Archive for March, 2010

Germany: Mitteleuropa Redux

Tuesday, March 30th, 2010

from stratfor.com
by Peter Zeihan

 
The global system is undergoing profound change. Three powers — Germany, Iran and China — face challenges forcing them to refashion the way they interact with their regions and the world. We will explore each of these three states in detail in our next three geopolitical weeklies, highlighting how STRATFOR’s assessments of [...]

The Netanyahu-Obama Meeting in Strategic Context

Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010

from stratfor.com
by George Friedman
This report is republished with permission of STRATFOR

 
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is scheduled to meet with U.S. President Barack Obama on March 23. The meeting follows the explosion in U.S.-Israeli relations after Israel announced it was licensing construction of homes in East Jerusalem while U.S. Vice President Joe Biden was in [...]

Jihadism: The Grassroots Paradox

Friday, March 19th, 2010

from Stratfor.com
by Scott Stewart
This report is republished with permission of STRATFOR
 

Last week, rumors that Adam Gadahn had been arrested in Karachi, Pakistan, quickly swept through the global media. When the dust settled, it turned out that the rumors were incorrect; the person arrested was not the American-born al Qaeda spokesman. The excitement generated by the [...]

Terrorism: Defining a Tactic

Thursday, March 11th, 2010

from stratfor.com
by Fred Burton and Ben West
This report is republished with permission of STRATFOR
 

In the evening of March 4, as U.S. Department of Defense workers were wrapping up their day, a man wearing a suit and displaying what guards later referred to as a “nervous intensity” approached the entrance to the Pentagon. As he walked [...]

Radio legend to run for president?

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010

from wnd.com 
‘I would not hesitate to make my birth certificate available’
Applicants for the Oval Office in 2012 already have begun lining up, just one year into President Obama’s term, amid CBS poll results that overwhelming flunk the first-term Democrat and show a majority of Americans opposed to Obama’s No. 1 agenda item – nationalized health [...]

Using Intelligence from the al-Mabhouh Hit

Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010

from stratfor.com
by Fred Burton and Ben West
This report is republished with permission of STRATFOR

The assassination of senior Hamas militant leader Mahmoud al-Mabhouh on Jan. 19 is still generating a tremendous amount of discussion and speculation some six weeks after the fact. Dubai’s police force has been steadily releasing new information almost on a daily basis, [...]

Thinking About the Unthinkable: A U.S.-Iranian Deal

Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010

from stratfor.com
by George Friedman
This report is republished with permission of STRATFOR
 
 
The United States apparently has reached the point where it must either accept that Iran will develop nuclear weapons at some point if it wishes, or take military action to prevent this. There is a third strategy, however: Washington can seek to redefine the Iranian [...]

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