1. Saakashvili?s Statement on Russia? Action
(News/World News)

... Today, by its actions, the Russian Federation is seeking to validate the use of violence, direct military aggression, and ethnic cleansing to forcibly change the borders of a neighboring s...

2. Afghanistan?s Vietnam portent
(News/World News)

by Paul Rogers There have been many suggestions among media and military analysts since 2003 of possible parallels between the war in Iraq and the United States imbroglio in Vietnam that e

3. The politics of protection: Bush Strategy?
(News/World News)

...resident Bush's political strategy at home is an implicit if unintended admission of the failure of his military strategy in Iraq and toward terrorism generally. Betrayal is his theme, delivered i...

4. Venezuela: is Hugo Chávez in control?
(News/World News)

... with a government whose electoral base lies in the clamour for equality and respect, and which obliges its military - whose officers run hundreds of state funds and bodies - to chant everyday the new...