, 2011Elena Vnorovscaia / Chişinău / Moldova.ORG / -- A car bomb attack caused at least 60 deaths at a hospital in Afghanistan's Logar province, local officials say. Civilians were hurt in the blast, some critically. Most of the casualties were civilians...
Afghanistan: France follows US in troop withdrawal
June 23, 2011French President Nicolas Sarkozy has announced the phased withdrawal of its 4,000 soldiers serving in Afghanistan. A statement said the French would follow the timetable of US withdrawals announced by President Barack Obama. Mr Obama said 10,000 US...