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** Red Sea is today's arena for clash of African-Arab power politics ([link removed])
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By Alex De Waal,Mulugeta Gebrehiwot on Jan 09, 2024 12:05 am
Featured Image For the Arab Gulf kingdoms, the Horn of Africa is a strategic perimeter. They want to minimize political threats — some are hostile to Islamists, all want to suppress democracy movements. Anticipating a post-carbon and food insecure world, the Gulf States want to possess rich farmlands. Each has its own vision of African client states that will do their bidding.
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** Bahrain: The only Arabs to join US Red Sea task force ([link removed])
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By Giorgio Cafiero on Jan 08, 2024 12:05 am
Featured Image Last month, the U.S. announced ([link removed]) Operation Prosperity Guardian, a naval coalition aimed at deterring Houthi attacks in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden. Bahrain was the only Arab nation to join. The reasons why — and why other U.S. allies and partners in the region did not — should be of interest to us.
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** NYT leaps forward in disclosure of potential conflicts ([link removed])
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By Eli Clifton on Jan 05, 2024 12:05 am
Featured Image News media, pundits and, indeed, Responsible Statecraft itself ([link removed]) , may give the impression that opaque funding and refusal to disclose potential conflicts of interest are pervasive in Washington’s policy circles. But that’s not always the case.
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** Iraqis: Don't use our country as a 'proxy battleground' ([link removed])
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By Tanya Goudsouzian on Jan 05, 2024 12:05 am
Featured Image The U.S. airstrike ([link removed]) that killed Mushtaq Talib al-Saidi, otherwise known as Abu Taqwa, and two other militiamen on Thursday has been unequivocally condemned by Iraqi leaders, starting with President Latif Rashid ([link removed]) and Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Sudani ([link removed]) down to every parliamentary member in range of a microphone.
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** Ukraine facing increasingly unfavorable odds ([link removed])
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By Anatol Lieven on Jan 04, 2024 12:05 am
Featured Image The military and economic balance in war has shifted strongly against Ukraine, and it is very hard to see how this tendency can now be reversed. There is still time for Ukraine to win a qualified victory against Russia; but only if the United States commits itself strongly to a compromise peace.
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** Why America fell out of love with its Army ([link removed])
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By Justin Overbaugh on Jan 04, 2024 12:05 am
Featured Image For the past several years now, a phalanx of defense officials and retired senior officers have been lamenting the dearth of people willing to serve in the U.S. military.
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